On Saturday 23 October 2004 16:17, Z wrote: > >>I can't remember if FC1 was the first one to use xorg-x11 rather than > >>XF86. If it was, > > > >No, FC2 was the first to take this disastrous step. > > That's a joke, right? Not at all. It was my experience with XFree86 that when bugs were encountered - and any system will encounter bugs - correcting patches were applied as soon as they were provided. As I have pointed out, a patch was provided almost 6 monts ago for a serious bug in the ATI driver, which effectively meant that X could not be used on a range of Sony Picturebooks. The fact that Xorg works perfectly on your computer, which you seem to take as proof of its all-round excellence, is neither here nor there. The issue is, what system is in hand for takiing corrective action when bugs are found, and is it working properly. My experience is that it is not working properly at the moment, and my reading of the xorg mailing list does not give me confidence that it will work well in the future. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland