Am 14.12.2012 18:56, schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>>   I'm updating a system that's probably gone 2 or 3 months since its
>> last update.
>>
>> ====================================================================
>> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel" has unmet 
>> requirements.
>> - x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.13::gentoo USE="dri -glamor -sna -udev 
>> -uxa -xvmc"
>>
>>   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
>>     any-of ( glamor sna uxa )
>> ====================================================================
>>
>>   This is the first time I've run into these options.  A bit of Google
>> detective work turned up some articles...
>>
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_glamor_first&num=1
>> http://ickle.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/an-evening-with-glamor/
>>
>> ...which give the impression that SNA is the fastest option overall.
>> The phoronix article also mentioned some instability issues with glamor.
>> I'll probably be going with SNA.  Does anybody else have any experience
>> and/or opinions?
>>
>> --
>> Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
>> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>>
> 
> I have no idea about performance but I've got udev and sna enabled at this 
> time.
> 

+1

> gandalf ~ # emerge -pv xf86-video-intel
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.20.13  USE="dri sna
> udev -glamor -uxa -xvmc" 0 kB
> 
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> gandalf ~ #
> 
> Be forewarned, or please report back if you can, but in my case on the
> two Intel machines I have (one local, one my 84 year old dad uses) X11
> stopped displaying anything after this update. As a quick fix I
> removed the xorg.conf file completely to get a desktop back. This was
> a couple of weeks ago. Removing xorg.conf worked on both machines and
> I haven't gone back to figure out what happened and how to best
> address it.
> 

If you don't miss features I say good riddance to xorg.conf.

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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