Re: Suggestion for Xorg / about middle-mouse click pasting

2020-07-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
e truth but I reject it. I am certain I am not alone but I also do not have a mathematical proof handy to refute the "popular is correct" notion. At least not yet. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard

Re: ANN: xterm-356

2020-05-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/11/20 8:51 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 05:10:27PM +, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/3/20 12:56 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: Patch #356 - 2020/05/02 * revise fix for Debian #954730, which interfered with wheel mouse events

Re: ANN: xterm-356

2020-05-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
gt;> referenced by xtermcap.c:614 (./xtermcap.c:614) >>> xtermcap.o:(set_termcap) cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) gmake: *** [Makefile:196: xterm] Error 1 real 7.20 user 5.30 sys 1.90 vesta$ Any input would be appreciated

Re: Running X with 2 separate displays on Debian 10 (Buster)

2020-01-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
As far as I'm concerned there is currently no xorg.conf configuration file that would store any X config, everything comes from the "auto config" Thanks in advance Did you get any reply on this at all ? Dennis ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org suppo

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FILE in doc/xorg-docs

2019-08-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 8/28/19 6:10 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 8/28/19 3:02 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Found llvm-config '7.0.1' NO (needed >= 8.0.0 ) I've not tried building Mesa with meson yet, but that reads like it only found version 7 of LLVM, but needs at least version 8.  (Since Mes

Re: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FILE in doc/xorg-docs

2019-08-28 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 8/26/19 4:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 8/25/19 9:27 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: configure.ac:38: warning: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd That sounds like you're missing pkg.m4 from pkg-config. configure:11098: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_

error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_FILE in doc/xorg-docs

2019-08-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
/autogen.sh" failed on doc/xorg-docs build.sh: error processing: "doc/xorg-docs" styx$ Am I missing something obvious ? -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional ___ xorg@lists.

Re: XOrg in Debian10/Buster not usable with AMD Duron / Matrox G400

2019-07-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
least that was what I had to do. Otherwise it works great. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux support ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: XRender / XComposite Documentation

2018-10-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
I don't think your average user will ever find that. Best to go to the actual release site : https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libXrender/libXrender.txt But that's 6 years old now, since we stopped doing X11R7.* releases. Ajax's links are the most up-to-date for people today. I agree

Re: XRender / XComposite Documentation

2018-10-30 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/30/2018 10:35 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 02:06 -0700, x...@pengaru.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:04:08PM -0400, Patrick Herbst wrote: Hello, I'm desperately trying to find documentation on these extensions. Can someone point me in the right direction? Am I mi

Re: XDrawPoint(s) etc MT safe?

2018-10-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
Something I had not thought of came up today. Could multiple threads call XDrawPoint() and then XFlush() ? Suppose sixteen threads are dispatched to do some foo and each of them utters some XDrawPoint() calls and then XFlush()? Is that remotely thread safe? Sorry, assume XInitThreads

Re: XDrawPoint(s) etc MT safe?

2018-10-17 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/17/2018 05:37 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:04:15 -0400 Dennis Clarke said: On 10/16/2018 09:58 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Dear Xorg :     Something I had not thought of came up today. Could multiple threads call XDrawPoint() and then XFlush

Re: XDrawPoint(s) etc MT safe?

2018-10-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 10/16/2018 09:58 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Dear Xorg :     Something I had not thought of came up today. Could multiple threads call XDrawPoint() and then XFlush() ?  Suppose sixteen threads are dispatched to do some foo and each of them utters some XDrawPoint() calls and then XFlush()?  Is

XDrawPoint(s) etc MT safe?

2018-10-16 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear Xorg : Something I had not thought of came up today. Could multiple threads call XDrawPoint() and then XFlush() ? Suppose sixteen threads are dispatched to do some foo and each of them utters some XDrawPoint() calls and then XFlush()? Is that remotely thread safe? Dennis

Re: One (Intel) GPU multiseat without Xephyr/Xnest, with a Xorg server per output

2018-09-20 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 09/20/2018 02:46 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: Quoting Troll Berserker (2018-09-18 16:28:02) Is it possible? man 4 intel, search for ZaphodHeads -Chris ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https:

Re: ANN: xterm-335

2018-08-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/14/2018 10:03 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: Files: ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/current/xterm-335.tgz ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/current/xterm-335.tgz.asc ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/xterm/patches/xterm-335.patch.gz ftp://ftp.invisible-island.

