radeon-mergedfb:xrandr displays negative frequencies

Soeren Sonnenburg xorg-ml at nn7.de
Sun Sep 3 23:10:15 PDT 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 02:37 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I am using the radeon mergedfb (clone mode) on xorg 7.1. When I type
> > xrandr on the console I get negative Refresh rates which confuses all the
> > display resolution changers out there:
> Looks like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6966. Actually 
> seems like it was fixed in git just days ago.

Hmmhh, the bug status is still NEW although the patch is quite old and
Alex Deucher said

===SNIP===
------- Additional comment #12 from Alex Deucher on 2006-07-30 10:04  [reply] -------  
(In reply to comment #11)
> This is a major issue for many users, since it breaks RandR.
> 
> Isn't the above two-line patch a satisfactory workaround, until the new XrandR
> matures?

The patch looks fine.  Henry had mentioned committing the fix (along with
serveral other of his patches) so I was going to leave it to him, but I can
commit it if he's not going to get to it soon.
===SNIP===


so it is not yet in ???

Soeren



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