On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 09:56:45AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'll probably be going with SNA. Does anybody else have any experience
> > and/or opinions?
>
> I have no idea about performance but I've got udev and sna enabled
> at this time.
>
> gandalf ~ # emerge -pv xf86-video-intel
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.13 USE="dri sna
> udev -glamor -uxa -xvmc" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> gandalf ~ #
>
> Be forewarned, or please report back if you can, but in my case on the
> two Intel machines I have (one local, one my 84 year old dad uses) X11
> stopped displaying anything after this update. As a quick fix I
> removed the xorg.conf file completely to get a desktop back. This was
> a couple of weeks ago. Removing xorg.conf worked on both machines and
> I haven't gone back to figure out what happened and how to best
> address it.
I was running without an xorg.conf. This is my HTPC machine, hooked
up to a 50" Panasonic Plasma TV. It's native 1366x768, but it kept on
coming up 1280x720. I needed an xorg.conf "Modes" line to bring up
1920x1080 or 1366x768. As root, I ran "Xorg -configure" and copied
xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. X works now, if I do not specify
the resolution. It also works with resolution 1920x1080, as well as the
original 1280x720.
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1080"
EndSubSection
However, X hangs at various other resolutions, notwithstanding that
they're listed in both the TV's EDID and in the xrandr output. Plus I
have other issues so I'll be starting a separate thread.
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
