Re: [Mactel-linux-users] radeonhd now with randr support!

[Soeren S. <mac...@nn...>]

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 13:55 -0600, Scott L. Price wrote:

Hi Scott,

of course if you try an updated version of the driver every few hours
YMMV.

> My Macbook Pro 2,2 running Ubuntu Gutsy has worked on and off on the
> radeonhd driver.  Two days ago the sources worked fine for all basic
> functions.  The sources as of this morning fail to get the native
> resolution (1440x900) out of the panel.  Previous to yesterday when that

The reason for that is simple: randr was just merged to the driver and
as could be expected not yet stable ...

> happened it would just crash.  Now it runs in 1280x1024 mode pushed into

exactly then that crash was fixed...

> the top left corner of the display.  I get a dead strip on the right
> side of the screen and then the top of the screen showing in a strip on
> the bottom in what would be dead space.

and then the wrong screen resolution / shifted screen problem.

> Tomorrow it will probably work again.  ;)  I am not fluent enough with
> git to be able to back my version off to a working version.  I haven't
> had time to dig into it.

It does already now. And there is an option to disable randr, so it
would have worked if you used that...

> I have not tried randr yet.  I will probably wait until the driver works
> on the basic level again for me.

Well then go ahead git pull ; make install   :-)

Soeren