From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine?
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:59:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121218225947.GE2701@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121218220159.GA31334@waltdnes.org>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > * 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
>
> I've improved the speed of the video, with hardware acceleration, so
> I'll let things be for now. That's my HTPC machine.
Still pretty ignorant of all these graphic settings. After using Linux for 9
years, now I have ATi, nVidia, and Intel graphic chipsets and don't know what
to do with them. Prior to migrating to Gentoo last year I just installed the
nVidia binary blob from their website.
Now I've got radeon, nouveau, Intel on most comps -- nvidia-drivers on HTPC.
> 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.
All that mess got fixed by switching from nVidia's binary blob to nouveau.
> With hardware acceleration enable for the onboard Intel GPU, I can now
> dump the Nvidia card.
Can you give me some guide, or advice for this ... other than the standard
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml ?
Any push in the right direction would be appreciated.
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
Me, neither. I run Fluxbox and save my memory and CPU cycles for real work. ;)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-18 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-17 16:23 [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine? Walter Dnes
2012-12-17 18:34 ` pk
2012-12-18 8:17 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-18 10:02 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-18 22:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-18 22:59 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2012-12-19 1:45 ` Walter Dnes
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