RandR extension missing error

[Alberto Milone]

Hal V. Engel wrote:
> I have been trying to get randr working on my machine for some time without 
> success.  I have xorg 7.2, xorg-server 1.3 (I have also tried 1.2) libXrandr 
> 1.2 (I have also tried 1.1) and xrandr 1.2.  I have an nvidia graphics card 
> and I am running version 1.0.9755 of the propritory driver.  I have 
>
> Option "RandRRotation" "true" 
>
> in the Device sections of xorg.conf.
>
> When I run xrandr I get the following:
>
> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
> RandR extension missing
>
> Looking in the Xorg.0.log I do not find any indication that there was any 
> issues with randr.  Anyone have any ideas about what may be happening and how 
> to fix this?
>   
As far as I know Nvidia's proprietary driver doesn't support Randr 1.2 yet.

Regards

Alberto