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 <waltd...@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. ;) -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
