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

2009-06-11 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 needs).

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 working

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 API -

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

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). The

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

2009-06-09 Thread McDonald, Michael-p7438c
-Original Message- From: xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xorg-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Alan Coopersmith Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:43 AM To: Jason Galyon Cc: x...@freedesktop.org Subject: Re: Xvfb - how to enable extensions (doesn't seem

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 refusing to