Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0

2011-02-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
distributions released over 10 years ago. One of the nice things about git is that it makes maintaining local patchsets easy. If you'd like to take on the responsibility of maintaining a light fork of Xorg with libc5 support then I think people would be absolutely fine with that. -- Matthew Garrett

Re: Xorg -configure questions

2011-02-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
try this patch? --- xstart.bak 2011-02-24 10:12:52.135903210 -0500 +++ xstart 2011-02-24 10:12:58.321043134 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1 @@ -Xorg -configure //1st flickering here -cp -rf /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf startx //2nd flickering here -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Xorg -configure questions

2011-02-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
: patch xstart.diff Now do bash xstart and see if X starts with only one flicker. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Xorg -configure questions

2011-02-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:41:15AM -0800, lfs lfs wrote: hi, Matthew Garrett But, I never received any patch or link to that. Did you attach it in email

Re: EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

2011-01-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
to add support for requesting the EDID via ACPI. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your

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@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http

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@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
; when I switched to terminal mode(on linux alt-ctrl-1), it is 55w. X knows how to program power-saving features in your graphics card. If you're using a VGA text console, the kernel doesn't. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list

Re: XI2 = moving target?

2009-07-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
and that's a *good* thing, but it does mean that we need to revisit the 255 keycode issue. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: multiseat, -sharevts, and suspend/hibernate

2009-05-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
by linus or the other main kernel devs. bummer, really. It doesn't matter whether you're using tuxonice or whatever - there's simply no infrastructure in the kernel for reinitialising multiple video cards until you move to KMS-based drivers. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Detecting the used keyboard driver

2009-05-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
as the kernel keycode is KEY_BATTERY, the X keycode will depend only on whether kbd or evdev is in use. And now we've come to the main question in my first mail: how can i detect whether the X server uses the evdev or kbd driver? Like I said, don't. Add the kbd keycodes to the pc105 keymap. -- Matthew

Re: Detecting the used keyboard driver

2009-04-30 Thread Matthew Garrett
. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Detecting the used keyboard driver

2009-04-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
. These translations are different when the evdev input driver is used by the X server instead of the kbd driver. This sounds like the wrong way to do it. Why not just ensure that the keymap contains the correct keycode-keysym mappings in the first place? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Questions on How Xorg handle ACPI

2009-02-19 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:34:38AM +0800, Sheldon Zhao wrote: So, vbetool saves and restores the video card state, and the Xorg don't even know a S3/S4 happen? Either vbetool or the kernel graphics drivers. X only sees a VT switch. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org

Re: Questions on How Xorg handle ACPI

2009-02-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
usefully respond to directly. They're all passed to userspace which will take appropriate actions. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: How To Disable input driver

2009-02-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
/eventX) thanks Why do you want to do this? -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Fwd: X.org PCI changes breaks support for Silicon Motion SM720 Lynx3DM card?

2008-12-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
vbestate restore in text mode after resuming does the trick for me. That's a common workaround. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Input device problem

2008-12-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
that device, but not doing anything to prevent them being delivered through the console device. THe kernel pays no attention to any information from hal. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: i915 backlight failure on resume with 2.6.27

2008-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
a long time ago, which now is on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6001 No, _DOS has nothing to do with the behaviour on resume. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org

Re: How to make udev set constant event{N_i} for each i-th phys. device?

2008-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
identifier? /dev/input/by-id/ , though most input devices don't have unique identifiers. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Switchable graphics

2008-11-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
of the X side of things. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Intel driver on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
if there is a known problem in 2.4.1. Did Ubuntu 8.04 use the hardware overlay by default? Does 8.10 use the textured one? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Issue with uncommon pointing device.

2008-10-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:50:56AM -0400, Drew Ogle wrote: xinput list doesn't show the device, so I can't use evtest. evtest is run against the /dev/input device node, not against an xinput device. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg

Re: RFC: HAL probing for VMware vmmouse device

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
itself, but I'm concerned about how successfully it would be deployed in that situation. I think shipping it with vmmouse ought to work - distributions are going to have to upgrade some component in any case. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFC: HAL probing for VMware vmmouse device

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:50:42AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Hmm. The fdi seemed to be missing? No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse

Re: RFC: HAL probing for VMware vmmouse device

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:35:39AM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse on every

Re: handling BTN_TOUCH in evdev driver

2008-09-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
would break existing use cases. It sounds like changing usbtouchscreen to send both events (at least optionally) would be more reasonable, but you'd probably want to discuss that with upstream. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ xorg mailing