RE: Xfree86 RPM
- From: "Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>
- To: "'Z Leite'" <zleite technologist com>, esoteric denali atlnet com, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: Xfree86 RPM
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:27:24 -0500
>
> > From: esoteric@denali.atlnet.com [mailto:esoteric@denali.atlnet.com]
>
> > Would you care to expand? I know that, based on the
> documents on the
> > xfree site, you have to create a completely new configuration
> > file. Did
> > you do this? Was it that different?
>
> Pretty different. More modular. I used the xconfiguration
> (from the RPM's)
> program to make new ones, but very readable IMHO. My problem
> was that it
> would bomb instantly upon being called with no meaningful
> error messages. I
> tried the Matrox and SVGA drivers in two computers, one with
> a Matrox G200
> and other with a ATI rage pro - which it says it's unsupported(? - the
> website says it is).
I recall the web site said it was supported but as unaccelerated.
>
> Again, Mandrake makes a point of being on the edge at some
> sacrifice of
> stability (IMHO). I frequently use their RPM's first then
> move to RedHat
> when available. In fairness, "Cooker" is an unstable branch...
>
> Z
>
>
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