ATI and RandR 1.2

[Roland Scheidegger]

Alberto Milone wrote:
> Hi, I got the ati driver from GIT
> (git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati). I
> installed it but RandR seems to fall back on RandR 1.1. I'm using Ubuntu
> Gutsy (which has xserver-xorg 1.3 and RandR 1.2).
> 
> My card is detected as "ATI Tecnologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M".
> I also tried setting the driver to "radeon" (instead of "ati") however
> nothing changed.
> 
> I would like to know what I have to do to test Xrandr (with RandR 1.2's
> features) with the ati driver (until now I have been able to get it to
> work only with the intel driver).
You need to use the randr-1.2 branch of the ati driver.

Roland