Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Echtler
Hello everybody, a while ago, after the MPX merge, there was a brief discussion about multipointer support for userspace. I'd like to revive this discussion, and I have some bits to restart it: - At http://tisch.sf.net/ , you can find the first beta release of our multitouch development framewo

problems with xorg on gentoo amd64

2008-10-29 Thread Beso
hi, i'm crossposting to both xorg and gentoo amd64 mailing list to have more audience since the problem might be related to either gentoo or xorg itself. on sunday i've updated hal on gentoo and after reboot xorg stopped starting. the problem was that it cannot open the drm device. on monday i wa

Re: [RFC] RandR 1.3 properties

2008-10-29 Thread Jim Gettys
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:51 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: > - Apparently there are only 8, 16, and 32bit integers available as > property types. Having ATOMs and FLOATs would add semantics, which > could help in some cases. But if this implies some changes throughout > the system, I don't thin

Re: problems with xorg on gentoo amd64

2008-10-29 Thread Tassilo Horn
Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi! > i'm crossposting to both xorg and gentoo amd64 mailing list to have > more audience since the problem might be related to either gentoo or > xorg itself. > > on sunday i've updated hal on gentoo and after reboot xorg stopped > starting. the problem was that

Uncontrolled screen blanking again

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; New mobo, new 2400HD-Pro card, 32 bit F8 install on a quad core phenom. Early in the morning I cannot keep a screen unblanked. Someone suggested that was a bug in radeonhd when using the digital output on this card. So I plugged in the analog cable too, but that refused to come ali

Re: Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

2008-10-29 Thread Jim Gettys
I worry about the use of UDP, at least for networked input devices. Losing some of the event stream (e.g. up events) can be very confusing to applications (not to mention device drivers). Wireless is unreliable; UDP does not guarantee reliability. Latency with TCP is just as low (and bandwidth com

Re: [RFC] RandR 1.3 properties

2008-10-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:37 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:51 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: > > - Is RANDR_BANDWIDTH helpful? Or should we have a dedicated property for > > indicating dual link capability on DVI? What other meta information > > (also on other connections)

RenderAccel not working with git xf86-video-ati Xpress 200M

2008-10-29 Thread Sebastian Glita
Hi, Testing hangs with EXA-patched xorg-server 1.5.2-r1 show either "NoAccel" or no "RenderAccel" handles it right: Section "Device" # Identifier "ATI Radeon Xpress 200M [RC410]" # Driver "radeo

Re: Inconsistent refresh rates in RandR and xvidtune

2008-10-29 Thread Eric Anholt
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 21:37 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi, > > a while ago I noticed that RandR and xvidtune can disagree about the > current refresh rate. > > The display in my notebook offers several refresh rates: > >1024x768 50.0 + 60.0*40.0 > > First, I'll set it to 60 Hz

Re: RenderAccel not working with git xf86-video-ati Xpress 200M

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Sebastian Glita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Testing hangs with EXA-patched xorg-server 1.5.2-r1 show either "NoAccel" or > no "RenderAccel" handles it right: Can you post your xorg log with renderaccel enabled? Alex _

Re: Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

2008-10-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Florian Echtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - During his diploma thesis, a student of mine wrote an MPX patch for > FreeGLUT. I just noticed that the Xorg git tree also contains a GLUT > library.. so should I try to port our patch to this GLUT version, or > r

Re: pixman 0.11.6 license

2008-10-29 Thread Soeren Sandmann
"☂Josh Chiα (谢任中)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Taking pixman-0.12.0, going through the .c, .h and .in files in the pixman > directory, I extracted the following notices. Thanks a lot for doing this. > Only the .c, .h and .in files have the word 'copyright' in them. > I'm not setup to checki

Re: problems with xorg on gentoo amd64

2008-10-29 Thread Beso
2008/10/29 Tassilo Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi! > >> i'm crossposting to both xorg and gentoo amd64 mailing list to have >> more audience since the problem might be related to either gentoo or >> xorg itself. >> >> on sunday i've updated hal on gentoo and aft

Re: Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Echtler
Hello Jim, > I worry about the use of UDP, at least for networked input devices. > Losing some of the event stream (e.g. up events) can be very confusing > to applications (not to mention device drivers). Wireless is unreliable; > UDP does not guarantee reliability. Latency with TCP is just as lo

Re: Multi{pointer,touch} & Userspace

2008-10-29 Thread Jim Gettys
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 21:11 +0100, Florian Echtler wrote: > Hello Jim, > > > I worry about the use of UDP, at least for networked input devices. > > Losing some of the event stream (e.g. up events) can be very confusing > > to applications (not to mention device drivers). Wireless is unreliable; >

Re: [RFC] RandR 1.3 properties

2008-10-29 Thread aplattner
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:22:08AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:37 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:51 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: > > > - Is RANDR_BANDWIDTH helpful? Or should we have a dedicated property for > > > indicating dual link capability

[xorg-server] cross compile (arm-linux) error. help~

2008-10-29 Thread oxoooooooo
Dears: Who can tell me how to cross compile xorg-server 1.5.1 (from X11R7.4 release version)? My Env: arm-linux 2.6.21 gcc-4.3.1, support framebuffer I can successfully compile all following items in build-from-tarballs.sh: build util util-macros build_doc build_proto

[PATCH] evdev: Add support for run-time calibration.

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Hutterer
Some devices require run-time axis calibration. We can't change the min/max ranges once we've initialised the valuator structs though, so in-driver run-time calibration is required. If the property is set, the driver scales from the calibrated range to the values reported to the X server (which th