intel driver and dual screen
Soeren Sandmann Pedersen
sandmann at redhat.com
Wed Jan 16 17:15:00 UTC 2008
Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 09:37 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > On 1/16/08, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at 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 ?
Yes, in fact, my hope is to get a prototype into test1.
The code I have written so far is available here:
http://www.gnome.org/~ssp/randr/
It doesn't really do anything yet though.
Soren
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