Re: [gentoo-user] radeon and radeonfb both loaded

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mick<michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Or may be John shouldn't be hijacking threads (search for netiquette if you
> don't understand what I'm talking about) and Jacob shouldn't respond?
>
> Back to the OP's questions:
>
> 1) radeonfb is the framebuffer used when in console to render fonts in smaller
> sizes.  radeon is the xorg video card driver.  Therefore, you could have them
> both (either built in kernel or as modules).
>
> 2)The  "(II) RADEON(0): Setting screen physical size to 320 x 240" message is
> expressing the screen resolution in millimeters .  This roughly is equivalent
> to 1210x907 pixels.  Run 'xdpyinfo -display :0.0' to see the dimensions in
> rounded numbers.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

I wasn't aware they had done that. GMail separated them into different
threads here. Thanks for catching up with my question.

Thanks for the info on the screen resolution.

OK, there is possibly a little extra difficulty to get this run, but
it's likely just ssh stuff or possibly not enabling something in X11.

1) I first ssh into my dad's Gentoo machine. When I try to run the
command through the ssh tunnel I get this:

gandalf ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Protocol not supported by server

xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0.0".
gandalf ~ #

I then ssh into my mom's Gentoo machine

gandalf ~ # !ssh
ssh DesertFlower
Password:
Last login: Mon Jul 20 19:29:10 PDT 2009 from gandalf on pts/0
DesertFlower ~ # xdpyinfo -display :0.0
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0.0".
DesertFlower ~ #

Right now no one is logged into either machine. Both are presumably
sitting with gdm login screens.

Thanks,
Mark