Re: devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Bridgman, John wrote: > Have you looked at the RadeonFeature page ? That might give you the info you > are looking for, if we augmented it with some mapping between marketing names > (eg HD2xxx) and GPU core names (eg r600), although it is only for a single > d

Re: devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Bridgman, John
The challenge here is that everyone has different views of what constitutes good support. As an example, many people consider 3d a must-have in order to support Compiz / KWin effects, while historically relatively few have considered operation in a VM to be important (I realize that is changing)

Re: devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote: > If I get bored enough, I suppose I could whip something up, but is it > really that important? We put a lot of effort into making sure distros > Do the Right Thing magically without user intervention. just to put some perspective on why i'm

Re: devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Dennis J.
On 07/19/2010 08:42 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: i'm sure that this kind of site exists somewhere but i just can't find it. so what exactly am i looking for? any xorg user can identify device (with lspci, lshw, dmidecode or something else)

Re: devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Corbin Simpson
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Aljoša Mohorović wrote: > i'm sure that this kind of site exists somewhere but i just can't find > it. so what exactly am i looking for? > any xorg user can identify device (with lspci, lshw, dmidecode or > something else) and then it should be able to get informa

devices support site?

2010-07-19 Thread Aljoša Mohorović
i'm sure that this kind of site exists somewhere but i just can't find it. so what exactly am i looking for? any xorg user can identify device (with lspci, lshw, dmidecode or something else) and then it should be able to get information on this site: - recommended driver to use and current driver s

Re: Handing Control of Sentelic Touchpads to Synaptics

2010-07-19 Thread Éric Piel
Op 19-07-10 18:29, David Regev schreef: > Hello Eric, > > I’ve seen in several places that the reason Sentelic’s driver doesn’t > have edge scrolling is due to patent concerns. Perhaps absolute mode was > overzealously removed for the same reason. Yes, I've read about this as well. I know barely n

[ANNOUNCE] libXau 1.0.6

2010-07-19 Thread Julien Cristau
This minor release includes a number of packaging updates accumulated over the last year, and a couple of documentation fixes. Cheers, Julien Alan Coopersmith (2): Use $(AM_V_GEN) to silence man page generation Use AC_PROG_SED to find sed to use for man pages Brice Goglin (2):

Re: Handing Control of Sentelic Touchpads to Synaptics

2010-07-19 Thread David Regev
Hello Eric, I’ve seen in several places that the reason Sentelic’s driver doesn’t have edge scrolling is due to patent concerns. Perhaps absolute mode was overzealously removed for the same reason. Yes, I would love some help! If we can get this to work, do you think it will be possible to merge

cannot start x

2010-07-19 Thread J. Webster
I'm trying to setup a linux server GUI that I can view with a Windows client. I tried to start x on 1 but got the following errors. Any ideas on what the problem could be? I have started gdm as well. [code] [root ~]# startx -- :1 xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.397 X Wind

Re: Handing Control of Sentelic Touchpads to Synaptics

2010-07-19 Thread Éric Piel
Op 19-07-10 16:03, David Regev schreef: > I have an MSI Wind U100, which comes with a Sentelic touchpad. > Apparently, its driver is already in the kernel.[1] Unfortunately, the > driver does not provide any of the typical features you would expect > from a touchpad, most notably edge scrolling. In

Re: XKB options

2010-07-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2010-07-18 10:46 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Andre Majorel wrote: >>> Is there a list of XKB options (and what they do) ? >> Look for the section starting "! option" in >> /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst >> or the section of >> /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml >

Handing Control of Sentelic Touchpads to Synaptics

2010-07-19 Thread David Regev
I have an MSI Wind U100, which comes with a Sentelic touchpad. Apparently, its driver is already in the kernel.[1] Unfortunately, the driver does not provide any of the typical features you would expect from a touchpad, most notably edge scrolling. Instead, it uses hot zones that are mapped to butt

Re: Some modes rejected, others ignored

2010-07-19 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-18 13:04 -0500, Pat Kane wrote: > Does it work if you do not use an xorg.conf file? What do you mean ? If there's no xorg.conf file, how is X supposed to know which three modes I want ? > What does xrandr show with/without a conf file? http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/x-modes/xrandr-wi

Re: XKB options

2010-07-19 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-07-18 10:46 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Andre Majorel wrote: > > Is there a list of XKB options (and what they do) ? > > Look for the section starting "! option" in > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst > or the section of > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml Much better, thank you. W

Cannot startx

2010-07-19 Thread J. Webster
Any ideas on the errors here? x doesn;t seem to want to start at all. [quote] [root ~]# startx -- :1 xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.22252 xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority X Window System Version 7.