Re: No MergedXinerama for xrandr

2009-06-02 Thread Bill Crawford
Quinn Harris wrote: ... > Something at the xserver level would be nice. A global option or better yet > a > way to instruct xrandr to treat two or more specified screens as one to all X > software. This is basically another feature regression with xrandr and > should > probably be considered

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:39:47 Alan Cox wrote: > > > if someone massively resizes a window with backing store (remembering > > > it can be mostly offscreen) your X server explodes. > > > > Remind us why turning it on for all windows all the time (Composite) is > > better than for one window? ;o

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On 04/08/2009 05:00 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: ... > > >>>If only the latest release is "API-stable", by definition it's not > > >>>stable. On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:34:48PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: ... > > This cannot be deduced from that line. You need to review your math. On Wednesday 08

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 21:28:47 Alan Cox wrote: > Backing store has long been off by default in Xfree/Xorg. Fundamentally > its a dumb design issue in the concept of backing store - it means the > server has to consume huge amounts of memory keeping copies of stuff and > if someone massively r

Re: [PATCH] Bug in Xextproto

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Crawford
On Monday 30 March 2009 11:40:33 Simon Thum wrote: > Bill Crawford wrote: > > On Saturday 28 March 2009 17:42:54 Simon Thum wrote: > >> Rémi Cardona wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>> Can't we work something out with Qt folks? > >> > >

Re: [PATCH] Bug in Xextproto

2009-03-30 Thread Bill Crawford
On Saturday 28 March 2009 17:42:54 Simon Thum wrote: > Rémi Cardona wrote: ... > > Can't we work something out with Qt folks? > > Good idea, but I think the above sounds like adopting a > what-breaks-gets-fixed policy is the most realistic option. Adam > probably has to say something enlightening.

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 26 March 2009 06:05:32 Dave Airlie wrote: > Option "AccelDFS" "true" Just out of curiosity, why is this needed? I thought compositing was mostly just texturing onto the root window back buffer and could mostly be done in h/w? -- Bill, also wondering why compositing seems to be slo

Re: libxcb-xlib.la failures when building X11 with libxcb-1.2

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 15:50:08 Simon Thum wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Debian (and Ubuntu by proxy) has a patch that makes libtool only add > > needed libraries (i.e., those added on the command line) to the > > dependency_libs setting in .la files. Unfortunately, I think it still > > has

Re: clarification requested: apparent termination of xrx project due to deletion of lbx from xorg

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 18:37:37 Marius Gedminas wrote: ... > What about Pyro, then? http://www.pyrodesktop.org/Main_Page Oh, look, ActiveX! ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Problems configuring AsusTek VW161D with 1366x768x16M

2009-03-11 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 08:11:43 Tino Keitel wrote: > As LCDs usually like vertical refresh rates of 60 Hz, you also > shouldn't use a 75 Hz mode. Most LCDs seem to be capable of 75, and I (alone?) can see the difference, at least on my Hanns·G monitors at work. __

Re: Blind people do not connect screens

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Crawford
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 20:01:18 Samuel Thibault wrote: > - have X.org fallback to dummy when the autodetect driver does not work. > May make sighted users wonder why their screen is black, but well. If you're going to do this, you'll need Ctrl-Alt-BS to work, or people will think that their

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:13:01 Dirk wrote: > Well, then you haven't had it re-enabling itself over and over again to > interfere with your games, yet. > > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: > >> People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click

Re: libX11-6.2.1 and pkg-config 0.23

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thursday 19 February 2009 12:09:30 Simon Thum wrote: > Sorry for the noise. I haven't found the issue, but a majority of .pc's > in my system doesn't output cflags. So it's something configuration- or > pkc-config related. In theory a lot of them shouldn't need to, because they're installed in

Re: [PATCH] include stdio for snprintf

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:43:00 Ben Gamari wrote: > On my machine (Fedora Rawhide), piglit wouldn't build without > including stdio.h in glean's environ.cpp for snprint(). Should be and possibly then std::snprinft(...) if it's C++. ___ xorg mail

