xorg-prop-drivers-testers team mailing list archive

[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Holger Mischke wrote:
> Hi all,
> finally after some hardware problems i got around to testing. Two
> questions not related to the tests:
> - After the installation of Lucid on a separate drive, i can't start
> Windows again (oh well, sometimes i need to) though it is listed in the
> GRUB menu. When i select that, the system is stuck on a screen showing
> just the word GRUB and a blinking prompt. Any ideas?
> - A couple of times now Lucid just kicked me with a blank screen and i
> had to log in again. Strange.
> 
> Anyways, my question about xpr-003:
> 
> As instructed, i entered "xrandr --output default --mode <resolution>"
> in a terminal, but it changed the resolution alright, no need to go to
> XServer settings. Since it is expected that it can't be done using
> xrandr and i should be sent to the nvidia GUI config tool, i guess I
> messed up, so what did i do wrong?

Check for certain that -nvidia is installed.  That xrandr can't be used
for this is a known issue, but one that we expect nvidia will fix at
some point, so this known-failure will suddenly start working at some
point.

> The XServer Settings not showing up in the main menu has been noted
> before, but that's not for us to bug, right? (BTW, i got to those no
> problem going to Gnome display properties and clicking NO in the
> following dialog.)

Correct, it's a known bug already assigned which will be sorted out once
Alberto gets a chance to investigate.

Bryce