Re: Xorg VRAM leak because of Qt/OpenGL Application

2018-07-02 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 07/01/2018 10:11 PM, Mathieu Westphal wrote: Hello list, I am working on a complex Qt/OpenGL Application. Xorg starts leaking in VRAM when i'm using the application and never release the memory, until I restart X of course. $ nvidia-smi I think you are looking at output from an nvidia to

Re: what LLVM does mesa need to build "r300" ?

2018-06-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 6/10/18 8:19 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 07:11:23PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 6/10/18 11:03 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:41:22 -0400 Dennis Clarke wrote: Dear Xorg: For some days now I have been going in circles trying to get a build going

Re: what LLVM does mesa need to build "r300" ?

2018-06-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 6/10/18 11:03 AM, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 10 Jun 2018 10:41:22 -0400 Dennis Clarke wrote: Dear Xorg: For some days now I have been going in circles trying to get a build going from git but endlessly run into oddball dependecy issues on Debian buster : . . . checking for RADEON

what LLVM does mesa need to build "r300" ?

2018-06-10 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear Xorg: For some days now I have been going in circles trying to get a build going from git but endlessly run into oddball dependecy issues on Debian buster : . . . checking for RADEON... yes configure: error: --enable-llvm is required when building r300 build.sh: "./autogen.sh" fail

Re: new dependency for libtizcore required for mesa?

2018-06-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 6/7/18 11:47 AM, Braiam Peguero wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Dennis Clarke <mailto:dcla...@blastwave.org>> wrote: On 6/7/18 10:44 AM, Michal Srb wrote: On čtvrtek 7. června 2018 16:15:50 CEST Dennis Clarke wrote: Package libtizcore was not fou

Re: new dependency for libtizcore required for mesa?

2018-06-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 6/7/18 10:44 AM, Michal Srb wrote: On čtvrtek 7. června 2018 16:15:50 CEST Dennis Clarke wrote: Package libtizcore was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libtizcore.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package '

new dependency for libtizcore required for mesa?

2018-06-07 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear X-types: Is there a new minimal dependency list? While running a build I see this : == == Processing: "mesa/mesa" ==configuration options: Cloning into 'mesa/mesa'... remote: Counting objects: 1006300, done. rem

Re: Open Shared Memory and Render Pictures

2016-08-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/05/2016 12:38 PM, Ilya Anfimov wrote: X Window Sys- tem Protocol X Consortium Standard. For those that want to know : X Window System Protocol X Consortium Standard. https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.pdf ___ xor

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.14.0

2013-03-06 Thread Dennis Clarke
says Error 503 Service Unavailable I wonder if anyone within the Xorg project has given some thought to just outright replacement of that web server with something else? dc ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/ar

Re: yay, build complete. Now what ?

2013-01-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $prefix/lib > > > > That there looks like a build error. One should never, ever, need > to specify LD_IBRARY_PATH in order to run a binary in some location > like /opt/foo. The RPATH *should* be in the binary itself. > > > > Otherwise there is no promise that th

Re: yay, build complete. Now what ?

2013-01-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > That there looks like a build error. One should never, ever, need > to specify LD_IBRARY_PATH in order to run a binary in some location > like /opt/foo. The RPATH *should* be in the binary itself. > > > > Otherwise there is no promise that the binary will operate as > expected. > > f

Re: yay, build complete. Now what ?

2013-01-29 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Can I simply fire this up in the VMware virtual machine with a > barebone xinit ? > > yes. just make sure you set your PATH etc so you start the new bits, > not the > system-wide ones. Well that is not a problem, there is no system wide X at all on this vmware machine. > > aster $ ldd

yay, build complete. Now what ?

2013-01-27 Thread Dennis Clarke
Firstly, let me say a gracious thank you to all who have listened, lurked, and fired excellent emails at me over the past two weeks to get this to a simple and very repeatable process. Should make a lovely article once I write it all up. Certainly Alan and Peter have shown awesome patience a

should I file a bug report ?

2013-01-26 Thread Dennis Clarke
While going through the process of building X from git I run into plenty of little stoppages. Should I be filing bug reports on these or just comment them out and move on ? Dennis == == Processing module/component: "dr

Re: bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Fire off a rebuild and see : > > aster $ ./util/modular/build.sh --clone --autoresume built.modules /opt/xorg > > Building to run Linux / x86_64 () > > Fri Jan 25 19:46:35 EST 2013 > > Skipping util module component macros... > > skipping means it didn't build it, so judging by the output yo

Re: bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > build.sh takes a --modfile arg listing all the modules you want to build. awesome. I looked in there and saw the tseng driver for an IBM PS/2 from 1994 I think. Not needed. Well, at the moment the only trouble spot I seem to hit was something called a newport driver, so I commented tha

Re: bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > because this won't be the last change that breaks this module and if we > don't have anyone who actually runs and maintains this driver, any work > spent on it is wasted. > Fair enough. I only want the NVidia and ATI Radeon drivers at the moment anyways and should comment out everything el

Re: bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Any chance to make a change and push it back into the git repo to > get passed this ? > > Nope. Better for you to edit the list of modules you pass the build > script to > not try to build drivers no one can maintain any more since the > hardware hasn't > been seen in a decade or two.

