Xorg -config failure

2011-10-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. I'm able to `startx' with no problems. However, I wanted to use an old setting from previous OS's on this same hardware that was set in

Re: Xorg -config failure

2011-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Setup: Single user machine running Debian (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae Graphics card: Nvidia FX 5700 LE At present X is setup without any xorg.conf. I'm able to `startx' with no problems. However, I wanted to use an old setting from previous OS's

Building NV driver from git

2011-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Running Debian wheezy After cloning the git repo for: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv I got a slug of errors when running ./autogen.sh autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal configure.ac:33: error:

Xrandr and Nouveau

2011-10-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: Running Debian wheezy 3.0.0-1-686-pae xorg: # aptitude versions xorg ihA 1:7.6+8 Currently have Kde and fluxbox desktop pkgs installed and in use. ---- ---=--- - [Note there are many drivers installed, apparently from the

Re: Xrandr and Nouveau

2011-10-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: [Note there are many drivers installed, apparently from the initial install. But I'm sure most are not really doing anything. I can see Nouveau being loaded in Xorg.0.log which I will provide at the end.] Sorry I forgot to inline Xorg.0.log

Anyone using a large panning desktop

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Is anyone here running a large panning (pannable) desktop. If so would you mind posting your combination of hardware and X related settings and versions? ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg

Re: xorg-server 1.11.1.901 (1.11.2R C1)

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@freedesktop.org writes: == Description == This is the first release candidate for xorg-server 1.11.2 and contains fixes for various crashes and correctness issues fixed since the previous release. Not to be a pest but I don't see anything dealing with Bug 39949

Re: xorg-server 1.11.1.901 (1.11.2R C1)

2011-10-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@apple.com writes: On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@freedesktop.org writes: == Description == This is the first release candidate for xorg-server 1.11.2 and contains fixes for various crashes and correctness issues

Re: Xrandr and Nouveau

2011-10-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Krzysztof Halasa k...@pm.waw.pl writes: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1440x900 --panning 1680x1050 Appear to grow the screen real estate quite dramatically, as judged by a portrait image I use for background, growing quite noticeably and the panel

Re: Xrandr and Nouveau

2011-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Krzysztof Halasa k...@pm.waw.pl writes: [...] I don't know if my desktops are large though :-) Hehe... thats true... it could be 5 feet or more wide by todays' standards. Of course I meant larger than you're actual monitor real estate (as you know).

Re: Xrandr and Nouveau

2011-10-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Krzysztof Halasa k...@pm.waw.pl writes: I do, using nouveau (there were driver bugs in such config, I had to use vertical X Y equal to xrandr X Y), radeons (work fine except the cursor sometimes behaves interestingly near the physical border) and intels (probably same cursor oddities?). I'm