[gentoo-amd64] Re: Hurray! Radeon KMS in 2.6.31

[Duncan]

Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com> posted 4A3AA6FB.3010409@×××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:43:39 +1000:

> For changing "Resolution and Rotation", you're correct; but with or
> without randr, whatever I tried I can't switch between single monitor
> and dual monitor and back without restarting X.

Four questions:

1.  What version of xorg and RandR (I'm not sure which *randr* package 
but they're all the same version here so I'll pick libXrandr)?

The ~arch xorg 1.6 and *randr* 1.3 work MUCH better than previous 
versions, which were flat-out missing certain very useful functionality.

2.  "Whatever I tried".  Did you try xrandr?

As I explained in another post, the GUI versions seem to be "functionally 
challenged" if not flat-out broken in some aspects.  xrandr 1.3 works 
very well here.

3.  Have you tried setting the virtual desktop size (as explained in that 
other post)?

I haven't actually tried it with the newest xorg-server (1.6.1.901, FWIW 
Gentoo revision 3), but last I was aware, xorg-server couldn't exand the 
virtual desktop from what it was when it initially started.  Since it 
defaults to the same size as the detected resolution, if you've not set 
it to a sufficient size in xorg.conf, you'll have issues trying to get 
anything other than clone mode without rebooting, since there's no 
further desktop for it to expand into.

4.  What graphics drivers?  Version?

I'm currently running the Radeon driver from xf86-video-ati, version 
6.12.2.  Certain drivers haven't been converted to RandR yet, or may not 
be updated to use use full current xorg-server and RandR functionality.

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