Re: KDE3.1, qt3.0.5 and GCC3.2???
On Monday 11 November 2002 12:16, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:59:38AM +0000, John Gay wrote:
> > I realise this is not exactly Debian related, but I know that quie a few
> > of you are working on building KDE and QT with GCC3.2 and just wanted to
> > ask some experts.
> >
> > I am getting ready to wipe my Debian Woody system and replace it with a
> > self-compiled Linux including the latest bells-N-whistles I could find.
> >
> > I am starting with the LFS base system tarball, which includes GCC3.2 and
> > a few patches. As my card is not 3D accelerated in XFree86, I'll be using
> > xig's Accelerated X server, but I still need to build XFree86, since xig
> > does not provide most of the X libs or header files, expecting them to
> > allready be installed.
Lol...
> Just out of interest, how much does 'Accelerated X' cost? I can't
> imagine it would be < $US100, which is more than you'd pay for a quite
> reasonably fast GeForce or Radeon or even a Matrox card, all of which
> are accelerated under XFree86.
120 usd for the radeoin 8500 "platinum" version (all radeon 8500 features
enabled). It differs wildly depending on your video card.
> On the other hand, maybe you've got some really expensive 3d card which
> none of the XFree86 hackers can afford to buy and hack on:)
Hehe... :-) . A Sun XVR-1000 or something... costs 3495$ :-)
> Idly curious,
>
> -rob
Frank
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