Re: Anyone using x.org?

Slack changed over May last year in current which became 10.1. Out of 
curiosity I checked log and there was nothing else that was done or changed 
except remove XFree86-4.4.0 and add X11R6.7.0 from X.Org. I have never 
noticed a difference, configuration and xorg.conf looks the same.

That being said there were some compatibility problems noted in the change 
log. To quote: 

"Nearly   everyone else is going with X.Org and it seems to me that sticking 
with XFree86 it spite of this would be asking for compatibility trouble 
(indeed, we saw some issues between X.Org and XFree86 4.4.0 until a few 
things in XFree86 were patched). I also noticed that the ATI Radeon binary 
drivers designed for XFree86 4.3.0 do not work with XFree86 4.4.0, but do 
work with the X.Org release."


Sam Varghese is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> A couple of days back I decided to switch from xfree to x.org
> with rather disastrous results. I thought of the switch after finding
> that x.org had come into Debian testing which is what I use on my PC at
> home.
>
> Alas, it all went wrong and I lost even the GUI which I was using.
> Getting it back was a pain as many of the old xfree packages are now
> deprecated and no longer available.
>
> Anybody on the list who's switched over successfully?
>
> Sam

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