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From: jafo@ariel.tummy.com (Sean Reifschneider)
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: 7 Apr 96 20:49:51 GMT
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In article <4jk9bp$2mg@darkstar.my.lan>,
Alexander Sanda <alex@darkstar.ping.at> wrote:
>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_.
My problems definately got better with the new patch, but they're not solved
completely. I still get the blue lines with menus and other windows (using
the magnifier in xdvi will do it quite a lot), and the fonts that XPaint
uses are all garbaged.
>It's really cheap, but as far as I know, MetroX cannot beat Accel-X in
>performance.
Personally, I don't care as much about performance as I do robustness.
The Accelerated-X server is definately quick, but I'm just as happy with
my Mach64 running the XFree server in terms of performance, and more so
in terms of robustness. I would take a 50% hit in performance to get
something that wasn't failing. More so when the AcceleratedX server was
corrupting my main font every 5 to 10 minutes of operation.
Sean
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Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo@tummy.com>
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