On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:38:41PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to know where to submit bug reports or how to get developers informaed
>about a regression bug.
>
>I have a laptop with hardware that is capable of rotating the screen, so the
>windowing system ends up as a 768x1024 screen (notice the rotation in that res)
>
>This trick uses a shadow frame buffer; and since the last stable release (4.2)
>a mistake has slipped in, and has been there for quite some time, probably not
>noticed.
>
>When I tell the siliconmotion driver to do rotation the screen is indeed rotated;
>just the resolution is not; I am still looking at a 1024x768 res, but its rotated;
>so it does not fit on the LCD :(
>
>Please give me a hand in fixing this problem; I simply don't even know where to
>look...
The integration of the RandR extension broke this. Since it hasn't been
fixed yet, I'm going to commit some changes to make it possible to
disable RandR from the config file by adding the following option to
either the ServerFlags section of the appropriate ServerLayout section
of the XF86Config file:
Option "RandR" "off"
I'll also add a function that a driver can call (xf86DisableRandR()) to
prevent RandR from being enabled. If someone wants to test changing the
relevant drivers to call this when rotation is enabled, the necessary
calls can be added (let me know if you do this). It'd be better if the
breakage was fixed properly, but that hasn't happened yet and we're very
late in the release cycle now. I'll commit these changes soon. Let us
know if it helps.
With these changes RandR will still default to on. If these simple
workarounds don't prove effective that default can be changed.
>ps. please cc any answers
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