diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7ade54eec..c83c45570 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-09-29  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
+
+	* configure.in: put -lXext in Xrandr check, bug #115996
+
 2003-09-29  Havoc Pennington  <hp@redhat.com>
 
 	* src/wm-tester/test-size-hints.c: a little program to test size
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 77000da1d..e9eb2d341 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(Xrandr, XRRUpdateConfiguration,
                [AC_CHECK_HEADER(X11/extensions/Xrandr.h,
                                 RANDR_LIBS=-lXrandr found_randr=yes,,
 				[#include <X11/Xlib.h>])],
-               , -lXrender $ALL_X_LIBS)
+               , -lXrender -lXext $ALL_X_LIBS)
 
 if test "x$found_randr" = "xyes"; then
    AC_DEFINE(HAVE_RANDR, , [Have the Xrandr extension library])