Summer of Code 2010

2010-02-22 Thread Barton C Massey
I am hoping for X.Org to once again participate in Google's Summer of Code program in 2010. It has been very successful for us in the past. The mentoring organization application period starts in a week or two. In previous years, I've tried to share the responsibility for being Org Admin for Goo

Re: dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank (was: "Screen 1 deleted because of no matching section")

2010-02-22 Thread Corbin Simpson
You'll have to Zaphod the head. Good luck. :3 Posting from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C. On Feb 22, 2010 11:37 AM, "martin f krafft" wrote: also sprach martin f krafft [2010.02.22.1317 +0100]: > Based on the auto-configuration idea, I found that XRandR wants me > to have just two Device

Re: X11 still uses /dev/mem ?

2010-02-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 18:59 +, Nix wrote: > On 22 Feb 2010, Adam Jackson verbalised: > > That, and device permissions on /dev/dri/whatever, and that GEM objects > > are globally visible so you're still trusting that multiple X servers > > don't intentionally snoop on each other. > > Device per

Re: dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank (was: "Screen 1 deleted because of no matching section")

2010-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2010.02.22.1317 +0100]: > Based on the auto-configuration idea, I found that XRandR wants me > to have just two Device sections, not three as I did previously. The > attached xorg.conf file now indeed seems to do almost everything > I want, except that the Monitor on D

Re: Paypal stealing from Xorg [was: Re: Board voting ends today, but...]

2010-02-22 Thread Hélder Gomes
What money disapearing into Brazil banking system? On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Steffen Schaumburg < stef...@schaumburger.info> wrote: > On 22/02/10 18:18, Franco Catrin L. wrote: > > El vie, 19-02-2010 a las 07:57 +0800, Jaya Kumar escribió: > > > >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Daniel S

Paypal stealing from Xorg [was: Re: Board voting ends today, but...]

2010-02-22 Thread Steffen Schaumburg
On 22/02/10 18:18, Franco Catrin L. wrote: > El vie, 19-02-2010 a las 07:57 +0800, Jaya Kumar escribió: > >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: >> >>> $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke), and something like $US5k lost >>> to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and t

Re: X11 still uses /dev/mem ?

2010-02-22 Thread Nix
On 22 Feb 2010, Adam Jackson verbalised: > On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 15:00 +, Nix wrote: >> Am I right in assuming that pretty much all of these are UMS-related? >> i.e., in KMS the only thing now stopping us running X as non-root at >> long last is the input-device-revocation problem? > > That,

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-22 Thread Franco Catrin L.
El vie, 19-02-2010 a las 07:57 +0800, Jaya Kumar escribió: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > > $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke), and something like $US5k lost > > to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and took our money) as well as > > around $US5k that vanished in

Re: X11 still uses /dev/mem ?

2010-02-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 15:00 +, Nix wrote: > On 17 Feb 2010, Adam Jackson said: > > > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 10:30 +0200, Nameer Yarkon wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does X11 still uses /dev/mem to directly manipulate the physical memory ? > > > > strace would tell you. The answer is "it depends"

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:48:39AM -0500: >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: >> > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:35:14 -0500 >> > Alex Deucher wrote: >> > >> >> The number of zaphod users is relatively >>

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Cracauer
Alex Deucher wrote on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:48:39AM -0500: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:35:14 -0500 > > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > >> The number of zaphod users is relatively > >> small and the amount of developer resources to support it is

Re: xrandr dual-screen usability survery (Was: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2)

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote on Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:38:16PM -0500: >> >> So fine, here's the yearly zaphod fix: >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=579cdcf9b4e38c791a497b747a055fc0a07d8dd6 > > I'm afraid this does

Re: Dual-head config broke with update to 1.4.2

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Attila Kinali wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:35:14 -0500 > Alex Deucher wrote: > >> The number of zaphod users is relatively >> small and the amount of developer resources to support it is >> relatively high.  More people want to be able to use and dynamically >>

Re: Xorg crashes...

2010-02-22 Thread Ryan Daly
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 22:48 +0100, Tom Cowell wrote: > Well, according to my primitive understanding, xmodmap is normally > used for a little bit of tweaking of the keyboard layout (fiddling > with delete and backspace, for instance, or swapping CapsLock and > Ctrl). > > Your file looks odd to me

dual-DPU XRandR almost working, DVI-0 stays blank (was: "Screen 1 deleted because of no matching section")

2010-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Corbin Simpson [2010.02.21.2224 +0100]: > Try using Xorg's builtin configuration detection. Bring down X, then > from a VT, do: > > # Xorg -configure > > Xorg should report finding a multicard setup, and the resulting > xorg.conf should work. I have switched to using xf86-video-ati