Today's stupid question: remapping AltGr to control?

2010-06-08 Thread David Gerard
I have a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu 10.04 (xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7). I don't use the AltGr key *ever*, and am really missing having a right Control key. Can I remap AltGr to be a control key? So far I've failed utterly with xmodmap and xkeycaps. Failed xmodmap command: xmodmap -e keysym

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

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

2010-02-28 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2010 01:28, Richard Brown rbrown1...@gmail.com wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: What are you referring to by Ximage ? Ximage extension to the X server. It has been superceded by MIT shared memory. However, some ancient apps may still use it. It's not clear that *anyone* ever manage to

Re: X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

2010-02-15 Thread David Gerard
On 15 February 2010 20:08, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 01:46:21PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: (If people want to get paid for hacking X, just mention it and you'll have quite a few

Re: SOLVED: modular build, libGL make install fails

2010-02-04 Thread David Gerard
On 3 February 2010 01:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If I shell out and then do ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/mesa then it works properly. Phew! Wrong directory! That should of course be: ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/xorg-build and possibly a make after that. - d

SOLVED: modular build, libGL make install fails

2010-02-02 Thread David Gerard
On 30 January 2010 23:17, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a bug, or just me? This is doing the modular build with jhbuild: /home/fun/.local/bin/install-check -d /usr/local/include/GL install: cannot change permissions of `/usr/local/include/GL': No such file or directory I'm

Re: modular build, libGL make install fails

2010-02-01 Thread David Gerard
On 31 January 2010 16:31, Dan Nicholson dbn.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:17 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Is this a bug, or just me? This is doing the modular build with jhbuild: /home/fun/.local/bin/install-check -d /usr/local/include/GL install: cannot change

Last call for crusty old non-building drivers impact and sunbw2

2010-02-01 Thread David Gerard
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26342 - impact doesn't build in current Xorg. Is anyone still running an SGI MIPS box with an Impact card, who would like to fix the driver? http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26343 - sunbw2 is probably dead. But if there's someone out there

Building X from scratch, jhbuild method - wiki page

2010-01-30 Thread David Gerard
Having too much time on my hands, I'm trying building X from scratch, per: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions I've added to the instructions for how to do it on Ubuntu 9.10. (jhbuild required about 300MB of faff.) Obviously the world isn't Ubuntu or even Linux, so notes for

modular build, libGL make install fails

2010-01-30 Thread David Gerard
Is this a bug, or just me? This is doing the modular build with jhbuild: /home/fun/.local/bin/install-check -d /usr/local/include/GL install: cannot change permissions of `/usr/local/include/GL': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [install-headers] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory

Re: modular build, libGL make install fails

2010-01-30 Thread David Gerard
On 31 January 2010 02:44, Jeremy Huddleston jerem...@freedesktop.org wrote: 1) mesa has its own list Mm. I thought it was relevant to here since it's a mandatory part of building Xorg at all. 2) you want to use sudo for make install.  You need root permissions Ah, but I don't, you see.

Re: pocket pc as X screen?

2010-01-27 Thread David Gerard
2010/1/27 Dave Bender codeh...@gmail.com: Thanks, this is exactly the software necessary for the Desktop Xorg side; However I still cannot find a pocket pc xorg server though. (Xming comes up on google, but it uses Pocket PC in the sense of residing on a USB thumb drive..., not for Windows

Re: horrible spam

2009-11-29 Thread David Gerard
2009/11/29 Barton C Massey b...@cs.pdx.edu: Options I can think of offhand include  * moderating all postings, for which we would need a    dedicated team of volunteers  * moderating subscriptions, which seems hard  * more sophisticated captchas, perhaps x related, but I    doubt this would

Re: Nightly builds?

2009-11-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/11/6 Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org: Le 06/11/2009 08:48, Tormod Volden a écrit : 1. Nightly builds. Did wonders for Mozilla. Binary of main supported architectures (linux/i386, opensolaris, whatever someone will be able to commit to build nightly). Download and run. Report bugs. Xorg is

Re: Nightly builds?

2009-11-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/11/6 Tormod Volden lists.tor...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:27 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Nightly builds. Did wonders for Mozilla. Binary of main supported architectures (linux/i386, opensolaris, whatever someone will be able to commit to build nightly

Nightly builds?

2009-11-05 Thread David Gerard
I've noticed a few old video chipsets are dropping off the edge of Xorg. This is entirely understandable - Xorg has too few developers desperately trying to drag the 1990s code base into the twenty-first century and there are very few testers for the ancient chips. So many of them have broken,

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/10/27 Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com: This particular laptop is ISA with a couple of PCMCIA 1 (16 bit) slots. The video is on the ISA bus. The chips driver (1.2.1 and 1.2.2) doesn't work in this configuration at all, exiting with the error given previously. However, the VESA driver works

Re: More old hardware weirdness....

