Xrandr, postscript
If anyone out there has been using my Edgy packages for the new Xrandr love, then you'll notice that I've just deleted them...
Daniel Stone, X hacker extraordinaire, has built updated packages. As he can actually use git I trust them more than I trust my own. They may blow up your machine and so on, but they are available here:
deb http://www.fooishbar.org/packages/ randr-1.2/edgy/$(ARCH)/
He also kindly built AMD64 debs, something that I cannot do.
Posted by Javier Ruiz at Fri Feb 9 20:19:24 2007:
Hi Ross,
I just installed Daniel's xrandr packages and they don't seem to as you pointed in your previous blog. If I typ
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 1024 x 768, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
1280x800 60.0*
1024x768 60.0
No VGA output is listed :-(, but the version seems to be correct:
$ xrandr -v
Server reports RandR version 1.2
Do you know if both packages (your's and Daniel's) the same version? thanks!
Posted by Javier RUiz at Sat Feb 10 09:21:23 2007:
I just installed Daniel's xrandr packages and they don't seem to as you pointed in your previous blog. If I typ
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 1024 x 768, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 0mm x 0mm
1280x800 60.0*
1024x768 60.0
No VGA output is listed :-(, but the version seems to be correct:
$ xrandr -v
Server reports RandR version 1.2
Do you know if both packages (your's and Daniel's) the same version? thanks!
Forget my last comment, silly me I forgot to install the xserver-xorg-video-intel package! :-)
Now xrandr 1.2 works and reports successfully VGA connected or not, I can also change between the external monitor output at 1440x900 and the laptop at 1280x800 but the screen on the external monitor looks distorted and cannot be adjusted :-(
It seems as the resolution of the external monitor is detected correctly but something is wrong with the VGA adjustments, i've tried different modelines but no help there... i don't know if its the i810 driver fault (I'm using a 945GM) or xrandr-1.2 though...
Anyone knows if there is a place I can report problems with this software? it may help the developers...
Posted by Ross at Sat Feb 10 10:23:58 2007:
Posted by Javier Ruiz at Sat Feb 10 17:00:46 2007:
Posted by Kim at Sun Feb 11 15:16:33 2007:
Now xrandr 1.2 works and reports successfully VGA connected or not, I can also change between the external monitor output at 1440x900 and the laptop at 1280x800 but the screen on the external monitor looks distorted and cannot be adjusted :-(
It seems as the resolution of the external monitor is detected correctly but something is wrong with the VGA adjustments, i've tried different modelines but no help there... i don't know if its the i810 driver fault (I'm using a 945GM) or xrandr-1.2 though...
Anyone knows if there is a place I can report problems with this software? it may help the developers...
Thanks for the tip and the packages. It works very well with metacity but perhaps could you add a warning for beryl users using the edgy packages (as found on ubuntu.beryl-project.org) : it triggers the « white screen » bug (due to strange interactions with mesa/glproto versions, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9456).
Regards,
Posted by RichardBronosky at Thu May 3 14:44:29 2007:
Regards,
