On 03/12/2013 05:42 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> 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...

Out of curiosity, what is the version of the installed driver?  Did you get it 
from ATI or ELRepo?

>
>>> 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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