Re: intel driver and dual screen

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:37 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On 1/16/08, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan underwood gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > There's a nice utility in development to give a nice shiny GUI for these things:
> >
> > http://albertomilone.com/urandr.html
> 
> Unfortunately this utility seems very Debian/Ubuntu specific - for
> example there's some code that shells out to dpkg and apt-get.  Plus I
> see some rather dubious code...  First of all, it seems to want to run
> as root, which shouldn't be necessary to use XRandR.  Second, code
> like this:
> 
>         self.command = 'sudo rm -R '
>         self.remove(files, verb)
> 
> seems to be begging to be exploited.  I think that I'm staying far
> away from this code...

We are working on this for F9:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport

Admittedly, we have not been very good at keeping that page updated,
but Soeren hopes that we'll be able to land this in rawhide shortly
after test1. Is that still correct, Soeren ?


Matthias