On 12/03/13 21:37, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With xsane on 6.4 Beta 2, I'm getting the following while trying to
>> launch it:
>>
>> $ xsane
>> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
>
> RANDR is a standard extension; something unusual must be going on here.
>
> Unless
>      xdpyinfo | grep RANDR
> prints something you can rule sane out for that error.

This may well be because I'm running the ATI fglrx binary driver. The 
card is an ATI HD6800 series card and it runs the fan flat out under the 
OSS drivers. As such, I don't really have a choice :)

It also seems to handle the 3 x 24" screens at 1920x1080 better with the 
ATI binary driver...

>> To me, this looks more like an X issue
>
> Very much agreed.
>
> Assuming you are running xsane and the X display on the same machine
> which grpahics card and graphics driver are you using ?

Yeah - its the same machine... See above...

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