Xorg vs Xfree86

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Alexey Chupahin<alex_vms at gawab.com> wrote:
>
> BTW,
> After Xorg crashed on my Permedia-2 card,
> I installed Xfree86 manually instead of Xorg to my 164SX with
> Gentoo couple days ago.
> I forget that it is the my old 21164PC processor - I just think
> somebody replace the processor to any 21264 - it became really
> faster in times against Xorg.
> And it is stable.
> I can view filmes now in MPEG4/AVI with 800x640 without any
> problems.
> GNOME -2.24.x is usable again. (I do not remeber the time when
> Gnome was usable under Xorg on my 164SX)
> Resume: Xorg - is down.
> Alpha owners, you all really lost your CPU power using this
> doze.

I'm glad everything is working for you.

> I think we should replace doze xorg to Xfree86 in Alpha/linux
> distributions
> May be we can do some view in this way?

Definitely not. XFree86 is a step in the wrong direction.

You should join #alpha on irc.freenode.net and help us fix X.Org
before the pending release.

Thanks,
Matt