Re: Anyone using a large panning desktop

2011-10-22 Thread walt
On 10/14/2011 02:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Is anyone here running a large panning (pannable) desktop. If so would you mind posting your combination of hardware and X related settings and versions? I saw your questions about broken panning in another mailing list, so I tried adding Virtual

Shift-Backspace kills X?

2011-10-04 Thread walt
I often type Shift-Backspace by mistake, and I must have been doing it since I bought my current keyboard a year ago or more. Just lately I've found that Shift-Backspace terminates my X session just the way Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did in the old days. This was an unpleasant surprise, as it's purely

Re: Shift-Backspace kills X?

2011-10-04 Thread walt
On 10/04/2011 09:19 AM, Octoploid wrote: walt w41ter at gmail.com writes: Just lately I've found that Shift-Backspace terminates my X session just the way Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did in the old days. Yes, I've hit the same problem. I came up with this hack in .xinitrc , which solves the issue

Re: Emulate3Buttons not honored

2011-07-25 Thread walt
On 07/25/2011 07:27 AM, Kevin Van Workum wrote: ... I'm trying to get my ORtek Wireless Touchpad keyboard to emulate 3 buttons... ... Note that X reports that it 'Found 3 mouse buttons', but in fact there are only 2 real buttons... Sounds like you already know more about this stuff than I

Re: evdev fails with Couldn't open mtdev device

2011-07-11 Thread walt
On 07/11/2011 02:24 AM, Florian Echtler wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to configure a secondary X server for an auxiliary touchscreen, but I'm having some problems with the input configuration. To keep input for my main screen and the auxiliary screen separate, I'm using the following

Re: arious x apps (xterm, xfontsel) don't start due to missing fonts

2011-03-26 Thread walt
On 03/24/2011 02:19 PM, Shiva Persaud wrote: Hi folks, I'm having what appears to be a common problem but not of the solutions I've found on various forums and threads have worked for me. I noticed this issue after I configured my system to use the en_US.utf8 locale but it's possible that

Re: No mouse, no keyboard in X

2011-03-18 Thread walt
On 03/17/2011 07:08 PM, jazzbo wrote: walter s wrote: On 03/15/2011 06:46 PM, jazzbo wrote: The Xserver doesn't find the mouse or keyboard unless keyboard and mouse are unplugged / plugged in. The X logfile should give you some messages about input devices when the X server is starting

Re: No mouse, no keyboard in X

2011-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/15/2011 06:46 PM, jazzbo wrote: The Xserver doesn't find the mouse or keyboard unless keyboard and mouse are unplugged / plugged in. The X logfile should give you some messages about input devices when the X server is starting up. When you un-plug/re-plug the devices you should see

Re: HTML colouring in xedit

2011-01-14 Thread walt
On 01/13/2011 07:06 AM, Johannes Truschnigg wrote: just suck it up and import CACert's class1 and class3 roots into your trusted certificate store Thank you! I would have done that ages ago if only you had mentioned it earlier :) ___

Re: [xorg-server-1.9.2.902] How to set EmulateWheelButton with no hal? [SOLVED]

2010-12-27 Thread walt
On 12/26/2010 08:27 AM, walt wrote: On 12/25/2010 10:31 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html Thanks Peter. I got the emulate wheel working again with this: $cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-trackball.conf Section InputClass Identifier

Re: [xorg-server-1.9.2.902] How to set EmulateWheelButton with no hal?

2010-12-26 Thread walt
On 12/25/2010 10:31 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:23:08 -0800, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: Until now I've been using a hal fdi file to set EmulateWheelButton to 8, but now hal is gone, so what to do instead?

[xorg-server-1.9.2.902] How to set EmulateWheelButton with no hal?

