Re: xorg open driver and ati card Radeon 9200 agp

2011-10-30 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Valter, I had this problem long ago with a very similar configuration. It vanished when Alex Deucher modified some details (like rounding) in the Radeon mode setting/calculation code. I don't know about the details, but maybe you can copy the modeline generated by the proprietary driver and

General cleanup of pointer acceleration

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Thum
The integration of the code has some deficiencies which try to resolve here mainly to make reuse of the code easier. Also, the new valuator masks are now used by acceleartion, making things much more straightforward. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org:

Re: laptop keyboard is ignored configuration layout from xorg.conf.d since XInput ABI 12

2010-12-09 Thread Simon Thum
On 12/09/2010 01:22 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: What can be done? commit beea2378f142556471c62290e275935af848e137 Author: Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net Date: Mon Dec 6 14:33:43 2010 +1000 xfree86: don't overwrite option list (#32115) Options set in the

Re: No mouse acceleration in latest Git X.org

2010-11-26 Thread Simon Thum
On 11/25/2010 07:42 AM, Joel Feiner wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de wrote: On 11/23/2010 06:33 AM, Joel Feiner wrote: Mouse acceleration seems to have gone away as of a week or so ago. I'm not sure which component did it and I don't recall when

Re: No mouse acceleration in latest Git X.org

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Thum
On 11/23/2010 06:33 AM, Joel Feiner wrote: Mouse acceleration seems to have gone away as of a week or so ago. I'm not sure which component did it and I don't recall when it actually changed since I use Linux now irregularly and only update once in a while. Yes, It's a known problem originating

Re: Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

2010-11-16 Thread Simon Thum
, walt wrote: On 11/14/2010 09:11 AM, Simon Thum wrote: Hi all, yesterday I recompiled xorg, updating from a ca. 3 week old install using gentoo's live ebuilds. I went into an amusing bug which I narrowed down a bit. I'm having the following xorg.conf.d fragment: Section InputClass

Re: XInput

2010-11-07 Thread Simon Thum
On 11/05/10 00:21, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:35:29PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: In XInput2, when i get a XI_HierarchyChanged event after plugging in another mouse, is there a way to get a unique identifier for each device such as a brand and model number? no, the

Re: how to set AngleOffset in udev for Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman?

2010-06-21 Thread Simon Thum
Am 21.06.2010 01:53, schrieb Peter Hutterer: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 07:17:52PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: AngleOffset is a mousedrv(4) parameter, evdev doesn't have anything similar and your device is now handled by evdev. Feel free to port this over. I've been hoping to somehow unify

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-synaptics 1.2.99.1

2010-06-18 Thread Simon Thum
default value initialization. Re-use width/height variables. Require server 1.6 or later. synclient: allow Min|MaxSpeed values of 1.0. Purge GuestMouse support. Bump to 1.2.99.1. Simon Thum (4): Setup pointer acceleration for synaptics Setup pointer

Re: Horizontal mouse sensitivity in Xorg?

2010-06-12 Thread Simon Thum
Am 09.06.2010 00:20, schrieb Jacek Wielemborek: Hi, I recently decided to try and build an app allowing me to easily convert my netbook into an e-book reader at any time. The problem is, when I try to rotate the screen on the right, making the resolution 600x1024, the touchpad behaves in

Re: Transition from HAL to udev - mouse config

2010-05-17 Thread Simon Thum
Am 14.05.2010 19:37, schrieb Dan Nicholson: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: merge key=input.x11_options.FilterHalflife type=string5/merge merge key=input.x11_options.FilterChainProgression type=string2/merge merge

Re: Trackpoint (Dualpoint Stick) too slow, confused

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Thum
Am 28.04.2010 02:01, schrieb Peter Hutterer: sysfs files are for knobs exposed by the kernel. Simple question, asking for the current way to configure: How do I speed up my terribly slow TrackPoint? Simon, do we have anything to speed up devices? looks like everything we have is to

Re: Trackpoint (Dualpoint Stick) too slow, confused

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Thum
Am 28.04.2010 13:20, schrieb Tobias Wolf: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:44 +0200, Simon Thum wrote: This intends to preserve precision. I'd bet any speed gains one may have under another OS is driver magic. I never used this machine under another OS and am not sure how responsive

Re: Smooth scrolling

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Max, I've had a small look at your work. I've often had requests to do this by users who assumed this would work the same way as pointer acceleration, which unfortunately it doesn't. So I have a small comment and a suggestion. The comment first; from your rationale: The new event would

