Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Brian Litzinger <brian@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [Fwd: [Slugnet] Linux Dekstop eyecandy to beat Vista and OS X]
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:32:06
Message-Id: 20060215174418.GA32450@top.worldcontrol.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [Fwd: [Slugnet] Linux Dekstop eyecandy to beat Vista and OS X] by "Nicolas MASSÉ"
1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:06:55PM +0100, Nicolas MASS?? wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 02:46, Jared Lindsay wrote:
3 > > On 2/14/06, P.V.Anthony <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg> wrote:
4 > > > It is apparently available in SUSE Linux 10.1beta3 or higher:
5 > >
6 > > Hmm, I may just have to put my extra (blank) hard drive to use with
7 > > SUSE >=10.1beta3... I've been toying with compiling it myself, but a
8 > > precompiled binary of it would be better right now.
9 >
10 > It seems that it works with gentoo...
11 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL
12
13 I installed it all, and ended up with the black window problem.
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15 I.E. I get nothing.
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17 I would suggest you check if you are going to be a victim of
18 the black window problem before you go through all the effort.
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20 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL#Black_Windows
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22 You can read about it on various gentoo forum threads. It
23 affects all platforms and various video cards.
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25 If you are talking about doing this on laptop, then it is
26 unlikely you can simply change your video card if you run
27 into the problem.
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30 Brian Litzinger
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