x11/xcalib not working on radeondrm(4) ?

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 15:39 +0100, Alexis de BRUYN wrote:
> 
> $ pkg_info | grep xcalib
> xcalib-0.8          tiny monitor calibration loader for XFree86 or X.org
> 
> It seems to have no effect with radeondrm(4), although it is working
> fine with inteldrm(4) (tested with the same motherboard). Kernel,
> userland and Xenocara were rebuilt yesterday after fetching -current.
> 
> Xcalib doesn't return any error messages (with -verbose option too).
> 
> Is it a driver limitation/issue? Radeon Hardware not fully supported (yet)?

AFAICT xcalib uses the XFree86-VidModeExtension extension, so it can
currently only affect one output of an RandR 1.2 capable driver. Try
something like xrandr --output <...> --gamma which uses the RandR 1.2
extension.


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