Bug 243914 - xrandr: should report errors
Summary: xrandr: should report errors
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-server-utils
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-06-12 18:00 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-17 01:33:47 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2007-06-12 18:00:58 UTC
Description of problem:

[notting@nostromo: ~]$ xrandr --output vga --mode 1024x768
[notting@nostromo: ~]$ echo $?
0

Hm, why isn't it working? What is it doing?

[notting@nostromo: ~]$ xrandr --output vga --mode 2145124214x142321
[notting@nostromo: ~]$ echo $?
0

[notting@nostromo: ~]$ xrandr --output VGA --mode 2145124214x142321
xrandr: cannot find mode 2145124214x142321

Oh, *that* was the problem.

Some errors on bogus commandline args might be nice.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-server-utils-7.2-1.fc7

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2007-06-27 14:57:53 UTC
7.2-2 might be slightly better?  I'll check though.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2007-06-27 15:08:12 UTC
7.2-2? Where is that?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2007-06-27 15:09:02 UTC
Never mind. I'm blind.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2007-06-27 15:13:29 UTC
Still happily accepts bogus outputs:

[notting@nostromo: /tmp]$ xrandr --output foo --mode 1024x768
[notting@nostromo: /tmp]$ echo $?
0

Also, it doesn't deal with user stupidity, as something like:

$ xrandr --output VGA --mode 1280x1024 -r 60 --off

turns on the display. But yeah, 'don't do that.'

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 13:02:17 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 01:33:45 UTC
Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
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