Xorg-6.8

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

040910 Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Mark Houlder wrote:
>> I downloaded and installed the new xorg 6.8 yesterday
>> and after much messing about with drivers it's working fairly well 
>> (gentoo on a T41, ck-sources 2.6.8, xfce4.06, ati binary drivers).
> I've no answer to your question, but a related issue with X.org 6.7.0 
> with Slackware-10.0 and a Hyundai L70S LCD monitor.
> I cannot get the monitor to display 1280x1024,
> application windows are of much lower resolution
> and the characters are unclear in virtual terminals.
> All this with xfce-4.0.6.
> With Slackware-9.1, XFree86-3.4.0 and xfce-4.0.1 the display is fine.
> Might these be related issues?

i too had a bad experience w Xorg 6.7 on Gentoo,
but it was ugly fonts which i cdn't find any way to fix, not Xfce4.
my conclusion was that Xorg is far from ready for real-life use
& that pressure to give up XFree is largely political.
i'm back using XFree, reading as much re fonts as i can find
& planning to have another try w Xorg after a few more releases.

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