On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:54 AM, allcoms <allc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve! > > Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the > command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and > display module is using to do what it does? > > I'm typing this atm under X.Org X Server 1.7.2, using the RadeonHD > driver with a RHD 4350 connected to a single DVI display under Arch. > When I type 'xvidtune' with no extra parameters in an xterm all I get > is: > > Unable to query monitor info > > Is this a fault of the radeonhd driver, xorg, vidtune or my monitor? > > Also, unless I'm mis-understand things, reading the man page for > xvidtune says nothing of how you would use it to configure additional > displays. Have you simply got to run it on the display you are trying > to configure? As I've already stated, my main need for this is to > configure external HDMI displays- I was looking for my HDMI cable on > the weekend but I suspect my housemates son has half-inched it so > looks like I'll have to get another before I can try testing xvidtune > with my poulsbo. > > Should xvidtune be able to do what I want or will (external) HDMI/DVI > displays confuse it? >
xvidtune doesn't work with xrandr 1.2. It needs to be updated to support multiple outputs. Alex > Dan > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Steven J Newbury <st...@snewbury.org.uk> > wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:43 +0000, allcoms wrote: >>> > Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features >>> > would you need? >>> >>> No, gnome-display-properties isn't sufficient to my needs as it does >>> neither of the two features I am looking for which are: >>> >>> 1- Visual resizing (as in 'graphically' adjusting the screens outer >>> borders) and >>> >>> 2- Visual positioning (centering) of the full screen >>> >>> gdp is of course just a simple gui to xrandr, which doesn't do what I >>> require. nvidias X setup tool is also lacking such functionality and >>> as I say the only tool I've seen do this under linux is tied into >>> suse's vast yast config monster which is prob hundreds of meg with all >>> its dependencies when all I'd ever want from it is the visual screen >>> setup tool. >>> >> Are you looking for something like a modern version of xvidtune tied >> into xrandr which can tweak monitor timings? >> > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg