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From: jroberts@ehsn19.cen.uiuc.edu (Jason V. Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 27 Mar 1996 00:31:08 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois
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In article <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> mbr@gte.com writes:
>In article <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>,
>Thomas Weihrich <Thomas.Weihrich@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> wrote:
>
>>Matrox did point at a source of information - X Inside. 
>
>I sometimes run my X connection over a modem, and it's slower than I'd
>like.  What does this have to do with whether or not to buy a Matrox
>Millennium card?  Someday soon, I plan on rebuilding my X server to
>include the LBX (low bandwidth X) extension.  Can I do this without
>source code to the server?  I don't think so.  Even if I didn't have
>this immediate need, you never know what extensions you might want to
>add to the server in the future.
>
>So I think buying any graphics card which restricts me to a
>binary-only X server is a BAD PLAN!

Not really.  LBX seems to have gone the way of the cuckoo, at least for now.
I don't think it's in the latest XFree86 betas.  Besides, there are other
products out to compress X protocol stuff.

And a binary X server can have LBX as part of its standard distribution just
as well as a source distributed, if LBX ever gets straightened out.