The RandR-"unable to set rotation" issue in AMD Geode LX platform

2010-05-26 Thread Cui, Hunk
Hi, all, As said on Ubuntu BTS, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-geode/+bug/377929 About “unable to set rotation on AMD Geode LX800”, I used Ubuntu 9.10 which comes with generic kernel 2.6.31-17 and Xserver 1.6.4, geode-driver 2.11.6, I also able to rotate the screen

Re: i915 interlaced display, again

2010-05-26 Thread Eric Anholt
On Tue, 25 May 2010 18:41:46 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Hi, > > Now that the non-KMS support is gone, the following patches implement > interlaced mode display on i915 and similar hardware. > Tested on i915 + analog VGA, it would be worth checking if newer chips > (and which ones) still sup

Re: X startup and authorization

2010-05-26 Thread tom fogal
Hi Alan, thanks for your reply. I hit a snag + worked around it, and so I wanted to report back to the list for posterity. Comments/suggestions of course still welcome. Alan Coopersmith writes: > tom fogal wrote: > > The first issue is startup: we fork and then exec `xinit' in the > > child; th