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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!news.texas.net!news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!shore!news From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.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: Why *I'M* not happy with XInside's Matrox support (was Re: Sometimes you need X server source) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:40:54 -0500 Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates Lines: 20 Message-ID: <315F1806.1CFBAE39@rwwa.com> References: <4ja28c$9da@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jb67e$eil@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <ROELL.96Mar28184328@blah.xinside.com> <4jhl5p$59t@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> <4jk9bp$2mg@darkstar.my.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14043 comp.os.linux.development.system:20550 comp.os.linux.x:28373 comp.os.linux.hardware:35249 comp.os.linux.setup:48712 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:424 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2957 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2723 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16536 Alexander Sanda wrote: > > In article <315d5ef6.0@sylvia.tummy.com> > Sean Reifschneider (jafo@ariel.tummy.com) wrote: > > > Yeah, the theory is that you spend $100 and get customer support. However, > > theory and reality rarely meet. I've had the XInside server for about 3 months > > now, running on a Matrox Millenium board. It has never worked to my > > satisfaction, and I'm NOT hard to please. I don't feel it's too much to ask > > that the server not sporadically thrash the font cache, and not leave > > garbage behind on the screen when I move a window. > > I had the same problems with corrupted fonts (it happened only to one family > of fonts). Some weeks ago, I got the latest matrox driver update from the > XInside ftp server, and it solved the problems _completely_. FWIW I sent them mail a week ago about cursor corruption problems, and problems with backgrounds getting incorrectly painted after a VT switch, and I havn't heard back yet. I'm not complaining *yet*. This with the matrox. Performance seems good, but I havn't run perf yet...