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

[PJ Beers]

> 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? 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.

>> 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. Well, no matter, I don't need rotation 
anyway.

The only question remaining is the loss of the 1280x1024 mode on this 
t43p, since 6.7.194. I'll try to make a detailed bug-report for that one 
tomorrow, with xrandr output, xorg.conf, and Xorg.0.log. Let me know if I 
forgot something.

Thanks,

PJ