On Friday 06 July 2001 06:12, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > Hmmm. The upgrade as such is mainly contained in the kernel, and Xfree,
> > yes, of course everything else is ++ but these are the biggies relative
> > to incompatibility.
>
> I'm having a really hard time parsing that sentence. "Upgrade
> contained in the kernel", and what does "++" mean?
Well, moving from e2.4 to any recent distro, including w3.1 is a major
upgrade in OS and applications. But the _major_ concern is not whether
mahjong plays ok on the 'new' system but whether the new system plays at all!
In that sense, the biggies are: 1) the kernel, because every single device
driver module had to be re-written (or kludged) to accomodate devfs (whether
you use it or not), the pppd is glove in hand with the new kernel, ditto
mod-utils, ditto e2fs. 2) Xfree, because if it doesn't like your video card,
you won't "see" it <grin>
The ++ simply means just about every other package is enhanced, but they
aren't anywhere near as important, because if the kernel runs, and display
'works' you can tackle the odd problem. (if any)
> Therefore the main thing I will have to re-do is X setup.
Precisely.
> the XF86 docs you get the impression all the setup and detection is
> much improved in 4.x,
It is. No doubt about that. It doesn't make it perfect, but the old Sis, S3
and other issues are no longer there. (most of it was solved circa Xfree
3.3.6, but Xfree 4 is 'better'). It's not so much the detection but rather
the fact that the drivers now exist for the specific card. The detection
utilities (afaik) haven't changed.
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