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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!204.147.226.2!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: Upgrading to Xfree86 3.3 Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:05:01 GMT Organization: The Duck Pond public unix - http://www.kfu.com/ Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5o6cjd$5sj$1@phoenix.kfu.com> References: <5ngur1$qqp@ss.netgate.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.kfu.com Followups-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43077 comp.windows.x.i386unix:23577 meaker1@ng.netgate.net (David Lamah) writes: >I would like to upgrade my FBSD 2.2.2 from version 3.2 of X to 3.3. >I am not really sure how to go about the upgrade. >The new version is rumored to have better support for Matrox cards. Well, I don't know about what it was before, but I want to take this opportunity to thank the XFree86 folks and Matrox for a DYNAMITE combination. I swear, the graphics performance of my new Millenium with 3.3 makes my P-120 look like an SGI! It's really something to watch it drag around 32 bit images like my other systems drag around window outlines! I used to recommend the #9 S3 cards, but... -- Nick Sayer http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | "Quick man! Cling tenaciously to my nsayer [at] quack [dot] kfu [dot] com | buttocks!" UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL IS UNACCEPTABLE | AND WILL BE CONSIDERED AS HARASSMENT | -- Powdered Toast Man