On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > the developers are currently in the process of switching to a modular > > X server. This is a big change which is known to break stuff. > > You should, however, be fine as long as you do use stable packages. > > > > See also the latest Gentoo Newsletter at > > http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20060130-newsletter.xml which also > > contains a migration guide. > > Thanks.. that explains things quite a lot... I guess I'm not really > ready to `migrate'. Looks like a lot of work. Its spelled out how to > do it but complicated enough for me to really botch things up. > > All I really wanted was to run xvidtune. Seems pretty extreme to go > thru the whole mess described there for that. I reasonably certain > threre is plenty of room in that process to make a mess and end up > pulling hair for a week. > > Maybe there is another tool that can do what xvidtune does? Far as I > know it is the only thing that will show you the actual resolution of > your display. `xwininfo' and `xdypinfo' do NOT do that. > > They show the desktop size which in my case is (virtual) 2048x1536. > The actual res thru my view port is something quite different. > > xvidtune knows about all that and reports whats really going on. xvidtune is part or xorg-x11. If you have the older style, stable xorg installed you already have xvidtune: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/media/torrents $ qpkg -f /usr/bin/xvidtune x11-base/xorg-x11 * > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
