2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:23 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: >> 2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > 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... >> >> >> > ---- >> > In 'Monitor' section...it seems to be ignored. >> > >> > # grep Panning /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> > (**) intel(0): Option "Panning" "1280x1024" >> > (WW) intel(0): Option "Panning" is not used >> > >> > In 'Display' subsection of 'Screen' instead, likewise >> > >> > # grep Panning /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> > (WW) intel(0): Option "Panning" is not used >> > >> > It may not be compatible with one of the modules that I asserted but >> > X.org.0.log doesn't suggest that to be the problem. >> >> Oh well, at least you've got some extra info to go back to bothering >> the Xorg guys with ;o) > ---- > I see what you're saying and I'm doubting that the committed code from > December has actually made it into the 1.6 version of xserver in > Fedora-11-Beta. I'm not using the lack of mention in the man page > because that kind of thing can often be overlooked. It definitely did make it. I checked the source RPM for f11b [1] - it's definitely in the included tarball [2], so unless one of the later patches takes it out (I did grep for OPTION_PANNING in the entire SOURCES directory) it is there. I think I'm just clueless on how to use it - or possibly it's not finished. > As for xorg guys...I've sent 3 e-mails to the xorg list and all I get is > crickets. Oh well, Cricket's never been my thing. Rugby is better. -- Sam [1] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/11-Beta/Fedora/source/SRPMS/xorg-x11-server-1.6.0-13.fc11.src.rpm [2] $ grep OPTION_PANNING xorg-server-1.6.0/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c OPTION_PANNING, {OPTION_PANNING, "Panning", OPTV_STRING, {0}, FALSE }, char *panning = xf86GetOptValString (output->options, OPTION_PANNING); -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
