ATI and RandR 1.2

[Alberto Milone]

Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Ok, I did:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

cd xf86-video-ati

git checkout randr-1.2

but I get "error: pathspec 'randr-1.2' did not match any file(s) known
to git"

What did I do wrong?


Alberto