(In reply to comment #12)
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> Unforunately that is a limitation of mergedfb, which is a big hack to begin
> with. you'd either need to hack the driver to pre-reserve the additional
> desktop space at the beginning or and xrandr -s 0 to your .xinitrc to resize the
> desktop when you login. I think keithp is working on an improved version of
> mergedfb that may address this.
>
Well, o.k., this will certainly do. I'd be happy to use MergedFb at all. :)
> depending on what you want to do xrandr should be fine. CTRL-ALT-Keypad uses
> the vidmode extension to change the mode. It came along before xrandr could
> resize the desktop to match the mode.
I'll try again with my typo corrected. That is if we can get rid of the freezing
bug...
>
> That should be the most recent stable 7.0 release, IIRC.
>
(In reply to comment #12)
>
> Unforunately that is a limitation of mergedfb, which is a big hack to begin
> with. you'd either need to hack the driver to pre-reserve the additional
> desktop space at the beginning or and xrandr -s 0 to your .xinitrc to resize the
> desktop when you login. I think keithp is working on an improved version of
> mergedfb that may address this.
>
Well, o.k., this will certainly do. I'd be happy to use MergedFb at all. :)
> depending on what you want to do xrandr should be fine. CTRL-ALT-Keypad uses
> the vidmode extension to change the mode. It came along before xrandr could
> resize the desktop to match the mode.
I'll try again with my typo corrected. That is if we can get rid of the freezing
bug...
>
> That should be the most recent stable 7.0 release, IIRC.
>
O.K. What can I do to find the bug?
Cheers,
Michael