Re: what is primary refer to in visual

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Thum
Am 16.03.2010 09:42, schrieb Zhang, Xing Z: Hi experts: From xlib manual, here are sentences for color: GrayScale is treated the same way as PseudoColor except that the *primary* that drives the screen is undefined. Thus, the client should always store the same value for red,

Re: cosmetic udev glitches

2010-03-03 Thread Simon Thum
Julien Cristau wrote: This is also expected at the moment. The enumeration of devices gives us /dev/input/event* (which evdev can handle), and /dev/input/{mouse,kbd}* (which it doesn't). This results in a couple error messages for the latter. It should be possible to tone those down so

cosmetic udev glitches

2010-03-02 Thread Simon Thum
Hi all, I just upgraded my X to use udev. It generally went fine, but I noticed two minor issues: At first, the device names have quotation marks. As in xinput list ... ⎜ ImExPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse id=7[slave pointer (2)] I looked up the source, but found nothing

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Thum
Zhi Li wrote: All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to terminal mode(on linux

Re: Testers wanted: Synaptics acceleration patch

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Thum
that one in. We'll see if we get positive feedback. Yay! Attached. Cheers, Simon From 76ea8499aa308ad535f499cc1e6712dd1ea82373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:41:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Setup pointer acceleration for synaptics Setup dix

Re: xinput-calibrator XChangeDeviceProperty calls ignored

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Thum
Marco Cavallini wrote: Hi, I'm testing and debugging xinput-calibrator and looks like CalibratorEvdev::do_set_prop - XChangeDeviceProperty calls are ignored by Xorg. Properties may reject attempts to change their value (to specific values). Also, if the properties don't exist before, you may

Re: xinput-calibrator XChangeDeviceProperty calls ignored

2010-01-27 Thread Simon Thum
Marco Cavallini wrote: Simon Thum ha scritto, Il 27/01/2010 11:47: Marco Cavallini wrote: Hi, I'm testing and debugging xinput-calibrator and looks like CalibratorEvdev::do_set_prop - XChangeDeviceProperty calls are ignored by Xorg. Properties may reject attempts to change their value

Testers wanted: Synaptics acceleration patch

2010-01-16 Thread Simon Thum
0c30a80cb0e32b89a93c2497ebd7ef97652cf211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:41:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Setup pointer acceleration for synaptics Setup dix pointer accel from the synaptics driver so synaptics devices behave like before while benefiting from dix

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.4

2010-01-09 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: The ususal 5 week schedule will be maintained for 1.7.5 Hi Peter, since you intend to push 1.7.5, maybe you can include my first ptr accel xorg.conf.man changes along with fenando's corrections? I hope this lessens the chance of ppl wasting time with evdev scaling patches

Re: pointer acceleration property rename and docs

2010-01-06 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: thanks, that woke me up. I was struggling this morning :) always a pleasure. I don't think this is necessary. We're nitpicking on the wording here and given the number of languages out there there's always going to be some ambiguity. with this patch you're breaking user

Re: pointer acceleration property rename and docs

2010-01-06 Thread Simon Thum
Those patches should address the issues. The rename is skipped for now. Peter Hutterer wrote: thanks, that woke me up. I was struggling this morning :) On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 09:13:47PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote: another round of ptr accel patches. I didn't send to the dev list to maybe

pointer acceleration property rename and docs

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Thum
changes are bogus, I just copied around and I seem not to have broken things. Cheers, Simon From 6bdb4ab5abef8a2155df23281c4ca1268dc999ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:50:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] dix: rename input property for 'constant

Re: [PATCH] Another profile

2010-01-01 Thread Simon Thum
Keith Packard wrote: Do we have enough info to start assigning default profiles to different kinds of devices yet? Should we stick this in some default xorg.conf.d fragments? Or should we stick it in the code instead? Essentially, there is no fixed relation. I tested the 'wacom' profile w/my

Re: [Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

2009-12-20 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:25:16PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: given the two changes alan already suggested, Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net please send out the last version of these patches and I'll push them once they're in my

Re: Pointer Acceleration

2009-12-20 Thread Simon Thum
Lorenz Ruhmann wrote: After alternating between the two schemes several times and repeating specific mouse strokes a few dozen times, I'm getting less and less convinced that there actually is a difference. Also, considering you say my settings are correct (I'm not using adaptive

Re: Pointer Acceleration

2009-12-20 Thread Simon Thum
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 19 December 2009, Simon Thum wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I would tend to agree. With modern high resolution mice, I have often wished I could set the gain to a below 1 condition. My mouse now uses about a 1 x1.35 area of the pad, to cover a 1680x1250 screen

Re: Pointer Acceleration

2009-12-19 Thread Simon Thum
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Lorenz Ruhmann wrote: Is there a way to exactly reproduce this old behavior with the new code? I don't like to rely on a scheme that is kinda considered obsolete. [..] Yes, this is VERY annoying to me as well (all of the new acceleration methods

Re: Pointer Acceleration

2009-12-19 Thread Simon Thum
Gene Heskett wrote: I would tend to agree. With modern high resolution mice, I have often wished I could set the gain to a below 1 condition. My mouse now uses about a 1 x1.35 area of the pad, to cover a 1680x1250 screen, so its way too fast for this user. I'm not sure I got it. What you

Re: [Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

2009-12-17 Thread Simon Thum
Resending to include philip as xinput maintainer. xset doesn't have a dedicated maintainer. Alan? Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:13:30PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:24:20PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote: +has more detials

Re: [Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

2009-12-11 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:13:30PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:24:20PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote: +has more detials. For X.org 1.7 ^^^ typo ^^ X.Org X Server 1.7 I missed that one. Our canonical writing

Re: [Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

2009-12-11 Thread Simon Thum
Ross Vandegrift wrote: When I installed xinput, the first thing I did was look at the man page. But it's nearly useless - all it really does is list how the commands map onto API functions. I don't know the XInput API, so most of it doesn't mean anything to me. I take it the man page is a

Re: About the scheduling of xorg applications

2009-12-10 Thread Simon Thum
ZelluX wrote: Considering such a situation, some applications are running on x window systems and one of them, for example, a web browser has the focus. If there comes an interrupt, such as a keyboard interrupt, and now kernel takes over the control. My question is that what's the running

[Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

2009-12-10 Thread Simon Thum
of information. In general, is it reasonable to point to the wiki from a man page? That one's separate if the answer is no. Cheers, Simon From 84ceba932e93c0b2467be696c9878c4d9c59312b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:10:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2

Re: [OT] e-mail license

2009-12-02 Thread Simon Thum
Alan Coopersmith wrote: misunderstanding. (My employer on the other hand, requires us not to automatically label everything as confidential, since that just causes people to assume nothing really is, and destroys all value of true confidential labels.) I'm amazed by the sheer amount of

Re: [OT] Re: Nightly builds?

2009-11-07 Thread Simon Thum
Magnus Kessler wrote: On Friday 06 November 2009, Simon Thum wrote: Rémi Cardona wrote: from git and completely rebuilt. And with a single command, users can rebuild all live packages. Would you be so kind to explain what exactly you're talking about? I'd be highly interested... (Last time

Re: Alps touchpad driver for X-input (synaptics alternative)

2009-10-22 Thread Simon Thum
Yotam Medini wrote: + On current Ubuntu, it is not easy to configure. The GSynapyics tool warns (and requires(?)) settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf while current configuration happens under /usr/share/hal/fdi/... I can't say that about ubuntu, but I can place stuff in /etc/hal/fdi/... so once

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-20 Thread Simon Thum
Justin Piszcz wrote: Solution for now as I need a working desktop: 1. Recover OS from backup before upgrade: 2. Pin kde* and xorg* so they are not upgraded anymore. In the future/if someone from xorg can respond-- is there a fix/way to make the semantics such that 'xset m 20/5 1' is the

Re: Blank screen on starting X

2009-09-15 Thread Simon Thum
Flittigs at PICT wrote: Hello all, we are undergrad students trying to install and compile the latest X release on a virtual box. We did all installation on /opt/MPX prefix. on doing sudo /opt/MPX/bin/X -config /../xorg.conf , the X server starts running and screen goes blank. We also

Re: Alt + Tab application switching

2009-09-04 Thread Simon Thum
It's never worked ! I'm using Mandriva One 2009 with KDE 4.2.4, Somehow I had the impression it was something to do with the X-server because the Ctrl-Alt-Bkspace was also disabled. I have that fixed thanks to the list. I'll poke around some with the settings and see if I find anything

Re: same linux installation, different font rendering

2009-08-06 Thread Simon Thum
Maybe different ~/.fonts.config? Comparing outputs of fc-list may also help. Giacomo wrote: Hi to all. I am Giacomo S. from Elettra synchrotron radiation facility, Trieste, Italy. We use to develop Qt GUIs on a kubuntu system. The development process is as follows: 1. develop the

Re: Fix focus follow mouse usability problem

2009-08-05 Thread Simon Thum
Harald Braumann wrote: If it's not possible yet, are there plans to implement such functionality in the X server? Like sending an event whenever the pointer stops? Well, X is in pretty much the same situation here; it just knows when the mouse moves, or when it did so last time (plus something

Re: Evdev touchscreen calibration?

2009-07-23 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: XI 1 gives you access to the valuators as well, so this should work in principle if you register for DeviceButtonPress and friends. Ok, big sorry if I'm wrong, but to clarify: untranslated valuators are stored in valuators.data_raw, which is picked up solely by

Re: Evdev touchscreen calibration?

2009-07-22 Thread Simon Thum
Florian Echtler wrote: Hello everyone, I've recently written an input event driver for a touchscreen, and it's working out-of-the box with the evdev driver. However, the scaling is a bit off, so I'd like to do a four-point calibration and set the Evdev Axis Calibration property accordingly.

Re: WM stops the X process

2009-07-11 Thread Simon Thum
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 08:51 -0700, Sebastian Glita wrote: Xorg: pixman-region.c:372: pixman_region_copy: Assertion `pixman_region_selfcheck (src)' failed. See http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22642 . Thanks for the pointer! I started rebuilding half my system

Re: setting evdev properties from HAL?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote: Asbjørn Sannes wrote: But for Evdev Axis Calibration I have not found anything that works .. Any hints and suggestions are welcome :) One could probably do a patch which adds property manipulation to config

Re: setting evdev properties from HAL?

2009-07-04 Thread Simon Thum
Asbjørn Sannes wrote: But for Evdev Axis Calibration I have not found anything that works .. Any hints and suggestions are welcome :) One could probably do a patch which adds property manipulation to config/hal, but it didn't surface yet. I remember to have heard hal can be configured to

Re: X.org release engineering?

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Thum
jspran...@awlship.com wrote: Trying to build Kdrive and I receiving the following errors: kinput.c: In function ‘KdEnableInput’: kinput.c:340: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘NoticeEventTime’ from incompatible pointer type kinput.c: In function ‘KdQueueEvent’: kinput.c:1675: warning:

Re: Xi2 build fix

2009-06-07 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: this code hasn't been touched for ages (it's even disabled by default). hal.c came after this code, so the use of RemoveDevice is more legacy than anything else. Have you tried DIDR? Does it work fine? If so I'll just amend your patch before pushing. Not really tried

Xi2 build fix

2009-06-05 Thread Simon Thum
of RemoveDevice(). Daniel, is there a specific reason to use RD and not DIDR? Cheers, Simon From d2c7f41cc2564b155a285d10f404818410b92e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:14:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] config: adapt to Xi2 changes --- config/dbus.c |2

Re: upcoming xi2 and current XTest implementation

2009-05-30 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 03:42:02PM +0200, Simon Thum wrote: I wonder if one couldn't just do a Xi1 XOpenDevice() to 'convert' Id-Device* ? Any known reasons? I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but - XOpenDevice() is an XI 1 call and I really encourage

Re: upcoming xi2 and current XTest implementation

2009-05-29 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: The protocol only cares about the device id, so to make XTest XI2 aware, all that's needed is some libXtst functions that take an id directly instead of the XDevice*. So it's a pure client-side change in the library, feel free to send me the patch :) I wonder if one

Re: upcoming xi2 and current XTest implementation

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Thum
Christian Beier wrote: Hi there, with the merge of xi2 coming next week, I wonder what the status of XTest with xi2 is. Right now, XTest still pretty much looks like XI 1.x, with Device*'s instead of devive ids (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xextproto/tree/XTest.h). Looking at the

Re: Why querying of EDID is limited only to VBE version greater then 2.0?

2009-05-15 Thread Simon Thum
Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: I have S3 Trio64V2 with VBE 1.2 and I want to add the possibility of display autodetection via DDC to s3 driver. There is two ways to deal with DDC: (i) VESA BIOS Extension and (ii) directly from videochip's DDC registers. The later method currently is impossible to

Re: Sluggish 2D with radeon Xpress 200M

2009-04-27 Thread Simon Thum
Damien Mir wrote: Hello, I recently installed Opensuse 11.1 on a HP Pavilion dv8000 ( with XPRESS 200M graphics ), shipped with Xorg 7.4 (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE) (ChipID = 0x5955) I am experiencing some kind of slow 2D performance, never seen before on

Re: XInput2: getting window-relative coordinates?

