Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Wohler
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > do you have 3D hw acceleration working? I thought it's not working > or VERY experimental in free ati driver Haven't tried. > some of my fonts look prety ugly too, how did you figure out what > the proper font path is? Whatever was there after dpkg-r

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:06:53 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Bill Wohler wrote: > > > > [SNIP] > > > >>> 2. The courier fonts were ugly. > >>> > >>> The fix was to rebui

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Wohler wrote: [SNIP] 2. The courier fonts were ugly. The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in http://bu

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:39:52 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Wohler wrote: [SNIP] > > > 2. The courier fonts were ugly. > > > > The fix was to rebuild xorg.conf (I'm assuming with a proper font > > path). I did not have to resort to the workaround presented in > > http://bu

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Bill Wohler wrote: In case there are still folks out there that like me have xserver-xorg 6.8 on hold because of the reports that X would freeze up if you had an ATI card, I'd like to report that all is well. I share the sentiments that the upgrade was a non-event for such a major upgrade (at le

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Bill Wohler
Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > > > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" > > > (totally off topic, but a thought maybe worth sharing:) > > I used to pull similar tricks to redirect output to a file writab

Re: Xorg 7.0 and ATI working!

2006-06-20 Thread Joris
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > sudo sh -c "readlink /etc/X11/X | md5sum > /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum" (totally off topic, but a thought maybe worth sharing:) I used to pull similar tricks to redirect output to a file writable only by root. it can be done without spawning a