On Wednesday 08 September 2004 11:23 pm, Osho GG wrote: [...]
OK. Here is a quick summary of my experiences of moving from X.org 6.7 to 6.8.
I have ATI Mobility FireGL2 in thinkpad T42p laptop - for which they seem to have a much improved radeon driver - but still no 3d support. ATI's proprietory driver does not work well with 6.8 for 3d as well. ATI's driver worked fine for 3d with 6.7. This is not a big deal for me as I never enabled 3d - laptop acpi standby and suspend don't seem to work when 3d is enabled for me or with ATI drivers. So, I have to use the radeon drivers. It could be a big deal for someone if they have to use ATI's drivers and they need the 3d acceleration. ***********
Osho, Did you bother to read the Readme file on the mirror you retrieved the 6.8 from located in the same directory? It explains about 3d and how to setup the module needed for such usage. Basically your SuSE kernel has the 3d module needed for standard setup, but with the new version of x.org, you will need to fix the kernel to the new drm to work. Sounded like a simple procedure. --------------------
Second, Fn+F7 does not work anymore to switch between external display and internal. I have to switch to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) do a Fn+F7 and then switch back to the virtual terminal with X to get it to work. ============
This may be a simple setting that can be done by running sax2 again while in init 3. How did you set it before? ----------------
Also, I do not have any success yet with enabling DVI out with the LCD Flat Panel external monitor. Need to do more experiments though.
I installed xcompmgr to try out the shadows for windows. It was way too slow to be usable. I guess I need to have acceleration enabled.
Moving to 6.8 did solve the issue of java applications and some of the font usage crashing X server problem - so I will be keeping it. However, I guess that the work-around that I found would also probably have worked with 6.7 as well.
All said, I am pretty disappointed with 6.8 so far. Not any worse than 6.7 for my usage but I can't really use the new features (like composite extensions).
cheers, Osho ===========
Moving to untested software yet unfinished doesn't always fix problems, but those guys have been doing some good work. The reason it was released by the x.org guys at all was to give it some testing and I suspect that might have been why SuSE provided it too, to get feedback on the problems. :o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those Who Cannot Hear the Music!