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

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/25/07, PJ Beers <pj_beers at hotmail.com> 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? 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.

That's fixable, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.  RMX handling
needs to be reworked a bit.  Probably this weekend.

Alex