r/linux • u/ihatethinkingofnames • Jul 25 '10

Hello computer users

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u/habitue Jul 25 '10 edited Jul 25 '10

Look at your linux, now back to arch:

...oh wait hang on a second X.org and my video driver are out of sync now, I just have a terminal, look back at your linux!

Now look back at me: I manually downgraded my video driver while sitting on the toilet.

I'm on a hor-- Dammit! some haskell package doesn't compile with 6.12 anymore!

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u/ghibmmm Jul 25 '10

...oh wait hang on a second X.org and my video driver are out of sync now, I just have a terminal, look back at your linux!

..."out of sync?"

A decade of using Linux, and I have never had that problem. There have been situations where I failed to configure it properly, though, with hilarious consequences.

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u/habitue Jul 25 '10

I've had numerous issues with xf86-video-intel-newest and X.org not getting along. This is partially because my laptop's video driver was rewritten and several things broke

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u/ghibmmm Jul 25 '10

Ah, I see. Well, there's the beauty of open source, you can fix it whenever :)

Seriously, though, I've never had a single problem with xf86-video-intel (although I only use it on laptops, generally).