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Hi Andrew, |
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on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote: |
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> try adding |
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> 'Section "DRI" |
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> mode 0660 |
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> Group "video" |
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> endsection' |
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> to your xorg.conf |
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Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time |
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ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work! |
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> and no those are not the orginal packages, Xorg decided to move to a more |
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> flexable develepment model(imho) that splits alot of the parts up, if you |
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> look the driver for the i915 card will be x11-drivers/XF86-video-i810, it |
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> was done this way so things could be updated faster. instead of 6 months for |
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> a new driver it might be a week |
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Yup, I figured that was the motivation---but X.org and XFree86 are still |
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different projects with different code and all, so I was surprised that |
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the name starts in xf86- and the description says X.org... Wouldn't |
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xf86-something indicate a part of the XFree86 project? |
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cheers! |
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Matthias |
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