On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:59:41PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > I decided to test Daniel Stone's packages (4.3.0-0ds4) because I have > a rotating LCD screen. Everything worked altogether except two things: > > - Sawfish (windows manager) didn't recognise the Alt key any more (it > was called Mod1). I do not know why, and since all other applications do > fine with it (Xev shows the right state), I think it is a bug in > sawfish. xkb changed, and you probably didn't set it up right for 4.3. > - Main problem: no rotation available. xrandr (1) works pretty fine > for resizing (problems are with gnome), but no rotation is possible: > xrandr -q: > SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh > *0 1600 x 1200 ( 411mm x 311mm ) *60 > 1 1400 x 1050 ( 411mm x 311mm ) 59 > 2 1280 x 1024 ( 411mm x 311mm ) 75 60 > [Lots of possible values] > 22 320 x 200 ( 411mm x 311mm ) 85 > 23 320 x 175 ( 411mm x 311mm ) 85 > Current rotation - normal > Current reflection - none > Rotations possible - normal > Reflections possible - none > > Of course, trying the rotation fails with an argument mismatch... Yes. Rotation is terminally broken and does not work at all in 4.3.0. This may have improved in CVS, but I don't think so. > - I know I missed testing this before Xfree 4.3 was put in experimental, > but my free time was this week, not next week. I will try other versions > as provided by the great debian package maintainers. > > I use mga driver, and can provide more info as requested. > I can also try other mailing-lists if this is not appropriate. I don't think you really need to. ;) -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> http://www.kde.org - http://www.debian.org - http://www.xwin.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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