Re: [Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[Hoyt]

On Sunday 26 August 2001 09:29 am, Randy Kramer methodically organized 
electrons to state:
> Hoyt wrote:
> > Pretty soon, version 3.3.6 will be dropped, so no point in changing ,
> > really.
>
> So I'll have to go back to Windows or buy new video cards?
>

No, It will probably be moved to contribs (or never dropped at all by 
Mandrake) or your card will get 4.x support. You can always get the source to 
3.x and compile it yourself if ti comes to that.

Or get a new video card. 8)

Hoyt

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[Randy Kramer]

Hoyt wrote:
> Pretty soon, version 3.3.6 will be dropped, so no point in changing ,
> really.

So I'll have to go back to Windows or buy new video cards?

Randy Kramer

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[Hoyt]

On Sunday 26 August 2001 12:49 am, Chris Edwards methodically organized 
electrons to state:
> > Pretty soon, version 3.3.6 will be > > dropped, so no point in changing ,
> > really.
>
> and what makes you say that?. IMO 3.3.6 shouldn't be dropped until 4.x has
> the same support for ALL cards as 3.3.6.

RedHat is planning on dropping it. It's likely that Mandrake will follow 
suit, but then again, kitchen_sink-1.0-1mdk is in contribs. 8)

Hoyt

RE: [Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[Chris Edwards]

> Pretty soon, version 3.3.6 will be > > dropped, so no point in changing ,
> really.

and what makes you say that?. IMO 3.3.6 shouldn't be dropped until 4.x has
the same support for ALL cards as 3.3.6.

--chris

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[Hoyt]

On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:12 pm, SI Reasoning methodically organized 
electrons to state:
> There is a message when configuring X in expert mode
> telling which of your XFree86 driver packages supports
> 3D Hardware acceleration. I think there should be the
> same for anti-aliased fonts.
>
> Example:
> XFree 3.3.6 with 3D hardware acceleration
> XFree 4.1.0 (use if want anti-aliased fonts w/KDE2)
> XFree 3.3.6
>
> I also think that this choice should be available even
> in non-expert mode. A simple help file could explain
> this to newbies with recommendations.
>


Pretty soon, version 3.3.6 will be dropped, so no point in changing , 
really.

Hoyt

[Cooker] XFree86 and anti-aliasing fonts

[SI Reasoning]

There is a message when configuring X in expert mode
telling which of your XFree86 driver packages supports
3D Hardware acceleration. I think there should be the
same for anti-aliased fonts.

Example:
XFree 3.3.6 with 3D hardware acceleration
XFree 4.1.0 (use if want anti-aliased fonts w/KDE2)
XFree 3.3.6

I also think that this choice should be available even
in non-expert mode. A simple help file could explain
this to newbies with recommendations.

=
SI Reasoning
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