2009/1/1 Mark Haney <[email protected]>: > Duncan wrote: > >> If you have your old xorg log files or your old xf86-video-ati and perhaps >> xorg-server packages binpkged (as you likely will if you run >> FEATURES=buildpkg)to downgrade temporarily to and check the log file, it >> should list the DPI it was using in the log file. You can of course see >> what the current config is using in the current logfile, and compare them to >> that 96 or 100 DPI that I calculated, to see whether your old setup or your >> new setup is closer to what the actual physical hardware DPI is. > > > Duncan, as always you get to the core of it. As one who doesn't muck with X > very often, since I want it to 'just work', and one who hasn't kept up with > the latest X developments, I'm curious to see how well X will detect my > monitor. > > I went back to the old xf86-video-ati package (binpkg is a godsend, BTW) and > my screen is back to 'normal', that is it's the way I'm used to seeing it. > I will pull this log file and upgrade to the new package and pull that log > file and see what the differences are. > > I will let you know in a day or two how things shake out. Thanks again for > all the info. > > one of the things that really changed a lot was the move of freetype and type1 fonts modules from plugins to xorg internal. if you're using 1.3 switch to 1.4 and you should get this back working. you'd see these warning/error lines:
(II) LoadModule: "type1" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 (II) UnloadModule: "type1" (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype (II) UnloadModule: "freetype" (EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0) but don't really worry much about them. since the modules are inside xorg itself they should just work. and i really suggest the use of ~amd64 branch for xorg if you're on intel or ati and don't want to use the live packages. the portage stable versions are VERY VERY old ones and lack a lot of new cool stuff that xorg already has. in terms of stability the unstable branch has no problems when compared to the stable branch, but it's far far better. i've been on unstable or live branches for about 9 months and haven't found anyt major issue. also the xf86-video-ati is having a lot of new cool stuff and performance increase that you won't see. the latest portage driver 6.9.0 has been released 6 months ago and the one you're using i think it has more than one year. in that time this driver has had so many improvements that it almost as good as the official ati-driver, if not better. here is an article about the new release candidate http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njk1MQ and about how this opensource driver has gotten tear free X-Video support. if you still want to go with stable stuff then switch to ati-drivers instead of xf86-video-ati afer you've unmasked this package. it's improvements are too big to still stay so much behind on the prehistoric packages you find in the portage stable tree. -- dott. ing. beso
