[gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer
Hi list! I found my current XServer-setup very inflexible and would like to hear some tips for improving it. What I would like to have is a customizable plug'n'play setup which I can configure without restarting the XServer. Since I have a notebook, there are many occasions where I have to work with hardware I don't know and on other occasions I need to use my own peripheral devices as good as possible. So I need to customize my setup for the devices I use every day without breaking compatibility with unknown standard hardware. So, what's the best way for configuring 1. usage of my own Logitech mouse as well as typical USB-mice and my touchpad. 2. USB-keyboards as well as the build-in, all with custom multimedia and Fn-keys. 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on my Intel i945. It should work with a minimum of additional software, no KDE, minimal GNOME, XFCE preferred. Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer
I think you are looking for problems where they dont exist: point your xorg.conf at /dev/input/mice - then all mice end up under the one reference. i.e., plug in a usbmouse and once the modules are loaded, its automatically seen by the xserver. Keyboards (usb) and the native keyboard (on desktops or laptops) just work - never had to look into how as its always been ok. i945, not so easy, but it can be done. My laptop with a intel display chipset (I think its a 945 or maybe 965 - not with me att) changes resolutions and switches between int/ext or both. Have not tried driving a TV off it - doesnt have a port for it. The tricks in how you setup xorg.conf. That being said, the xorg intel drivers were quite problematic, but the latest at least seems stable. I move between areas where I use 1024x768 into projectors and a MS wireless laptop mouse, desktops with an external LCD monitor (1280x1024), keyboard and dell optical mouse and standalone (1366x768). All devices work as plug/play - no rebooting needed. I use desktop icons calling a script that runns xrandr to set the deisplay resolutions (there is a gnome taskbar applet to it as well) Basicly for your requirements, its just making sure its correctly setup! Google! BillK On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 11:48 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I found my current XServer-setup very inflexible and would like to hear some tips for improving it. What I would like to have is a customizable plug'n'play setup which I can configure without restarting the XServer. -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home in Perth! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer
Hello On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:48:31AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: 1. usage of my own Logitech mouse as well as typical USB-mice and my touchpad. You probably can define separate device section for: • touchpad • your logitech mouse • any other mouse and in the server layout have touchpad as core device (CorePointer) and the other ones have as SendCoreEvents ‒ which marks it as slave device when present and does not need it to be there to start. 2. USB-keyboards as well as the build-in, all with custom multimedia and Fn-keys. This works for me with only one keyboard section and, I just had to make the keybindings and some assignments in .Xmodmap. 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on my Intel i945. You can use xrandr and it's ability to add/remove screens while running. Do you want to see the config and/or some scripts I use to manage it? -- You can't have everything... where would you put it? -- Steven Wright Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgp0VQpJwf4Od.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Best practices - flexible XServer
On Sonntag, 20. April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: 3. external displays (VGA, DVI, LCD and TV-Out, one at a time would be enough) with different aspects and resolutions with 3D-acceleration on my Intel i945. don't put modes or modelines into your xorg.conf. Let X figure it out. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
