From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C227F1381F3 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 049C021C077; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 491D521C077 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (66-208-231-133.ubr01a.rte20201.pa.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [66.208.231.133]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LdYlu-1TL52k3KYk-00igJw; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:59:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:59:47 -0600 From: Bruce Hill To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf tweaks for HTPC machine? Message-ID: <20121218225947.GE2701@server> References: <20121217162311.GA11172@waltdnes.org> <50CF65AE.4020308@coolmail.se> <20121218081758.GA13736@waltdnes.org> <20121218100232.GA18958@waltdnes.org> <20121218220159.GA31334@waltdnes.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121218220159.GA31334@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Ttmp5Flg2L+tTFe3UtNexbCF2LBZ40lvyD4SHwagQDj t05llocdzRVZvWdQiSYb/meSQ+sjR7FnmhhFcvwMmeh9j+sfDH dC3vNcVwGsHdADn6WoNKKyrU9GzZvK8bs+Hug9NO0CqjptNz0S m1o9koLDiW06SNfEWRdrlCT/KC11/WZF2KQTEdKlSc+MuSmwTH nfYAkMGf0jSl53znIouh+4a3c9SipMt2BKu96bJ8HE+FVdeB5a RSEfmdpS67XBpeUdk30kxzW9vxfNwQMnZSomu7uQjaAMuJG337 +SBHDLfjiz8shw2crjmB/yerEgNKAylfKRDqpBELQAnWVQu7V+ qwsqSAl5vf9wgHQ9vUnU= X-Archives-Salt: c874ec90-1832-43ae-bd54-d71aa79a2584 X-Archives-Hash: 4107343878528b5746df2f9b93b3a7d8 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 > 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. ;) -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ support@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting