[gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?

2009-10-28 Thread Dmitry Makovey
Hi everybody, I've got an interesting issue today which I half-resolved, but am still wondering whether I missed something important or did something that'll bite me in the end. So here's short story: I've been running older kernel (2.6.22-gentoo-r9) and KDE3 on my laptop(x86,i945) for quite some

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?

2009-10-28 Thread William Kenworthy
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA Welcome to our world of pain :( I made some headway using "-hal" for xorg-server in USE, and IgnoreEDID and setting DDC to false in xorg.conf but the latest updates ignore those and the UXA settings in the link above (check the xorg log for other dirty sec

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?

2009-10-29 Thread Dmitry Makovey
William Kenworthy wrote: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA > ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started applying advises from there so we'll see what will I end up with. > Welcome to our world of pain :( > it is quite surprising considering that Intel has open

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4+i945+kernel+external display = ?

2009-10-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:50 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Intel_GMA > > > ah, the magic word: GMA :) Thanks for the reference I have started ... > which intel driver do you use? Mine's 2.8.1 and I wonder if bumping to > 2.9.1 that i