Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-10 Thread DJ Lucas
Dan Nicholson wrote: > DJ, how's the progress coming on jdk-6? Ummm, it's not. Sorry for the late reply. Things are a little hectic at home...well home has moved. But on the bright side, I'll have lots more time on my hands. Things should settle down for me around Tuesday or Thursday. I'l

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: > Please verify that you really have XINERAMA (run xdpyinfo). I could not make > the server enable it on Radeon 9200LE with a single LCD monitor attached, > and thus cannot reproduce the Java bug natively at home (and at work, too - > Radeon 9250 with a CRT monitor there). Update: with

Re: [OT] Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Which version of Xorg/drivers is this? Which bug? I know there are xv > bugs using the new intel driver. I've been using i810 still and > everything seems fine. On the CD, Xorg is stock 7.2 plus libX11-1.1.2 and the "intel" driver (version 2.0.0) instead of "i810". The bug

Re: [OT] Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/4/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Actually, my main box is using an Intel G965 now > > Could you please test whether the latest SVN LiveCD supports it correctly? > > http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-pre2-r1903.iso Sure, downloa

[OT] Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Actually, my main box is using an Intel G965 now Could you please test whether the latest SVN LiveCD supports it correctly? http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-pre2-r1903.iso Notes: 1) This is again a remote build, I have not tested the CD at all and don't

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/3/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On 6/2/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dan Nicholson wrote: > >>> I can't reproduce the bug here. > >> This is because your X server does not have the XINERAMA extension (the > >> same i

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 6/2/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >>> I can't reproduce the bug here. >> This is because your X server does not have the XINERAMA extension (the >> same is true for the LiveCD, BTW). The following comment by Josh >> Triplett a

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/2/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I can't reproduce the bug here. > This is because your X server does not have the XINERAMA extension (the > same is true for the LiveCD, BTW). The following comment by Josh > Triplett appeared at > http://bugs.su

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-06-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I can't reproduce the bug here. This is because your X server does not have the XINERAMA extension (the same is true for the LiveCD, BTW). The following comment by Josh Triplett appeared at http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373 yesterday: > I worked w

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/27/07, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, at 03:18 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-libxcb/ > > > > I just noticed that you have intltool as a required depende

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-27 Thread Ag. D. Hatzimanikas
On Sat, May 26, at 03:18 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-libxcb/ > I just noticed that you have intltool as a required dependency for xkeyboard-config. And while this is true, indeed after a check

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/27/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:15:12PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > git + git-svn. git is awesome, and git-svn lets you interact with svn > > repos. I still end up committing most things through a true svn repo, > > but git-svn lets me handle l

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:15:12PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/26/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:18:04PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > diff --git a/BOOK/general.ent b/BOOK/general.ent > > Care to share the patch that provides '--git', or tell

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/26/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:18:04PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > Here's my cut at XCB + deps + moving stuff around. I'm gonna wait a few > > more days to see if anyone responds about the Java issue. You can also > > see this rendered here: >

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/26/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > +--without-xcb: By default, > > +libX11 will use > > +for it's transport layer. This parameter is necessary if > +linkend="libxcb"/> is not installed. > > Note the use of "it's" above. It should be "i

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:18:04PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Here's my cut at XCB + deps + moving stuff around. I'm gonna wait a few > more days to see if anyone responds about the Java issue. You can also > see this rendered here: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~dnicholson/blfs-libxcb

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-26 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote: > +--without-xcb: By default, > +libX11 will use > +for it's transport layer. This parameter is necessary if +linkend="libxcb"/> is not installed. Note the use of "it's" above. It should be "its". > diff --git a/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml b/BOOK/x/lib/cairo.xml >

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:23 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > XCB is left out for now > by passing --without-xcb to libX11. Here are the package versions that > changed: Here's my cut at XCB + deps + moving stuff around. I'm gonna wait a few more days to see if anyone responds about the Java issue. Yo

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/14/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As noted before, there are a few external dependencies for Xorg-7.2 > which aren't in the book right now. I'm wondering how to organize > them. Here's the list. > libxcb: The actual libraries for XCB. Very few applications use XCB > directly.

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/16/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/16/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > They are known to break (crash) Java at runtime. Please check this (maybe > > > with binary Java) before actually committing the update. > > > > I recall that one of the xcb maint

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/16/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > They are known to break (crash) Java at runtime. Please check this (maybe > > with binary Java) before actually committing the update. > > I recall that one of the xcb maintainers said this was still a problem > on the Xorg list recently.

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/14/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > xcb-proto: XCB protocol headers. > > > > libxcb: The actual libraries for XCB. Very few applications use XCB > > directly. The main use is to in the old Xlib (libX11). Depends on > > libXau and libXdmcp in add

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Lord
Stef Bon wrote: > Some time ago I've upgraded X to version 7.2. I discovered that there are > still some problems using beryl and Xorg 7.2 (white screens). > (according to the xorg developers it's a problem with beryl) Beryl is pretty much dead. They have re-joined with the compiz team under a

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-15 Thread Stef Bon
Dan Nicholson wrote: > As noted before, there are a few external dependencies for Xorg-7.2 > which aren't in the book right now. I'm wondering how to organize > them. Here's the list. > Hello, I know that there has been a discussion about this (do you mean this with "As noted before"?) in febru

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > xcb-proto: XCB protocol headers. > > libxcb: The actual libraries for XCB. Very few applications use XCB > directly. The main use is to in the old Xlib (libX11). Depends on > libXau and libXdmcp in addition to the two above. > > xcb-util: Some additional xcb modules. Cairo

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > It might be nice to have a few extra entities. Maybe xincludes so that > you could reference xorg-lib-deps or something. Then it would be easy > to update things in the book so they're referenced in the Introduction > and the particular section. I don't if it's possible to s

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/14/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When Xorg went modular, I thought it wasa good thing. Now I'm not so > sure. I'm sure its good for the developers. End users don't care. For > us, its a pain. I personally like it, but I also have scripts and a framework that are very gran

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Not exactly compact. I agree; it is not. There are a few packages that are a bit complex: JDK OpenOffice X KDE Gnome Probably the most complex is Gnome, but I think X may be second. When Xorg went modular, I thought it wasa good thing. Now I'm not so sure. I'm sure

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/14/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think I'd like to see a discussion/listing of all X prerequisites, > mandatory, recommended, and optional in the Introduction to Xorg > section. The prereqs themselves can be spread out to where they seem to > be most appropriate. That is,

Re: Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > As noted before, there are a few external dependencies for Xorg-7.2 > which aren't in the book right now. I'm wondering how to organize > them. Here's the list. > > libpthread-stubs: A dependency of libxcb. Basically, just a set of > stubs for pthread functions to provide po

Organizing Xorg-7.2 external dependencies

2007-05-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
As noted before, there are a few external dependencies for Xorg-7.2 which aren't in the book right now. I'm wondering how to organize them. Here's the list. libpthread-stubs: A dependency of libxcb. Basically, just a set of stubs for pthread functions to provide portability across different platfo