On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Alex Villacís Lasso <a_villa...@palosanto.com> wrote: > Alex Deucher escribió: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Alex Villacís Lasso >> <a_villa...@palosanto.com> wrote: >> >> >>> As you can see, my primary (and only) screen is using a resolution of >>> 1440x1080, the maximum one it supports. But the DRI calculation is being >>> done on 3520 x 1600. Is this the normal behavior of the X server and the >>> radeon driver? I am not really sure, so I am asking here instead of >>> filing a bug. Is there any directive on xorg.conf I can use to reduce >>> the xrandr maximum so that it can fit within the DRI calculation for my >>> system? >>> >> >> This is normal. We can't dynamically resize the desktop yet, so we >> use the virtual parameter to pre-allocate a large enough buffer for >> for the maximum desktop size requested. Use a smaller virtual line in >> your xorg.conf. >> >> Alex >> >> > I have used the Virtual setting and it works (DRI is now enabled). > However, I had no Virtual setting before, and the 1440x1080 mode was the > biggest one configured in my xorg.conf : > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > # DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Virtual 1440 1080 > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "1440x1080" "1400x1050" "1440x1024" "1440x900" > "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" > "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection > > The xorg.conf manpage states that the default for Virtual is supposed to > accomodate all the screen modes defined. For my case, it should be set > to 1440x1080, but chose those bogus values instead. Where did the > xserver get those values from?
The driver tries to set sane default sizes, which don't always work out. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg