Re: [Hampshire] Probing for monitors

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:09:37PM +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
>
> On Tue, July 24, 2007 14:13, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:42:30PM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> >> xrandr?
> >    Sadly:

> >
> > hrm@willow:~$ xrandr
> > Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
> > RandR extension missing
> >
> >    I don't think the nVidia drivers support it. :(

>
> Which ones? I tried it on my box, and got back some
> information. I'm running reasonably recent NVidia drivers
> (most recent stable in Gentoo):


I'm currently running the latest ones from the nVidia site.

> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1
> x11-base/xorg-x11-7.2
>
> These are the binary drivers. The information given is
> different to what Alan got however:
>
> sam@fenris ~ $ xrandr
>  SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
> *0   1920 x 1200   ( 650mm x 406mm )  *60
>  1   1680 x 1050   ( 650mm x 406mm )   60
> Current rotation - normal
> Current reflection - none
> Rotations possible - normal
> Reflections possible - none


What modules are you loading? I tried

Load "randr"

but it didn't find it. I have the randr stuff installed, though.

Hugo.

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