USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images) -- update

2010-09-17 Thread Martin Langhoff
A number of people were asking about this, and are not tracking the task on trac, so posting here with some CC's. We have http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/test-usbvga/olpc-utils-1.0.29-1.fc11.i586.rpm which just works, including keyboard mappings. If you have a SiSUSBVGA device, and can test post

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On XO-1? Or XO-1.5? Maybe I typo'ed the rpm name... m On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Martin, Esteban found that xorg-x11-drv-sisvga is not available but xorg-x11-drv-sisusb is available. Using xorg-x11-drv-sisusb worked fine. Reuben Begin

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-16 Thread Reuben K. Caron
XO 1.5 Thanks, Reuben On Jul 16, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On XO-1? Or XO-1.5? Maybe I typo'ed the rpm name... m On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: Martin, Esteban found that xorg-x11-drv-sisvga is not available but

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: The Xinerama approach turned out to be a winner in terms of performance and !bugginess. This ticket tracks the status of this feature (currently working great on xo-1.5)

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-14 Thread Jon Nettleton
I suspect that the Geode driver may not be a good friend of Xinerama. My gut instinct is that EXA and Xinerama are not playing well together. Xinerama has been deprecated and replaced with RandR, much like XAA is supposed to be replaced with EXA. XAA and Xinerama are both from about the same

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jon Nettleton jon.nettle...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that the Geode driver may not be a good friend of Xinerama. My gut instinct is that EXA and Xinerama are not playing well The driver ignored my setting AccelMethod to XAA. It did get the hint with

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Updated olpc-usbvgamirror with tweaks for better performance. For monitors/projectors that can handle 800x600 or 1024x768, the VNC approach is the best we can do. For monitors/projectors that can handle something

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: 2 - From http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/usbvga/ grab    xorg-xo1.5-dcon.conf - goes into /etc/X11/    olpc-usbvgamirror - goes into /usr/bin/ - mark it executable!    95-usbvga.rules - goes into /etc/udev/rules.d

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-07 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:  - It is slow and laggy. A VNC protocol expert may be able to help us optimise... Might try some of the VNC encoding options, like those at: http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html#ColorEncoding

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:21 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: Might try some of the VNC encoding options, like those at: Yes but no. The documentation doesn't match actual outcomes. Raw segfaults in ugly ways. This is a feature of vnc -- since the remote system cursor may lag Been

Re: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Consider this a draft for updating our wikipage, or even better a script... Steps: 1 - yum install x11vnc tigervnc xorg-x11-drv-sisvga 2 - From http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/usbvga/ grab xorg-xo1.5-dcon.conf

USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
Consider this a draft for updating our wikipage, or even better a script... So - starting with the F9 procedure at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA - Kernel module is now in our build (sisusbvga.ko) - this simplifies life enormously - Fedora repos have an appropriate x11 driver

Re: [support-gang] Fwd: USB2VGA adapters on XO-1.5 (and XO-1 with F11 images)

2010-07-01 Thread Kurt H Maier
I've done a little work toward this too. My writeup leads you to a non-mirrored setup, so you can have presentation slides on the projector and your notes on the LCD. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Adding_USB_SVGA/XO-1.5 Kurt -- # Kurt H Maier ___ Devel