Re: Fixing the kernels backlight API

2014-02-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
where heuristics are probably going to be involved. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: Fixing the kernels backlight API

2014-02-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
take a look at libbacklight, which already has some amount of support for appropriate heuristics. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http

[PATCH synaptics] Provide a configuration knob for disabling motion events

2013-08-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
From: Matthew Garrett matthew.garr...@nebula.com Users with devices that provide both a touchpad and an alternative input device may not want to use the touchpad for pointer motion but may still want to use it for gesture-based inputs. Add a configuration knob that allows them to do so. Signed

[PATCH synaptics] Provide a configuration knob for disabling motion events

2013-08-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Users with devices that provide both a touchpad and an alternative input device may not want to use the touchpad for pointer motion but may still want to use it for gesture-based inputs. Add a configuration knob that allows them to do so. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
remains, assume a 14 svga fishbowl, and let them edit their xorg.conf. The common case for hitting this case now is that you have a projector behind a display mux that doesn't do DDC. Most projectors are able to do 1024x768. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:51:04PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 07:44:24PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: The common case for hitting this case now is that you have a projector behind a display mux that doesn't do DDC. Most projectors are able to do 1024x768

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
is unnecessary. Our ISA support's somewhat lacking these days, too. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:06:58PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: The absence of complaints about KMS exploding people's monitors implies that nobody is actually running modern software on these displays, and so catering

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:17:26PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:14:36PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: We provide pretty much no support for hardware that's the same vintage as the monitors you're talking about. Why would the people using these monitors

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:25:05PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:20:49PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: I think the benefit in supporting drivers for hardware that hasn't been manufactured in 16 years is pretty minimal, but nobody's saying Don't support old

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Bump classic driver default to 1024x768

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:29:44PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 08:14:36PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: We provide pretty much no support for hardware that's the same vintage as the monitors you're talking about. Why would the people using these monitors

Re: companies contributing to X [was: Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o]

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
seem like a great plan (compare the code quality of nouveau, intel and radeon to that of some of the out of tree drivers, for instance) -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org

Re: companies contributing to X [was: Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o]

2010-11-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
involved in the kernel. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: [Xorg-driver-geode] xf86-video-geode: Changes to 'master'

2010-10-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
to determine whether a mode is ok, and if they don't succeed then the mode is bad. Your problem is that they're failing to pass for valid modes. Figure out why not and you'll know how to fix this bug properly. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: xf86-video-geode: Changes to 'master'

2010-09-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
to the current code.  So no. It is not equivalent. The code will now always return MODE_OK and this function shouldn't be modifying any of its parameters, so how is it not equivalent? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: use a thread for the generation of input events

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
nasty if you use fork(2), which the X server does. Yeah, I expect that Amiga Unix has problems as well. Thankfully, this is the 21st century. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http

Re: [PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:23:05PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: How about fixing those bugs before killing it? Because right now there's no incentive for anyone to fix those bugs because they can use the vm86 backend instead? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: [PATCH] int10: Remove the vm86 and stub backends

2010-07-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
it, but it is replacing one more platform-specific difference with common code.) There's no fundamental reason for it to be, but I'll admit that I never actually went to the extent of checking whether there was support code for non-Linux. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Running X as an unprivileged user

2010-06-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
revoking the open file descriptors from one X server when you switch to another. A compromised X server could keep hold of them when you switch and obtain other users' passwords. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org

Re: Per-output DPMS?

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
a sane thing to do in this case? Do I really want to switch off the output? If they want the internal display to be turned off when they're docked then I suspect that they also want the geometry changed. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg

Re: [PATCH] Use C-style comments in x86emu

2010-02-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:05:24PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: Signed-off-by: Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com So while this won't break anything, are there actually any compilers that we support which choke on this? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: [PATCH] Use C-style comments in x86emu

2010-02-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
, and it might be nice to consolidate those before introducing further divergence. Other than that, no objections. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: Laptop Panel brightness control

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
. The server may want to then expose it as a RANDR property. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: Laptop Panel brightness control

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
panels, and, then what. We just need to populate things appropriately. When the DRM layer is handling things, there shouldn't be any ambiguity. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org

Re: [RFC PATCH] Initial libudev input-hotplug support

2009-10-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
to create multiple X input devices in a single instance. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: HAL support for wacom devices

2009-06-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
no problem with hosting GPLed code on freedesktop.org in the general case. Personally I don't think there's any problem with hosting GPLed xorg drivers under the xorg namespace, providing they're not made part of the katamari releases. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

2009-03-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
. These tools are broken anyway. Users can remap the sequence via xkb. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg-devel mailing list xorg-devel@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel

Re: Please revert Xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

2009-03-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:43:28PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: Tools that blindly assume something which may not be true are broken, yes. Under that theory then EVERYTHING is broken. [citation needed] -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org