SMI 501 local bus driver

2008-09-24 Thread Christian Pössinger
Hello *, an ongoing project requires a device driver for an smi501 graphics chip wired via local bus. Former posts about this topic on this list didn't come to any conclusion (http://www.nabble.com/SM501-in-non-pci-environment-td6967527.html). I managed to remove the Pci code from the xf86-video-

Re: jhbuild fails to work

2008-09-24 Thread Joel Feiner
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:38:15PM -0400, Joel Feiner wrote: >> I can no longer use jhbuild to build the tree because it complains of >> missing modules. It was working as of last week, but something changed >> since then (don't know what) and now I get a message like this ev

Re: jhbuild fails to work

2008-09-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:38:15PM -0400, Joel Feiner wrote: > I can no longer use jhbuild to build the tree because it complains of > missing modules. It was working as of last week, but something changed > since then (don't know what) and now I get a message like this every > time I try to build

jhbuild fails to work

2008-09-24 Thread Joel Feiner
I can no longer use jhbuild to build the tree because it complains of missing modules. It was working as of last week, but something changed since then (don't know what) and now I get a message like this every time I try to build anything with it: jhbuild build: dependent module "xorg-fonts" not

Re: Radeon X700 Mobility: [mi] EQ overflowing ... server lockup

2008-09-24 Thread dan
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:24:27 -0400, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:27 AM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Alex. Thanks for the response. >> >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0400, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:15 A

Re: OpenGL is free free free software

2008-09-24 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brett Smith wrote: | From a licensing perspective, we feel it would be ideal if someone | could get in touch with the people who wrote changes to those files, | and get their permission to relicense it under the new SGI Free | License B or something c

RandR query state for Gnome

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Packard
Right now, Gnome uses RandR to figure out the current screen configuration, but RandR probes the hardware, taking time and causing flashing. What we need is some way to get the info that gnome needs without also polling the hardware for what possible configurations there might be. This is targeted

Re: [PATCH 0/3] X Input 1.5 device properties (final patches)

2008-09-24 Thread Simon Thum
Peter Hutterer wrote: > In the default case (if you do not have a handler) the property will get > deleted. Only if you want to absolutely prohibit anyone from deleting the > prop, then you need a handler. > > The reason for the decision is that if two handlers affect the same > property, one hand

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:54:43PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > NetBSD doesn't have a libmd NetBSD has them in libc. Joerg ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread James Cloos
> "John" == John Tapsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (Martin Hinner's libmd (at http://freshmeat.net/projects/libmd/) uses >> public domain sha1 code in C by Peter Gutman and Colin Plumb. John> libmd also does not cross compile. John> I will send a bug report upstream. Martin's page says

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/24 Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > CS> Why not just put more effort into making sure OpenSSL is portable? > > It is already portable, just unnecessary. For what it's worth, I worked out how to compile openssl for the arm. It doesn't use autotools etc and my original mistake was to

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 08:53:12 24.09.2008 UTC-07 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: CS> Out of curiosity, why is the dependency on OpenSSL such a bad thing? Sometimes it just not necessary to have OpenSSL on device: e.g. in my case X would be single OpenSSL user (even SSH - dropbear - does n

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread Pat Kane
> I think that requiring two presses of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in close succession ... FWIW that is close to the way SunRays (thin clients) work, except for the close part. ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailm

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Corbin Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Tapsell wrote: > > If the patches are not accepted, then it will mean that X still does > not cross-compile out of the box, which would be a real shame imho > when we are so close. Out of curiosity, why is the dependency on OpenSSL such a bad th

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 08:45:51 24.09.2008 UTC-07 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: >> On IRC someone brought up an important point that the license of >> libmd is somewhat dodgy. Half the files have no copyright >> information at all, and some files are licenses such "for >> non-commerci

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread mcr
> "Jason" == Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> It would work fine for me. But it's not good enough for most Jason> users, since most Xorg users don't know how to edit their Jason> xorg.conf files. The question was asked wrong. The question should not have been,

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea (was: Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?)

2008-09-24 Thread mcr
> "Jason" == Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> As for the Ctrl+K+X idea (which I don't know is as safe; Jason> 2. is it possible that In emacs: C-x k runs `kill-buffer' a common occurance. C-x C-k runs `edit-kbd-macro' I've often wound up running the second o

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
John Tapsell wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On IRC someone brought up an important point that the license of > libmd is somewhat dodgy. Half the files have no copyright information > at all, and some files are licenses such "for non-commercial use only" > etc. So it seems that we have to rule out usin

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 15:53 +0100, John Tapsell wrote: > How would you feel about a SHA1 implementation in Xorg, but enabled > only by a configure switch or as a fallback option? This would mean > that Xorg could finally be easily cross-compiled out of the box, > bringing love and happiness to

