On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:22:55AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) > > So, if you're completely happy with the current state of XFree86 to the > point that you're willing to never upgrade, then stick with it. However, > if you're a developer of GPL software, or you want to buy a new graphics > card that's only supported by X.org (since manufacturers are loudly and > publically switching to support that distribution), or you want to use a > system that's still being actively developed, then you're pretty much stuck > upgrading to X.org. > -- > Kirk Strauser
hmm, I just installed the xorg package from apt-get.org, works like a
charm, finally got to play tuxracer. I yanked XP off this laptop a year
ago, did try a whole lot of stunts trying to get DRI going.
(**) | |-->Device "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon IGP 340M"
(--) PCI:*(1:5:0) ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M rev 0, Mem @
0xd8000000/27, 0xd0300000/16, I/O @ 0x9000/8
ATI Radeon IGP330/340/350 (A4) 4137,
ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337,
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "ATI Technologies,
Inc. Radeon IGP 340M".
(--) Chipset ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337
found
(--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M
(U2) 4337" (ChipID = 0x4337)
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] created "radeon" driver at busid
"pci:0000:01:05.0"
(II) RADEON(0): [dri] Visual configs initialized
(II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete
Yay!
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cheers,
Vin
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