Best XF86 version?

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

To the list:


I am using an XP1000 and a PWS500 with varius video cards.  The stock RH 7.2 
Xserver has always been a little goosey on both machines. I looked around for 
an improved Xserver and found patches in the George France "updates"; alpha 
binaries for 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 at the XFree86 site; and a 4.3 source code tar 
file on a German FTP site.  

I used the 4.3 source on my PWS500, its had a couple missing dependencies, 
but seemed to build and install OK.  It was set up to build with the Compaq C 
Compiler, so that's what i used. After a kind of jerky start it seems to run 
OK, with none of the little white static/noise I was used to seeing on my 
Permedia-type cards.  

What is list experience with recent versions of XF86?  Are there versions to 
avoid?  Is my 4.3 version gonna blow up? Are there better Xservers for the 
XP/PWS series machines?

thanks for your assistance

jn



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