Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dmitri Pogosyan <pogosyan@×××××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:52:06
Message-Id: 200906190052.n5J0q2506672@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca
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4 > Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
5 > >> One thing that always bugs me is that XRandR requires some
6 > >> configuration[1] and X restart[2],
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8 > > Why are you say that ? One surely does not need to restart X, that's the
9 > > whole point of XrandR
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12 > For changing "Resolution and Rotation", you're correct; but with or
13 > without randr, whatever I tried I can't switch between single monitor
14 > and dual monitor and back without restarting X.
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16 hm, I have no problem doing that. I have setup script at Fn-F7 which cycles
17 between one screen modes, mirror and extended monotir and it cycles just fine,
18 with non-uniform resolution and everthing. With projector, sometimes it need
19 CLI help to get a right mode, but never had to restart X.
20 And that is Randr 1.2 with 1.5 server on intel
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