[PATCH] xfree86: belately init RandR12 if xinerama fails. (#24627)

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Dec 13 17:05:20 PST 2009


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:19:01AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:55:14 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:24:06PM -0800, Aaron Plattner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 03:52:27PM -0800, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > > Xorg +xinerama crashes immediately due to whacky dependency between Xinerama
> > > > and RandR12. The latter doesn't initialize if Xinerama is enabled, but if
> > > > only one screen is found, Xinerama is disabled again and RandR12 tries to
> > > > access data it never initialized.
> 
> I'd sure like to have RandR get enabled when xinerama doesn't; is there
> an easy way of making that happen here? Perhaps having the RandR12 code
> disable Xinerama when only one screen is found? Or some other kludge?

you know the dependency better than I do so any hints are apreciated.
afaict, the screenInfo.numScreens (the check used by Xinerama) isn't
necessarily initialized at this point so we can't use the same check.
The following seems to work though:



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