greetings. the crosspost is because this will perhaps be of interest to everybody. a couple hours ago i did a cvs harvest from xfree, it having been noted that the release 4.2 had a couple of fairly gruesome bugs which have since been fixed.
previously, building xfree with support for freetype and openGL involved a whole long, complicated process, editing host.def and site.def, and so on, and even sometimes building parts separately. this time, believe it or not, i didn't have to change a thing. not a single character in any of it. i'm running suse 7.3, which as is suse's wont, does some weird /var/X11R6 symlink thing; i backed up my existing xfree and installed over it. anyway, anti-aliasing works (as it did before, but before, one had to screw around a little with freetype2); more important, it installed hardware 3d support for my g-400 card; previously, i didn't have direct rendering, so it was all going through software. the difference is 1250 as opposed to 250 fps in gears. no spasms in the GL xscreensavers. all in all, very nice indeed. i saw on i think the lx-talk list mention of the load of tuning that was necessary to get fast 3-d in xfree, and as a veteran of that in the past i pretty much expected to need it again now. i didn't. so, anyway, to the extent that one anecdote is evidence, the xfree code in the head branch of their cvs server right now is highly recommended, and a piece of cake. -- dep There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
