xorg virtual / panning question

[psmith]

Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:
>   
>> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 19:01 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:43 +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> 2009/4/10 Sharpe, Sam J <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com>:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> 2009/4/10 Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> I am getting no traction on xorg mail list - perhaps I cannot ask in a
>>>>>>> way that makes them answer but the idea is...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fedora 11 Beta (xrandr 1.3 - yeah!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If I manually execute the command...
>>>>>>> xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x1024
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I sort of get what I want...well, the background is tiled but my tiny
>>>>>>> 1024x600 screen becomes usable with panning and I can't understand why I
>>>>>>> can't achieve this simply with xorg.conf.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone see what changes I need to make?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know very little about this but I was keeping an eye on it for my eeePC 701.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The changelog for Xorg 1.5.99 says:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthias Hopf (5):
>>>>>> � � �randr: Add monitor option "Panning" for initial panning configuration
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So that says to me that somewhere in your Xorg.conf Monitor section
>>>>>> you should have a Panning keyword - which you don't have.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks like you'll have to dig around in Google though as I haven't
>>>>>> seen any easy source of information about it,
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Or you could look at the code:
>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=panning-for-server-1.6&id=44b89dc0a5aa23df69539754fb76c67c310530db
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks to me like:
>>>>>
>>>>> Section "Monitor"
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>> � � �Panning � � � 1280x1024
>>>>> EndSection
>>>>>
>>>>> might do it...
>>>>>           
>>>> ----
>>>> death - death I say...
>>>>
>>>> Parse error on line 44 of section Monitor in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>>>> � � � �"Panning" is not a valid keyword in this section.
>>>>         
>>> Have you tried:
>>>
>>> Option "Panning" "1280x1024"
>>>
>>> If you download the src.rpm for Xorg in F11b, Panning is definitely in
>>> hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c ... so it /should/ work...
>>>
>>>       
>> ----
>> In 'Monitor' section...it seems to be ignored.
>>
>> # grep Panning /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> (**) intel(0): Option "Panning" "1280x1024"
>> (WW) intel(0): Option "Panning" is not used
>>
>> In 'Display' subsection of 'Screen' instead, likewise
>>
>> # grep Panning /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>> (WW) intel(0): Option "Panning" is not used
>>
>> It may not be compatible with one of the modules that I asserted but
>> X.org.0.log doesn't suggest that to be the problem.
>>     
>
> Oh well, at least you've got some extra info to go back to bothering
> the Xorg guys with ;o)
>
>   
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phil