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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> 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: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:26:41 -0800 Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <315C1D51.41C67EA6@rah.star-gate.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <4ja099$r8k@ceylon.gte.com> <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rah.star-gate.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13876 comp.os.linux.development.system:20313 comp.os.linux.x:28055 comp.os.linux.hardware:34892 comp.os.linux.setup:48074 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:374 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2882 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2658 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16316 Thomas Roell wrote: > What you say here is kind of childish. The problem is that people take > the cost of hardware for granted and complain just about > 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. > Hey Thomas, take it easy. There are people who are not willing to pay a dime for software and those you will never be able to convince to buy software.Also people forget that it takes time and sweat to develop something like XFree86. As for me if you had 3d accelerated support I wouldn't hesitate to buy your X server . Why ? Because I don't feel like going tru the song and dance that I usually do to with S3 to bring up a new chipset never mind all the new 3d software support. -- Amancio Hasty Hasty Software Consulting Services Tel: 415-495-3046 Fax: 415-495-3046 Cellular: 415-309-8434 e-mail: hasty@star-gate.com Powered by FreeBSD