F11 Beta KDE Live and nouveau

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 04/06/2009 02:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 19:59 -0600, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>
>   
>> (*) Clone works fine, I was even able to set 1600x1200 on 1st monitor 
>> (DELL P1110) and 1920x1200 on the 2nd (NEC LCD2690WUXi) "independently" 
>> for each display. I didn't find a way to try Xinerama/TwinView using 
>> standard KDE config tool.
>>
>> Unfortunately since I need TwinView, I will most likely still need 
>> proprietary driver :( I'm tracking 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487356 so hopefully when 
>> it's fixed I'll be able to switch to nouveau.
>>     
>
> You can use the command line 'xrandr' tool, it should do the job. It's
> quite simple to use and you can script it up - it's just something like
> 'xrandr --output FOO --right-of output BAR'.
>
> The only wrinkle is that nouveau doesn't yet handle dynamic framebuffer
> resizing for side-by-side setups, so you'll need an xorg.conf with a
> Screen section with Virtual lines for the resolution you need. We really
> need to document this somewhere...
>   

Sorry for delay replying, I have been traveling this week. I'll try it 
when I have some time... Sounds good!

>> Bad news:
>>
>> 1. Selecting "rotate screen" in KDE display properties kills X 
>> immediately. Anybody else seeing this on nouveau?
>>     
>
> File a bug on it! Actually we added a rotation test case for the Radeon
> test day since someone mentioned it's often an interesting failure, but
> it was too late for the nouveau day.
>   

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495427

>> 2. I had X hang up on me once with two (out of three) blinking diodes on 
>> the keyboard. The only way out was reboot :(
>>
>> # lspci -v
>>     
>
> I rather prefer lspci -nn, as it actually gives the PCI ID of the
> hardware (which is what identifies it uniquely).
>   

Thanks for the hint, result included in bug report.


-- 
thufor




		
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