Problem with Xdialog/Firefox and different Xorg versions

2008-09-09 Thread George Wright
Hello all, I have a rather strange problem that's been bothering me for a while. Basically, I'm working on the TightVNC 1.5-xserver branch, which has Xvnc rebased to Xorg 7.4RC rather than 6.x, and everything seems just fine. As part of the thinclient package, we're using Xdialog extensively

Re: Ubuntu 8.04.1 rotate screen 90 degrees

2008-09-09 Thread John Tapsell
Could you look inside /var/log/Xorg.0.log please and see if you have something like (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration or similar. i'm wondering if you're using EXA or XAA 2008/9/9 James Den Kaat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 on an atom motherboard with an Intel

Re: Problem with Xdialog/Firefox and different Xorg versions

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:50:51AM +0100, George Wright wrote: Everything just works fine on most modern platforms, but trying to run the thinclient server on Fedora Core 6 results in Xdialog not showing fonts at all. Trying to launch Xdialog manually inside Xvnc results in a very

Re: XTest and multiple pointers

2008-09-09 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:24:48AM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote: we're currently trying to control multiple X pointers through XTest. Moving them using XTestFakeDeviceMotionEvent works as expected; however, sending a button event using XTestFakeDeviceButtonEvent doesn't. In fact, the test

Re: multihead / dual input howto (two local users, keyboards etc.)?

2008-09-09 Thread Steven J Newbury
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 15:07 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: I would say it is more of an issue that many tasks based on open-source software can be achieved, it just requires the person(s) to lead the effort. Apart from the core functionality/programming that takes place in Xorg, it's an issue

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Colin Guthrie
Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues. So how does a

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues.

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs

Re: DRI2 Protocol Spec Draft

2008-09-09 Thread Keith Packard
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:27 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: I think it'd be good if the authentication stuff could be made/kept optional or at least not DRM specific. (I'm not sure GEM or the DRM in general is within scope of this spec at all) I have to admit that I'm not very excited by the

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Gene Heskett schrieb: On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to

Re: DRI2 Protocol Spec Draft

2008-09-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 08:46 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:27 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: I think it'd be good if the authentication stuff could be made/kept optional or at least not DRM specific. (I'm not sure GEM or the DRM in general is within scope of this spec

Re: DRI2 Protocol Spec Draft

2008-09-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:11 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 18:41 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap needs the real front buffer. Sure, but that's not through DRI2, this just references the object as an X pixmap. I don't understand what you mean.

Re: 2.6.27-rc5 radeon kernel module can't load r300_dri.so - help?

2008-09-09 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:00:09PM -0700, Markus Strobl wrote: You can have fglrx installed, there's no problem with that. But fglrx cannot be LOADED when you try loading radeon. So check if fglrx has loaded with lsmod. If it is, remove it from the kernel (rmmod fglrx) and try starting X

xkbcomp broken - (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap

2008-09-09 Thread Jeff Chua
This error shows up yesterday after updating xkbcomp to the latest git version. (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap Bisected and reverting this commit fixed the problem. Without reverting,