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On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > > > Why on earth is it excluding openchrome? |
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> > > |
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> > > Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome. |
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> > > yet. Just add openchrome to world until it does |
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> > Well, didn't look into the ebuild. You are right. Now, why and |
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> > how did it work with the overlay? |
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> I know nothing about that overlay, so I'm just guessing. Perhaps |
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> the overlay had a patched xorg-server? |
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The openchrome tarball from the overlay is identical to the one in |
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portage. Actually, the overlay was just moved into portage I guess. |
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Anyway, any patch in the overlay tarball must then also be in the |
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portage one. |
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Alright, I stop here. It's just something puzzling me - and I don't |
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like that without understanding it. ;-) |
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BTW, KDE4 is far smoother now. Animations are faster. Still, no shiny |
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composite effects of KDE without crashing the whole session. Guess, I |
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have to ask the openchrome folks whether they have any ETA for this. |
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Another thing is that the latest MESA release is quite old. They used |
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to have a new release every 2 - 3 months. This might be related as |
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well. Unfortunately, they don't have any kind of roadmap on their web |
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site. So one doesn't know when to expect a new version. |
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Yes, I know: Get a decent video subsystem. Not that easy. The Intel |
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chips (most probably enough for my purpose) only reside on mobos. ATI |
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drivers are in the process of catching up and will probably be there |
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in six or so months' time - but they aren't now. Nvidia, yes nvidia. |
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Would rather try to avoid them. So not too many options for me short |
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of throwing the whole mobo out. |
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Uwe |
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Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na/ |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/ |
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