[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.8.0

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xf86-input-mouse is the Xorg server mouse driver for non-evdev OS'es. This release drops support for Xorg 1.6.x, and now requires Xorg 1.7 or later. On Solaris, it fixes a compatibility issue with the Xorg 1.13 ABI changes, allowing this driver to build for the upcoming Xorg 1.13 release. It also

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
Great thank you, just bad that there's not a "--help" command, it would be great to parse the output from c code. Cheers, Giuseppe. man xkeyboard-config :) > > Cheers, > Peter > ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.o

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-intel 2.20.2

2012-07-27 Thread Chris Wilson
For the last 9 months, since 2.16.901, we have been shipping a driver that does not work on IvyBridge GT1 systems (HD2500 graphics); we were telling the GPU to use an invalid number of threads for the pixel shader and this in turned caused the GPU to hang. Also fixed since the last release just a

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
I realize that doing man -P cat xkeyboard-config all the output goes to stdout and can be parsed with a script or c code. Cheers, Giuseppe. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > Great thank you, just bad that there's not a "--help" command, it would be > great to parse th

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
If you're trying to parse them, why not use the original files such as /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml instead of the man page that's generated from them?The XML & XKB files have a far more reliable format than the man page, which can change at any time, since we don't expect people to try to

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location of the file may vary from distribution to distribution according to the prefix. anyway since the manual is supposed to change syntax I will go that way... I'll probably implement a procedure to locate the base.xml file at

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml is that the location > of > the file may vary from distribution to distribution > according to the prefix. I think /usr/share/X11/xkb/ is fairly common, and newer distros should have .pc files

Re: command line retrieve list of kbd layouts and variants (to use with setxkbmap)

2012-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Penone
this one works on lubuntu 12.04 pkg-config --variable=xkb_base xkeyboard-config many thanks. Giuseppe. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith < alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 07/27/12 08:50 AM, Giuseppe Penone wrote: > > the problem of parsing /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.x

Re: X won't start on Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Lenovo X230)

2012-07-27 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 26.07.2012, 19:15 Uhr, schrieb Steve Ramage : I have a problem with getting X to start on a Lenovo X230 running Kubuntu 12.04. ... There are a bunch of issues I'm having with my new Lenovo X230 laptop (with multiple monitors). Stock 12.04 ships a broken libXrandr [1] Despite the bug is

Re: Unable to start xserver

2012-07-27 Thread Abhishek Gupta
Hello, I have just one more question to ask. My Question is that is it possible to let fb-drv do the switch to VESA then pass-through the graphics memory and skip the vbe module in VESA Driver which sets the vbe module to get Xorg working on l4linux?? fb-drv is a program(l4 process), it is just t

X windows (question)

2012-07-27 Thread Mohsen Mehri
I have used PETSc for runing a parallel code. In some special circumstances I need to use X windows.How can I use X windows with Cygwin? I found something about it in your website but is it enough? I use win7 64bit. Please tell me about packages that I have to use them. Thanks in advance M.mehri _

X server crashes, when starting application

2012-07-27 Thread Bernard Day
We are having a problem using Xorg as an X host for an application we test. I am pretty sure that this is a problem with X and not an nvidia issue as we have tried many drivers and a few Xorgs. With a given X the backtrace always starts at the same location regardless of the driver vers

How to get xinput reflect evdev driver's absinfo changes ?

2012-07-27 Thread Yann Cantin
Hi, I'm currently working on a kernel input driver for a pointing device that need runtime calibration. The xorg evdev driver correctly detect and use it, my calibration app update evdev's absinfo with a : prop = XInternAtom(display, "Evdev Axis Calibration", False); ... XIChangeProperty(displ

RE: X won't start on Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Lenovo X230)

2012-07-27 Thread Steve Ramage
 Yeah unfortunately downgrading does not actually seem to fix the issue.   I will try another Distro   -Original message- To:xorg@lists.x.org; From:Thomas Lübking Sent:Fri 27-07-2012 12:22 Subject:Re: X won't start on Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Lenovo X230) Am 26.07.2012, 19:15 Uhr, schrie