Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Thanx for maintaining the driver. AFAIK kernel input driver does not exist, and this is one of last resort to make one enjoy wonders of X. ad. testing - i still use much older version , which works fine, except pointer goes crazy under heavy load sometimes. it seems that it's serial port is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
the standard is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a higher chance of actually working long-term than dragging the old input drivers along.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? personally i doubt it, thus i doubt it makes any point to try to put it to vanilla. also there are other devices like tablets

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-fpit 1.4.0

2011-06-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? hmm, as i've googled a bit for pentest.c i've realized phasing driver to linux kernel drops support for such devices for i.e NetBSD

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0

2011-02-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Matt Turner wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/26/11 01:20 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:     xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0

2011-02-26 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from the SIGIO code hmm, could this be elaborated? affects older slackware boxes, etc. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.10.0

2011-02-26 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 02/26/11 01:20 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: xfree86: Drop linux libc5 support from the SIGIO code hmm, could this be elaborated? affects older slackware boxes, etc. Those summaries all come from git, so to get more details, simply

Re: Documentation

2011-01-03 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Nima Sahraneshin unix.n...@gmail.com writes: Hi I want to write a program based on X .I need some documentation about X (using X) . Assuming that you want to make an ordinary application that is going to run under X, you really want to use a toolkit. These days, Qt (http://qt.nokia.com/)

Re: Documentation

2011-01-03 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 01/ 3/11 09:28 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: coding either directly for X or using lighter toolkits (i.e. fltk) has some point, and saves royal withdrawal after royal painkillers. ...and saves you from having to deal with users who need

neomagic and 1.8.2

2010-08-14 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
just noticed that neomagic got broken with 1.8.2 console switching no longer works, and sporadically X crashes when typing text in console using keyboard (though this might be problem of X itself. ) -- ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

fpit and max X position for calibration

2010-08-12 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I've upgraded to xorg 1.8.2 and 1.2.4 fpit driver recently, and it works, except it's X position is uncalibrated, and driver seems to ignore settings passed to it in xorg.conf. Xorg.log seems to show that those values are recognized, but they are effectively ignored (no matter what one puts

Re: fpit and max X position for calibration

2010-08-12 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: I've upgraded to xorg 1.8.2 and 1.2.4 fpit driver recently, and 1.3.0-r1 obviously :) ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info

Re: fpit and max X position for calibration

2010-08-12 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I've upgraded to xorg 1.8.2 and 1.2.4 fpit driver recently, and 1.3.0-r1 obviously :) http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-x-s...@lists.launchpad.net/msg69863.html just for reference and 'notepad' - seems someone else already got affected by this bug... problem is bit annoying as it's hard

Re: fpit and max X position for calibration

2010-08-12 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: I've upgraded to xorg 1.8.2 and 1.2.4 fpit driver recently, and 1.3.0-r1 obviously :) http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-x-s...@lists.launchpad.net/msg69863.html just for reference and 'notepad' - seems someone else already got

Re: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Twas brillig at 06:49:01 11.08.2010 UTC+02 when curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl did gyre and gimble: PGS i also recall long gone times when i could build 3.3.6 XFree which PGS would run on 486 with 8M of ram , and squash the (static!) binary PGS to just 2M. perhaps with uclibc this could be

Re: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: Twas brillig at 08:13:29 11.08.2010 UTC+02 when curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl did gyre and gimble: PGS what facts do you need ? try tools like qpkg, ls -lha and PGS calculator on your own systems. Desktop X.org? Are you joking? is there any

RE: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Ok its like this: Our application was developed using fltk-1.3.x. We have lots of existing code that depends on fltk. But the person who decided to use fltk-1.3 was really a moron. Because, fltk-1.3 was modified by nano-X people to use nxlib interfaces, and all to test the nano-X (x server

RE: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Praveen J C (RBEI/EST1) wrote: OOPS.. I forgot to mention that i must be using linux OS. Also I came across kdrive.. but they its obsolete? is it true? personally i do not see much point or advantage over directfb, as most cards do not get acceleration with kdrive and

Re: ssh tunneling for a newbie :)

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Hello ! I am currently working on some bioinformatics project. I installed a software called ProgressiveMauve for genome alignment on the company server. In fact, it needs to forward the X11 window to my mac in order to visualize the alignment. Thanks a lot in advance ! Regards, Mathieu Here

Re: ssh tunneling for a newbie :)

2010-08-11 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
try 1)ssh -Y instead of -X 2)make sure server is allowing to forward X connections (sshd_config) it is often disabled by paranoid sysadmins... 3: Allow the connection on the client side. Easiest way is xhost + which allows any server to display on your client. Optionally you can restrict

Re: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-10 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Hello there. I am developing graphics system to one of our touch screen keypad. I planned to use fltk-2.0 to achieve the same. For this I required X11. But as the X11 is very huge, I wanted a slimmed down version of the same. Basically X11 and fltk must occupy not more than 20MB! Fltk

Re: X lib support for embedded systems.