2009-04-19 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:54:31AM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote: However, the second one (controlled by touchpad) reports values in the range (1472,1408) to (5472,4448). This is also reported in the Xorg.log by the synaptics driver. How can I map these to screen

Re: XInput2: getting window-relative coordinates?

2009-04-19 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: relative to the window's origin but in the screen coordinate system. so if the window is on 100/100, a device on root 101/101 has event 1/1, even if the valuator state is e.g. 7202/2381 (valuators are in device coordinates). Thanks for the clarification. Cheers,

Re: XInput2: getting window-relative coordinates?

2009-04-17 Thread Simon Thum
Florian Echtler wrote: However, the second one (controlled by touchpad) reports values in the range (1472,1408) to (5472,4448). This is also reported in the Xorg.log by the synaptics driver. How can I map these to screen coordinates? As the pointer still moves in screen coordinates, the

Re: mouse pointer acceleration without threshold?

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Thum
Harald Dunkel wrote: Sorry, but I do want to skip pixels (for gaming only, as written before). I understand that somebody overloaded (abused?) threshold = 0 to provide a completely different acceleration characteristic. I would like to have the classic profile with a simple characteristic and

Re: mouse pointer acceleration without threshold?

2009-04-12 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, you may want to read this: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/PointerAcceleration It is geared towards development, but also contains a lot of end-user info as well. with a constant acceleration (e.g. for gaming)? Something like I'm not sure what you mean by 'constant

Re: luit forked?

2009-04-11 Thread Simon Thum
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Is there any reason we should have two forks of this? Which one do most distros ship? On gentoo: [I] x11-apps/luit [...] Homepage:http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Not a proof, though. ___ xorg mailing list

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Simon Thum
This cannot be deduced from that line. You need to review your math. On Wednesday 08 April 2009 22:52:12 Thomas Dickey wrote: Behdad's comment doesn't make sense in English. (Perhaps someone can help Behdad with that - or else explain to him what API-stable might mean). It makes perfect

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-07 Thread Simon Thum
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: The only problem with core fonts is the blur-fascist elite not bothering to fix UTF-8 fontset support, so there you have some problems. If transporting visual information that would otherwise go lost is blurring, then I'm probably not from this world. The implementation

Re: [PATCH] Bug in Xextproto

2009-03-28 Thread Simon Thum
Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 27/03/2009 19:55, Simon Thum a écrit : Hi, I'm bitten by this issue too and I'm somewhat lost with this. The patch has not yet been applied or commented on xorg, so I just want to make sure it's seen. Then render.h also needs something like this... To quote from

[PATCH] Bug in Xextproto

2009-03-27 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, I'm bitten by this issue too and I'm somewhat lost with this. The patch has not yet been applied or commented on xorg, so I just want to make sure it's seen. 8yrgr4dkp...@dyweni.com wrote: Just noticed that I created the reverse patch. Here to correct one. Hey Everyone, I found a

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Simon Thum
I did a quick sysprof test while switching desktops, and it looks like it's all in memcpy: miClearToBackground 0.00 77.45 miPaintWindow 0.00 77.45 ValidateGC

Re: xf86OSMouseInit() not used

2009-03-24 Thread Simon Thum
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: I think in 1.4, xf86OSMouseInit was still in the server, so maybe there's some conflicts there. That sounds like that was it. Maybe the xf86-input-mouse configure should check for xorg-server = 1.4.99.something instead of =

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

2009-03-18 Thread Simon Thum
Halim Issa wrote: Would I be correct to assume that the best way to work around this is to downgrade while waiting for these issues to stabilize upstream in the next few months? Depends on how whacky you want to go. E.g. on LSF/non-production I'd give remi's script (see bug) a try. Worked

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

2009-03-18 Thread Simon Thum
Bill Crawford wrote: included on the command line at link time. Libtool sort of abstracts this, but to do so it needs to keep track of what those dependencies are, and does so by storing them in this .la file. Thanks for the explanation. What baffles me is that AFAICT this introduces a

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

2009-03-17 Thread Simon Thum
Halim Issa wrote: grep: /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la' is not a valid libtool archive Possibly, this is biting you: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158476

