[ANNOUNCE] libXcomposite 0.4.2

2010-06-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 libXcomposite is the Xlib-based client API for the Composite extension. The primary functional change in this release is the SyncHandle fix for multi-threaded use of Xlib, from the XCB project's audit of the sources for thread-safety issues. Alan

[ANNOUNCE] libXdamage 1.1.3

2010-06-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 libXdamage is the Xlib-based client API for the Damage extension. The primary functional change in this release is the SyncHandle fix for multi-threaded use of Xlib, from the XCB project's audit of the sources for thread-safety issues. Alan

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-elographics 1.2.4

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Hutterer
A long overdue update of the elographics drivers that includes the build fixes for the new input APIs in use since server 1.7. These fixes have been on the master branch for quite a while, but no release has followed them. Note that the elographics driver is essentially unmaintained and is just

XVideo on radeon mobility HD 5470

2010-06-08 Thread Cameron Hutchison
I have a Radeon Mobility HD 5470 in my laptop, but XVideo does not work. xvinfo reports there are no adaptors present. Xorg.0.log reports this: (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX:

Re: restore from suspend to ram

2010-06-08 Thread Łukasz Maśko
Dnia wtorek, 8 czerwca 2010, Nigel Sollars napisał: My old gateway laptop has a Mobility x1400 its running Ubuntu 10.04LTS it does not have this issue but it does do something similar if the lid is closed ( activating the screen disable ) once the screen is out it will not come back on for

Re: restore from suspend to ram

2010-06-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
2010/6/8 Łukasz Maśko e...@yen.ipipan.waw.pl: Dnia wtorek, 8 czerwca 2010, Nigel Sollars napisał: My old gateway laptop has a Mobility x1400 its running Ubuntu 10.04LTS it does not have this issue but it does do something similar if the lid is closed ( activating the screen disable ) once the

Re: XVideo on radeon mobility HD 5470

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Cameron Hutchison li...@xdna.net wrote: I have a Radeon Mobility HD 5470 in my laptop, but XVideo does not work. xvinfo reports there are no adaptors present. Xorg.0.log reports this: (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI

Re: xorg can't load qxl driver

2010-06-08 Thread brian
The page at The page http://www.cs.rug.nl/~jurjen/ApprenticesNotes/ch28s06.html indicates the Author couldn't get it going the way he was trying. Yes, once I finished and re-read the instructions I saw the author was having the exact same problem I was. Unfortunately there don't seem to be

RE: XVideo on radeon mobility HD 5470

2010-06-08 Thread Bridgman, John
Firmware for your card has been released, but userspace acceleration code is still under development. It's the acceleration code to *implement* Xv on your GPU that you're missing. When the acceleration code appears, you'll also need 2.6.35 or higher kernel drive to support it. -Original

Re: xorg can't load qxl driver

2010-06-08 Thread brian
It looks like a problem fixed in offical git commit [1], you may try to patch it and try again. Cool, I'll give that a try. I downloaded the gzipped file from that link and extracted it into my /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. Now what do I do with it? There is no configure and no makefile.

Today's stupid question: remapping AltGr to control?

2010-06-08 Thread David Gerard
I have a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu 10.04 (xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7). I don't use the AltGr key *ever*, and am really missing having a right Control key. Can I remap AltGr to be a control key? So far I've failed utterly with xmodmap and xkeycaps. Failed xmodmap command: xmodmap -e keysym

Re: xorg can't load qxl driver

2010-06-08 Thread Robert Thompson
Are you still working from the RedHat flavored copy of spice? Have you read much at http://www.spice-space.org/ ? I don't think RedHat based spice is going to fly in a Debian/Ubuntu setup, so many little things different in the distros. Going direct from the source has best chance IMHO. On