Re: ANN: xterm patch #242

2009-02-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 18:16:49 Jeff Chua wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > Patch #242 - 2009/2/15 > > The window title bar text seems broken in 242. Recompiled 241 and works on > 241. > > Here's the string that I used to set the ti

Re: Resolution 1360x768 not selected

2009-02-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On Monday 09 February 2009 11:47:44 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > I need assistance in finding out just why on earth xorg decides not to > use 1360x768 despite the monitor returning this in the DDC and having > it in the Modes/PreferredMode option. > > > Xorg.0.log: http://pastebin.ca/1329034 >

Re: FW: Re: Xorg with ATI / RV370 sneakily eats half my CPU with empty screen?

2009-01-21 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 11:13:20 Frank de Lange wrote: > Looks to me like X does not use more than 1.7% of CPU so that is not out > of the ordinary. To find out more about where the memory goes you can > install xrestop to see if something leaks somewhere. Either run it > interactivally and w

Re: bump: Xorg segfaults on XOpenDisplay multi thread

2008-12-30 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sunday 28 December 2008 08:56:50 Matan Drori wrote: > Bump, adding some backtraces: > Dump 1: > #0 _X11TransWritev (ciptr=0x0, buf=0x21b96720, size=1) at > ../../lib/xtrans/Xtrans.c:911 > #1 0x20093910 in _XSendClientPrefix (dpy=, > client=, auth_proto=0x0, auth_string=0x0, > p

Re: zaphod mode pointer problems in 1.5

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 06:59:13 Matthieu Herrb wrote: > Hi, > > in Xserver 1.5.3, when running the ati (radeon) driver in "zaphod" mode > (ie one X screen per monitor: :0.0, :0.1) the mouse is stuck on the 1st > screen. This is with the "mouse" driver on OpenBSD (ie no evdev/hal > involved).

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 20:12:19 Glynn Clements wrote: > If you want to avoid the situation where large amounts of memory are > allocated for pixmaps, then can't be freed due to other data sharing > the same memory, you're likely to be better off controlling the > allocation of the pixmaps t

Re: libpciaccess ROM read is thrice broken (was: X Hangs at "Initializing int10") try 2

2008-12-08 Thread Bill Crawford
On Friday 05 December 2008 22:08:13 Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > The failure to read the PCI ROM as documented seems like a kernel bug. I > opened http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 for it. This affects kernel modesetting as well, since the cards aren't POSTed properly in these si

Re: failed to find pci graphics card - Self compiled xorg from git

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Crawford
On Friday 24 October 2008 15:43:44 Bill Crawford wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2008 15:37:57 Mateusz Jan Dominikowski wrote: > > Busid"PCI:0:1:1" > > Try 0:1:0 Ignore me, I'm especially blind today.

Re: failed to find pci graphics card - Self compiled xorg from git

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Crawford
On Friday 24 October 2008 15:37:57 Mateusz Jan Dominikowski wrote: > Busid"PCI:0:1:1" Try 0:1:0 ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: xorg fails to start when using correct busids in device sections, logs included

2008-10-22 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 00:54:16 Tiago Vignatti wrote: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/039020.html Is anyone else currently working on this? It's fairly critical for anyone using multi-gpu systems (e.g. me, but I'm sure I can't be the only one). Failing that ...

Re: Kernel Mode Setting DRMFB?

2008-10-20 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sunday 19 October 2008 19:49:02 Corbin Simpson wrote: > You need GEM+KMS for Radeons. Not sure on the Intel requirements. (The > KMS stuff *isn't* going upstream this cycle IIUC.) Any news on when multiple GPUs in the box will be supported? My last try led to OOPSes during boot and corrupted

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Crawford
On 09/09/2008, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Because most of my users will not have a terminal session open. Typically > they use a browser full-screen, so I need a popup to notify them. Spawn a sub-shell for each user, run "sudo -u $user zenity --warning 'about to reboot'" ... ? (i