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2008/11/22 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>: |
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> Tonko Mulder <tonko.mulder@×××××.com> posted |
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> 1227375494.15158.1.camel@Gaius, excerpted below, on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 |
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> 18:38:09 +0100: |
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>>> use one randr setting pannel. the krandr for kde does this and i'm sure |
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>>> there's a randr control panel also for gnome. |
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>> Yes there is, grandr but I tried that and it didn't work that well. I |
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>> could try it some in the future, but atm I use xrandr but maybe I need |
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>> to check on the man-page in order to get it working. |
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> FWIW, I tried the kde3 krandr-tray applet and it appears to be outdated, |
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> only handling randr-1.0 commands. I suppose kde4 has an updated version |
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> with the 1.1 and 1.2 commands. I do have kde4 merged now, but it's still |
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> broken in enough ways I don't use it for everyday yet. |
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well, the system-settings one seems to work quite well for me. it's |
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true that dual head |
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is a little tricky with kde (most of the time makes plasma crash |
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without setting the dual head) |
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also i'm using the 4.2 development brach (plaudis kdebuild overlay) |
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that seems to be |
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a little better in terms of usability and functionality than the |
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portage 4.1.3 version. |
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> So I scripted up a solution using xrandr, put the entries in my kmenu, |
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> and can use them to switch resolutions. But there's still a problem. |
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> The origin coordinates portion appears to be broken, so when I downgrade |
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> resolution, the viewport is always the upper left portion of the full |
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> size version. There's no mouse panning with randr yet (that's supposed |
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> to be added for xorg-server 1.5.3 or possibly later if what I read is |
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> correct), and with origin coordinates broken at least on the radeon |
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> driver on my hardware, upper left (still stacked at least, but still just |
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> upper left) is all I get, and that's not very practical. |
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if you could post the script it would be interesting. |
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> The point being that yes, dual-panel works with the freedomware xf86 ati/ |
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> radeon driver, at least for my hardware, once it's configured to do so. |
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> However, there are some limitations. |
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i'll try out to see these days how the fglrx driver works with dual |
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head. i've read |
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that it does behave in quite a good manner. also, now that it has uvd and basic |
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xvmc included i could also think to go back with it. the only problem |
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is xorg compatibility. |
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> We should probably start a new thread on that if people want to discuss |
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> the config and how I got it to work. |
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this would be really interesting. |
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dott. ing. beso |
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