Maximum Screen Size for intel driver

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat Dec 20 14:01:10 PST 2008


On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 21:39 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:51 PM, m h <sesquile at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have
> > Section "Screen"
> > ....
> >   SubSection "Display"
> >                     Virtual 3600 1920
> >   EndSubsection
> > EndSection
> >
> > in my xorg.conf and am running at 3600x1200
> 
> Thanks. Coincidentally I noticed I had an old Virtual line there with
> that strange maximum size. It's now working great with 1920x2000 or
> 3200x1200.

I've recently posted patches that allow the Intel driver to resize the
frame buffer on the fly, which will make the Virtual line unnecessary
(as long as you're running UXA and DRI2). I'm hoping to get them merged
to master fairly shortly so others can help test them.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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