"Virtual Desktop" - when it'll be back?

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski <zb at ispid.com.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:39:35PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
>> Desktop panning is not currently supported by most xrandr aware
>> drivers.  There is some discussion on adding support for this to
>> xrandr 1.3.  In the meantime, one could add similar functionality as a
>> driver specific option.
>
> How this could be done in case of radeon driver (6.9.0)? Tried to make it
> "old way" - but it seems, that "screen section" settings are ignored(?).
>
> The driver chooses maximal available resolution (1280x1024) - but I would
> to set 800x600 with 1280x1024 as "virtual resolution" (and with panning).

It's not supported at the moment.

Alex