Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:13:57 +0200 From: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD7/xorg/radeon: Section "Screen" totally ignored Message-ID: <20080517001357.GA21271@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> In-Reply-To: <20080516232738.GA63463@in-addr.com> References: <20080510131932.GA5444@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <200805102123.22952.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20080510193445.GA6432@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <200805110923.40726.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20080511095201.GA5278@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <20080513003603.GA11033@in-addr.com> <20080513123930.GA10693@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <20080516232738.GA63463@in-addr.com>
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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:27:38PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > I suspect what you're seeing is that X tries much harder now to > give the best display on a given monitor. But isn't the user the one to say, what is best for him? Anyway, it doesn't allow to use <Alt>-<Control>-<+ -> as resolution switch, so most likely it's a bug. It's not just a problem with initial resolution, but - most of all - that it's only resolution available. > Older X's didn't really care much and did whatever the config file said. It's the proper behaviour. > I don't have any old X installs lying around to prove that one way or the > other unfortunately. > Have you tried using xrandr ( /usr/ports/x11/xrandr ) to see if you > can reduce the resultion? It'll probably even work from > .xinitrc or .xsession xrandr is changing the resolution, but it's workaround, not a solution. There's a bug to be fixed. I don't know, whether it's FreeBSD-related, or xorg-related - but surely there's something broken. > /usr/local/bin/xrandr -mode 800x600 -fb 1280x1024 > > I think should do what you want. > > (note that this would be much better over on freebsd-x11 - this is an > X problem, not a multimedia problem - Reply-to set appropriately) I'm afraid, I have to subscribe it first probably. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski
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