On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:37:38AM +1100, Grant Beattie wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:17:55PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> > > xf86cfg is so much nicer than XF86Setup and xf86config. I think it might
> > > also be worth considering switching from including XFree86 3.3.6 by default
> > > to 4.2.0 (or whatever the latest in xsrc at the time of release is.) You
> > > certainly get more (and better) hardware support with X 4.
> > 
> > Unless XFree86 4.x now supports *all* hardware supported by 3.x, I'm not
> > sure that the statement about more hardware is irrefutable.  I would tend
> > to count supported hardware by the number of installed systems with that
> > type of hardware.  And, until NetBSD can do hardware accelerated 3D
> > graphics, the newer (expensive) cards are not really all that appealing.
> > (Not unless you dual-boot.)
> 
> Support for non-x86 video cards is definitely something that would
> make it worthwhile. ffb support on sparc64 in particular would make a
> lot of people very happy, I imagine :)
> 

Ah. That's where my experience fails me, I don't have much of it on
non-x86-arch stuff. As I always say on #netbsd, give me one and I'll see how
it works ;)

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