On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 17:50 +0200, Ralf Saalmüller wrote: > > It's my personal opinion that the xorg version lenny uses, still 7.2 > and xserver v 1.3, are not useful and by far not up to date. i.e. no > dual screen with xrandr which simply doesn't work as it should with > that version of xorg. > > If dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't get you a working setup to > tune things up, try the setting fbset gives or give xrandr a try. > > I only get an undisturbed screen after I changed the default > resolution of 1440x900 with grandr to 1440x960 (Alu PBook G4). As > MacOS X and Ubuntu do use the second tft via DVI it's not a problem > with hardware neither linux. My guess is that xorg 7.2 simply isn't > made for it. It's outdated, btw. 7.3 was released in 2007. > > Sad thing that debian testing is still based on that. Same problems > with AMD64, for your reference, it's not a powerpc problem in my > opinion and up to my experience.
Indeed, so... > That might point to the sad fact, that debian isn't for the desktop > but for servers? Is xorg 7.3 still not enough tested? ... if you're seriously interested in answers to your questions, you should ask them on the debian-x list instead of here. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer