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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:29:39 -0500
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On 03/12/2013 10:55 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> 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.
>

Yep, that is the latest....

What does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like?

Pat


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Pat Riehecky

Scientific Linux developer
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