[PATCH] xfree86: belately init RandR12 if xinerama fails. (#24627)

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Dec 11 10:19:01 PST 2009


On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:55:14 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:24:06PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:52:27PM -0800, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > Xorg +xinerama crashes immediately due to whacky dependency between Xinerama
> > > and RandR12. The latter doesn't initialize if Xinerama is enabled, but if
> > > only one screen is found, Xinerama is disabled again and RandR12 tries to
> > > access data it never initialized.

I'd sure like to have RandR get enabled when xinerama doesn't; is there
an easy way of making that happen here? Perhaps having the RandR12 code
disable Xinerama when only one screen is found? Or some other kludge?

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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