Re: randr under nv
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:48:24PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've just purchased a dell 1905fp, which supports screen rotation. I use
> a nvidia GeForce 4 MX440-based mideo card, with the nv driver, and run a
> sid system (a little out od date, but I've just updated to xorg 6.9).
> I'm just beginning to explore randr, and looking through the
> documentation it seems as though the nvidia drivers support randr, but
> the current nv driver doesn't -- at least, that's the best I can gather
> (packages.debian.org is down, so I can't get changelog information). I
> see an upstream bug report here
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4708) that seems to show a
> patched nv driver available in upstream. Can anyone guide me on e.g.
> installing just the updated nv driver, or whatever else needs to be done
> to enable randr? I'm hardly an x developer, and am exceedingly loathe to
> mess with my otherwise perfectly functioning x setup.
With the current source packages, it's do-able but a bit of a pain. You'll
basically have to patch the nv sources in the monolithic tree we provide
and build the thing from scratch. Not fun, but it's something I do all the
time more or less :-)
Alternately, you can wait for (or help out on!) the modular packages which
will make it so you just patch the nv driver package and build it all by
itself. These packages are a little ways off from unstable right now, so if
you really need randr now just get the monolith, patch, and build. If
you're just fiddling around but don't feel like fiddling that much, I'd
hold off.
- David Nusinow
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