Re: xfree86 4.4.0 vs. XOrg?
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
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> Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> writes:
>> --- Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> So is XOrg driver-compatible with xfree86?
>>
>> What do you mean by "driver compatible"? The changes made are to the
>> modular tree (as you've read by that link). Can you be more specific, or
>> elaborate.
> Will XF86 modules, like nVidia's vendor-supplied ones, likely to work
> with XOrg? Are we looking at something that is a drop-in replacement
> for XFree86 or an entirely different model?
since XOrg is (in the server area) simply a copy of XFree86, it's likely
that would work (for a while).
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Thomas E. Dickey
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