From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In7nm-0005l9-Tn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:15:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9V7EUsu000938; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:14:30 GMT Received: from tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts43.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.110]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9V7A94n028467 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:10:09 GMT Received: from toip7.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.124]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20071031071008.TUYH26794.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip7.srvr.bell.ca> for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:10:08 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAHbGJ0dGMXTy/2dsb2JhbACBWg Received: from bas1-toronto01-1177646322.dsl.bell.ca (HELO sympatico.ca) ([70.49.116.242]) by toip7.srvr.bell.ca with SMTP; 31 Oct 2007 03:10:28 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:10:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:10:08 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box DRI problem : more Message-ID: <20071031071007.GA4652@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20071027233723.GB4677@sympatico.ca> <200710300035.46002.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <20071030035550.GD4632@sympatico.ca> <200710301045.57804.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <20071031040300.GA4634@sympatico.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071031040300.GA4634@sympatico.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: ca472800-1e4b-4eb1-86aa-478c0fe6dbef X-Archives-Hash: 432d257b20d7b90750a51d30a9b478ce 071031 Philip Webb wrote: > Meanwhile, what I believed to be a small irritant is proving a show-stopper. > Leaving aside DRI, the display from the new machine spills off the screen: See previous msg for full horror story, but I did check the DPI : both machines show 99x98 in answer to 'xdpyinfo'. There have been a lot of confused & frustrated users on the Forum recently & a surprising lack of resolution of problems in this area: perhaps I've fallen over the cutting into the bleeding edge with my G33. One suggestion (repeated twice) was to try xf86-video-i810-1.7.4 , which is said to lack a bug introduced in newer versions. Mb tomorrow ... -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list