{"id":271,"date":"2004-09-14T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2004-09-14T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T14:07:54","slug":"xorg-680-with-composite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/14\/xorg-680-with-composite\/","title":{"rendered":"X.org 6.8.0 with composite"},"content":{"rendered":"

built, installed – and guess what? It *works*!<\/p>\n

well… for some value of works.<\/p>\n

missing a bunch of extra libs i need for some apps (e.g. emacs) and any translucent windows make it go *slllooooowwww*. but drop shadows work okay.<\/p>\n

maybe in a release or so it’ll be reasonable to use full time. although what’s really needed is accelleration for my graphics hardware (Radeon 9600).<\/p>\n

had to raise colin one up after his sleep working under Fedora :)<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/12\/911-fedora-ppc-tree-sleep-works-with-pmud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

built, installed – and guess what? It *works*! well… for some value of works. missing a bunch of extra libs i need for some apps (e.g. emacs) and any translucent windows make it go *slllooooowwww*. but drop shadows work okay. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4520,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/building-openpower-firmware-on-fedora-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":0},"title":"Building OpenPOWER firmware on Fedora 31","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2019-12-14","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the challenges with Fedora 31 is that \/usr\/bin\/python is now Python 3 rather than Python 2. 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