RandR module version, cant get V1.2

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 10:11:14 PST 2007


On Dec 1, 2007 8:26 AM, Ford Prefect <geopal at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I am using a Toshiba notebook with the Intel chip set 945GM. Having the painfull problem of not being able to on-thy-fly plug in external displays (i.e. projectors) I tried to investigate and came up with the conclusion that I would have to use the RandR extension in it's current version 1.2 to overcome all this limitations with a static setup.
>
> I am running openSuSE V10.3 on the machine which comes with an Xorg V7.2. So the first thing I did was an upgrade to Xorg V7.3. Also created a proper xorg.conf according to the various howtos that are around. The xorg.conf also was changed to use the 'intel' driver instead of the 'i810'.
>

are you running the i810 or the intel driver?  intel supports randr
1.2; i810 does not.

Alex



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