How to disable RandR

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:00:10 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to get dualhead working with a driver that doesn't seem to
> support RandR 1.2 together with the intel driver.
> 
> I was told that this doesn't work. In my case, I get a server crash
> when the intel driver tries to initialize RandR:
> 
> (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled
> message.
> 
> Backtrace:
> 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c82f1]
> 1: [0xffffe400]
> 2: X(xf86RandR12SetRotations+0x6b) [0x80fc8fb]
> 3: X(xf86CrtcScreenInit+0x9e) [0x80f8b3e]
> 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//intel_drv.so [0xb7d039ec]
> 5: X(AddScreen+0x1fc) [0x80764ec]
> 6: X(InitOutput+0x21e) [0x80a7dbe]
> 7: X(main+0x28b) [0x8076c6b]
> 8: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7ec2455]
> 9: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e1) [0x80761e1]
> 
> I tried to disable RandR with a serverflags section, which doesn't seem
> to be enough. This is from the same server log:
> 
> (**) Option "RandR" "false"
> 
> How can I get the intel driver to skip the RandR stuff?

Hi again,

I'd be glad if someone could point be to the relevant part of the
source code, so that I can build an intel driver that doesn't
initialize RandR at all, if this is possible in a simple way.

Regards,
Tino