From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4DIn-0001pM-8j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5237E046F; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com (mail-bw0-f21.google.com [209.85.218.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7724FE046F for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so60419bwz.10 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:38:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OelJtfEfCECC4/tr3EWuZcsz8r4u/bgP2weX8KJ0xGg=; b=KKmDCDvU2VLXunIqwhQjoxasNwYtgtuhS0T0xCA/gc+9ct6gFDTMPqHOfbQ/SzxSPE nN2XMCet90NfGh6gXXFdKulBNbWNW87lrOF8vwj3BLLCdEOWnUsUNm4C3F2Nzre0WLR3 YJ9sNBYl2F3EPSw/F0bpaFihGpRZgvfp6eN48= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Ij3iTFxN224hCqJiXTrhagBcZbfLoppww/3OfHvkLT/i5oel8kFSs5hktOXVu8/jqD +E3ZfNfutcSyFD2j70d1FN7rgcIxen04RKt2u2T5L01BrbQ5GLBtA6sCNy0AIyfY8HC8 ZAl7v/VPnYnq3dK20xDXurGU9C/pKyIuI80nA= Received: by 10.181.5.14 with SMTP id h14mr752438bki.22.1227440334073; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.25.6 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:38:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:38:54 +0000 From: Beso To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kde4, xorg, xf86-video-ati/radeon, and multi-panel display In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: d9cfd818-46ba-4968-a7b0-224595a8c680 X-Archives-Hash: 4df47ff033fe29d9615ae27cb291dcb8 2008/11/23 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>: > Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> posted pan.2008.11.23.07.23.44@cox.net, > excerpted below, on Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:23:44 +0000: > >>>> So I scripted up a solution using xrandr, put the entries in my kmenu, >>>> and can use them to switch resolutions. But there's still a problem. >>>> The origin coordinates portion appears to be broken, so when I >>>> downgrade resolution, the viewport is always the upper left portion of >>>> the full size version. There's no mouse panning with randr yet >>>> (that's supposed to be added for xorg-server 1.5.3 or possibly later >>>> if what I read is correct), and with origin coordinates broken at >>>> least on the radeon driver on my hardware, upper left (still stacked >>>> at least, but still just upper left) is all I get, and that's not very >>>> practical. >>>> >>> if you could post the script it would be interesting. >> >> I'll post the script in a separate reply... > > OK, here it is, as a UUEed attachment below the sig, filenamed > "set-display". As I do the list as a newsgroup thru gmane using pan, > which doesn't handle posting attachments, I use a script setup as pan's > external editor to do the encoding and attaching. Unfortunately, that > limits the encoding choices to UUE and "identity" (which means simply > attach it as text). I hope gmane takes small attachments. If not, I'll > retry with it inline. > the script came out well. you just have to selct the part from begin to end, copy it in an external file and then do an uudecode on it. i'm now having a look at it. if you put your fb as a line input for the script it would be more adaptable than is now. but it's a good script. i think i'll attach it over a hotkey. if i manage to have it attached to a hal event it would be even better... thanks for it. -- dott. ing. beso