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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,alt.os.bsdi,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD386
Date: 30 Jun 93 12:41:51
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: cpetterb@javelin.sim.es.com's message of 30 Jun 1993 19:09:28 GMT
> There are two X servers on the BSD386 1.0 release. The default server is
> the one from SGCS, and I can't get it to work, and there are many people
> who can't, but just switching to the other X server (which just requires
> changing which file is called), and there are no problems. If you didn't
> try the other server, I'm not surprised that you had problems. The reason
> that the SGCS server is the default is probably because it has more drivers
> that the other server, but they don't function as well. Don't sell the
> other server short!
>
> Cary
The other server looks a lot like Xfree86, btw, which is derived from the
earlier (public) release of X386 from SGCS. Different lineages but mostly
the same code. I'm using the SGCS version ("X386-SGCS") and it works fine;
I just tried the Xfree86 version ("Xbsdi386") and it works fine, too.
--
Paul Vixie
"Be neither a conformist or a rebel,
<paul@vix.com> for they are really the same thing.
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