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seems we're all alone in here

oh - seems it's fixed in gnome 3 - maybe the patch can be transferred?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648156 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665061

Hey everyone, am I the only one still using separate X Screens? After years of fiddling around back in the "good ol'" gnome 2 days, I finally found a layout I liked, which allowed me to use two screens, which are not both all the time connected but sometimes come together and which worked ...

Opensuse 12.3 XFCE
Numix theme and f-dark icons

Isn't anyone watching hd video in here? I agree that the desktop is usable with current drivers, but if you are using the same computer for multimedia stuff you can forget all current gnome3 based desktops with ati cards....

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anyone seeing improvements with 12.3?

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Alpha-Geek wrote:Yeah, it's about time. Installed 12.2. No more flickering, freezing/slow redraws & the fonts in all the menus & toolbars look fine.

How's HD video playback?

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only tried vlc - atm i don't have mint12 installed anymore but I'll put it back on tomorrow and check

yeah well whenever I change that, only the main mint server adress changes - that is not where the bulk of the packages are - just trying to update a fresh install here - takes ages.....

Are there any? I just checked a handful of mint mirrors but I couldn't find any that carried those repos too....

yeah problem is those servers don't mirror latest or incomming if i'm not mistaken

alright - seems this is going somewhere.
still not where we need to be though since the jerkiness in videos is traded for quite visible tearing on my end.....

not fit for movie-evenings

btw: has anyone tried one of te ubuntu 12.4 alphas and therefore has an idea how well recent ati cards might run on mint13 in the future?

although it's not a mint porblem per se - i hear things are the same on the ubuntu side of things and I presume that most other distros with similar package versions suffer the same problem atm.... i do not concur, in ubuntu 11.10 it works perfectly fine with the default drivers from the repository...

have you tried hd-video playback?

if i was just web-browsing etc i could live with 12.1 on mint 12 but video playback is really slow

I was checking back in on lmde - or was planning to. But somehow I can't get the live cd to boot. Now I know that with my radeon 5850 (approximately *g*) no linux live-cd ever boots right up, but usually passing xforcevesa and nomodeset on boot makes it work. Not so with the most recent lmde respin....

although it's not a mint porblem per se - i hear things are the same on the ubuntu side of things and I presume that most other distros with similar package versions suffer the same problem atm....

hrm I'm sticking with mint11 until there's a MUCH better driver out. (although i suspect mutter is also to blame)

I've also tried it meanwhile. A definite improvement. The system in general is in fact usable now. Only HD-video playback still isn't working the way one would hope

hrm I'm back on mint 11, so I can at best reinsall mint12 on my distrohopping partition (doing that richt now in fact) to test, but if this driver works passably then I strongly suggest maintaining up-to-date fglrx packages on the mint repos because mint 12 as-is is completely unusable on current at...