Subject: Re: advocacy
To: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
From: Grant Beattie <grant@grunta.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 02/21/2002 11:37:38
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 :)

g.