[Discuss] OS X: 4 days of configuration

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-11-09 03:33-0000 Michael Foltinek wrote:

>>
>> Given these configuration issues, your advice to stick with 10.4 X11 is
>> excellent for the case of old hardware that old X11 understands. But in my
>> case with new hardware it seemed doubtful that old X11 would be able to
>> understand it so I decided to fight through the configuration issues with
>> the latest X.org version of X11.  Once I did that, the new hardware (Intel
>> g33 chipset with embedded GMA 3100) works really well.  It has the highest
>> FPS for glxgears I have ever experienced, and it has now been up for several
>> days and used hard in a wide variety of ways with no problems.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>
> Is there a particular URL that you relied on to get the latest x.org going?

I used the Debian unstable version of X output driver packages.
I used the Intel driver since that is appropriate for my Intel g33 chipset,
but see http://packages.debian.org/sid/xserver-xorg-video-all
which has links to all the Debian unstable output driver packages.

Normally, I am more conservative than this in my software version choices,
but needs must in this case, and as you can see above the gamble paid off
_for my particular hardware_.  xorg-server 1.4 (also required by the
unstable output drivers) has some serious bugs mentioned in the Debian bug
tracker concerning handling the case (which I don't have) of multiple video
chipsets, and I am sure that other problems will show up as more people
start to use it.

BTW, if Debian is not your distro of choice, virtually all modern distros
have something equivalent to the Debian unstable version where you can gain
access to the latest versions of free software if you absolutely need access
to the latest/greatest features, but you also must expect more bugs than
normal in that software since relatively small numbers of users have tested
it.

Alan
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