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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: hopw to enable XRANDR?
From:       Owen Taylor <otaylor () redhat ! com>
Date:       2005-05-23 13:40:42
Message-ID: 1116855643.6607.10.camel () huygens
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On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 22:11 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:50:42PM +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > I just noticed that the kde res switch app complains my X server doesn't
> > support xrandr, which I doubt since I run 6.8.1.
> > 
> > And by the way, I'm writing here after googling, wandering x.org and even
> > grepping the docs for frigging two hours. How about proper docs?
> 
> My psychic powers tell me you're running fglrx, in which case the
> problem is well-documented via the power of Google.

Actually, in a quick google, few people seem to understand the
problem.

"It's a bug in the driver", "You have to disable dri", "You have to
disable dga"... the real problem is that fglrx is pretty greedy
of events with its custom extensions, so the server runs out of 
available events, and some other extensions fail to initialize.

(There are only 64 available extension events total.)

Turning off DGA is, in the end, likely the best way to free up
event types. It's a pretty useless extension and uses 7 events.

In the "Module" section, replace the existing Load "extmod" line
with:

        SubSection "extmod"
           Option "omit xfree86-dga"
        EndSubSection

Regards,
					Owen


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