2009-10-27 Thread David Gerard
2009/10/27 Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com: Now that I have X running, but I can't get the keyboard to work in X. If I configure things the way I always do,I get nothing.  (see below for xorg.conf snippet.) Does it work with an external keyboard? - d.

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/10/25 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: On 2009/10/25 11:40 (GMT-0700) Yan Seiner composed: I have a very, very old laptop - 1995 vintage - that I want to repurpose for a net-terminal.  It has a Chips and Technologies 65545 video chipset.  This works with X as I've run it in the past

Re: problem getting pseudocolor

2009-09-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/2 Michel Dänzer mic...@daenzer.net: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:41 +0100, David Gerard wrote: 2009/9/2 Jerome Glisse gli...@freedesktop.org: We don't test/use pseudocolor much, i don't even know if it's supposed to work. Why do you want pseudocolor ? You should really stick

Re: is it possible to publish Xming on Citrix?

2009-07-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/3 Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:08:59PM +0530, Venkateswara_Chalamalasetti wrote: Recently i have started using Xming free software to connect to one Solaris machine. It works. But i have a question in my mind. Is it possible to install Xming on WTS

starter tips on fixing autodtection for a crusty old driver

2009-07-04 Thread David Gerard
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-trident/+bug/315329 Ye olde ancient Trident driver doesn't autodetect 1024x768 properly - it sets the display to 800x600 as the biggest supported mode. Looking at the xorg.0.log, it detects the TFT as 1024x768 properly, but thinks all

Re: Skype causes a segmentation fault (1.6.2 RC1) and restarting of the X Server

2009-06-18 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/18 Miro Hadzhiev extig...@gmail.com: Am I at the right place? No reply so far. Do I need to file this particular bug concerning Skype and the segmentation fault of X Server somewhere else? :) Well, clients shouldn't be able to make the server segfault, so it's a bug. The hard part is

Re: help configuring a 30 apple cinema display

2009-06-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/4 Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu: That did it!! So how many others reading this thread were just envious of his two huge really really nice displays? :-) - d. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Switching between virtual desktops

2009-06-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/6/2 Luca Bezerra lucabeze...@gmail.com: Don't forget also: if you pay for your own electricity, then buying a cheap LCD is cheaper than using a free CRT for three to six months. A: True. Not only the electricity economy, but also because CRT monitors are really big (students knees would

Re: X Window structure digram

2009-05-31 Thread David Gerard
2009/5/31 ZHOU Guibin scutee...@gmail.com:   I am investigating and building the X Window System manually these days, I draw a X Window structure digram, including the dependency(hope it's right) . You can find it in the attachment if you are interested.   My understanding in the X

Re: Only use part of display..?

2009-04-24 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/24 Yan Seiner y...@seiner.com: On Fri, April 24, 2009 3:39 pm, Danny Ayers wrote: Slightly odd request - the display on my EeePC got damaged (left it in the car in winter - literally frozen I believe) so now the pixels in the top RH corner are screwed (lovely snowflake pattern). So I

Re: Bug# 1382

2009-03-16 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/17 Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com: Dennis Quelch wrote:   I've stumbled across bug 1382 in my software dealing with the out of date motif header files that are used to construct the xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.18 52 rpm's.  These out of date headers are causing seg faults when

(trivia) XCB kitten logo?

2008-12-30 Thread David Gerard
A completely trivial question: what's the origin of the XCB logo, the kitten with the big feet? - d. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/10 Charles Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HOWEVER, a compactor within the Xserver should, in principle, be possible, because large Pixmaps and the like are referenced by a serial number rather than by their address in (virtual) memory, and hence it should be possible to relocate them and

Re: Draft: License policy for contributors

2008-12-03 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/3 Adam Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html It's more explicit than I think is directly appropriate for X, since much of our documentation source is not DocBook. But. OK (probably). Any other licenses in the X.org tree that are worth

Re: Draft: License policy for contributors

2008-12-02 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/2 Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: I don't know what our documentation licensing stance is. MIT would keep things simple, but I don't know if it's appropriate for docs. What're our options? GFDL is out as

Re: Draft: License policy for contributors

2008-12-02 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/2 Adam Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 06:28 +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:48:31PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: I don't know what our documentation licensing stance is. MIT would keep things simple, but I don't know if it's appropriate for

Re: Accelerating Ogg Theora and Dirac (was: MPEG-LA / Todo list)

2008-11-24 Thread David Gerard
2008/11/24 Stan Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for the last part about the decoder, it would be nice if all FOSS drivers (OpenChrome, Radeon, Intel, etc) could share the same Theora and Dirac decoder. The libs are BSD-licensed, and are present on most free Unix-likes and have no legal

OpenGL is free free free software

2008-09-19 Thread David Gerard
http://www.linux.com/feature/148339 SGI used their or later privilege to upgrade to the X11 licence. w00t! - d. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg