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From: Dmitry Makovey <mldimon@makovey.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:50:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEA4672.5050302@makovey.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256796332.13762.42.camel@rattus>

William Kenworthy wrote:
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA
>   
ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started
applying advises from there so we'll see what will I end up with.
> Welcome to our world of pain :(
>   
it is quite surprising considering that Intel has opensource drivers
etc. So no "weirdness" should arise as developers have the specs etc.
(at least that was my understanding so far).
> I made some headway using "-hal" for xorg-server in USE, and IgnoreEDID
> and setting DDC to false in xorg.conf but the latest updates ignore
> those and the UXA settings in the link above (check the xorg log for
> other dirty secrets)
>   
Xorg.0.log looks much cleaner now that I got drm issues out of the way...
> I am using 2.6.31-r3 (with kernel mode setting by default for the i915 -
> doesnt work well without it) and xorg-server 1.6.5.
>   
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.
> Its a laptop and there is no easy solution as the external screens
> (various) that I use with it often have only 1024x768 in common with its
> own LCD and stupid xorg wont let me overide it without consequences
> elsewhere :(
>
> xorg sucks badly at the moment and there is no viable alternative to
> switch to - and the saddest thing is the chipset has worked fine in the
> past (sadly becoming distant past for me) ...
>   
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.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29  5:31 [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ? Dmitry Makovey
2009-10-29  6:05 ` William Kenworthy
2009-10-30  1:50   ` Dmitry Makovey [this message]
2009-10-30  2:19     ` W.Kenworthy

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