On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:48 PM Paul Rogers <paulgrog...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: > > Panning has nothing to do with the monitor. It comes down the the > > hardware limitations of the underlying device and what features are > > I'm guessing you mean "device" as used in xorg.conf, i.e. the video card? > Obviously the monitor is a device.
device = video card. > > > exposed via the driver for that device. The maximum framebuffer size > > is limited by the stride coordinate limits of the display hardware on > > the device. The device also needs to be able to dynamically adjust > > the offset of the display frame within the display surface. When you > > slide pan around with in the larger virtual desktop, the driver is > > changing the offset of the display controller as you move around. On > > top of the hardware requirements, the X driver also has to expose the > > necessary support for panning. Not all drivers do. Especially newer > > drivers which support randr 1.2 or newer. > > > > Alex > > > > Thank you, I can barely make sense of that. But I don't see how these > internals help me get panning to work again on my system. I'm just saying it's not the monitor. It's either a problem with your xorg configuration or the driver or underlying hardware doesn't support panning. Alex > > -- > Paul Rogers > paulgrog...@fastmail.fm > Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." > (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
