On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:38:20AM -0400, David Dawes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:08:37AM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:34:33AM +0200, Felix Kühling wrote:
> >> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:24:32 -0700
> >> Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:22:05PM +0200, Felix Kühling wrote:
> >> > > Hi,
> >> > > 
> >> > > after upgrading to the merged XFree89 4.2.99.2 XFree86.0.log contains
> >> > > this:
> >> > > (**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (315, 236) mm
> >> > > (**) RADEON(0): DPI set to (154, 154)
> >> 
> >> A bit further up in the log I found this:
> >> (**) RADEON(0): Virtual size is 1920x1440 (pitch 1920)
> >> 
> >> Setting the virtual resolution explicitly in the Display subsection in
> >> XF86Config-4 overrides this. After setting it to 1152x864 I noticed that
> >> all higher resolution default modes were discarded, e.g: 
> >> (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual 
>size)
> >
> >That sure sounds like a bug.  I think that will cause a lot of DRI users
> >some irritation.  Does anybody know if this change in behavior was
> >intentional?
> 
> It's a side-effect of the recent RandR additions.  It should be
> resolved before too long.  In the meantime, you can specify the
> virtual size explicitly.

Ah.  As long as it's fixed before 4.3.0, I won't be too irritated. :)

Jose: When you start doing nightly builds again, could you make a release
note for this?  Otherwise, I fear we'll have a small flood of problem
reports.

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