Star Interview with XFree86's David Dawes
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 1st Jul 2002 17:50 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews David Dawes is maybe the most active XFree86 developer and he is also the lead founder of the project. He works for Tungsten Graphics, which is the main company working on the XFree, DRI and Mesa codebases today. We are happy to host an interview with David, discussing the present and future of XFree86 project. Update: Still confused how a VSYNCed desktop look like? Read here.
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by Sean Pecor on Tue 2nd Jul 2002 19:30 UTC

I have an nVidia Geforce ti200 on this machine, with nVidia's X drivers and proprietary AGP code (via Options nvAgp 1 in XF86Config) and my text isn't garbled at all. A misconfigured modern video card or an older card would probably exhibit gooey text during a window move.