Virtual screen sizes no longer working in radeon.

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 06:29:25 PST 2009


On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Richter <thor at math.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Thomas Richter <thor at math.tu-berlin.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> due to my profession, I often have to work with larger images and use,
>>> for this reason, an oversized desktop on a regular sized monitor. Up to
>>> the 6.6.x driver series (? I hope ?) this worked correctly with the
>>> following configuration
>
>>> Thus, my questions:
>>>
>>> o) Any hope for a fix of this?
>>> o) As it seems, old versions of the driver like this chipset o.k., so
>>> any chance getting an older version to compile on this machine?
>>>
>>> Before you ask: No, getting a better supported graphics card is not an
>>> option. This is a desktop workplace at a university, and installing new
>>> hardware there is a major hassle as it has to go through the
>>> administration.
>>
>> Virtual desktop scrolling got dropped when xrandr 1.2 support was
>> added to the driver.  It has since been re-added, but requires xserver
>> 1.6 and xrandr 1.3.
>
> Any chance of finding the sources of this, so I could try? I would
> (apparently) need the X.org sources, the sources of the new radeon driver,
> and (I suppose) xrandr 1.3.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/git

>
> Do I guess correctly if I say that the interfaces remain stable, i.e. I do
> not need to rebuild other applications?
>
> Is there (probably) a debian (lenny) backport for this?
>

Not sure, perhaps in experimental or some such?

> Greetings,
>        Thomas
>
> P.S.: The backport of 6.11.0 didn't work any better, unfortunately.
>
>

Right, you'll need xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3 as well.  Alternatively,
you can use the 6.6.x version of the radeon driver, but you'll lose
xrandr functionality.

Alex



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