Re: Confused

2009-03-15 Thread Simon Thum
James Cloos wrote: The Video Bus input device is a keyboard. Mine is: ... So, if one wants to handle those keys via X, evdev needs to read that input device. Thanks! I almost had managed to spend a whole day without learning something new... Cheers, Simon

Re: Confused

2009-03-13 Thread Simon Thum
Dan Nicholson wrote: info.callouts.add = {'hal-acl-tool --add-device'} (string list) ... That an awful lot. on my system, only keyboard and pointer are listed. Try booting an older kernel, upgrading HAL, throw out any home-brew HAL fdi's or go to the HAL list. No, I think that's typical

Re: Confused

2009-03-12 Thread Simon Thum
Ben Gamari wrote: On 03/11/2009 11:28 AM, Simon Thum wrote: lshal | grep -10 x11_driver might be valuable. Your wish is my command: info.callouts.add = {'hal-acl-tool --add-device'} (string list) ... That an awful lot. on my system, only keyboard and pointer are listed. Try booting

Re: Synaptics acceleration support

2009-03-12 Thread Simon Thum
Ben Gamari wrote: be too difficult to implement. Am I wrong? If not, I could potentially take a stab at it. Oh, I overlooked that one earlier. In the docs to ptr accel I've described how to detect whether the server is configured to do predictable pointer accel. The job would be defeating

Re: [RFC] XI2 draft protocol specification (v 0.1)

2009-03-10 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: yeah, of course. sorry. what I meant was that the value x is sent as x * (1 16). A little test program for random values between 0 and 0x showed an average rounding error of 0x08. I can't judge whether that is good or bad :) IMO for the protocol, definition is

Re: touchscreen settings

2009-02-26 Thread Simon Thum
Carl Karsten wrote: http://dpaste.com/1931/ xorg finds and uses the touchscreen - good. I need to set min/Max X/Y values - I am lost on how to do that. the #ed out parts either have 0 effect or disable it - mouse doesn't move when I touch. #Option MinX 4100 #Option

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

2009-02-26 Thread Simon Thum
Dirk wrote: I was referring to reading /many/ manuals as a relic of the nineties. Oh, I got that, I just used it as a starter :) I'll try this on another machine as soon as it is in debian/unstable (if not already)... It would be great it this works and can't be overriden by anything. If you

Re: No package 'xcb-xlib' found

2009-02-25 Thread Simon Thum
Pedro Izecksohn wrote: On 2/24/09, Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de wrote: Pedro Izecksohn wrote: Where it may be found? Nowhere, AFAIK. You may want to know this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158476 First off, you need to use reply-all. It's an incident I saw this. Let see if I

Re: [RFC] XI2 draft protocol specification (v 0.1)

2009-02-25 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: XML is merely a container format. It doesn't solve our actual problem - what information to send to the client. [...] We're in pretty unchartered territory, with much of the UI needing to change anyway to accommodate for all this. Once the UI changes, the information need

Re: libX11-6.2.1 and pkg-config 0.23

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Thum
Pedro Izecksohn wrote: pkg-config --cflags xproto prints a line-feed only and keysymdef.h exists in my system and it is in the right place. Same here, on my local system (gentoo + X11 overlay). In my git tree it gives a good-looking -I arg. Though I never had problems building anything.

Re: libX11-6.2.1 and pkg-config 0.23

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Thum
Simon Thum wrote: Pedro Izecksohn wrote: pkg-config --cflags xproto prints a line-feed only and keysymdef.h exists in my system and it is in the right place. Same here, on my local system (gentoo + X11 overlay). In my git tree it gives a good-looking -I arg. Sorry for the noise. I haven't

Re: libX11-6.2.1 and pkg-config 0.23

2009-02-19 Thread Simon Thum
Bill Crawford wrote: In theory a lot of them shouldn't need to, because they're installed in a subdirectory of /usr/include, and you're intended to include libfoo/blah.h ... I guessed that also, but couldn' get it nailed down. Anyway, it looks more like the OP's script is broken.

radeon, DVI and coherent_mode

2009-02-17 Thread Simon Thum
Hi, I've just rebuilt my system's ati driver, and now it's missing the 'coherent_mode' RandR prop. This might be correct, as I only abused this prop to reinit stuff until my display stopped showing blackouts (happens from time to time, so this saves me restarting xorg). In case this is

