[Bug 33396] GetSystemMetrics always reports native resolution with --with-xinerama.

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33396

--- Comment #4 from Sam Edwards <CFSworks at gmail.com> 2013-04-18 01:46:07 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yeah, that's just NVIDIA RandR being broken. Note that afaik it's limited to
> display panels without a hardware scaler (which typically means laptops), so
> you may get better results when you attach an external monitor. As far as I'm
> aware NVIDIA already knows about the issue, but doesn't consider it their
> problem.

I looked at their discussion on wine-devel. They seem to be more focused on the
purity of their XRandR 1.2 interface than apathetic about bugs. That is, they
want the XRandR 1.2 configuration to control the physical signal being sent to
the monitor rather than the size of the "screen" (in X11 terminology). It's not
a bug in the driver, but rather the developers are trying to be really "exact"
about their implementation. (I make no judgement on whether this design is good
or bad, but I'd still like to make Wine work with it regardless.)

XRandR 1.0 still determines the screen mode, so using the 1.0 interface into
their driver allows reconfiguration of the screen (not the monitor) even if the
monitor doesn't support it, because it implicitly sets up scaling and
letterboxing appropriately.

However, Xinerama is concerned with screen/desktop, not monitor/CRTC, so the
fact that my physical monitor size is coming back from Xinerama is most likely
a bug.

That said, should this be reported to NVIDIA as a bug, or worked-around in
Wine? I'm in favor of the former, but at a loss for how to get in contact with
them.

-- 
Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the
above URL to reply.
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are watching all bug changes.