[Discuss] OS X: 4 days of configuration

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-11-07 22:38-0800 Daniel M German wrote:

>
> I know some of you will upgrade to OS X, so here are my experiences of
> 4 days of "fighting" (and plenty of data copying, compilations, and 3
> reinstalls).
>
> I "think" I finally "won" the battle:
>
> 1. X11 in OS X is broken. You will have to install 10.4 X11 instead.

Probably not broken, just seriously twisted.  :-)

At least that has been my experience with recent X11.  It's going through
a backwards-incompatible and still buggy change in how you configure it.

Given these configuration issues, your advice to stick with 10.4 X11 is
excellent for the case of old hardware that old X11 understands. But in my
case with new hardware it seemed doubtful that old X11 would be able to
understand it so I decided to fight through the configuration issues with
the latest X.org version of X11.  Once I did that, the new hardware (Intel
g33 chipset with embedded GMA 3100) works really well.  It has the highest
FPS for glxgears I have ever experienced, and it has now been up for several
days and used hard in a wide variety of ways with no problems.

Alan
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