FreeBSD7/xorg/radeon: Section "Screen" totally ignored

[Zbigniew Baniewski]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:27:38PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote:

> I suspect what you're seeing is that X tries much harder now to
> give the best display on a given monitor.

But isn't the user the one to say, what is best for him? Anyway, it doesn't
allow to use <Alt>-<Control>-<+ -> as resolution switch, so most likely it's
a bug. It's not just a problem with initial resolution, but - most of all -
that it's only resolution available.

> Older X's didn't really care much and did whatever the config file said. 

It's the proper behaviour.

> I don't have any old X installs lying around to prove that one way or the
> other unfortunately.
> Have you tried using xrandr ( /usr/ports/x11/xrandr ) to see if you
> can reduce the resultion?  It'll probably even work from 
> .xinitrc or .xsession

xrandr is changing the resolution, but it's workaround, not a solution.
There's a bug to be fixed. I don't know, whether it's FreeBSD-related,
or xorg-related - but surely there's something broken.

> /usr/local/bin/xrandr -mode 800x600 -fb 1280x1024
> 
> I think should do what you want.
> 
> (note that this would be much better over on freebsd-x11 - this is an
>  X problem, not a multimedia problem - Reply-to set appropriately)

I'm afraid, I have to subscribe it first probably.
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				pozdrawiam / regards

						Zbigniew Baniewski