XOrg RandR extension

DS2K3 · #1 19th September 2007, 05:49 PM

Hi'

I'm trying to get Beryl working on Fedora 7 (x86_64) - It fails when testing for the RandR extension.

The KDE resize and rotate applet also informs me that the extension s not loaded, but the Xorg log says it is and accoring to the add/remove software tool the libraries are installed.

A copy of my xorg.conf and part of the xorg log are included below.

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Default Layout"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection


#Section "Module"
#	Load "type1"
#	Load "extmod"
#	Load "Xrandr"	
#	Load "glx"
#EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AIGLX" "on"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName    "NUL"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 80.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
	VendorName   "Unknown"
	ModelName    "TV-0"
	HorizSync    28.0 - 33.0
	VertRefresh  43.0 - 72.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
	BoardName   "GeForce 8600 GT"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	Option	    "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
	BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard1"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
	BoardName   "GeForce 8600 GT"
	Option	    "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
	Option	    "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
	BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"
	Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	Option	    "TwinView" "0"
	Option	    "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen1"
	Device     "Videocard1"
	Monitor    "Monitor1"
	DefaultDepth     24
	Option	    "TwinView" "0"
	Option	    "metamodes" "TV: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

Code:

(II) NVIDIA(0): Unable to connect to the ACPI daemon; the ACPI daemon may not
(II) NVIDIA(0):     be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration option
(II) NVIDIA(0):     may not be set correctly.  When the ACPI daemon is
(II) NVIDIA(0):     available, the NVIDIA X driver can use it to receive ACPI
(II) NVIDIA(0):     events.  For details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
(II) NVIDIA(0):     Config Options in the README.
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT:nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
(--) NVIDIA(0): No video decoder detected
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) NVIDIA(1): Unable to connect to the ACPI daemon; the ACPI daemon may not
(II) NVIDIA(1):     be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration option
(II) NVIDIA(1):     may not be set correctly.  When the ACPI daemon is
(II) NVIDIA(1):     available, the NVIDIA X driver can use it to receive ACPI
(II) NVIDIA(1):     events.  For details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
(II) NVIDIA(1):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
(II) NVIDIA(1):     Config Options in the README.
(II) NVIDIA(1): Setting mode "TV:nvidia-auto-select+0+0"
(II) NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(1): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(1): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(1): Silken mouse enabled
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Entity 0 shares no resources
(II) Entity 1 shares no resources
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension XAccessControlExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX

Thanks,
DS2K3

PabloTwo · #2 19th September 2007, 06:42 PM

Quote:

#Section "Module"
# Load "type1"
# Load "extmod"
# Load "Xrandr"
# Load "glx"
#EndSection

This section of your xorg.conf file is commented out. Notice that it is responsible for loading the "Xrandr" module, which it doesn't since it's been taken out of play. What happens when you remove the "#"'s to uncomment it out?

Paul

DS2K3 · #3 19th September 2007, 06:50 PM

Thanks for the reply.

I added that bit myself to see if it would work, but it just prompted an error about the module not being found.

leigh123linux · #4 19th September 2007, 06:58 PM

try

yum install acpi

then reboot and see if that helps

PabloTwo · #5 19th September 2007, 07:03 PM

Also, to check that you have the Xrandr module installed, try

su -
rpm -q libXrandr

Paul

Seve · #6 19th September 2007, 07:46 PM

Hello:
Since you are using a nVidia Card, don't you have to add the following option to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf under the
Section "Device" ?

Option "RandRRotation" "True"

The XRandR Extension

Seve

DS2K3 · #7 19th September 2007, 08:31 PM

Tried all the above but still no luck - I have two versions of libXrandr installed - The 32-bit and 64-bit packages. I tried removing the 32-bit in case it was confusing things but that just stopped 32-bit applications from running.

Apparently (according to some Googling of Option "RandRRotation") NVidia drivers don't support version 1.2 of RandR yet, so I will try installing 1.1 and see if it works.

ACPI stuff still throws errors, but I don't think that is related and all the power management stuff seems to work regardless (monitor goes to sleep, computer powers off properly when i press the button, CPU frequency scaling is fine).

D

DS2K3 · #8 19th September 2007, 08:49 PM

I don't think I can install 1.1

However, a new Nvidia driver came out yesterday which apparently "Fixed rotation support on some GeForce 8 GPUs."

I will wait a few days for it to appear in Livna and then try it. Thanks for the suggestions s far - If it still doesn't work with the new driver I will come back

DS2K3 · #9 22nd September 2007, 05:05 PM

Chaging multiple-monitor support from two X screens to TwinView made RandR work. However, Xinerama which is required for proper window placement still doesn't agree with Beryl.

R and R is solved though - Thanks.