Re: Installing experimental xorg to get smooth image scaling in iceweasel
Hans Christian wrote: Hi! I'm a long time debian user who recently bought a laptop with a 15.4 wuxga screen (1920x1200 resolution). The high resolution makes it necessary to zoom many webpages, and consequently I suffer a lot from the poor image scaling in iceweasel. But I read in this blogpost http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/03/18/a-little-more-cairo-just-for-you/ that smooth image scaling is coming to gnu/linux, and that it might be in the next xorg release (according to the blog post, it's already enabled in firefox, but depends on xorg to do the scaling). This is why I want to install xorg from experimental. But do you in fact know that smooth scaling is in 7.4? Hugo And now begins my trouble. I'm using the amd64 port of lenny, and no matter how I try, there is a conflict with xserver-xorg-video-2 and xserver-xorg-core. Apparently, xserver-xorg-video-2 is needed by nvidia-glx, although I can't find it listed among the dependencies. I have the same trouble with xserver-xorg-input-2, which is needed by some other crucial package. If I do --force-conflicts to get nvidia-glx, I can start X, but I can't type nor move the mouse cursor, despite xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse being installed. Has anyone managed to install xorg 7.4 from experimental on amd64, and if so -- how did you do it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing experimental xorg to get smooth image scaling in iceweasel
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:24:16 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But do you in fact know that smooth scaling is in 7.4? Hugo No, I don't. I just wanna see if it works, because the current scaling is in my face all day and it would be a great relief to have it improve. I have tested smooth scaling running the windows version of firefox under wine, and in my opinion, it would really be worth the trouble. /hcm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing experimental xorg to get smooth image scaling in iceweasel
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:31 +0200 Hans Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:24:16 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But do you in fact know that smooth scaling is in 7.4? Hugo No, I don't. I just wanna see if it works, because the current scaling is in my face all day and it would be a great relief to have it improve. I have tested smooth scaling running the windows version of firefox under wine, and in my opinion, it would really be worth the trouble. /hcm I was just able to check Hugos question by forcing nvidia-glx to install and creating a .xinitrc file that started iceweasel right after gnome (I still couldn't use mouse or keyboard in X). This way I was able to see that iceweasel does *not* scale smoothly using xorg 7.4 from experimental. At least it doesn't do it automagically with my current xorg.conf. If anyone has further info on iceweasel smooth image scaling I'd be very grateful to hear it! /hcm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
