Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

"Walter's Excellent Adventure" Chapter 3

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:02:32AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote

>   The net change is that...
> * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode
> * X now has hardware acceleration

   I ran "emerge -pv --deep --newuse world" to make sure everything was
OK.  It wanted to rebuild xorg-server and one other lib after the
changes in "VIDEO_CARDS" in make.conf.  While I was at, I decided to
throw in "xvmc" into my USE flags.  After the rebuilding was over, I
have video acceleration, but no 1366x768.  According to the Xorg.0.log
file the available video modes are...

"1280x720"
"1920x1080i"
"720x480"
"1440x480i"
"1920x1080"
"1440x240"
"720x576"

  I've improved the speed of the video, with hardware acceleration, so
I'll let things be for now.  That's my HTPC machine.

  I'm now switching over my regular desktop (Dell Dimension 530 from the
summer of 2007) to hardware accelerated mode.  This one wants i915
drivers.  I had stuck in an old Nvidia card, which was a bit of a pain...
* I have to rebuild the binary drivers every time I upgrade my kernel
* Flash bleeds through windows on top of a window with Flash
* Flash colour tables are screwed up.  People have blue faces.
* The "fix" for the colour problem involved tweaking /etc/adobe/mms.cfg
  which fixed the colours, but caused Flash to crash a lot.

  With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now
dump the Nvidia card.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications