On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Thomas Richter <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> due to my profession, I often have to work with larger images and use, >>> for this reason, an oversized desktop on a regular sized monitor. Up to >>> the 6.6.x driver series (? I hope ?) this worked correctly with the >>> following configuration > >>> Thus, my questions: >>> >>> o) Any hope for a fix of this? >>> o) As it seems, old versions of the driver like this chipset o.k., so >>> any chance getting an older version to compile on this machine? >>> >>> Before you ask: No, getting a better supported graphics card is not an >>> option. This is a desktop workplace at a university, and installing new >>> hardware there is a major hassle as it has to go through the >>> administration. >> >> Virtual desktop scrolling got dropped when xrandr 1.2 support was >> added to the driver. It has since been re-added, but requires xserver >> 1.6 and xrandr 1.3. > > Any chance of finding the sources of this, so I could try? I would > (apparently) need the X.org sources, the sources of the new radeon driver, > and (I suppose) xrandr 1.3.
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/git > > Do I guess correctly if I say that the interfaces remain stable, i.e. I do > not need to rebuild other applications? > > Is there (probably) a debian (lenny) backport for this? > Not sure, perhaps in experimental or some such? > Greetings, > Thomas > > P.S.: The backport of 6.11.0 didn't work any better, unfortunately. > > Right, you'll need xserver 1.6 and xrandr 1.3 as well. Alternatively, you can use the 6.6.x version of the radeon driver, but you'll lose xrandr functionality. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
