On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:50 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA
> >
> ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started
...
> which intel driver do you use? Mine's 2.8.1 and I wonder if bumping to
> 2.9.1 that is in testing wouldn't yield better results.
bunyip ~ # esearch xf86-video-intel
[ Results for search key : xf86-video-intel ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel
Latest version available: 2.9.0-r1
Latest version installed: 2.9.0-r1
Size of downloaded files: 773 kB
Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Description: X.Org driver for Intel cards
License: MIT
bunyip ~ #
...
> I too found "degradation" quite surprising since things were working
> pretty well up until now. I somewhat regret KDE4 switch because of all
> of this, however I definitely needed some of the features KDE4 apps had
> to offer. Traded off some of the features dear to my heart: multi-key
> combinations popping prompt menu, titlebar set correctly in Konsole
> without affecting tab name, and some others. Filed with bugs.kde.org...
> let's see what happens next. According to some KDE4 jsut highlighted
> problems in underlying Xorg, so hopefully now with all of that out in
> the open things will get fixed.
>
...
I am now 3 days into an emerge -e world (almost 2000 packages) as after
the gnome 2.6 upgrade I had a lot of weird gnomey issues (actually had
to use a lot of kde apps for awhile!) This morning I rebooted and most
issues have gone away. At home, I have no ext monitor and the laptop is
set to its native 1366x768. When I got to work I resumed (ToI) and
plugged in the ext monitor (1280x768) and ran my script (desktop icon
that calls a script that uses xrandr to set both VGA1 and LVDS1 to
1280x1024) - and it worked perfectly. Maybe there are other packages
involved that are not obvious? To make it a bit more fuzzy, somewhere
in the middle of this I made sure that the kernel framebuffer drivers
were not being built (vga etc) and removed the grub argument to set the
mode - maybe this interferred with it previously? - though those
settings were there "forever". Note that the GMA guide reccomends doing
this.
I find that every couple of years or so, an emerge -e world cleans up a
lot of issues that just don't make sense otherwise - ~680 pkgs to go :)
BillK
