Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-11 Thread Jason Galyon
Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Jason Galyon wrote: > >> Here it is being utilized for opengl rendering in which it needs to know >> screen modes. Perhaps there is a better way to extract the needed >> information (resolution and depth I believe is all it need

Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-11 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:42:16AM -0500, Jason Galyon wrote: > Here it is being utilized for opengl rendering in which it needs to know > screen modes. Perhaps there is a better way to extract the needed > information (resolution and depth I believe is all it needs). > > fyi, this app is called

Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jason Galyon wrote: > Here it is being utilized for opengl rendering in which it needs to know > screen modes. Perhaps there is a better way to extract the needed > information (resolution and depth I believe is all it needs). Screen resolution & depth are part of the core X protocol & libX11 A

RE: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right)XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:01 -0700, McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: > > extension, but since > > Xvfb doesn't connect to any monitors, the VidModeExtension > > seems pretty useless. > > Not at all! The project I'm working on runs 3 Xvfb servers and 1 Xorg > server for every desktop. Having a wo

Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Galyon
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Jason Galyon wrote: > >> Following the Xserver man pages, I started my Xvfb with a '- >> XFree86-VidModeExtension' (and tried with '+' as well. >> > > That doesn't work in general, only for specific extensions - it should in > fact, be returning a fatal error & ref

RE: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right)XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-09 Thread McDonald, Michael-p7438c
able extensions (doesn't seem to > be working right)XFree86-VidModeExtension > extension, but since > Xvfb doesn't connect to any monitors, the VidModeExtension > seems pretty useless. Not at all! The project I'm working on runs 3 Xvfb servers and 1 Xorg server for eve

Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jason Galyon wrote: > Following the Xserver man pages, I started my Xvfb with a '- > XFree86-VidModeExtension' (and tried with '+' as well. That doesn't work in general, only for specific extensions - it should in fact, be returning a fatal error & refusing to start (at least it does for me). Th

Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem to be working right) XFree86-VidModeExtension

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Galyon
Following the Xserver man pages, I started my Xvfb with a '- XFree86-VidModeExtension' (and tried with '+' as well. However, when I call (through Python Ctypes) XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines() (I believe it is in libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0) and receive: Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing