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From: Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:37:26
Message-Id: 50CB8DA2.9020108@binarywings.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about new USE flags for xf86-video-intel by Mark Knecht
1 Am 14.12.2012 18:56, schrieb Mark Knecht:
2 > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> I'm updating a system that's probably gone 2 or 3 months since its
4 >> last update.
5 >>
6 >> ====================================================================
7 >> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel" has unmet requirements.
8 >> - x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.13::gentoo USE="dri -glamor -sna -udev -uxa -xvmc"
9 >>
10 >> The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
11 >> any-of ( glamor sna uxa )
12 >> ====================================================================
13 >>
14 >> This is the first time I've run into these options. A bit of Google
15 >> detective work turned up some articles...
16 >>
17 >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_glamor_first&num=1
18 >> http://ickle.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/an-evening-with-glamor/
19 >>
20 >> ...which give the impression that SNA is the fastest option overall.
21 >> The phoronix article also mentioned some instability issues with glamor.
22 >> I'll probably be going with SNA. Does anybody else have any experience
23 >> and/or opinions?
24 >>
25 >> --
26 >> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
27 >> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
28 >>
29 >
30 > I have no idea about performance but I've got udev and sna enabled at this time.
31 >
32
33 +1
34
35 > gandalf ~ # emerge -pv xf86-video-intel
36 >
37 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
38 >
39 > Calculating dependencies... done!
40 > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.13 USE="dri sna
41 > udev -glamor -uxa -xvmc" 0 kB
42 >
43 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
44 > gandalf ~ #
45 >
46 > Be forewarned, or please report back if you can, but in my case on the
47 > two Intel machines I have (one local, one my 84 year old dad uses) X11
48 > stopped displaying anything after this update. As a quick fix I
49 > removed the xorg.conf file completely to get a desktop back. This was
50 > a couple of weeks ago. Removing xorg.conf worked on both machines and
51 > I haven't gone back to figure out what happened and how to best
52 > address it.
53 >
54
55 If you don't miss features I say good riddance to xorg.conf.
56
57 Regards,
58 Florian Philipp

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