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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!atlas.onthe.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!freenet.columbus.oh.us!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.servtech.com!news1.io.org!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!napier From: napier@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Duncan Napier) 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: 29 Mar 1996 21:36:57 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4jhl5p$59t@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cypress.chem.ubc.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13862 comp.os.linux.development.system:20294 comp.os.linux.x:28022 comp.os.linux.hardware:34838 comp.os.linux.setup:48000 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:367 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2876 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2649 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16292 In article <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> roell@xinside.com (Thomas Roell) writes: >[snipped] > >> Lets say I wanted to disable TCP connects to the X server because I am using >> a standalone PC with a network connection. Can I do that with Xinside? > >Yes, there are options which allow you to do exactly this. And if it >wouldn't then there is a new binary within a day if there are special >requirements like this. Remember that you pay for the product and >therefor get support. >[stuff deleted] > This would constitute an extrordinary level of customer support, the likes of which I have never personally encountered ... I'll give Xinside the benefit of the doubt here. >[snip] >software. They spend huge amounts of money for their graphics card, >just to get half of the possible performance because they have to run >XF86. If one is smart instead buy a decently fast graphics card that >is optimally supported by Accelertaed-X and you will save money and >get a faster overally solution. I'm just starting to get frustrated >that even reasonable bright people seem to have a mental barrier to >realize this. Can you qualify this with some benchmark results (or point us the way to some)? I'm not trying to be the peanut gallery here, but I would be interested to see some evidence for this. Respectfully, Duncan Napier.