Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/08/2010 04:13 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > On 01/08/10 13:05, Ryan Daly wrote: >> On 01/08/2010 03:56 PM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>> gripes!! valgrind breaks with >>> libc 2.11.90(I'll see later on this), >>> >>> In your case what does valgrind >>> output's say when the crash occurs? >> >

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Cowell
Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that you were able to debug it). Y

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: > Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. > > On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - > it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the > process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Cowell
Does it work as root if you run it without strace or valgrind? Can you tell I'm getting out of my depth? Tom 2010/1/11 Ryan Daly : > On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. >> >> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. >> >> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - >> it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the >> proces

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/11/2010 08:21 AM, Ryan Daly wrote: > Maybe I'm starting this wrong, but I'm getting the following: > > > prompt> valgrind --log-file=/usr2/tmp/valgrind.out --trace-children=yes > startx > > exec: 5: /usr/bin/X11/X: Permission denied > giving up. > /usr/bin/xinit: No such file or direct

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/11/2010 09:02 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote: >> On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >>> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. >>> >>> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - >>> it acquires elevated pe

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Justin P. Mattock
On 01/11/10 06:04, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/11/2010 09:02 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote: >>> On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary i

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Ryan Daly
On 01/11/2010 09:00 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: > Does it work as root if you run it without strace or valgrind? > > Can you tell I'm getting out of my depth? startx works as root if that's what you mean... This message and any files transmi

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-01-11 Thread Tom Cowell
2010/1/11 Ryan Daly : > On 01/11/2010 09:00 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> Does it work as root if you run it without strace or valgrind? >> >> Can you tell I'm getting out of my depth? > > startx works as root if that's what you mean... > Yes, that's what I meant. I suppose the action of strace (and val

Re: xrandr generated event

2010-01-11 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 11:42 +0100, Nokan Emiro wrote: > Could someone please tell me what event should an X client > subscribe and handle to update it's knowledge on screen size > (width and height is saved at client startup from DisplayWidth() > and DisplayHeight())? > > If a user switches into

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-11 Thread Tino Keitel
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 18:04:35 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input > device. I want my applications to read the input device directly, not as > a keyboard. Among other reasons, it's because I want to use the "OK" > button while mplayer

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:02:32 +0100 Tino Keitel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 18:04:35 +, Tony Houghton wrote: > > I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input > > device. I want my applications to read the input device directly, not as > > a keyboard. Among other rea

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: > I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input > device. I want my applications to read the input device directly, not as > a keyboard. Among other reasons, it's because I want to use the "OK" > button while mplayer is r

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-11 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:07:32 -0800 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: [Trying to stop xorg from seeing my IR controller as a keyboard] > Xorg is now picking up devices straight from udev and then configuring > them in xorg.conf{,.d} with InputClass se

Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-11 Thread Damien Mir
Hi, I am experiencing a problem with my new laptop : Dell Studio 17'3 with Radeon Mobility HD 4650 running opensuse 11.2 or Ubuntu 9.10 When xorg invoked, the screen becomes blank and is deadlocked this way until the next reboot, and then KDE4 crashes. It occurs both with "radeon" and "radeonhd"

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.99.2

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:54:59AM +0100, Stephan Raue wrote: > Hi Peter, Dan, > > do you dont forgot this also to commit before release? Dan, this patch doesn't seem to be in master yet. were you waiting for me to merge it? Cheers, Peter > > Am 21.12.2009 00:00, schrieb Peter Hutterer: > >On

Re: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-11 Thread courten
Hi Damien, try to launch your X server without any xorg.conf provided hal debus and udev is running -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: "Damien Mir" Gesendet: 12.01.10 02:27:37 An: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Betreff: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650 Hi, I am experiencing a problem wi