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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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applying advises from there so we'll see what will I end up with. |
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> Welcome to our world of pain :( |
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it is quite surprising considering that Intel has opensource drivers |
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etc. So no "weirdness" should arise as developers have the specs etc. |
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(at least that was my understanding so far). |
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> I made some headway using "-hal" for xorg-server in USE, and IgnoreEDID |
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> and setting DDC to false in xorg.conf but the latest updates ignore |
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> those and the UXA settings in the link above (check the xorg log for |
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> other dirty secrets) |
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> |
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Xorg.0.log looks much cleaner now that I got drm issues out of the way... |
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> I am using 2.6.31-r3 (with kernel mode setting by default for the i915 - |
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> doesnt work well without it) and xorg-server 1.6.5. |
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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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> Its a laptop and there is no easy solution as the external screens |
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> (various) that I use with it often have only 1024x768 in common with its |
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> own LCD and stupid xorg wont let me overide it without consequences |
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> elsewhere :( |
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> |
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> xorg sucks badly at the moment and there is no viable alternative to |
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> switch to - and the saddest thing is the chipset has worked fine in the |
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> past (sadly becoming distant past for me) ... |
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> |
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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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