experiences with xorg-x11-6.7.0

jimbo · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 31

UT2004 Benchmark scores:

XFree86 4.3: 39
XORG: 31

Switching back to XFree for a while... :wink:

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MikeP · Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 3:24 pm Post subject:

Neo_0815 · l33t Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Posts: 815 Location: Leipzig

I am runnig xorg since 2 month ... might be a little bit less or more.

Its running fine - but sometimes, xorg freezes my pc - mouse is working, sound, and all other things too, but keyboard and graphics are locked - no <ctrl-alt-backspace> to get it working again.

Only way to get around is to login from another machine per ssh or telnet and kill the process or to make cold reboot - thats a little bit annoying.
The logs dont show any eror report or something else to figure out why it happened, anyone else have this problem?

I will go back to xfree for now, because the performance is the same on my system, but it dont freezes like xorg sometimes.

best regards

froke · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:22 pm Post subject:

Just installed xorg on my laptop without any problems. Didn't even need to change any of the XF86Config. It seems to run just as fast, if not faster. Unfortunately I have not been able to test any games.
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Lisandro · Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

Fixed Opera 7.5: emerge corefonts. Seems the X.Org ebuild doesn't list it as a dependence, and Opera defaults to other (similar) fonts that don't look as well. You may need to delete your opera.ini in ~/.opera aswell as it doesn't have an option to rollback to default fonts.

As for booting speed, it seems to boot a bit faster than XFree did in my system. It's not an incredible difference, but it's noticeable.

Goat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 76

after a long time of emerging xorg i get an error saying it failed
it had an illegal instruction on x_cursor and then it started saying
*** [all] Error 2 and
*** [world] Error 2
along with leaving directorys
what is wrong with this thing i kept getting illegal instructions when i tryed to run xf86config with xfree emerged.

jstuart · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 57

I LOVE it!

I just emerged it in, had to restart XFS and boom. Was done in about oh an hour or so.

It's FASTER, and uses less memory than Xfree! Xfree tended to balloon on me to almost 320 Mb total usage. Xorg is 176 Mb!!!!!! And my fonts look cleaner! LOL
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Ignignokt · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 59

Couldn't have been more painless. 3 commands:

incubator · Guru Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 584 Location: Belgium

on my computer xorg takes longer to boot as well yes , but I dont mind, as long as it performs well :-)

Dracnor · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 397 Location: Pennsylvania

I have only good things to say about xorg. It seems to be faster than xfree. It also fixed my mouse wheel problem. Everything seems to integrate nicely (like nvidia drivers). Can't wait for more improvements to come

tr4nce · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 68 Location: Argentina

Is there any chance to have problem with MediaPlayers?
I get a crappy quality with mplayer, Help anybody?

Furbeh · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:49 am Post subject:

xorg worked like a charm :wink:

sdaffis · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

For me the switch to xorg was completely painless! Faster startup times is really appreciated!

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grzewho · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2002 Posts: 626 Location: /home/g

xorg-x11 works perfectly for me too! painless install, faster startup and finally my multimedia keys work with X
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ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Am I the only person who isnt impressed by Xorg...???

My gdm (or entrance) loads like shit since I installed Xorg.
With Xfree my init.d/xdm would start and immediately display my DM (GDM or Entrance). Now with Xorg I first get to see that X-checkers field (the black and white) with the crappy black cross for 3 seconds before I see my DM....

I that normal behaviour or did I do something wrong.

Upgrading to the 6.7.0-r1 didn't solve it btw.

Ian · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject:

Upgrading to r1 screwed up Xinerama for me, or at least that was the only thing I could find that changed. Still haven't fixed it yet.

StuRReaL · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

when is x-org going to become stable in gentoo? I mean it runs beautifully

it seems much faster then xfree

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

StuRReaL · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

shift · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:19 am Post subject:

XB-70 · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 6

jarealist · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 228

Very easy switching over from XFree - not one problem. A much more stable/solid feel to it, and it does seem to load a little faster. I would like to see the "gray" portion of the X-Org load sequence display changed to just a "black" screen.

LouTheBlueGuru · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:54 am Post subject:

Except for the stupid grey startup screen, it works just fine on both my x86 and a64. I do wish someone would try to figure out how to get rid of the nonfunctional grey startup screen!
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elpollodiablo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

i'm using xorg since it appeared in portage.... it works fast and smooth, it solved problems with my radeon card (noise on the screen at hi-res, like 1280 or 1600) but i have a big problem: if i start two opengl applications everything freezes! cold reboot is needed, no way to log using ssh.....

and, if i launch mplayer like this:

Maedhros · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:03 am Post subject: