You like to pay money for XFree86,I believe and this the commercial product is performing better on your PC, in fact you are running XF86 sold to you in a buitifully packed box under a different name - which XF86 license allows. Merolink oner is also member of XFree86 Board of Directors. Melolink MetroX is nothing but XFree86 with a few features added, and these features had been donated back to XFree86, which are already present in XF86 3.3.5.
Same applies to other commercial servers. **************************** Suhaib M. Siddiqi Senior Research Scientist Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 4222 Emperor Blvd., Suite 470 Durham, NC 27703 Tel: 919-941-9777 Ext 238 FAX: 919-941-9797 http://www.inspirepharm.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of K. Holcomb > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 12:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [opendx-users] One more Linux3d option > > > Although we've been discussing the *free* X server > XFree86, which may or may > not be helpful to the person interested in running DX > under Linux, I might > mention that there are a couple of commercial X servers > which do claim to > support 3D accelerated hardware for certain chips. In > particular, there's > Extreme3D by MetroLink which will work (they say) for > some Glints (3Dlabs) and > a Permedia chip. This product also comes with a certified > OpenGL implementation. > It's not quite ready yet but it appears they have a beta > version for one > 3Dlabs chip. MetroLink also sells a "real" Motif for > Linux (and *BSD). > I'm not affiliated with MetroLink in any way, I haven't > even ever tried their > product, but depending on the needs of the (original, > unnamed) individual who > asked about Linux, this sort of thing might be an option > if funding is > available. The products don't seem to be all that > expensive. MetroLink is > at www.metrolink.com. Xi Graphics (www.xigraphics.com) > also has something in > the offing (also not quite ready yet) but I know even > less about them -- they > seem to concentrate mainly on laptops. >
