On 7 Jul 2001, at 6:19, Mike Andrew boldly uttered:
> On Friday 06 July 2001 06:12, Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > 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.
I'm just concerned that since I would be installing on a few-year old
laptop, they haven't dropped or ignored testing the XF86 drivers for
older machines.
I don't have enough space to install on a separate partition, so if I
decide to try 3.1 I'd have to blow off the existing installation.
--
Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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