2010-12-25 Thread walt
Hi xorg list, and Happy Holidays to you all. I just updated xorg-server from 1.7.x to 1.9.2.902. Everything works as expected except for my unusual mouse, which has many buttons but no wheel. Until now I've been using a hal fdi file to set EmulateWheelButton to 8, but now hal is gone, so what

Re: Evdev keyboard sends keycodes but no keysyms

2010-11-14 Thread walt
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 Identifier

Re: Xorg will not start

2010-10-10 Thread walt
On 10/09/2010 02:48 PM, Edmundo Llopis wrote: I am a newbie to Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 LTS, and I have been struggling for weeks to fix Xorg. Every time I type startx the following appears, can someone provide specific driving instructions to fix this problem. X.Org http://X.Org X Server 1.7.6

Re: X freezing occasionally [nouveau bug SOLVED]

2010-09-06 Thread walt
On 08/07/2010 05:34 PM, walt wrote: Hi list, Both times X has locked up, firefox was just starting to load a web page that I'd clicked on. (Two different websites.) I can ssh into the machine and use top to see /usr/bin/Xorg using 100% of CPU (an older single-core amd 32-bit cpu) Strace

X freezing occasionally

2010-08-07 Thread walt
Hi list, This freezing problem happened once yesterday for the first time, and (so far) only once today, so it's not easy to reproduce. I'm running an oddball gemisch of stable and unstable software, so it's definitely not a supported configuration. I'm not at all surprised this is happening,

Re: X freezing occasionally

2010-08-07 Thread walt
On 08/07/2010 05:51 PM, Younes Manton wrote: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: This freezing problem happened once yesterday for the first time, and (so far) only once today, so it's not easy to reproduce. Kernel is today's Linus.git with its (unmodified) nouveau

Re: Tk installation give Xproto.h Xresource.h missing

2010-05-22 Thread walt
On 05/21/2010 01:53 PM, Claudio Cairoli wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Tcl/tk 8.4.2 on a 64-bit Linux machine, and the installation of tcl went fine, however when trying to install tk at first I got the error message X11/Xlib.h not found. I looked for it in the X11 directory at it wasn't

Re: multiple monitors configuration without proprietary driver

2010-04-11 Thread walt
On 04/09/2010 07:14 AM, Luis Alberto Padrón Hernández wrote: Hello Everybody, I have not been able to get 'nvidia' driver to work, so I need to set my two monitors with 'nv' driver... What is the problem with 'nvidia'? Will it work with a single monitor?

Re: nouveau and /dev/dri ? [solved]

2010-04-06 Thread walt
On 04/05/2010 03:44 PM, walt wrote: I can't get mesa-7.8 to compile nouveau_dri.so because the gentoo build is ignoring the gallium useflag. ATM glxgears is giving me ~275 FPS, same as the 'nv' driver. Is this because of the missing nouveau_dri.so, maybe? Just for the record, the answer

Re: nouveau and /dev/dri ? [solved]

2010-04-05 Thread walt
On 04/05/2010 10:02 AM, walt wrote: Hi, I'm trying nouveau for the first time on amd64 and it's almost but not quite working. The problem is that /dev/dri/ doesn't get created, and I don't know why. I continued to try different kernel config options and got it working, though I'm not sure

Re: [xmodmap] Problem with e and n

2009-11-23 Thread walt
On 11/23/2009 02:04 AM, Dirk Wallenstein wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 23:35:29 walt wrote: I've mapped my CapsLock key to a plain Shift_L key, using your instructions. Here is the output of xev (note the keycode is 66): KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x201

Re: [xmodmap] Problem with e and n

2009-11-22 Thread walt
On 11/16/2009 08:28 AM, Dirk Wallenstein wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 01:01:49 Maciej Piechotka wrote: Everything is working except AltGr+e/E and AltGr+n/N. What is wrong? You probably have to change the key types. You can get the current keymap by executing this command: $

Re: libXext 1.1.1

2009-10-22 Thread walt
On 10/21/2009 08:36 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Hi Alan, I'm guessing that the email address as it appears above is the reason that some of your digital signatures are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-cf-files 1.0.3

