Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:01 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:43 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/4/10 Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxx>:
2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I am getting no traction on xorg mail list - perhaps I cannot ask in a
way that makes them answer but the idea is...
Fedora 11 Beta (xrandr 1.3 - yeah!)
If I manually execute the command...
xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x1024
I sort of get what I want...well, the background is tiled but my tiny
1024x600 screen becomes usable with panning and I can't understand why I
can't achieve this simply with xorg.conf.
Can anyone see what changes I need to make?
<snip>
I know very little about this but I was keeping an eye on it for my eeePC 701.
The changelog for Xorg 1.5.99 says:
Matthias Hopf (5):
randr: Add monitor option "Panning" for initial panning configuration
So that says to me that somewhere in your Xorg.conf Monitor section
you should have a Panning keyword - which you don't have.
Looks like you'll have to dig around in Google though as I haven't
seen any easy source of information about it,
Or you could look at the code:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=panning-for-server-1.6&id=44b89dc0a5aa23df69539754fb76c67c310530db
Looks to me like:
Section "Monitor"
<snip>
Panning 1280x1024
EndSection
might do it...
----
death - death I say...
Parse error on line 44 of section Monitor in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
"Panning" is not a valid keyword in this section.
Have you tried:
Option "Panning" "1280x1024"
If you download the src.rpm for Xorg in F11b, Panning is definitely in
hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c ... so it /should/ work...
----
Victory!
I now have virtual scrolling/panning on my 1024x600 screen to 1280x1024
whether or not an external display is connected to the VGA port.
thanks Sam - you inspired me to keep trying.
Turned out that it finally did work but what made it work was adding
back the second Monitor and Screen sections so I could have both my LVDS
and VGA screens and I gather that the larger size of the VGA is what
made it all work.
I have put this info on the Acer Aspire One page on Fedora Wiki for
anyone who is interested and it should provide a really good guide for
Sam's Asus eepro (obviously adjust for the built-in video and external
VGA display).
Link here...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One#xorg.conf
Oh - this is with Fedora-11-Beta (and current updates) because I believe
the xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3 versions are needed to make it work.
Craig
nice work craig!, good to see you finally got it working 8-)
phil
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