"Walter's Excellent Adventure" Chapter 2 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:17:59AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> I ran "emerge -pv mesa", and discovered that mesa had been merged with > USE="-xorg". This is what I get for starting USE with "-*"... > http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/11/117774/2361934-double_facepalm.jpg > > I emerged mesa with "xorg" USE flag, and 1366x768 now works fine. One > problem down and one to go. I had merged mesa with the "intel" USE > flag. It also has "i915" and i965" USE flags. If I can get the i965 > driver built, I'd go from "software acceleration" to hardware > acceleration. That's my next step. Now things start to get *REALLY* weird. * Using VIDEO_CARDS="i965" in make.conf enables DRI2 hardware acceleration * But it requires the "classic" USE flag for mesa * The "xorg" USE flag also makes mesa require the "gallium" USE flag * Building mesa with *BOTH* "classic" and "gallium" works * And it runs in 1366x768 mode * And it runs *ONLY* in 1366x768 mode. xrandr does not change the resolution, notwithstanding the gazillion modes it lists * I went back to mesa without the "xorg" and "gallium" flags to simplify my setup * Again, it runs 1366x768, and *ONLY* 1366x768. But it does have hardware acceleration * And yes, I did try replacing the xf86-video-intel driver with xf86-video-modesetting. No X. * So the one change I've made after all this fooling around is to change the VIDEO_CARDS setting in make.conf from "intel" to "i965". The net change is that... * the TV displays in native 1366x768 mode, and *ONLY* 1366x768 mode * X now has hardware acceleration -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
