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On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:50 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote: |
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> William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA |
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> ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started |
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> which intel driver do you use? Mine's 2.8.1 and I wonder if bumping to |
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> 2.9.1 that is in testing wouldn't yield better results. |
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bunyip ~ # esearch xf86-video-intel |
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[ Results for search key : xf86-video-intel ] |
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[ Applications found : 1 ] |
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* x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel |
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Latest version available: 2.9.0-r1 |
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Latest version installed: 2.9.0-r1 |
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Size of downloaded files: 773 kB |
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Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ |
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Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards |
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License: MIT |
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bunyip ~ # |
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> I too found "degradation" quite surprising since things were working |
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> pretty well up until now. I somewhat regret KDE4 switch because of all |
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> of this, however I definitely needed some of the features KDE4 apps had |
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> to offer. Traded off some of the features dear to my heart: multi-key |
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> combinations popping prompt menu, titlebar set correctly in Konsole |
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> without affecting tab name, and some others. Filed with bugs.kde.org... |
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> let's see what happens next. According to some KDE4 jsut highlighted |
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> problems in underlying Xorg, so hopefully now with all of that out in |
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> the open things will get fixed. |
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I am now 3 days into an emerge -e world (almost 2000 packages) as after |
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the gnome 2.6 upgrade I had a lot of weird gnomey issues (actually had |
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to use a lot of kde apps for awhile!) This morning I rebooted and most |
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issues have gone away. At home, I have no ext monitor and the laptop is |
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set to its native 1366x768. When I got to work I resumed (ToI) and |
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plugged in the ext monitor (1280x768) and ran my script (desktop icon |
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that calls a script that uses xrandr to set both VGA1 and LVDS1 to |
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1280x1024) - and it worked perfectly. Maybe there are other packages |
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involved that are not obvious? To make it a bit more fuzzy, somewhere |
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in the middle of this I made sure that the kernel framebuffer drivers |
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were not being built (vga etc) and removed the grub argument to set the |
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mode - maybe this interferred with it previously? - though those |
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settings were there "forever". Note that the GMA guide reccomends doing |
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this. |
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I find that every couple of years or so, an emerge -e world cleans up a |
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lot of issues that just don't make sense otherwise - ~680 pkgs to go :) |
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BillK |
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