Re: Exclusive Fullscreen Mode

2010-09-06 Thread Yan Seiner
Roland Plüss wrote: I tried searching on the Internet for informations on how to take over the screen using Xlib. I think here about fullscreen exclusive access like for example SDLMAME does it. I stumbled so far though only on one single mentioning of an Xlib call which should allow switching

Manipulate x windows

2010-08-14 Thread Yan Seiner
OK, I know this is more of a WM question... I'm looking for a CLI utility that would let me manipulate (resize and relocate) windows based on WM_NAME or WM_CLASS. Is anyone aware of any such thing? I need to open a window and position it - but the app does not fully support the -geometry

Re: Intel, h264 and XvMC

2010-04-04 Thread Yan Seiner
Terry Barnaby wrote: On 04/04/10 05:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/04/2010 06:30 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to understand if Intel XvMC can be used with h264 material. If not, is there any way to use Intel hardware acceleration with h264 source? VA-API does h264 bitstream decoding

Error building intel driver

2010-04-03 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm getting the following error building the intel driver. I've cleaned out all of the old code, cloned the git repositories, and started fresh to make sure it's not some old cruft. Does anyone have any idea what I'm missing? libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -fvisibility=hidden

Re: Error building intel driver

2010-04-03 Thread Yan Seiner
Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 07:22:48 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm getting the following error building the intel driver. I've cleaned out all of the old code, cloned the git repositories, and started fresh to make sure it's not some old cruft. Does anyone have any idea

Intel, h264 and XvMC

2010-04-03 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to understand if Intel XvMC can be used with h264 material. If not, is there any way to use Intel hardware acceleration with h264 source? Thanks. --Yan -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ A day may come (_)\(_) ,/'_ o__ when the courage of

Building intel driver: where's xcb-aux?

2010-04-02 Thread Yan Seiner
OK, dumb question perhaps... I'm trying to build the intel driver, and it's failing to build with XvMC support because it can't find xcb-aux: configure:14233: checking for XVMCLIB configure:14241: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors xvmc xext xfixes dri2proto x11-xcb xcb-dri2 xcb-aux

Xephyr + wacom

2010-02-12 Thread Yan Seiner
Anyone know how I'd go about setting up Xephyr with a wacom tablet? I have a tablet that's recognized by the system, I have a pretty recent wacom driver, and I can't figure out how to get Xephyr to do anything with it. I run dual-head, and I need the wacom tablet attached to one head. I'm also

Xephyr problems

2010-02-07 Thread Yan Seiner
I just built the latest xorg from git. I'm having a problem with xkblayout; all of the keys show up as one off - 'a' produces 's', 'tab' produces 'enter', and so on. Also, I can't get Xephyr to produce a log file. How do I get Xephyr to create a log file? I have another, similar machine

Re: Xephyr problems

2010-02-07 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner wrote: I just built the latest xorg from git. I'm having a problem with xkblayout; all of the keys show up as one off - 'a' produces 's', 'tab' produces 'enter', and so on. Never mind Turns out I was not installing the xkb database in the right place. Problem solved

git repostory for font-utils

2010-02-06 Thread Yan Seiner
I apologize for my mental weakness today I embarked on building the latest and greatest xorg, and I can't find the git repository for font-util. I'm not an xorg developer, so I don't know my way around http://cgit.freedesktop.org/ as well as I should. All I've found is this announcement:

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
Egbert Eich wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:33:42AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: That's not how the ISA bus support works (well, worked). Since ISA is not an enumerable bus, we would assume that if no PCI device was claimed by any driver then the video card must be out on ISA somewhere.

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
David Gerard wrote: 2009/10/27 Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com: This particular laptop is ISA with a couple of PCMCIA 1 (16 bit) slots. The video is on the ISA bus. The chips driver (1.2.1 and 1.2.2) doesn't work in this configuration at all, exiting with the error given previously. However

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:40 -0700, Yan Seiner wrote: Not sure if the effort is worth it for 15 year old hardware Wouldn't surprise me if I'm one of less than a dozen who still has this stuff in working order. OTOH, X is being used more and more on embedded

More old hardware weirdness....

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm trying to resurrect this laptop, and I'm running into all sorts of issues... Now that I have X running, but I can't get the keyboard to work in X. If I configure things the way I always do,I get nothing. (see below for xorg.conf snippet.) /dev/input/event? stuff works AFAICT - I can cat

Re: More old hardware weirdness....

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to resurrect this laptop, and I'm running into all sorts of issues... Now that I have X running, but I can't get the keyboard to work in X. If I configure things the way I always do,I get nothing. (see below for xorg.conf snippet.) /dev/input/event? stuff

Re: More old hardware weirdness....

2009-10-27 Thread Yan Seiner
David Gerard wrote: 2009/10/27 Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com: Now that I have X running, but I can't get the keyboard to work in X. If I configure things the way I always do,I get nothing. (see below for xorg.conf snippet.) Does it work with an external keyboard? Just tested

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-26 Thread Yan Seiner
Tiago Vignatti wrote: Yan Seiner wrote: I have a very, very old laptop - 1995 vintage - that I want to repurpose for a net-terminal. It has a Chips and Technologies 65545 video chipset. This works with X as I've run it in the past with both freeBSD and an older version of linux

CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-25 Thread Yan Seiner
I have a very, very old laptop - 1995 vintage - that I want to repurpose for a net-terminal. It has a Chips and Technologies 65545 video chipset. This works with X as I've run it in the past with both freeBSD and an older version of linux (something with a 2.4 kernel and an old version of

Intel Option TV_Connector ignored

2009-10-02 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm having trouble getting TV out working reliably. It will sometimes work and sometimes not; depends on the monitor attached. If I connect a video amplifier/splitter, it the TV-Out will show up as disconnected. If I connect a monitor, it will show us as connected. If I start X with the

GMA945 TV-1 disconnected

2009-09-30 Thread Yan Seiner
I've been trying to bring up a machine that's driving an analog tv. The machine is using the GMA 945 chipset. X sees the TV out, but the log file says TV-1 disconnected and the TV shows No Signal. I can get a signal all the way through the boot sequence up until X starts. Unfortunately

Re: Only use part of display..?

2009-04-24 Thread Yan Seiner
only the LH 7/8 of the display. Run Xephyr on top of a blank X server? -- Yan Seiner, PE Support my bid for the 4J School Board http://www.seiner.com ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Multiple keyboards with Xephyr

2009-01-11 Thread Yan Seiner
Is there any documentation for Xephyr? It doesn't seem to have a manpage... I'm trying to find out if I can use multiple keyboards with Xephyr. I'd like to be able to connect a standard keyboard and a usb remote control. The remote looks like a keyboard to the system and sends ordinary

Weird corruption with Xephyr

2008-12-11 Thread Yan Seiner
I'm seeing this rather weird corruption with Xephyr. The system is running Debian Lenny with a custom 2.6.27.4 kernel. I am running Xephyr 1.5.3. I've captured an image of this here: http://seiner.com/images/imga0018.jpg This happens after some time - can be minutes, hours or days. The

Re: Weird corruption with Xephyr

2008-12-11 Thread Yan Seiner
Aaron Plattner wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:50:41AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm seeing this rather weird corruption with Xephyr. The system is running Debian Lenny with a custom 2.6.27.4 kernel. I am running Xephyr 1.5.3. I've captured an image of this here: http://seiner.com

Re: Xephyr + DRI

2008-12-04 Thread Yan Seiner
On Thu, December 4, 2008 8:39 am, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 07:44:40 -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: Before I go off on a wild goose chase, is DRI possible with Xephyr? I am using 1.5.3 from Debian experimental. I disabled it in our 1.5.1 packages, because it didn't seem

xset dpms force off

2008-11-22 Thread Yan Seiner
I am running a multi-head setup. I'd like to be able to turn off each head individually. I'm using the evil binary nvidia drivers to set up 4 screens as DISPLAY 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 I'm not using Xinerama or Twinview. xset -display :0.0 dpms force off turns off all 4 displays, as does

Xephyr, DRI, and compiz

2008-09-26 Thread Yan Seiner
: Failed to manage screen: 0 /usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :3 So what can I do to diagnose this? What,if anything, can I do to get compiz running on Xephyr? -- o__ ,/'_ o__ (_)\(_),/'_o__ Yan Seiner

Re: Building X

2008-09-19 Thread Yan Seiner
Keith Packard wrote: Yes, I'm cool with the black root background; nicer looking, conforming to the spec and everything. As a X user and occasional embedded programmer, might I suggest something with a pattern? Even if it's a X logo in the center, or just a shapeless blob, or a row and