On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Thomas Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > due to my profession, I often have to work with larger images and use, > for this reason, an oversized desktop on a regular sized monitor. Up to > the 6.6.x driver series (? I hope ?) this worked correctly with the > following configuration: > > Section "Screen" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" > ViewPort 1280 1024 > Virtual 2560 2048 # <--- this here > EndSubSection > Device "Device[0]" > Identifier "Screen[0]" > Monitor "Monitor[0]" > EndSection > > This gives me a screen of 2560x2048 pixels I can scroll around in. > Exactly what I need. > > Unfortunately, not any longer as of 6.9.0. The above options simply do > nothing useful at all. The screen stays the size it is. > > xrandr seems like a solution, as > > xrandr --fb 2560x2048 > > gives me a frame buffer the right size, but: it doesn't scroll anymore > if I hit the boundary of the screen. Alas, it's unusable. > > Thus, my questions: > > o) Any hope for a fix of this? > o) As it seems, old versions of the driver like this chipset o.k., so > any chance getting an older version to compile on this machine? > > Before you ask: No, getting a better supported graphics card is not an > option. This is a desktop workplace at a university, and installing new > hardware there is a major hassle as it has to go through the administration.
Virtual desktop scrolling got dropped when xrandr 1.2 support was added to the driver. It has since been re-added, but requires xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
