Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Steven J Newbury
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 18:43 +, allcoms wrote: Isn't gnome-display-properties sufficient? Which additional features would you need? No, gnome-display-properties isn't sufficient to my needs as it does neither of the two features I am looking for which are: 1- Visual resizing (as in

Re: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Damien Mir mailings.x...@mirabel-sil.com wrote: Hi, I am experiencing a problem with my new laptop : Dell Studio 17'3 with Radeon Mobility HD 4650 running opensuse 11.2 or Ubuntu 9.10 When xorg invoked, the screen becomes blank and is deadlocked this way

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? I'm typing this atm under X.Org X Server 1.7.2, using the RadeonHD driver with a RHD 4350 connected to a

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:54 AM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? I'm typing this atm under X.Org

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Éric Piel
Op 12-01-10 17:54, allcoms schreef: Hi Steve! Ah! xvidtune! I'm surprised it took so long for someone to name the command that I was looking for. Is this what yast's graphics and display module is using to do what it does? Are you really sure that it's what you were looking for!? Have you

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.99.2

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 08:54:59AM +0100, Stephan Raue wrote: Hi Peter, Dan, do you dont forgot this also to commit before release? Dan, this patch doesn't seem to be in master yet. were you waiting for me to

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Éric Piel
Op 10-01-10 19:04, Tony Houghton schreef: I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input device. I want my applications to read the input device directly, not as a keyboard. Among other reasons, it's because I want to use the OK button while mplayer is running, but it

Re: Blank screen on Radeon Mobility HD 4650

2010-01-12 Thread Damien Mir
What I did up to now : - upgrade to kernel 2.6.32 (from suse repository) - upgrade to latest xorg-server (from suse rep too, still 7.4) - compile xf86-video-ati from git. And it works ! Thanks a lot ! On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Damien Mir mailings.x...@mirabel-sil.com wrote: Hi, I am

I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0100 Éric Piel e.a.b.p...@tudelft.nl wrote: Op 10-01-10 19:04, Tony Houghton schreef: I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input device. I want my applications to read the input device directly, not as a keyboard. Among other reasons,

I have problems with the BlankTime Option: Any help?

2010-01-12 Thread dolphin001
Hi! Can at least anyone of you reproduce the fact that any modern system with multiple KDE sessions is doomed to run a screensaver after 10 minutes? Or is out there in the wide world someone who is able to get a system with multiple KDE sessions that is absolutely free of screensavers? dolphin

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
xvidtune doesn't work with xrandr 1.2.  It needs to be updated to support multiple outputs. Alex Seems we've finally got the the bottom of my original question- thanks Steve and Alex! Does anyone plan on updating xvidtune to work with the latest X/xrandr and multiple displays? I would

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:59 PM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: xvidtune doesn't work with xrandr 1.2.  It needs to be updated to support multiple outputs. Alex Seems we've finally got the the bottom of my original question- thanks Steve and Alex! Does anyone plan on updating

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread allcoms
With digital monitors you are almost always guaranteed to have an EDID (IIRC, DVI and HDMI require it) which should prevent you from needing to tweak the modeline as the EDID contains the supported modelines from the monitor. Alex I have a Mini 10 netbook with poulsbo gfx / HDMI out which

Re: I have problems with the BlankTime Option: Any help?

2010-01-12 Thread Markus Strobl
I have a HTPC running KDE that i succeeded in disabling all screensavers. I had to place a script in the .kde/Autostart folder to disable the X-server screen blanking. I can post the script tonight if you want it. /Markus - Original Message From: dolphin...@gmx.de

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Deucher
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, allcoms allc...@googlemail.com wrote: With digital monitors you are almost always guaranteed to have an EDID (IIRC, DVI and HDMI require it) which should prevent you from needing to tweak the modeline as the EDID contains the supported modelines from the

Re: visual resizing and positioning of displays

2010-01-12 Thread Markus Strobl
Sounds like you have an unlucky display. Even without an EDID, your TV will likely work with the standard HTDV timing modelines (it should for devices like cable boxes and DVD/BD players). Also note that some tv's automatically overscan HDMI for some reason, you may have to adjust the

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Bender
On 1/12/2010 10:55 AM, Tony Houghton wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0100 Éric Piele.a.b.p...@tudelft.nl wrote: Op 10-01-10 19:04, Tony Houghton schreef: I've got a DVB card with an IR controller which appears as an input device. I want my applications to read the input device

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800 Paul Bender peben...@san.rr.com wrote: My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if the device is a remote, then udev does not set x11_driver. Since x11_driver is not set, Xorg ignores the device completely. Oh good, that is

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800 Paul Bender peben...@san.rr.com wrote: My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if the device is a remote, then udev does not set x11_driver. Since x11_driver

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Tony Houghton
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:55:09 -0800 Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800 Paul Bender peben...@san.rr.com wrote: My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts.

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Paul Bender
On 1/12/2010 2:55 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghtonh...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800 Paul Benderpeben...@san.rr.com wrote: My solution to this problem is customized udev scripts. Essentially, if the device is a remote, then

Re: I don't want my IR handset to act like a keyboard

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 06:26:58PM -0800, Paul Bender wrote: On 1/12/2010 2:55 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tony Houghtonh...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:07:03 -0800 Paul Benderpeben...@san.rr.com wrote: My solution to this problem is