is xorg.conf still needed

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Apr 30 04:24:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:17:46PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > Option      "AccelMethod" "EXA"
> > 
> > So XVideo works and Render accel works.
> 
> In F9 you shouldn't need this EXA should default for intel hw now.

Great for intel.  What about radeon?

> > Virtual 3200 1600
> > 
> > So dual-head actually has somewhere to put the second head :-)
> 
> This is temporary until we get gpu memory management in place so we can
> resize the desktops at runtime.

That will be cool.

> > Various options for touchpad, so I can tap-to-click and drag.
> 
> These may end going via hal or gconf settings I would assume..

Makes sense.

> > Oh, and per-user dual-head/Xinerama configuration doesn't seem to work 
> > so well when the window manager or session manager loads before the 
> > dual-head is configured, resulting in all your icons, applications, 
> > and gnome-panels being restored overlapped on a single-head.
> 
> Sounds like some sort of a race.. I'm sure ssp can figure out how to stop this..

I haven't tried again in a while--it's kind of disrupting to have to 
reconfigure everything.  I'll have to create a new account to test 
with.




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