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"Walter's Excellent Adventure" Chapter 3 |
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:02:32AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> The net change is that... |
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> * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode |
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> * X now has hardware acceleration |
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I ran "emerge -pv --deep --newuse world" to make sure everything was |
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OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the |
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changes in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf. While I was at, I decided to |
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throw in "xvmc" into my USE flags. After the rebuilding was over, I |
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have video acceleration, but no 1366x768. According to the Xorg.0.log |
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file the available video modes are... |
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"1280x720" |
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"1920x1080i" |
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"720x480" |
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"1440x480i" |
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"1920x1080" |
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"1440x240" |
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"720x576" |
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I've improved the speed of the video, with hardware acceleration, so |
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I'll let things be for now. That's my HTPC machine. |
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I'm now switching over my regular desktop (Dell Dimension 530 from the |
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summer of 2007) to hardware accelerated mode. This one wants i915 |
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drivers. I had stuck in an old Nvidia card, which was a bit of a pain... |
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* I have to rebuild the binary drivers every time I upgrade my kernel |
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* Flash bleeds through windows on top of a window with Flash |
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* Flash colour tables are screwed up. People have blue faces. |
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* The "fix" for the colour problem involved tweaking /etc/adobe/mms.cfg |
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which fixed the colours, but caused Flash to crash a lot. |
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With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now |
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dump the Nvidia card. |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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