[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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
