Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:34:22PM +0100, pk wrote On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote: snipped a whole lot... 1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 2 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:17:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote I ran emerge -pv mesa, and discovered that mesa had been merged with USE=-xorg. This is what I get for starting USE with -*...

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
Walter's Excellent Adventure Chapter 3 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:02:32AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote The net change is that... * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode * X now has hardware acceleration I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-18 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: * X now has hardware acceleration I ran emerge -pv --deep --newuse world to make sure everything was OK. It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the changes in VIDEO_CARDS in make.conf. While I was at, I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:59:47PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now dump the Nvidia card. Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

2012-12-17 Thread pk
On 2012-12-17 17:23, Walter Dnes wrote: snipped a whole lot... 1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So I ran Xorg -configure and created an xorg.conf file, and