Re: Pixman Projects

2009-02-17 Thread Simon Thum
Soeren Sandmann wrote: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de writes: However, when you implement super sampling with respect to gamma, the quality loss drops to nearly zero. I'd say typically you need no more strange higher quality filters when that's done. Even a simple non-gamma-correct

Radeon mode initialization problem

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Thum
Hello, I just had my LCD tell me something like the mode should not exceed 1280x1...@75. This happened directly after starting X, and it was the only occurrence this year, so nothing serious. However, I killed X, restarted it and diffed the logs: (II) RADEON(0): [agp] Ring mapped at 0xb7b2f000

Re: [RFC] XI2 draft protocol specification (v 0.1)

2009-02-11 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: Thanks for the comments. All your suggestions have been added, but I'll refrain from commenting on them much (the spec has to work on it's own eventually). No prob. Some details follow though. FP1616 -Fixed point decimal in 16.16 format as 32 bit integer. The

Re: [RFC] XI2 draft protocol specification (v 0.1)

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: FP1616 Fixed point decimal in 16.16 format as 32 bit integer. The client is required to convert to 16.16 decimal format. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really get what 16.16 decimal format means. ┌─── XIChangeDeviceHierarchy

Re: [RFC] Patch series: switching to internal events

2009-02-04 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Peter, looks pretty good to me. One tiny nit however: E.g. in eventconvert.c there are switch statements which go like switch(EventType){ ...big list of labels for one thing...: do it; break; } So essentially, I guess, you're checking for some commonality, or property. Centralizing such

Re: [PATCH] Xi: define a default range of axis labels.

2009-01-23 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: patches welcome :) Here y'r. :) From e25f0f7c38c9f5d5cfab4a20fe42ee5cbf38d012 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:39:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] xinput: create well-known atoms on demand, rather than preinit them --- Xi

Re: Draft XI 2 protocol specification

2009-01-14 Thread Simon Thum
Hi Peter, some rants from me: ┌─── XIDeviceHierarchyEvent: GENERICEVENTDATA flags: SETofHIERARCHYMASK ndevices: CARD16 ─── devices:LISTofINT16 └───

Re: Floats in the protocol

2009-01-07 Thread Simon Thum
On XDS 08, Keith suggested simply putting them on the wire. That is, require IEEE756 32 bit and account for endianness. GLX already uses both 32 and 64 bit IEEE floats on the wire, so I don't see any reason to use something different here. I'd like to add floats to the render protocol as

Floats in the protocol

2009-01-06 Thread Simon Thum
Hello people, I'm trying to get some consensus about floats on the wire. I cc'ed some who spoke about the issue on the list in a non-exhaustive search. Recap: Peter and I want to transfer floats in input properties, see there: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041647.html

Re: Floats in the protocol

2009-01-06 Thread Simon Thum
Walter Harms wrote: if floats are realy needed i would go with an already established like XDR it is already in glibc and it is a defined RFC. Well, XDR simply states to use the IEEE representation. So I take this as one more vote for IEEE. At the XDR level, there seems to be an incompatibility

Re: radeon vs radeonhd drivers

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Thum
Alex Deucher wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Simon Thum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: But its not that simple either, cuz when running the radeon driver, I get random screen blanking for 1-10 seconds at a time, and for a change it doesn't seem to be tied to the time

Re: [Patch 01/02] mieq threading prep: Only increment tail (push) when the event data is actually in the queue

2008-11-18 Thread Simon Thum
Jeremy Huddleston wrote: -unsigned int oldtail = miEventQueue.tail, newtail; +unsigned int oldtail = miEventQueue.tail; All fine, but is there a specific reason to remove newtail? Not that I'd expect this to save more than one or two cycles on any platform...

Re: radeon vs radeonhd drivers

2008-11-13 Thread Simon Thum
Gene Heskett wrote: But its not that simple either, cuz when running the radeon driver, I get random screen blanking for 1-10 seconds at a time, and for a change it doesn't seem to be tied to the time of day since its doing it right now and it is 10 pm. I'm experiencing the exact same

Re: xquartz dereferencing a NULL pointer (patch 2)

2008-11-10 Thread Simon Thum
Matthieu Herrb wrote: Simon Thum wrote: Tiago Vignatti wrote: http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/group__util__atomic.html Does we have this kind of thing in C libraries? It would be useful. If I got it right, that's posix + pthreads functionality specialized for an amtel platform

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