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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: What do I need for Xfree...
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Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 16:42:53 GMT
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In article <Cq0uKt.DEr@world.std.com> mcgovern@world.std.com (Brian J McGovern) writes:
>I'm running FreeBSD 1.1-RELEASE. I have a Mouse Systems mouse (I can change
>it via switch to be a MS-compatible if I really have to), a trident
>1MB VGA card. About 250MB or so of free drive space to play with.
> I want to play with X a little bit, but I don't want to get over-burdened
>with extras I don't want. Could anyone tell me what the "minimum"
>Xfree set I should get is? I've looked at the ftp sites, and there seems
>to be between 10 and 25 meg of files that look like they might be needed
>to be wedged in somewhere.
> Any comments welcome.
> -Brian
Sure get yourself an S3 801 card or the VLB version S3 805 if you can.
Trying out X or for that matter windows 3.1 with a trident vga card is
torture. Some S3 chipsets are more than an order of magnititute faster
than the trident.
Since you are just going to play with X, I suggest just download all
of XFree86 and give it a try after a little while you can delete
portions that you don't want. What I do is I download packages such
as XFree86 over night while I sleep.
There is a TinyX configuration floating around with the absolute minimum
disk space requirements and it is about 3 to 4MBs of disk space.
Amancio
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