On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:30:43PM -0300, John Lenton wrote: > Hi all. > > I downloaded -pre1v3, and tried it against my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR > VIVO, with mixed results: > > - DRI worked (that's up from the last time I looked :) Glad to hear it. > - X took a long time to start ("long" in comparison, nothing > serious, i.e. a several seconds longer than usual), and my > monitor seemed to loose sync (it put itself into DPMS suspend > mode). Hmm. Not sure what's going on there. Does this change if you turn off the "vbe" module? > - the RandR extension isn't supported by the Radeon driver. [...] > Is there any reason RandR isn't being included? AFAICT it isn't > in any of the servers (if that's so, why include xrandr -- the > program -- at all?). The XFree86 X server requires some re-architecting at the dix (Device Independent X, i.e., not specific hardware drivers) level to support RandR. As I understand it, another layer of indirection needs to be added so that the root window can be virtualized. The RandR extension provides a changing viewport onto that virtual root window. Keith Packard has the beginnings of this work done but I don't think we can expect it for XFree86 4.3. -- G. Branden Robinson | Build a fire for a man, and he'll Debian GNU/Linux | be warm for a day. Set a man on branden@debian.org | fire, and he'll be warm for the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
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