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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:14:15
Message-Id: 20080914101410.GA26729@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED] by Liviu Andronic
1 Hello
2
3 On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:03:34PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote:
4 > Short version:
5 > If you upgrade to xorg-x11-7.4, xorg-server-1.5 and
6 > xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r1, and X does not start, change Section
7 > "Device" Driver "i810" to "intel" in your xorg.conf. Would have been
8 > nice if Portage had informed us of this.
9
10 I went trough this too (I had to run X -configure to see it changed the
11 driver). However, the intel driver does not seem to work that well,
12 glxgears won't start for me any longer (Error: couldn't get an RGB,
13 Double-buffered visual). Not that I would really need that one, nor any
14 other GL application, it just bothers me to have something not working
15 ;-).
16
17 Have you seen this error too?
18
19 Thank you
20
21 --
22 I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it.
23
24 Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED] Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com>