2008/11/22 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tonko Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 > 18:38:09 +0100: > >>> use one randr setting pannel. the krandr for kde does this and i'm sure >>> there's a randr control panel also for gnome. >>> >> Yes there is, grandr but I tried that and it didn't work that well. I >> could try it some in the future, but atm I use xrandr but maybe I need >> to check on the man-page in order to get it working. > > FWIW, I tried the kde3 krandr-tray applet and it appears to be outdated, > only handling randr-1.0 commands. I suppose kde4 has an updated version > with the 1.1 and 1.2 commands. I do have kde4 merged now, but it's still > broken in enough ways I don't use it for everyday yet. >
well, the system-settings one seems to work quite well for me. it's true that dual head is a little tricky with kde (most of the time makes plasma crash without setting the dual head) also i'm using the 4.2 development brach (plaudis kdebuild overlay) that seems to be a little better in terms of usability and functionality than the portage 4.1.3 version. > So I scripted up a solution using xrandr, put the entries in my kmenu, > and can use them to switch resolutions. But there's still a problem. > The origin coordinates portion appears to be broken, so when I downgrade > resolution, the viewport is always the upper left portion of the full > size version. There's no mouse panning with randr yet (that's supposed > to be added for xorg-server 1.5.3 or possibly later if what I read is > correct), and with origin coordinates broken at least on the radeon > driver on my hardware, upper left (still stacked at least, but still just > upper left) is all I get, and that's not very practical. > if you could post the script it would be interesting. > The point being that yes, dual-panel works with the freedomware xf86 ati/ > radeon driver, at least for my hardware, once it's configured to do so. > However, there are some limitations. > i'll try out to see these days how the fglrx driver works with dual head. i've read that it does behave in quite a good manner. also, now that it has uvd and basic xvmc included i could also think to go back with it. the only problem is xorg compatibility. > We should probably start a new thread on that if people want to discuss > the config and how I got it to work. > this would be really interesting. -- dott. ing. beso
