[wplug] Anyone familiar with a commercial X server from Xi Graphics

Brian Sammon brians+ at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Jan 29 17:59:20 EST 2004


> > I've got a request to attempt to remedy video issues by installing a 
> > commercial X server from XI Graphics (see quote from requester below). 
> > Anyone familiar with this X server? Any reason I shouldn't switch him 
> > to this that you know of?
> 
> If I wasn't too cheap to pay the $100, I'd put it on my laptop.
> The only argument against it that I'm aware of is price, and the fact it's no
> open source (for those who care).

Another (possible) point against it is that you probably won't find anyone in 
WPLUG who can help you with configuring it...

Another point:
If this is for a laptop, you may find that their DualView support is more 
mature for your laptop or easier to configure than XFree86's Xinerama stuff.





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