On Monday 11 November 2002 12:16, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:59:38AM +0000, John Gay wrote: > > I realise this is not exactly Debian related, but I know that quie a few > > of you are working on building KDE and QT with GCC3.2 and just wanted to > > ask some experts. > > > > I am getting ready to wipe my Debian Woody system and replace it with a > > self-compiled Linux including the latest bells-N-whistles I could find. > > > > I am starting with the LFS base system tarball, which includes GCC3.2 and > > a few patches. As my card is not 3D accelerated in XFree86, I'll be using > > xig's Accelerated X server, but I still need to build XFree86, since xig > > does not provide most of the X libs or header files, expecting them to > > allready be installed.
Lol... > Just out of interest, how much does 'Accelerated X' cost? I can't > imagine it would be < $US100, which is more than you'd pay for a quite > reasonably fast GeForce or Radeon or even a Matrox card, all of which > are accelerated under XFree86. 120 usd for the radeoin 8500 "platinum" version (all radeon 8500 features enabled). It differs wildly depending on your video card. > On the other hand, maybe you've got some really expensive 3d card which > none of the XFree86 hackers can afford to buy and hack on:) Hehe... :-) . A Sun XVR-1000 or something... costs 3495$ :-) > Idly curious, > > -rob Frank
