[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.2

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
The second stable update to the X server 1.7 is now available. Only a few fixes went in since last week's RC2, the most prominent reverting a regression. See Bug 25136 for more details. I think the 5 week schedule worked out well, hence 1.7.3 is scheduled 5 weeks from now, with the snapshots

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:45:39 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: @@ -117,10 +118,51 @@ XExtDisplayInfo *XextAddDisplay ( */ if (dpyinfo-codes) { int i, j; + int idx = dpyinfo-codes-first_event 0x3f; + + + /* Xlib extensions use compiled in event numbers. A new

xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
I currently have my new fedora 12 system with no xorg.conf and a script that runs when I login to execute xinput commands to setup my trackball for draglock. This scheme falls apart when I switch my KVM switch to another system. The mouse is unplugged and the xinput settings are lost. The

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:14:16 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: I see that I get dbus system messages when I plug or unplug a mouse or keyboard. Is the grand plan to have a per user daemon listening for these and re-applying xinput settings when they show up? Does this daemon exist already and I

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Luciano Montanaro
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 07:14:16 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: I see that I get dbus system messages when I plug or unplug a mouse or keyboard. Is the grand plan to have a per user daemon listening for these and

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:33:12 +0100 Julien Cristau wrote: AFAIK that daemon exists and is called gnome-settings-daemon. It is running, but I have no idea how to induce it to apply my draglock settings when the trackball is hot plugged. There is a gnome-mouse-properties tool which allows you to

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:20:35AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:33:12 +0100 Julien Cristau wrote: AFAIK that daemon exists and is called gnome-settings-daemon. It is running, but I have no idea how to induce it to apply my draglock settings when the trackball is hot

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:46:33 +0100 Tomasz Torcz wrote: And http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it to work they way I want. Thanks!

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:52 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it to work they way I want. Thanks! Unfortunately, just like gnome-mouse-properties, there is nothing in this tool that will

Re: Troubleshooting server memory leaks

2009-11-26 Thread Dennis J.
On 11/26/2009 03:42 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Hi everyone, I've noticed a slow memory leak which causes Xorg to burn through all the memory on my workstation. After leaving it run approximately 30 hours, the RSS is at 55.6% of 2GiB. I have returned to an OOMed box that I had to

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-26 Thread Nathan Kidd
Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:42:59PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: In the last few years inputproto's number of events (IEVENTS) has jumped around quite a bit between 15 and 19, which has resulted in the following issue I've recently became aware of: ... AIUI, other extensions

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:52 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it to work they way I want. Thanks! Unfortunately, just

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Peter Hutterer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:34:38AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:19:52 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: That might be the very thing! There is even a fedora package for it. I'm off to crank it up and see if I can get it to work they way

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:55:22 +1000 Peter Hutterer wrote: I can tell you it's (technically) quite trivial to add new config options. Not when you look at GTK code and see nothing but unintelligible gibberish and macro calls :-). Actually, the dead simplest hack (which I may decide to do) would

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-11-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:16:27 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: Actually, the dead simplest hack (which I may decide to do) would be a shell script that reads the output from dbus-monitor and switches on the messages it prints to invoke xinput commands :-). Well, I went and did it, and the horrifying

Re: Changes to XInput Proto Number of Events Cause Xlib WireToEvent Vector Mismatch

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:43:25PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 04:42:59PM -0500, Nathan Kidd wrote: In the last few years inputproto's number of events (IEVENTS) has jumped around quite a bit between 15 and 19, which has resulted in the following

[PATCH v2] Don't smash the event_vec if num_events differs between lib and server.

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
If the library extension thinks there's more events to an extension than the server actually has, the event_vec for the overlapping range can get overwritten. This depends on the initialization order of the libraries. Reported-by: Nathan Kidd Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net

PCIe and PCI dual cards?

2009-11-26 Thread Jaguar Finch
I'm trying to get a PCIe and a PCI video card to work together for a multi-monitor setup but I'm getting (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found. This is under Ubunutu 9.04 and both are nvidia cards. According to the log, both cards are being detected and the nvidia

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.2

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Hutterer
The second stable update to the X server 1.7 is now available. Only a few fixes went in since last week's RC2, the most prominent reverting a regression. See Bug 25136 for more details. I think the 5 week schedule worked out well, hence 1.7.3 is scheduled 5 weeks from now, with the snapshots