Re: [Xcb] [ANNOUNCE] xcb-util 0.3.8

2011-05-25 Thread Knut Petersen
It looks like the intention was to merge them all into one file, but there are still missing symbols from the old -aux, -atom, -event that are not in the new lib (some of which were mentioned in the ChangeLog, others which weren't) So, do I need to ship two versions of xcb-util to

Re: replace nv with nouveau

2011-05-25 Thread Thomas Schneider
I dont know whether this has been discussed or not, but it would be nice if xserver enables nouveau by default. Has been discussed http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-March/020497.html ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

help:Xserver can't run after plugin new hardware

2011-05-25 Thread jh_wang2004
Hi all I have a Xserver starting problem. My computer is Dell380, onboard video card, ubuntu9.04 os, system running properly. It couldn't run Xserver after plugin a PCI Compression card(vedio encode decode card), but it works well at windows system. i suspect it's module invoke order

Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread David Jackson
X.org needs to listen to users on X Window System flexibility. X has always been about mechanism, not policy, that allows users choice and flexibility, such as in window manangers. Many people I talk to, including myself, find remote desktop capabilities extremly useful and greatly increase the

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/11 12:53 PM, David Jackson wrote: X.org needs to listen to users on X Window System flexibility. X.Org does listen, but we don't have developers sitting around with nothing to do, but instead have far more things to work on than people volunteering to work on them. A display driver

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Corbin Simpson
/me trudges through the rest On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: Backwards compatability is always a must. It has become clear that X graphics primatives today are outgrown today by some applications today which have intense graphics needs. Current X

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread David Jackson
X Server is a complex piece of software and thus there are complex issues involved with its implementation that warrant the message length. I did put most of my concerns in this message so there is not much more I need to add. The message is not that long though, its not a 50 page technical

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread David Jackson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 05/25/11 12:53 PM, David Jackson wrote: X.org needs to listen to users on X Window System flexibility. X.Org does listen, but we don't have developers sitting around with nothing to do, but instead

Re: Extending desktop over laptop HDMI port to LCD monitor

2011-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Draxinger
On Thu, 19 May 2011 23:28:37 -0400 Michael B Allen iop...@gmail.com wrote: Where do I go from here? Use XRandR to change the display configruation on the fly. Personally I prefer using the command line tool xrandr, as it allows performing a whole bunch of configurations settings in a single

EDID-like data for audio: Port correlation between ALSA and X

2011-05-25 Thread Stephen Warren
(starting a new cross-mailing-list thread following some small discussion on this topic on alsa-devel) Background: Many recent graphics cards support sending an audio stream over HDMI or DisplayPort. This is supported by an HD-audio controller built into the graphics card. It'd be nice if

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Morton
David, Try TigerVNC not TightVNC. Although I cant see documentation... I did find this quote TigerVNC is an advanced VNC implementation. It is based on the fourth generation of VNC. TigerVNC also includes features from the TightVNC and TurboVNC projects. This includes accelerated JPEG

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 05/25/11 01:54 PM, David Jackson wrote: I looked for information on vnc.so on Tightvnc's website. Tiger, not Tight, and yes, their website doesn't publish the documentation for their software, complain to them. There are no instructions or documentations there on how one would even use it.

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Glynn Clements
David Jackson wrote: A display driver that contains a VNC server. The problem with x11vnc is that it is slow, very slow. XVnc server, which is a X server that contains a VNC server but has no hardware drivers, is much faster since the VNC server is built directly into the X server, What

Re: mieqProcessDeviceEvent make calls to mieqEnque with signals enabled - freezes Xorg server - multi-screen

2011-05-25 Thread Donald Kayser
I have moved to a new platform, AMD 64bit with 3 ATI Radeon HD 2400 video devices, debian wheezy that has xorg-xserver 1.10. I just had the following crash that looks just like the stack trace on PPC and 1.7 Xorg server reported here earlier. Crash occurred while dragging mouse from one

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread David Jackson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote: On 05/25/11 01:54 PM, David Jackson wrote: I looked for information on vnc.so on Tightvnc's website. Tiger, not Tight, and yes, their website doesn't publish the documentation for their software, complain

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread Dave Airlie
I seemed to be missing the patch you obviously meant to attach. Dave. ___ 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:

Re: Ideas for X improvement.

2011-05-25 Thread David Jackson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Glynn Clements gl...@gclements.plus.comwrote: David Jackson wrote: A display driver that contains a VNC server. The problem with x11vnc is that it is slow, very slow. XVnc server, which is a X server that contains a VNC server but has no hardware

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.14.2

2011-05-25 Thread Dave Airlie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a release of the xf86-video-ati driver for AMD/ATI Radeon hardware. This adds acceleration support for cayman GPUs along with Fusion tiling fixes, and other misc fixes. Adam Jackson (1): R520: Fix textures larger than 2k Alex Deucher