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 15:53:52 24.09.2008 UTC+01 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] did gyre and gimble: JT> It could be just another package that is included along with the JT> xorg distribution. Or even not included, just hosted on fd.o as lots of other libraries are. -- pgprg7RlJD8MM.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread John Tapsell
Hi Keith, On IRC someone brought up an important point that the license of libmd is somewhat dodgy. Half the files have no copyright information at all, and some files are licenses such "for non-commercial use only" etc. So it seems that we have to rule out using this. So it seems that ther

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread walter harms
Beso schrieb: > 2008/9/24 Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Ben Gamari (FOSS) wrote: >> >>> My completely unprofessional opinion is that Jason brings up a really >>> good point here. Accidentally zapping Xorg can not only be extremely >>> frustrating, but it could be extremely confusing for

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread Andrew Barr
Beso gmail.com> writes: > maybe could be interesting the adding of a function to remap the > keyboards instead of mapping an alternative. You need to remember that when this function is used, the X server is in a bad state in some way, thus it is paramount that the code used is as simple as po

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread Beso
2008/9/24 Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ben Gamari (FOSS) wrote: > >> My completely unprofessional opinion is that Jason brings up a really >> good point here. Accidentally zapping Xorg can not only be extremely >> frustrating, but it could be extremely confusing for a new user. This >> b

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/24 John Tapsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/23 James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> "John" == John Tapsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> John> Pretty much every single embed system? >> John> Openssl doesn't crosscompile. >> >> John> If you revert this patch, you make it not possibl

Re: Problem with Xdialog/Firefox and different Xorg versions

2008-09-24 Thread George Wright
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 13:29:27 Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:50:51AM +0100, George Wright wrote: > > Everything just works fine on most modern platforms, but trying to run > > the thinclient server on Fedora Core 6 results in Xdialog not showing > > fonts at all. T

Re: Radeon X700 Mobility: [mi] EQ overflowing ... server lockup

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:27 AM, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex. Thanks for the response. > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:45 -0400, Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 15:26 +1000, Danie

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-09-24 Thread Glynn Clements
Ben Gamari (FOSS) wrote: > My completely unprofessional opinion is that Jason brings up a really > good point here. Accidentally zapping Xorg can not only be extremely > frustrating, but it could be extremely confusing for a new user. This > being said, I also agree that any change that might be

Re: pixman with and without SSE2 benchmarks?

2008-09-24 Thread Soeren Sandmann
Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > Does someone have some benchmarks or numbers from real life X usage > showing the benefits of using the SSE2 code in pixman 0.12.0 over non > SSE2 on x86 and/or x86_64 cpus? Not from real-life X usage, but from the cairo performance test suit

Re: pixman with and without SSE2 benchmarks?

2008-09-24 Thread Eeri Kask
Matthieu Herrb: Does someone have some benchmarks or numbers from real life X usage showing the benefits of using the SSE2 code in pixman 0.12.0 over non SSE2 on x86 and/or x86_64 cpus? I'm asking because OpenBSD is stuck with an old gcc version which can't compile the SSE2 code, and I wonder

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-24 Thread David Gerard
2008/9/24 Igor Mozolevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/9/24 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> FWIW, I tend to kill X not with ctrl-alt-bs but by going to a non-X >> console with ctrl-alt-F2 and sudo pkill Xorg. I suppose that's a bit >> Linux/FreeBSD-specific, of course. sshing in from another m

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread John Tapsell
2008/9/23 James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "John" == John Tapsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Pretty much every single embed system? > John> Openssl doesn't crosscompile. > > John> If you revert this patch, you make it not possible to > John> cross-compile X, afaics. > > The pre-pa

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-24 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
2008/9/24 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FWIW, I tend to kill X not with ctrl-alt-bs but by going to a non-X > console with ctrl-alt-F2 and sudo pkill Xorg. I suppose that's a bit > Linux/FreeBSD-specific, of course. sshing in from another machine also > works well. BTW, you can also kill it

Re: How to implement alternate zap key idea

2008-09-24 Thread David Gerard
2008/9/23 Jaymz Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Lots of things "shouldn't" happen, with computers. One day, we will > make them bug free. And no-one will ever have to kill X again, or it > won't be the easiest way out at least. Or maybe reboots will be > fast enough to not bother for users. At w

Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:42:29AM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > The next step in replacing xkbcomp would be to list any of the > structures we many want to eliminate or reduce some of the fields. > > xkb_keymap > | xkb_keycodes Required, mostly invariant. > | xkb_types Requi

Re: What's wrong with xkbcomp?

2008-09-24 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 02:18:43AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 09:35:12PM +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > > An issue that is often discussed is the xkbcomp utility, that parses > > the xkeyboard-config configuration files > > and produces a binary XKM file that X.Org can r