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... > -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/