Re: Squeeze stable upgrade: "RANDR" missing on display

[Erin Brinkley <erinbrinkley@ymail.com>]

"george.standish@gmail.com" <george.standish@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you are getting the RANDR missing error verify you have the line:
> 
>     Option	"RandRRotation"	"on"
> 
> Under the nvidia device heading in your Xorg.conf.

Got it. I always had this:


Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device         "nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150]"
    Monitor        "HP L2045w"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "RandRRotation" "on"
    Option         "Rotate" "CCW"
    Option         "HWCursor" "off"
    SubSection     "Display"


I noticed that now I can actually have the RandRRotation line commented off, and it will still start in portrait mode! But I get this horrible error and it prevents some apps to run properly. Again from lots of searches it looks like a common error for people with dual monitors who run xinerama. I'm not in that situation, but checking with "dpkg -l" I see that the xinerama packages are installed, some other library depends on it now! (BUt Xinerama isn't listed in my xorg.conf at all.)