Some general comments, and 1280x1024 mode no longer available in 6.7.194

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 23:23 +0200, PJ Beers wrote:
> > From: michel at tungstengraphics.com
> > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:15 +0200, pj_beers at hotmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >> The major improvement I noticed is that compiz now behaves much better, 
> >> all in all its almost usable except that resizing windows takes too 
> >> long to be functional.
> >
> > If you're using xserver 1.4 or newer, make sure you're using EXA for
> > this.
> 
> I'm still on 1.3.0.0, so I guess no EXA for me, right? 

You can still try it, but it'll probably decrease compiz performance
before 1.4.

> I tried compiling 1.4 today (on Slackware 12), but I'm baffled by the
> number of dependencies. I did get it to compile, but startx errored
> out, and then I gave up.

If you post to the xorg list about this with more details, somebody
might be able to help.


> >> One thing that hasn't worked ever is screen rotation. I've only
> tried
> >> turning it upside down, but it predictably and completely hangs the
> >> computer - no sysrq or anything, nothing in the logs.
> >
> > It wouldn't be usable anyway due to the lack of r300 RENDER
> > acceleration.
> 
> Ah... I guess this is where I find myself lacking in prior knowledge,
> I don't understand your comment.

The actual rotation of screen contents would be unaccelerated, making it
mostly useless.


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