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While there are just some small changes, after applying them in my tests the Plasma5 (both 5.12.6 LTS and 5.13.2) is fluid enough to enable the DPM (dynamic power management) and KDE4 behave nicer than ever.
I know, I know, there are many who will laugh their back out when will see a talk about a power consumption reduction on Radeon HD3200 (from 18W to around 7W), BUT everyone loves the HTPCs and silent PCs, right?
Last edited by Darth Vader; 07-19-2018 at 12:52 PM.
# This script starts an instance of Xvfb, the "fake" X server, runs a command
# with that server available, and kills the X server when done. The return
# value of the command becomes the return value of this script.
This comes handy to run an X client from a tty (in runlevel 3 aka console mode), like for hearing the sound of a video stream.
Example of usage:
Code:
./xvfb-run -a -s '-screen 0 640x480x16' firefox --no-remote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cg_0jepxow
The attached one is part of a patch used to build an xvfb package for Debian Stretch: http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/m...19.6-1.diff.gz. I chose this server version as close to 1.18.3 shipped in Slackware 14.2 to try it on Slint. I don't know if the version really matters here, anyway if it does it is still possible to choose the version shipped in Sid.
I suggest that this script be shipped in the package xorg-server-xvfb in Slackware-current.
PS and OT: this wrapper script gives me an idea for a way to stop the Festival speech server when Orca is killed.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 07-19-2018 at 02:22 PM.
Certainly that "DVI", if it is a single one, is in fact a DVI-I connector, then you can use an adapter to VGA. Also, there are cables HDMI -> DVI (in fact: DVI + digital audio = HDMI)
So,
HDMI -> DVI monitor (the main one) via a proper cable.
DVI-I -> old VGA monitor, via that adapter which you have already.
OK, there are also adapters from DisplayPort to VGA, DVI, HDMI - then you have another options to drive both monitors only via the Radeon card.
Long story short, usually bringing up 2 different acceleration methods, like Glamor and that Intel SNA, well... that's a recipe for disaster. See their experiences with hybrid graphics.
That's WHY the Xorg guy recommended you to use for Intel the modesetting driver. Because just like the Radeon one, it use the same acceleration method: Glamor.
Beyond other things, they duplicated the firmware for the SI and CIK graphics cards from "radeon" also on "amdgpu" folder.
For me that's a clear sign that they intend for the near future to move the support for SI and CIK cards only on AMDGPU, because is very strange to support on long term this duplication of features.
I've never gotten any video cards outside of Nvidia GeForce cards to work with modesetting and glamor egl correctly.
attention here , knowed issues gstremaer 1.14 branch
The gst-libav module in 1.14 will only build against older ffmpeg 3.x versions and won't build against the newly-released ffmpeg 4.0 (as in RPM Fusion for Fedora 28) due to API changes. Use the internal ffmpeg copy instead if you build using autotools.
That's WHY the Xorg guy recommended you to use for Intel the modesetting driver. Because just like the Radeon one, it use the same acceleration method: Glamor.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ReaperX7
I've never gotten any video cards outside of Nvidia GeForce cards to work with modesetting and glamor egl correctly.
I for one, IF I will have a setup similar with yours, I will try to avoid to complicate my life and I will just use the Radeon card for handling both monitors.
BTW, you have even another way: there are splitter cables from DVI-I to DVI-D and VGA. For example:
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