Re: Button press emulation

2003-10-02 Thread Ivan Pascal
Hi, hi all, I'm working on a virtual keyboard for disabled people and I have some problems with button press emulation. I use XTestFakeButtonEvent to simulate button press events. Every virtual key has a keysym and using XKeysymToKeycode I translate virtual key Keysyms into keycodes.

Re: Debugging XFree86 on a single machine

2003-10-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Kirk Haderlie wrote: Is it possible to debug XFree86 using a dual monitor setup on a single machine. I tried using -keeptty but this doesn't do what I would expect. Can X be run on one monitor and a debug console on the other? You need two video cards (as Andrew Bevitt

Re: Debugging XFree86 on a single machine

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:33:58AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Kirk Haderlie wrote: Is it possible to debug XFree86 using a dual monitor setup on a single machine. I tried using -keeptty but this doesn't do what I would expect. Can X be run on one monitor and

Re: XF86Config-4 parser

2003-10-02 Thread Bryan W. Headley
David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:51:55PM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:52:16AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: David, How is the work on the XF86Config parser coming? I ask because I noticed that the 'Option Device /dev/input/event?'

Re: Debugging XFree86 on a single machine

2003-10-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:00:24PM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Sven Luther wrote: BTW, how do you make it so that X doesn't blank the console on the other head ? My memory is going - it is a long time since I tried this, and I'd forgotten about the that. It

RE: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Let me start by saying this is at least 5 years overdue. Glad to see David addressing this problem. I would like to suggest that a more aggressive approach be used that would involve (or allow) driver changes. Using external tools to figure out which graphics driver and input devices to use

Re: XF86Config-4 parser

2003-10-02 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:42:18AM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: My problem is, I can (easily) be drawn into a quick hack that isn't inline with what you had in mind, both near-term and long-term. E.g., the above 'glob' hack. Well, on FreeBSD, I can configure usbd to create a symlink from the

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-02 Thread Jon Frederick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a few Millennium's and Milliennium II's I hoarded, if anyone needs info from them, just let me know. I'd be glad to contribute to the project in a small way if I can help. Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: |On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:

RE: VideoRAM option

2003-10-02 Thread Tim Roberts
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:18:11 -0700, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: The Intel hardware used shared memory architecture and therefore use the VideoRam option as a tunable parameter. Is this right? The XFree86 Intel driver is able to reconfigure the system RAM partitioning on the fly? Color me

Re: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Sottek, Matthew J wrote: The thing is, a unified device-configuring front-end would be better than having every driver writer roll their own. (I mean, we can follow Windows if we want, but why incur development risk by developing what essentially is several versions of the same thing?)

RE: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
You will never be able to create a GUI that covers everything that is configurable across a wide variety of vendor products... nor should you try. Not true. Look at the limited vocabulary you presently have in XF86Config: keywords, list-of-values, integers, bools. Bools map to radio buttons,

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-02 Thread Kevin Brosius
Tim Roberts wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:07:31 -0600 (MDT), Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Marc Aurele La France wrote: My goal is to disable this option by default in drivers which correctly detect video memory on all supported cards, at least for our shipped

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-02 Thread Kevin Brosius
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: If people (both other developers and end users) who _require_ the VideoRAM option in order for the proper amount of video memory to be useable with their card, could send me privately their: lspci -vvn or

Re: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Sottek, Matthew J wrote: You will never be able to create a GUI that covers everything that is configurable across a wide variety of vendor products... nor should you try. Not true. Look at the limited vocabulary you presently have in XF86Config: keywords, list-of-values, integers, bools. Bools

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-02 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:45:28AM -0700, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: The public driver can reconfigure the amount of RAM just fine up to 128MB (for 830M and greater) The issue you are describing is with mode setting. The driver uses the vbios to set modes, and the vbios has a preconfigured amount

Re: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:34:42PM -0500, Bryan W. Headley wrote: Now, as to anyone who say, eww, it's Gtk, or it's Qt, or I hate Tk, I have only one thing to say to them: Athena Widgets. Jesus, no. The point of this is that it's meant to be *easy* and *simple*. This means that it should

Re: Memory Allocation Problems for Intel 845G

2003-10-02 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:33:52AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: you or christian should add this as a bug to bugzilla (http://bugs.xfree86.org/). This is the new method for posting patches to be accepted into cvs. This isn't a patch to be accepted into CVS, only an idea; as it stands, it's an

help : Touch screen driver

2003-10-02 Thread Mayur Thakare
dt: 03/oct hi everybody, i am a final year student of computer engineering, as part of curriculam i am developing a driver of touch screen in linux. But even

Re: Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:30, Keith Whitwell wrote: Keith Whitwell wrote: The problem seems to be that RADEONAdjustFrame() is designed to be called from cursor handling routines that are executed outside the Wakeup/Block handlers (perhaps this came in with SilkenMouse?) but is being

Re: [Dri-devel] Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-02 Thread Keith Whitwell
John Dennis wrote: [Note: this is cross posted between dri-devel and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] I'm trying to debug a hung X server problem with DRI using the radeon driver. Sources are XFree86 4.3.0. This happens to be on ia64, but at the moment I don't see anything architecture specific about the

Re: [Dri-devel] Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-02 Thread Keith Whitwell
Keith Whitwell wrote: John Dennis wrote: [Note: this is cross posted between dri-devel and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] I'm trying to debug a hung X server problem with DRI using the radeon driver. Sources are XFree86 4.3.0. This happens to be on ia64, but at the moment I don't see anything architecture

Re: [Dri-devel] Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-02 Thread Ian Romanick
Keith Whitwell wrote: I haven't deeply investigated this but two solutions spring to mind: - Hack: Move the call to RADEONAdjustFrame() during initialization to before the lock is grabbed. - Better: Replace the call to RADEONAdjustFrame() during initialization with something like:

Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-02 Thread John Dennis
[Note: this is cross posted between dri-devel and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] I'm trying to debug a hung X server problem with DRI using the radeon driver. Sources are XFree86 4.3.0. This happens to be on ia64, but at the moment I don't see anything architecture specific about the problem. The symptom