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From: Stephan van Maris <svmaris@×××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-ppc-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xfree-4.2.99.4 ebuild
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:56:46
Message-Id: 200302051650.03973.svmaris@e-village.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xfree-4.2.99.4 ebuild by Stephan van Maris
1 A little correction on my own post:
2
3 apparently setting the driver to 'ati' with 'Option "UseFBDev"' (as suggested
4 by XeasyConf), 4.2.99.4 works... still without recompiling QT and/or kdelibs.
5
6 On Wednesday 05 February 2003 16:33, Stephan van Maris wrote:
7 > I emerged 4.2.99.4 on my revIII Powerbook (Radeon 7500) and X refused to
8 > start (sig11 error in /var/log/Xfree86.0.log).. I'm currently running KDE
9 > (3.1-rc6 from konstruct) and I didn't recompile it.
10 >
11 > When I switched to 'fbdev' instead of 'ati', X started again and the all
12 > fonts look fine to me, no different than before the upgrade.
13 >
14 > Just wanted to tell you that I did not need to recompile QT and kdelibs.
15 >
16 > I don't think the (broken) ati driver has anything to do with font
17 > rendering in QT/KDE, right?
18 >
19 > > Ok, we set it all back to ~ppc. The whole pack works if you batch emerge
20 > > it with xfree 4.2.99.4 plus deps. However, if you use KDE, you still have
21 > > to reemerge QT and kdelibs to have working fonts again. No idea how well
22 > > mozilla will work when emerging the whole set. No idea for Gnome/gtk
23 > > either.
24 >
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