[framebuffer size] [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.4.0

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Fri Jul 25 03:24:34 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:01:12 +0200, Robert Šmol wrote:

> Since my laptop screen is 1440x900 and the projector is 1024x768 to setup
> those two next to each other will require 2064x900 which is larger then 2048
> I guess my DRI will be always disabled, loosing all the nice Compiz stuff.
> 
> I would like to ask if is this is still true ( xrandr 1.2, intel driver
> 2.2.1, xserver xprg 1.4.1) and if there is anything I can do about it or if
> the new drivers already implements the dynamic changes to frame buffer.

Yes, it's still true.  What you can do is put one output above the
other, as 900+768 < 2048.

Cheers,
Julien



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