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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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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> 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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Still pretty ignorant of all these graphic settings. After using Linux for 9 |
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years, now I have ATi, nVidia, and Intel graphic chipsets and don't know what |
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to do with them. Prior to migrating to Gentoo last year I just installed the |
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nVidia binary blob from their website. |
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Now I've got radeon, nouveau, Intel on most comps -- nvidia-drivers on HTPC. |
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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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All that mess got fixed by switching from nVidia's binary blob to nouveau. |
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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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Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the standard |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml ? |
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Any push in the right direction would be appreciated. |
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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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Me, neither. I run Fluxbox and save my memory and CPU cycles for real work. ;) |
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