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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256869186.1736.21.camel@bunyip.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEA4672.5050302@makovey.net>

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








      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29  5:31 [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ? Dmitry Makovey
2009-10-29  6:05 ` William Kenworthy
2009-10-30  1:50   ` Dmitry Makovey
2009-10-30  2:19     ` W.Kenworthy [this message]

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