how to enable XRANDR?

[Dexter Filmore]

Well, I didn't relate this problem to fglrx. I only noticed randr wasn't
there and was looking for how to enable it. So I figured it's loaded by
"extmod" - if you don't know that already it's not clear, and googling for
"xorg.conf option randr" wouldn't turn up anything alike.

Type of thing I was looking for was something like Load xrandr or Option
"randr" or sumsuch. Appeared reasonable to me.


On Mon, 23 May 2005 09:40:42 -0400
Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:11 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > > I just noticed that the kde res switch app complains my X server doesn't
> > > support xrandr, which I doubt since I run 6.8.1.
> > > 
> > > And by the way, I'm writing here after googling, wandering x.org and even
> > > grepping the docs for frigging two hours. How about proper docs?
> > 
> > My psychic powers tell me you're running fglrx, in which case the
> > problem is well-documented via the power of Google.
> 
> Actually, in a quick google, few people seem to understand the
> problem.
> 
> "It's a bug in the driver", "You have to disable dri", "You have to
> disable dga"... the real problem is that fglrx is pretty greedy
> of events with its custom extensions, so the server runs out of 
> available events, and some other extensions fail to initialize.
> 
> (There are only 64 available extension events total.)
> 
> Turning off DGA is, in the end, likely the best way to free up
> event types. It's a pretty useless extension and uses 7 events.
> 
> In the "Module" section, replace the existing Load "extmod" line
> with:
> 
>         SubSection "extmod"
>            Option "omit xfree86-dga"
>         EndSubSection
> 
> Regards,
> 					Owen
> 
> 


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