vesa driver reports many modes, but only allows a few

2010-02-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Could anyone explain to me what the attached log means? X 7.5 detects a rich array of BIOS modes, but then runs through a list of modes and says "no mode of this name". Should it be using something like "104" or "104 (1024x768)" instead of, e.g., "1024x768"? Then X tries a less strict probe, an

Re: State of Zaphod dual screen support

2010-02-28 Thread David Mohr
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:29:12PM -0700, David Mohr wrote: >> I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor >> setup with separate X screens for every monitor. When I recently >> upgraded from 7.4 to 7.5, some utili

Re: Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread paul rogers
Sheesh. I suppose I should have expected something like that, it's Windows after all. I keep wanting to use Windows less and less. >Make sure you've set download type to Binary in the WinXP FTP client. >IIRC, it's Text by default, which would mangle the tarball. paulgrog...@lycos.com TANSTAA

Re: State of Zaphod dual screen support

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:29:12PM -0700, David Mohr wrote: > I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor > setup with separate X screens for every monitor. When I recently > upgraded from 7.4 to 7.5, some utilites which I adopted[1] which > manipulate the mouse cursor sta

State of Zaphod dual screen support

2010-02-28 Thread David Mohr
Hi everyone, I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor setup with separate X screens for every monitor. When I recently upgraded from 7.4 to 7.5, some utilites which I adopted[1] which manipulate the mouse cursor started malfunctioning. My two X screens are setup to be "

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 09:18:35PM -0800, Corbin Simpson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Richard Brown wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> On the client side we've pretty much preserved API & ABI compatibility, > >> even > >> when that required major gyrations for the XCB effort - wh

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Corbin Simpson
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Richard Brown wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On the client side we've pretty much preserved API & ABI compatibility, >> even >> when that required major gyrations for the XCB effort - while we >> encouarage >> migration to the new XCB libraries, it will be a c

Re: Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, paul rogers wrote: >Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client You may want to try it with a real ftp client, that one isn't. From my admittedly limited experience, its borked, thinks binary files are text & helpfully translates them to winders style line endings. B

Re: Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread Jan Michael Ibanez
On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:34 AM, paul rogers wrote: > Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client I downloaded everything from 7.5's > everything/* using mget. All the files are corrupt, using "tar -tjvf ..." in > some cases after showing the first file in the archive. The md5sums for > several I s

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Corbin Simpson wrote: Admittedly, I'm kind of young, but I had to go Google all the other extensions to even get a hint of what they do. That's probably not a good sign. :3 You will undoubtedly not be the only X developer who is younger than some of this code.

Re: Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread David Mohr
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:34 PM, paul rogers wrote: > Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client I downloaded everything from > 7.5's everything/* using mget. All the files are corrupt, using "tar -tjvf > ..." in some cases after showing the first file in the archive. The md5sums > for several I s

Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread paul rogers
Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client I downloaded everything from 7.5's everything/* using mget. All the files are corrupt, using "tar -tjvf ..." in some cases after showing the first file in the archive. The md5sums for several I spot checked didn't match either. In same session I succes

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Corbin Simpson wrote: > Admittedly, I'm kind of young, but I had to go Google all the other > extensions to even get a hint of what they do. That's probably not a > good sign. :3 You will undoubtedly not be the only X developer who is younger than some of this code. Even with everything that's b

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Richard Brown wrote: > I would be interested in the rationale to disable extensions. "This > isn't needed anymore" is not good enough. Assume that there is someone > still using the extension, somewhere, an older program that needs it. > Perhaps, if the extension required rewriting of thousands of

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Corbin Simpson
Posting w/o quotes because, frankly, there's a lot of text here. MIT-Sundry-Nonstandard never was on any Xorg server I can recall; I remember UT2k4 bitched bitterly at me over it, back when I was still an fglrx user. Google and git suggest that it's been disabled since before 2006 and was finally

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
David Gerard wrote: On 1 March 2010 01:28, Richard Brown wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: What are you referring to by "Ximage" ? Ximage extension to the X server. It has been superceded by MIT shared memory. However, some ancient apps may still use it. It's not clear that *anyone* ever mana

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:25:12PM -0500, Richard Brown wrote: > > I do apologise for the tone of my original letter. We will be staying > with X in the future and we will not be moving to another platform. Your large corporation certainly has a lightning fast decision making process. Luc Verh

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2010 01:28, Richard Brown wrote: > Russell Shaw wrote: >> What are you referring to by "Ximage" ? > Ximage extension to the X server. It has been superceded by MIT shared > memory. However, some ancient apps may still use it. It's not clear that *anyone* ever manage to use it succes

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Russell Shaw wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 19:05:25 28.02.2010 UTC-05 when rbrown1...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: RB> So of these disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are RB> disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are RB>

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Alan Cox wrote: disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are disabled because, "we don't like how it looks"? Most are disabled because they don't work (and often havent worked for ages, or have been disabled by distributi

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Richard Brown wrote: Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 19:05:25 28.02.2010 UTC-05 when rbrown1...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: RB> So of these disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are RB> disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are RB> disabled because, "we

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
> disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are disabled as a result > of actual broken code, vs, how many are disabled because, "we don't like > how it looks"? Most are disabled because they don't work (and often havent worked for ages, or have been disabled by distributions by default fo

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 05:48:50PM -0500, Richard Brown wrote: > Dear X.org, > > I work for a large corporation which has used X Window System in its > internal systems since the 1980s. We have code going back to since the > mid 80s which has used X which are a critical part of our corporations

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 19:05:25 28.02.2010 UTC-05 when rbrown1...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: RB> So of these disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are RB> disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are RB> disabled because, "we don't like how it loo

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 19:05:25 28.02.2010 UTC-05 when rbrown1...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: RB> So of these disabled, removed extensions. How many of these are RB> disabled as a result of actual broken code, vs, how many are RB> disabled because, "we don't like how it looks"? Most of them were

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Our applications make extensive use of a large number of X extensions, these include, but are not limited to, MIT-Sundry-Nonstandard (many of our oldest programs from the early days use this) ,TOG-CUP, Xtrap, Xfree86-Misc, XEvIE, EVI, PEX, (for man

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Alan Cox wrote: To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available. PEX was dropped in what was it 2004, so six years ago... taken you a while to notice and it was dropped because nobody could

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Cox wrote: >>> To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install >> new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available. > > PEX was dropped in what was it 2004, so six years ago... taken you a > while to notice and it was dropped because nobody could

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
>> To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install > new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available. PEX was dropped in what was it 2004, so six years ago... taken you a while to notice and it was dropped because nobody could actually find a single u

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Richard Brown wrote: > Our applications make extensive use of a large number of X extensions, > these include, but are not limited to, MIT-Sundry-Nonstandard (many of > our oldest programs from the early days use this) ,TOG-CUP, Xtrap, > Xfree86-Misc, XEvIE, EVI, PEX, (for many of our 3D modelling

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Dave Airlie
Can I ask what OSes you have been running on previously? Dave sorry for top posting phone email client On Monday, March 1, 2010, Richard Brown wrote: > Dear X.org, > > I work for a large corporation which has used X Window System in its internal > systems since the 1980s. We have code going bac

Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Brown
Dear X.org, I work for a large corporation which has used X Window System in its internal systems since the 1980s. We have code going back to since the mid 80s which has used X which are a critical part of our corporations internal infrastructures and information systems. We have dozens of ap