2009-10-16 Thread walt
On 10/14/2009 10:46 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Hi Alan. Just FYI, I'm having trouble with roughly three out of four of your digital signatures, and I have no idea why. Of the three signed posts you made dated 10/14, this is the only one that passes my mail client's gpg sig test. I exported

Re: pgp signatures

2009-10-16 Thread walt
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Robby Workman wrote: Fine for me: $ gpg --verify AlanC-mail gpg: Signature made Wed 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 PM CDT using DSA key ID 1F2D130E gpg: Good signature from Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com They seem to come back fine for me too, though the

Re: Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

2009-07-29 Thread walt
On 07/28/2009 09:28 PM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 16:56:51 28.07.2009 UTC-07 when w41...@gmail.com did gyre and gimble: w I'm wondering about the connection from terminal to server, and how w much bandwidth would be typical for such a setting... Have a look at network

Re: Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

2009-07-28 Thread walt
On 07/28/2009 10:18 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Being strictly an amateur programmer, I've always wondered how many people/institutions actually use X for remote display the way it was designed to be used. Quite a lot. In universities in crowded city centers, it is quite common to have

Re: Radical idea for X-modmap problem.

2009-07-27 Thread walt
On 07/26/2009 01:56 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: David Moffatt wrote: Responding to the thread about mapping hardware scan codes -- X key codes and keyboards with 248 keys. Perhaps the solution is to take the hardware scan code -- Symbol problem out of the X layer entirely. Let the OS deal with

Re: evdev+hal = Too many input devices.

2009-07-07 Thread walt
On 07/06/2009 08:24 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:08:50PM +0200, Łukasz Maśko wrote: Dnia poniedziałek, 6 lipca 2009, Peter Hutterer napisał: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:26:06AM +0200, Łukasz Maśko wrote: Dnia poniedziałek, 6 lipca 2009, Peter Hutterer napisał: [...]

Re: evdev+hal = Too many input devices.

2009-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/05/2009 01:41 PM, Łukasz Maśko wrote: I have a Kingston BT mouse, which works pretty well with my Linux laptop. At least it has worked so far, becouse this is what I'm getting in log files right now, when I turn it on: (II) config/hal: Adding input device Primax Corp. (3) Button

Re: Strange issue with hal and Xorg

2009-06-12 Thread walt
Matt Hayes wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Matt Hayesdomin...@slackadelic.com wrote: Hrm.. so where the heck is the 32 buttons coming from? That's very odd and causes mapping of buttons to be a pita. The evdev driver. Perhaps you were using the mouse driver in

Re: Strange issue with hal and Xorg

2009-06-12 Thread walt
Justin Mattock wrote: Don't want to confuse you, but hal is being fazed out. udev-142 is now responsible for handling volumeid etc... Auuuggh! Just when I'm beginning to understand hal (but not very well.) You've confused me too. How does volumeid relate to a mouse problem? And which docs

Re: Help interpreting evdev error messages?

2009-04-08 Thread walt
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:52:42PM -0700, walt wrote: My linux distribution (gentoo) just updated to xorg-server 1.5.3 and evdev 2.1.3. I have it almost-but-not-quite working...the mouse works except for emulate-wheel, which was working before the update

Re: Help interpreting evdev error messages?

2009-04-08 Thread walt
walt wrote: My keyboard is not a standard pc105 so some of my keys are cross- wired, e.g. the up-arrow key sends a PrtScn/SysRq instead... Please ignore that part. I rebooted the machine and the problem vanished. So now both the keyboard and mouse are working perfectly. I'd still like

Help interpreting evdev error messages?

2009-04-07 Thread walt
My linux distribution (gentoo) just updated to xorg-server 1.5.3 and evdev 2.1.3. I have it almost-but-not-quite working. The keyboard works correctly AFAICT and the mouse works except for emulate-wheel, which was working before the update. I see these errors from the X server: (**) Option