xinput calibrator v0.6.0

2010-03-01 Thread Tias
Dear all, xinput calibrator is a generic touchscreen calibration program for X.Org v0.6.0 is now available at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator The project's aim is to supersede all hacked-up driver-specific calibrators out there, and it has already achieved this in

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-03-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2010 03:04, Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au wrote: Interesting http://web.archive.org/web/20080413140042/http://people.freedesktop.org/~jg/roadmap.html#mozTocId778727 I put the archive.org link into the Wikipedia article because the original fell off the web. Is there another

a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Zhi Li
All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to terminal mode(on linux alt-ctrl-1), it is 55w.

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-03-01 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi Richard, On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 05:48:50PM -0500, Richard Brown wrote: To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available. This has caused most of our internal applications to blow up and to be

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Zhi Li, le Mon 01 Mar 2010 17:06:57 +0800, a écrit : When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to terminal mode(on linux alt-ctrl-1), it is 55w. Just to make sure: is it really terminal mode and not just a framebuffer? cat /sys/class/vtconsole/*/bind to check which driver is

Re: vesa driver reports many modes, but only allows a few

2010-03-01 Thread Pat Kane
To get higherVMware X display resolutions I had to add these to the xorg.conf file inside my virtual machine: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model HorizSync10 - 300 VertRefresh 10 - 200

Re: Problems with X.org and incompatibilities with in-house software

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Brown
Daniel Stone wrote: Hi Richard, On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 05:48:50PM -0500, Richard Brown wrote: To our much dismay we have recently found after attempting to install new Linux boxes that these extensions no longer appear to be available. This has caused most of our internal applications

Some ideas

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Brown
Again I apologise about my previous letters. I do have some other ideas which I think are better conceived and thought out, and could be useful to a lot of people. I would like to hear what X.org people thinking of these ideas. 1) A VNC server display driver which can be used simultaneously

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:06:57PM +0800, Zhi Li wrote: All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w;

Re: Some ideas

2010-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
This already exists, it's just not bundled with X.Org due to the different license - TigerVNC uses current Xorg sources to build both Xvnc and a vnc.so loadable extension module that are compatible with current servers and extensions. http://www.tigervnc.com/ (Providing you don't have any

Re: Some ideas

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Brown
I will respond to both Alan Coopersmith and Alan Cox in this letter: Alan Cox wrote: This already exists, it's just not bundled with X.Org due to the different license - TigerVNC uses current Xorg sources to build both Xvnc and a vnc.so loadable extension module that are compatible with

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Thum
Zhi Li wrote: All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to terminal mode(on linux

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/01/2010 11:06 AM, Zhi Li wrote: All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to

Re: vesa driver reports many modes, but only allows a few

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 23:28 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Could anyone explain to me what the attached log means? X 7.5 detects a rich array of BIOS modes, but then runs through a list of modes and says no mode of this name. Should it be using something like 104 or 104 (1024x768) instead of,

Re: vesa driver reports many modes, but only allows a few

2010-03-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:40 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 23:28 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Could anyone explain to me what the attached log means? X 7.5 detects a rich array of BIOS modes, but then runs through a list of modes and says no mode of this name. Should it

Re: State of Zaphod dual screen support

2010-03-01 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:41:02AM -0700, David Mohr wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:29:12PM -0700, David Mohr wrote: I'm part of the minory who currently uses a Zaphod style dual monitor setup with separate

Re: How to increase DPI on Compaq Mini 702EA (1024x600) Ubuntu 9.10

2010-03-01 Thread Jon
Hi Felix Thanks again for our reply with info. I have these tasks running: root 950 0.0 0.1 8548 1936 ?SFeb26 0:00 /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-simple-slave --display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1 root 969 2.2 2.1 33420 22256 tty7 Ss+ Feb26 95:34

Re: State of Zaphod dual screen support

2010-03-01 Thread David Mohr
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:41:02AM -0700, David Mohr wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:29:12PM -0700, David Mohr wrote: I'm part of