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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
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Steven Haigh <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:55:50 +1100
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On 03/13/2013 02:53 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 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?

Hi Pat,

amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run

Straight from the ATI web site.

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Steven Haigh

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