RandR bugs

[Thomas Winischhofer]

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Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> Andy Ritger wrote:
> 
>>>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Andy, does the Nvidia driver support rotation in TwinView mode? I have
>>>>>been thinking about this, but it's logically somewhat beyond me yet,
>>>>>especially when it comes to non-rectangular screens.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Yeah, this is somewhat problematic.  Today, it sort of works by
>>>>>>accident, depending on what you want to do.  People who want two
>>>>>>rotated displays positioned horizontally can configure something
>>>>>>like this:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   1280x1024+0+0, 1280x1024+0+1024
>>>>>
>>>>>>to position the unrotated displays vertically, and then rotate the
>>>>>>whole X screen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>But that means it isn't switchable run-time, is it?
>>>
>>>
>>>The rotation can be switched at run-time, as usual; it's just that
>>>since it's only X screen granularity, all the display devices on
>>>the X screen get rotated about the same point.
> 
> 
> OK, I did it. MergedFB works now with rotation, switchable - as usual -
> at run-time. And my brain hurts. This was, so say the least, a logical
> challange with all that panning, hw cursor, video and other stuff.
> 
> Now if only the window managers were smart enough to re-query xinerama
> at rotation-changes (without a size-change at the same time).
> 
> But I guess RandR + Xinerama setups aren't quite usual (given the fact
> that if X.org's own Xinerama is active, RandR is disabled).

Ah... with Aaron Plattner's libXrandr patch from sep 30, KDE works
nicely. Cute!


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Thomas Winischhofer
Vienna/Austria
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