2010-08-10 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Mart Raudsepp wrote: On T, 2010-08-10 at 16:15 +0200, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: Hello there. I am developing graphics system to one of our touch screen keypad. I planned to use fltk-2.0 to achieve the same. For this I required X11. But as the X11 is very huge, I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.904

2010-07-01 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Fernando Carrijo wrote: Tiago Vignatti tiago.vigna...@nokia.com wrote: If I have more motivation I'll try to get some stats comparing different versions of the server development and maybe other modules. Also, if you are interested on different kind of statistics I can run

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.904

2010-07-01 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Jonathan Corbet wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:15:58 -0300 Fernando Carrijo fcarr...@yahoo.com.br wrote: For sure the information contained in git logs don't measure how high-level the changes are being submitted, but it would be nice to devise some metrics, apart from the

Re: stateless thin cliens with decent graphics performance - possible?

2010-06-26 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
This is all good and well, but thanks to VNC, the graphics performance is horrible, especially on the bigger screens. (For example, on my 1600x1200 monitor, I can clearly follow the full-screen windows refreshing, which is no big feat, since it takes several seconds.) i use vnc myself, and

fpit dropped from recent releases

2010-06-02 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Hello. I am user of said driver (fpit) , and it worked fine on quite all releases since recent ones, where it's support seem to be dropped. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321175 here there seem to be another unhappy user and also patch provided :) is it some big deal to include it in

Re: fpit dropped from recent releases

2010-06-02 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
-- On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: Hello. I am user of said driver (fpit) , and it worked fine on quite all releases since recent ones, where it's support seem to be dropped. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321175 here there seem

Re: Smooth scrolling

2010-04-02 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Dima Ryazanov wrote: I would love this feature. I'm running Linux on a MacBook, and smooth scrolling is the one feature I miss from OS X. sorry for 'hijacking' the thread, but on the occasion it reminded me one feature i quite miss in Xorg for bit weaker machines (or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Deprecation of xf86-video-nv

2010-03-31 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl wrote: well, and that is what i'm complaining about... mind you glibc will not be always binary compatible either across it's own versions  - same as libc5 to glibc (libc6) transition occured ad some

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Deprecation of xf86-video-nv

2010-03-30 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Andy Ritger wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: -- On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Andy Ritger wrote: Historically, NVIDIA developed and maintained the xf86-video-nv X driver, Our advice to owners of NVIDIA GPUs running Linux is to use

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Deprecation of xf86-video-nv

2010-03-30 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Dave Airlie wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski curi...@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Andy Ritger wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote:  --  On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Andy Ritger wrote

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Deprecation of xf86-video-nv

2010-03-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
-- On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Andy Ritger wrote: Historically, NVIDIA developed and maintained the xf86-video-nv X driver, Our advice to owners of NVIDIA GPUs running Linux is to use the VESA X driver from the time of Linux distribution installation until they can download and install the NVIDIA

new kadu+nvidia=crash

2010-03-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
tested on 'old' 1.6.5 Xorg and also 1.7.8. upgrading 'kadu' IM to the current stable in gentoo (along with qt-core, etc) , opening window and trying to type something crashes whole X as follows : http://83.18.229.190/Xorg/Xorg.nvidia.kadu.log note acceleration is disabled as i've not compiled

Re: GSoC: KMSifying cirrus?

2010-03-23 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
Cirrus cards are kind of obsolete, but I suppose *would* be nice to have one more KMS driver, perhaps a relatively simple one that could be an easy-to-follow model for other KMSification efforts. they appear very commonly as 1)integrated in laptops 2)integrated in 'server' motherboards lot

xorg-server profiling

2010-03-08 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
I was wondering if someone did/does xorg profiling. any special precautions for someone who might want to try? -- ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: to neomagic users and devels

2010-03-04 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
i've had a peek into source, and it seems that there is problem with ImageWrite and colour expansion... runnin x11perf is quite interesting, it seems this chipset is not so dead slow, and many modes are quite quick... except the ones which are not ;) ad. older X - as there is no accel of i.e.

to neomagic users and devels

2010-02-27 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
hello. I am (un)fortunate owner of old tablet pc (fujitsu stylistic 2300) equipped with neomagic chipset. I would like to thank developers of current driver - it works, it is stable, it has gentoo ebuild. It allows me to use this pretty old machine for (let's say portable) gps and sketchpad.