One reason not to go with Xorg-x11

[James McDonald]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: One reason not to go with Xorg-x11


> 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?
Ditto with netl. I installed it on my FC1 box and it was s_l_o_w fortunately 
all I had to do was delete the xorg directories and move my old install back 
into place and it was all good again.