Its worth unmasking the required packages for intel cards - there have been some quite useful improvements in speed and stability - its one case where you are definitely better off on the bleeding edge for the intel driver, xorg-server and the kernel:) Anything less at the moment will leave you as you are now.
There are also documents for setting up mode setting via google - setup isnt quite as easy as other cards at the moment. BillK On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:38 -0700, dan blum wrote: > Bill, > > The xorg version is 1.7.6 (no r# to the best of my knowledge). When I do > emerge it will re-emerge the 1.7.6 version and not the newer 1.8.2 version. > The video card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation > 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01). > > I have not tried the mask suggested by other responders yet, but will soon. > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > Dan > > > --- On Thu, 8/12/10, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > > From: William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:29 PM > > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 09:03 +0800, > > Thomas Yao wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:46 AM, dan blum <dan_...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I am currently running xorg 1.7, which crashes > > very frequently. When I used to run xorg 1.65 everything was > > running fine. Can anyone clue me in on how to > > emerge an older version of the program. > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe you should have a look at the portage > > documentation carefully > > > and understand it well before you dive into gentoo, > > it's really > > > important: > > > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 > > > > > > Good luck > > > > > > > and consider going the other way - I am using 1.8.2 > > (xorg-server) which > > is more stable for me than the 1.7 series. > > > > However, some idea on what your system is may help - > > certain > > combinations (xorg-server-1.7.x, inetl driver and tuxonice > > hibernate are > > problematic, others are fine with certain workarounds. > > > > Can you provide more info such as video card and what the > > crash is? The > > actual xorg version should be something like 7.4-r1 so I > > presume you > > quoted xorg-server? > > > > BillK > > > > -- > > William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> > > Home in Perth! > > > > > > > > > > >
