intel driver and dual screen

[Soeren Sandmann Pedersen]

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