[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#598097: Bug#598097: Bug#598097: Bug#598097: Bug#598097: eeepc-acpi-scripts: vga toggling not working: `xrandr -q`: No protocol specified

[Ben Armstrong]

On 12/11/10 12:08 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
>         $ sudo su -
>         machine:~# export XAUTHORITY=/home/paul/.Xauthority
>         + export XAUTHORITY=/home/joe/.Xauthority
>         + XAUTHORITY=/home/joe/.Xauthority
>         machine:~# export DISPLAY=:0
>         + export DISPLAY=:0
>         + DISPLAY=:0
>         machine:~# xrandr -q
>         + xrandr -q
>         No protocol specified
>         Can't open display :0

Huh? It says paul in your export and joe in the set -x output.  What's
up with that?  Editing mistake?  For comparison, from my system:

root at shade:~# export XAUTHORITY=/home/synrg/.Xauthority
root at shade:~# export DISPLAY=:0
root at shade:~# xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS1 connected 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
220mm x 129mm
   1024x600       60.0*+   65.0
   800x600        60.3
   640x480        59.9

I think we've established you have a local Xorg configuration problem
here and there is no bug in eeepc-acpi-scripts.  Perhaps your
.Xauthority file has wrong ownership or something?  It should be owned
by the user it belongs to.

Ben