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From: dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com (David E. Wexelblat)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD386
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 23:49:11 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.
> --
> Paul Vixie
> "Be neither a conformist or a rebel,
> <paul@vix.com> for they are really the same thing.
> decwrl!vixie!paul Find your own path, and stay on it." (me)
Any particular reason why no one at BSDI has sent XFree86 the patches
required to build it on BSD/386? Unless they feel like porting XFree86
2.0 to BSD/386 (which will be a pain in the butt - the OS support in DDX
is going to change a LOT). Sending us patches now will save them a lot
of pain later.
Just curious.
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David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com> (908) 957-5871 Fax: (908) 957-5627
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