From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3h5m-0007ru-6F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:19:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A41BDE0A65; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E7FE0A65 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:19:51 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAPPp6Up8qbHg/2dsb2JhbADePYQ9BIFicYUI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,650,1249228800"; d="scan'208";a="52624618" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.177.224]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 30 Oct 2009 10:19:49 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96581B265E1 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:49 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kXZoSn4DpJ-B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:47 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F0D1B265DE for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:46 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ? From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4AEA4672.5050302@makovey.net> References: <4AE928C2.3030204@makovey.net> <1256796332.13762.42.camel@rattus> <4AEA4672.5050302@makovey.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:19:45 +0800 Message-Id: <1256869186.1736.21.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b24fea14-8bde-4406-905d-1f742319bc2c X-Archives-Hash: 3e39ecf963292f88caa84d7f5a19d704 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