[Nouveau] xrandr or xorg.conf... help with virtual size desktop

[Harry Putnam]

Younes Manton <younes.m at gmail.com>
writes:


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> The bug you're talking about is actually
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39949 for those
> interested.

Yikes... looks like a silly typo when I posted the bug url

> I don't spend much time with the xserver or DDX code so I might be
> wrong, but panning is as far as I know largely handled by the server
> and is not something the driver has much control over. You'll have to
> wait until this is fixed there or perhaps you can downgrade your
> server to 1.10 until it's fixed. I don't think there's anything that
> can be done in nouveau to work around it.

Do you know if or what is being done about fixing it?  Or any idea of
time frame? 

Downgrading is probably the easiest thing to do.  I guess Nouveau
will run on the older server?

So is it a good chance that a pannable desktop will be attainable
under 1.10?