Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-05 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Mario Limonciello mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote: On 06/04/2015 01:31 AM, David Herrmann wrote: Last but not least: Did you try fixing the alienware x86-platform driver to provide the correct mappings instead of adding a user-space fixup? I'm unsure

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-04 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 05:43:16PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: Hi Greg, On 05/28/2015 03:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:53:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on.

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-04 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Mario Limonciello mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote: On 05/29/2015 04:22 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 28.05.15 13:53, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-04 Thread Mario Limonciello
Hi David, On 06/04/2015 01:31 AM, David Herrmann wrote: Hi On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Mario Limonciello mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote: systemd is not really in the business of remapping scancodes. Sure, the hwdb provides remappings, but this is only to fixup devices that the kernel

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-03 Thread Mario Limonciello
Hi Greg, On 05/28/2015 03:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:53:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on. Yes you can. Wait, what? No, you can't. 1) Not everyone has

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-06-03 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 05/29/2015 04:22 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 28.05.15 13:53, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on. Yes you can. Wait, what? No, you can't. 1) Not

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 28.05.15 13:25, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: On 05/28/2015 11:48 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 27.05.15 15:59, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: You are aware that the kernel has PCI hotplug support? It sounds really weird

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 28.05.15 13:53, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on. Yes you can. Wait, what? No, you can't. 1) Not everyone has multiple monitors plugged into multiple

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:53:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on. Yes you can. Wait, what? No, you can't. 1) Not everyone has multiple monitors plugged into multiple GPU's.

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 05/28/2015 01:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: You can't guarantee that there is another GPU to display things on. Yes you can. Wait, what? No, you can't. 1) Not everyone has multiple monitors plugged into multiple GPU's. 2) The system ships with a dGPU and supports an xGPU. If you remove the

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 27.05.15 15:59, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: Hi, Some Alienware notebooks and desktops support an external graphics housing called the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. It allows the usage

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Mario Limonciello
On 05/28/2015 11:48 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 27.05.15 15:59, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: You are aware that the kernel has PCI hotplug support? It sounds really weird rebooting the machine due to hotplug events. That's not how these things are done...

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
28.05.2015 01:59, Mario Limonciello wrote: Hi, Some Alienware notebooks and desktops support an external graphics housing called the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. It allows the usage of a larger or more modern graphics card than your gaming PC would already support. In order to provide a good

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:25:58PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: Yes, I'm aware that PCI hotplug support is in the kernel. The kernel doesn't panic on the PCIe device being removed from the bus, but the graphics driver and X don't continue working. What should you really do then? Fix the

Re: [systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 27.05.15 15:59, Mario Limonciello (mario_limoncie...@dell.com) wrote: Hi, Some Alienware notebooks and desktops support an external graphics housing called the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. It allows the usage of a larger or more modern graphics card than your gaming PC would

[systemd-devel] Alienware graphics amplifier scancodes

2015-05-27 Thread Mario Limonciello
Hi, Some Alienware notebooks and desktops support an external graphics housing called the Alienware Graphics Amplifier. It allows the usage of a larger or more modern graphics card than your gaming PC would already support. In order to provide a good experience, systems that support it can