[Fwd: Re: full screen magnification]

[Krister Pettersen <kristerp broadpark no>]

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Krister Pettersen <kristerp broadpark no>
> To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
> Subject: Re: full screen magnification
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:19:26 +0200
> I followed the instructions at
> http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/access-guide.html#sysadmin-49
> on my debian testing and my ubuntu hoary machine. I have no file called
> XF86Config, on my debian machine its called XF86Config-4, and on ubuntu
> hoary xorg.conf. I edited theese files. But on both machines i get an
> error when restarting the Xserver:
> Module Loader present
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.10-5-386 (buildd rothera) (gcc version
> 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)) #1 Fri May 20 13:52:48 UTC 2005 
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
> 	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
> 	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Jun  9 18:03:54 2005
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> 	Undefined Screen "Screen[0]" referenced by ServerLayout "Default
> Layout".
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error parsing the config file
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 14:42 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Hi Krister:
> > 
> > Fullscreen magnification can be used without a second monitor now, and 
> > it does work reasonably well, especially if you have a recent X server 
> > (preferably XOrg 11.6.8.1).
> > 
> > You will need to enable the "dummy driver" which gives you a "virtual" 
> > second screen, and then you can magnify from that screen as "source" to 
> > the physical screen as "target".
> > 
> > See the Appendix to the GNOME 2.10 Accessibility Guide:
> > http://gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.10/access-guide.html#sysadmin-49
> > 
> > These directions will work with gnome 2.6 or 2.8 as well, as long as you 
> > have a relatively recent version of gnome-mag and the XOrg xserver.  A 
> > similar technique works for the XSun xserver provided with Solaris.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > Krister Pettersen wrote:
> > 
> > >Have it been some improvments with full screen magnification lately?
> > >
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> >