I have tested URandR on my old laptop (also known as “the hair dryer”, for obvious reasons 
) which has a rather old ATI card.
If you own an ATI card which works with the open source driver (”ati”) and your OS is Ubuntu Gutsy, I would be glad if you could test URandR and post the results.
You can get it here.
NOTE: make sure you read the “Known Problems” section before you try URandR
Posted by Alberto Milone | October 16, 2007 12:11 am
Filed under: Debian, Planet, Python, Ubuntu
Comments (13) |
October 16th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Inverted view crashes my system but I suppose that’s not a URandR problem?
Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000]
What do you want me to test?
October 16th, 2007 at 9:51 am
@Somatik
Does the crash happen only when you invert the screen?
Can you try to change the resolution or to plug in an external monitor or TV?
October 16th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Resolution changes work, external vga works, this tool is great!
The UI threading is not quite what it could be. It takes a long time until the window apears (8 sec?) and it is blocked during the apply action. Better have some kind of infinite progress bar and disabling buttons?
October 16th, 2007 at 11:40 am
it might also be handy to have a automatic revert when pressing esc for when things go wrong
October 16th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Ok, I can use threading and implement an “automatic revert” with a countdown (e.g. a popup which says: “your previous configuration will be restored in 15 seconds unless you click on OK”).
I’ll do it after Envy 0.9.8 is released.
Thanks for your feedback.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Hei, Can you make this work in kubuntu also? The issue is that you are calling gksudo on line 3, which obviously does not work in a kde environment. kdesu is the equivalent. Here is a copy of the error in teerminal: /usr/bin/urandr: line 3: gksudo: command not found
Hope this helps
Thanks a million.
Jussi
October 16th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
@Jussi
Sure, I will.
In the meantime you can type:
cd /usr/share/urandr
sudo python randrgtk.py
October 16th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
alberto, what is your email address??? cant see it anywhere here. also, do you mind coming to find me on IRC? (jussi01)
Thanks
Jussi
October 18th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
@Jussi
the problem with Kubuntu is now solved
October 27th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Thank you. I tried your urandr with my Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000].
At the first time I can use Multi-Head with Laptop-LCD an external LCD. Also he accepted diffent Resolution for both.
I mising support for TV (SVGA) – [dont no how?] and “nice to have” permanetly setting
Again – Thank you
PS: I searched for you tool Envy New. But this dose’nt work. The ATI-Driver can’t support my OS? (Gutsy Gibbon)
October 28th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Hi,
I hope you read this. This post is not about the ATI driver support since I have a intel card
But I have something else to ask you: will there be profiles? so that you can select some options and save them as “beamer” for example and some different options, which you then save as “desktop”. now when you want to switch you just have to select the profile and not every option. it would also be nice to have a tray icon for that 
that would really make it a killer app
October 29th, 2007 at 12:02 am
@Spive
I think I can do it. I’m very busy in this period though.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Does this URandR work with ATI proprietary driver “fglrx”? If it does, It couldn’t be better to me…