One reason not to go with Xorg-x11

[Net Llama!]

I've not had that problem, but i've had a ton of other problems.  Not so 
much instability as just very poor performance coupled with horrible 
rendering problems (moving windows caused them to bleed across the 
screen).  6.8.1 just isn't ready, IMO.  6.7.3 hasn't caused me any 
problems though.

On 10/10/2004 04:46 PM, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Having a spare day to fool around with my linux game machine.... I decided to 
> try moving from xfree-4.3.0-r7 to xorg-6.8.0-r1 and see what new features 
> were awaiting me....
> 
> After backing up my highly tuned XF86Config file, I went about the process... 
> unmerge xfree, emerge xorg-x11...
> 
> Right off the get go, I ahd problems with my all favorite "legacy" game, Quake 
> III Arena. I'm only able to play a few seconds of the fight and the video 
> locks up solid. I can telnet/putty into the desktop and try to kill off X, 
> but it just refuses to die. So, I'm left with a live desktop, just no gui or 
> local xterm logins... That sucks. After a ton of googling, all kinds of quake 
> hacking... I gave up.
> 
> The ultimate fix was re-install xfree. I'm back to battling my neighbors and 
> his kids like "normal"...
> 
> So, anyone hear of a similar situation? That is, xorg and quake3 not mixing it 
> up well?
> 
> Thanks, Jerry.
> 
> 


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