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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD386
Message-ID: <hastyC9GBpt.I0o@netcom.com>
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References: <hastyC9FwCw.Esw@netcom.com> <CPETTERB.93Jun30130928@mickey.javelin.sim.es.com> <VIXIE.93Jun30124151@gw.home.vix.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 20:32:16 GMT
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In article <VIXIE.93Jun30124151@gw.home.vix.com> vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>> 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.
Does any of your system have an S3 801 card ?
The X386-SGCS server over here still crashes the system if I don't pipe the
output of xinit to a file.
At any rate so much for so called rock-solid stability .....
Care to measure your tcp/ip thruput on your system?
Amancio
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