Hello,
I see some people already switched to X.org. Do you see significant
difference in "visible" performance, CPU and memory usage between XFree and
X.org? I wonder if I should switch to X.org too, but for now XFree works
just fine for me.

regards, jkb
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On 2004-05-31, Jacek K B³aszkowski <cdlxxvi@NOSPAM.ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
> I see some people already switched to X.org. Do you see significant
> difference in "visible" performance, CPU and memory usage between XFree and
> X.org? I wonder if I should switch to X.org too, but for now XFree works
> just fine for me.
>
> regards, jkb
I think X.org is the better choise. Works perfect on
three different boxes. But I don't do gameing.

/Jens
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:06:24 +0200,
Jacek K B³aszkowski <cdlxxvi@NOSPAM.ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:

> I see some people already switched to X.org. Do you see significant
> difference in "visible" performance, CPU and memory usage between XFree and
> X.org?

I haven't noticed any difference in CPU and memory usage. (Although I
haven't done any proper tests, just looked at top.) Responsiveness and
application loading times look to be the same also.

> I wonder if I should switch to X.org too, but for now XFree works
> just fine for me.

I only changed over as I keep up with -current.

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Jacek K. B?aszkowski wrote:

> Hello,
> I see some people already switched to X.org. Do you see significant
> difference in "visible" performance, CPU and memory usage between XFree
> and X.org? I wonder if I should switch to X.org too, but for now XFree
> works just fine for me.

expect problems if you use the nvidia driver, when you quit X the console
colours are screwed up (problem compounded on each start and shutdown of
the X server)

oh and the config file has changed name .... ffs

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:06:24 +0200, Jacek K. BÅ‚aszkowski
<cdlxxvi@NOSPAM.ds2.pg.gda.pl> wrote:

> Hello,
> I see some people already switched to X.org. Do you see significant
> difference in "visible" performance, CPU and memory usage between XFree
> and
> X.org? I wonder if I should switch to X.org too, but for now XFree works
> just fine for me.
>
> regards, jkb


Running Slack-Current too, no problems at all. Somebody mentioned
possible issues with nvidia, but I have'nt seen any (ut2004 looks perfec).

Also, the /etc/X11/XF86Config is now /etc/X11/xorg.conf as already
mentioned, but I just used my old XF86Config so really its no bother at
all.

AFAIK xorg have fixed many bugs which xfree did not, so for some people
xorg is going to be even more stable anyway.

On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:45:03 GMT,
Wild Wizard <yea@right.com> wrote:
>
> expect problems if you use the nvidia driver, when you quit X the console
> colours are screwed up

I don't have this problem here. I'm using the nvidia driver with a TNT2
M64.

> oh and the config file has changed name .... ffs

Yeah, but this can be remedied quite quickly with cp, ln or mv at least.

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On 05-31-2004, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
Mark Hill <usenet@mark.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:45:03 GMT,
> Wild Wizard <yea@right.com> wrote:

>> expect problems if you use the nvidia driver, when you quit X the
>> console colours are screwed up

> I don't have this problem here. I'm using the nvidia driver with a
> TNT2 M64.

Just what nvidia drivers are being discussed here?. The OSS versions
or the proprietary kernel tainting ones direct from nvidia. I use
the kernel tainting modules from nvidia here with Xfree86. I'd
indeed like to know what to expect with the nvidia prop. drivers and
x.org. Can anyone comment?

Hopefully, by the time the next version of Slack shows up, issues
(if any) relating to nvidia and x.org will be cleared up.

Max

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:21:06 +0000, Max wrote:

> On 05-31-2004, in alt.os.linux.slackware,
> Mark Hill <usenet@mark.ukfsn.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:45:03 GMT,
>> Wild Wizard <yea@right.com> wrote:
>
>>> expect problems if you use the nvidia driver, when you quit X the
>>> console colours are screwed up
>
>> I don't have this problem here. I'm using the nvidia driver with a
>> TNT2 M64.
>
> Just what nvidia drivers are being discussed here?. The OSS versions
> or the proprietary kernel tainting ones direct from nvidia. I use
> the kernel tainting modules from nvidia here with Xfree86. I'd
> indeed like to know what to expect with the nvidia prop. drivers and
> x.org. Can anyone comment?
>
> Hopefully, by the time the next version of Slack shows up, issues
> (if any) relating to nvidia and x.org will be cleared up.
>
> Max

I use the NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA and x.org and have had no ill effects
at all. Everything works perfectly, just as it always did.

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:03:44 GMT, dedhed
<dedhed@pir2.org> appears to have said:

> On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:21:06 +0000, Max wrote:
>
>> Just what nvidia drivers are being discussed here?. The OSS versions
>> or the proprietary kernel tainting ones direct from nvidia. I use
>> the kernel tainting modules from nvidia here with Xfree86.
>>
>> Max
>
> I use the NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA and x.org and have had no ill effects
> at all. Everything works perfectly, just as it always did.
>

What do you use on the VT? A raw VGA console? The rivafb driver for
framebuffer? Generic framebuffer? IIUIC, the problems that people have
been reporting switching between X and the VC while running the NVIDIA
proprietary drivers have generally been attributed to some conflict
between the NVIDIA X driver and the rivafb driver.

Anyone have comments on that? Anyone running a plain VGA console and
*still* having problems? I'd like to know, because I've been holding
off on upgrading to the newest version of the evil NVIDIA binary-only
driver for just this reason but, if the VC switching problem truly
doesn't affect those who run a raw VGA console, then I should be OK.

ciao,
Jonathan

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Hello,

Could you tell me how long does it take to switch from XFree to X.org?
Did you found any problems doing that?
It's important for me because I'm very busy and don't know if it have a
sence to do that.

Thanks