[gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Alon Bar-Lev]

Hello All,

sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 configurations.

Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution.

Comments/suggestions can be entered at bug#159586.

Package will be masked at 2007-05-25, removed at 2005-06-08.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Seemant Kulleen]

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On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:33 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 configurations.
> 
> Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution.
> 
> Comments/suggestions can be entered at bug#159586.
> 
> Package will be masked at 2007-05-25, removed at 2005-06-08.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.

Why not just remove both when xf86-video-intel-2.* goes stable?

thanks,

Seemant


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Greg KH]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:01:46PM -0400, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:33 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > sys-apps/915resolution superseed this package and support 855 configurations.
> > 
> > Please upgrade your configuration to sys-apps/915resolution.
> > 
> > Comments/suggestions can be entered at bug#159586.
> > 
> > Package will be masked at 2007-05-25, removed at 2005-06-08.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Alon Bar-Lev.
> 
> Why not just remove both when xf86-video-intel-2.* goes stable?

Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of
hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good
example of this...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Markus Ullmann]

> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of
> hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good
> example of this...)

Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm
so nothing rock solid yet ;)

Greetz
-Jokey

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Rémi Cardona]

Markus Ullmann wrote:
>> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of
>> hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good
>> example of this...)
> 
> Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm
> so nothing rock solid yet ;)

I'm getting it too, it's far from being stable. Here's the upstream bug
for those who could help or just track progress.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299

Cheers,
Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Joshua Baergen]

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Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Markus Ullmann wrote:
>>> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of
>>> hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good
>>> example of this...)
>> Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm
>> so nothing rock solid yet ;)
> 
> I'm getting it too, it's far from being stable. Here's the upstream bug
> for those who could help or just track progress.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299
> 
> Cheers,
> Rémi

I don't think that Xinerama is really supported anymore.  It's not
really needed, depending on what you're trying to do - Xrandr 1.2 should
handle most general/common use cases.

Josh


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Rémi Cardona]

Joshua Baergen wrote:
> I don't think that Xinerama is really supported anymore.  It's not
> really needed, depending on what you're trying to do - Xrandr 1.2 should
> handle most general/common use cases.

Either way, it doesn't work as advertised :
 - xinerama segfaults xorg-server
 - I couldn't get the VGA output to display anything else than a clone
of the LVDS output
 - XVideo support is broken

All of these are known issues, both on the xorg ML and in fd.o bugzilla.
Clearly, it's not ready for prime time :)

Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites sys-apps/855resolution

[Mart Raudsepp]

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On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 09:37 -0600, Joshua Baergen wrote:
> Rémi Cardona wrote:
> > Markus Ullmann wrote:
> >>> Because it looks like the 2.x intel driver might still need this type of
> >>> hack to work properly for some types of machines (my laptop being a good
> >>> example of this...)
> >> Also 2.x breaks on my notebook when using xinerama and dual monitor atm
> >> so nothing rock solid yet ;)
> > 
> > I'm getting it too, it's far from being stable. Here's the upstream bug
> > for those who could help or just track progress.
> > 
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10299
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Rémi
> 
> I don't think that Xinerama is really supported anymore.  It's not
> really needed, depending on what you're trying to do - Xrandr 1.2 should
> handle most general/common use cases.

I suppose multihead across multiple different graphics cards doesn't
fall under the common use case? :)
I don't think that's supported by libXrandr yet, is it?

I would imagine some power users wanting to use multiple monitors by one
being from an integrated intel graphics card on a desktop and the other
from an add-on card that is of different brand. As those usually come
with two outputs, lets say they have room for three monitors on the
desk.

That is to say that some might still find one of the *resolution
packages useful and removing both at this point doesn't sound like a
good idea as proposed in response to the removal of one of them.

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Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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