Sun ultra 40 m2 nvidia server won't start

2010-06-22 Thread Laurel Sillerud
Hello, This is my last resort before I throw my Sun U40 M2 out the window. I have been working on reinstalling Solaris 10 05/08 and now face the daunting task of getting the X server to work. I have used nvidia-xconfig, and many other tools ( I have 30 years of unix experience) to try

Re: Avago Technologies touchscreen problems

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:53:04PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get X working on a table device (running ubuntu 10.04). The table has a touchscreen device that is recognised by Xorg as AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES AVAGO USB OFN Device (/dev/input/event4) but the

Re: Sun ultra 40 m2 nvidia server won't start

2010-06-22 Thread Pat Kane
Laurel, I'd like to see you Xorg log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log ?). Have you tried the Nvidia binary driver? Pat On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Laurel Sillerud lau...@unm.edu wrote: Hello,    This is my last resort before I throw my Sun U40 M2 out the window.  I have been working on

Re: single mouse click interpreted as a double click (again)

2010-06-22 Thread Antoine Martin
Done: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28673 I have added a little bit of info on there: these extra clicks happen more often on some machines than others... no idea why. Antoine On 06/21/2010 07:05 AM, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:40:44PM +0700, Antoine Martin

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.902 (1.9 RC2)

2010-06-22 Thread Keith Packard
RC2 contains the last of the patches that were proposed before RC1, along with a nice selection of bug fixes (Thanks everyone!). At this point, I've got one patch pending -- to use the Xfont 1.4.2 single function for FPE registration which removes the need for the X server to magically know

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.903 (1.9 RC3)

2010-06-22 Thread Keith Packard
Mikhail reminded me that the mi overlay support is currently used in the nvidia driver and hence shouldn't be removed at this point. And then Kristian popped up on IRC and added his Signed-off-by: line to an 'obvious' fix that had been posted a few days ago. So, we brown-bag RC2 and substitute a

Re: Sun ultra 40 m2 nvidia server won't start

2010-06-22 Thread Matt Thrailkill
If he is using nvidia-xconfig, I don't think he would be getting an xorg.conf that would work with anything other than Nvidia's binary driver. The last time I used it, nvidia-xconfig gave me a simple xorg.conf that started X on my machine. What kind of things are in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? I

Aps on desktop disappear reappear when mouse to bottom of screen KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor Xorg

2010-06-22 Thread giovanni_re
Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I just switched from a vga to dvi monitor, am now having this problem, on KUbuntu 10.4. When i move my mouse pointer down to the bottom of the screen, which is supposed to pop up the task bar, all the

Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread giovanni_re
Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 year old monitor. Using KUbuntu 10.4 The apple website indicates this monitor has: User controls (hardware and software):

Re: Aps on desktop disappear reappear when mouse to bottom of screen KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor Xorg

2010-06-22 Thread Thomas Lübking
check kcmshell4 kwinscreenedges you've likely show desktop active on the central lower border. Am Tuesday 22 June 2010 schrieb giovanni_re: Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I just switched from a vga to dvi monitor, am now having

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Éric Piel
Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 year old monitor. Using KUbuntu 10.4 The apple website indicates this monitor has:

Re: Aps on desktop disappear reappear when mouse to bottom of screen KUbuntu 10.4 ; jor Xorg

2010-06-22 Thread giovanni_re
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:15:44 +0200, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@web.de said: check kcmshell4 kwinscreenedges you've likely show desktop active on the central lower border. Thanks, Thomas. :) Yes, as a matter of fact I had just made that setting before this problem started. (I think it

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor?

2010-06-22 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
ÉP == Éric Piel e.a.b.p...@tudelft.nl writes: ÉP Why do you think you can change the brightness via software? Some 30 monitors, including the Dell 3007 and perhaps the aforementioned Apple display, have no controls at all besides power. The Dell has two buttons which somehow signal back to the

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, there is no adjustment for brightness. I have a Cinema Display from this era too, and the brightness control consists of two touch buttons directly above the power button on the right-hand side of the monitor. Do you have similar buttons on yours? - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? - Jumpers for buttons - KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread giovanni_re
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:22:20 -0400, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org said: there is no adjustment for brightness. I have a Cinema Display from this era too, and the brightness control consists of two touch buttons directly above the power button on the right-hand side of the monitor. Do you

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 14:56:11 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: [...] I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 year old monitor. Using KUbuntu 10.4 [...] Looking in the KDE System Settings General Computer Administration Display Size orientation DVI-0

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Tino Keitel
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 00:41:28 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: [...] Why do you think you can change the brightness via software? It is very unsual for separate monitors to support this. Isn't there some buttons Well, there is a USB Monitor Control Class defined, so you can connect a monitor which

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.902 (1.9 RC2)

2010-06-22 Thread Keith Packard
RC2 contains the last of the patches that were proposed before RC1, along with a nice selection of bug fixes (Thanks everyone!). At this point, I've got one patch pending -- to use the Xfont 1.4.2 single function for FPE registration which removes the need for the X server to magically know

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.903 (1.9 RC3)

2010-06-22 Thread Keith Packard
Mikhail reminded me that the mi overlay support is currently used in the nvidia driver and hence shouldn't be removed at this point. And then Kristian popped up on IRC and added his Signed-off-by: line to an 'obvious' fix that had been posted a few days ago. So, we brown-bag RC2 and substitute a