[linux-help] Re: Mandrake 8.2

[Randy Reames <randy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A short while ago Nate Bargmann wrote:
> 
> * gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2002 Mar 20 16:30 -0600]:
> > 
> > difference!  Plus, i can now have a nifty shadow under my cursor just like
> > win2k....  oooo...  : ^ )
> 
> Oh yeah?  Tell me more.  I thought Xfree still only had the brain-dead
> 2D black on white cursor.  Have they finally done something to improve
> it?

And the shadow makes it intelligent? 
It may be a cute hack but cmon, they both point. 8)

> 
> I'm still running Debian Testing. AFAIK, XFree 4.2.0 has not even landed
> in Unstable yet, so I'm a bit behind there.  I just put a new system
> together, an AMD Athlon, 1.33 GHz, and I also bought an nVidia GeForce 2
> MX 400 board.  After building the kernel with MTRR and AGP support, I
> noticed the OpenGL stuff really smoothed out.  I guess you're going to
> convince me to try the nVidia drivers too.
> 

I am running Debian Sid with good results, and have recently got anti-aliased
fonts working under Gnome. Its a great improvement. Here is a rather
large screenshot 240k-ish: http://reames.org/images/screen-3-20-02.jpg
Finally legible italics w00t. If anyone is interested I can post how I did
it. AFAIK it only works with Debian or other distros not using xfs.
I have a GeForce200 at work. I too will try the nVidia drivers when I
get the chance.

rr
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