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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:15 +0200, pj_beers at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> I recently upgraded from version 6.6.3 to 6.7.192, and then followed git 
> until 6.7.194, and I thought I'd inform you of my experiences. I'm using 
> this with a Thinkpad t43p, which has a ATI Technologies Inc M24GL [Mobility 
> FireGL V3200] (rev 80) according to lspci. That's the same as x300, or 
> rv370, if I'm correct. 
> 
> 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.


> 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.


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