Re: bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On 01/25/13 01:28 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > build.sh: error processing module/component: "driver/xf86-video-ark" > > > > Looks like I need mibstore.h and based on the bug report it lives at > : > > > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/so

bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
Looks like I ran headlong into bug id=57303. following the same process I have been on for a week or so now I do the following : aster $ rm -rf xorg/ aster $ rm -rf /opt/xorg/* aster $ mkdir -p xorg/util aster $ CONFFLAGS=\-\-with\-udev\-rules\-dir\=/opt/xorg/udev aster $ export CONFFLAGS aster

bug id=57303

2013-01-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
Looks like I ran headlong into bug id=57303. following the same process I have been on for a week or so now I do the following : aster $ rm -rf xorg/ aster $ rm -rf /opt/xorg/* aster $ mkdir -p xorg/util aster $ CONFFLAGS=\-\-with\-udev\-rules\-dir\=/opt/xorg/udev aster $ export CONFFLAGS aste

Re: driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > > > I am trying to do this compile as anyone would do any other software > package > > which would generally have an install stage that comes after the > compile and > > test phases. So the safe bet is to set CONFFLAGS with something > like > > this : --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev

Re: driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Peter Hutterer Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:24 pm Subject: Re: driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied To: Dennis Clarke Cc: x...@lists.freedesktop.org > On Thu, Jan

Re: driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Do I need to isolate this module, build it as root, and then go back > to being a > > regular user or ?? > > vmmouse gets the directory to install the udev rules from pkgconfig by > default, or --with-udev-rules-dir at configure time. if you don't need > the > rules, you can consider the

driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

2013-01-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
Rightly so, my build halted when it tried to make a change in /lib/udev/rules.d which is well outside of my /opt/xorg target directory. Do I need to isolate this module, build it as root, and then go back to being a regular user or ?? details attached . Dennis

driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

2013-01-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
Rightly so, my build halted when it tried to make a change in /lib/udev/rules.d which is well outside of my /opt/xorg target directory. Do I need to isolate this module, build it as root, and then go back to being a regular user or ?? details attached . Dennis ===

Re: Error 503 Service Unavailable

2013-01-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, 01:30:33 GMT, Dennis Clarke > wrote: > > > In the mean while I will assume that the sources I am looking for > are at > > > >        ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.28.tar.gz > > > > If I build that into /usr/l

Re: Error 503 Service Unavailable

2013-01-22 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Ter, 2013-01-22 at 20:10 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Is there someone that can give that server a nudge ? > > > > http://www.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#Required_Tools > > > > still tossing a 503 :-( > > yeah all http://www

Error 503 Service Unavailable

2013-01-22 Thread Dennis Clarke
Is there someone that can give that server a nudge ? http://www.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#Required_Tools still tossing a 503 :-( dc --- Begin Message --- On 01/22/13 02:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Not sure how to provide xsltproc if it isn't in the sources pulled

Re: xcb/libxcb : configure: error: XCB requires xsltproc.

2013-01-22 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Alan Coopersmith Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 5:32 pm Subject: Re: xcb/libxcb : configure: error: XCB requires xsltproc. To: Dennis Clarke Cc: xorg@lists.x.org > On 01/22/13 02:26 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Not sure how to provide xsltproc if

xcb/libxcb : configure: error: XCB requires xsltproc.

2013-01-22 Thread Dennis Clarke
This was once titled "trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6" however the essential dependecies and initial falling over on my own face seems to have been passed. May as well get specific as each problem occurs. All seems to be progressing neatly, however : aster $ ./util/modular/build.s

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-22 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On 01/21/13 05:08 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Hrmmm .. I guess these CFLAGS are not going to work : > > > > aster $ echo $CFLAGS > > -m64 -g -malign-double -std=iso9899:199409 -pedantic-errors > > Current X sources require some C99 features, but you'

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> So you are using insane C flags and you want us to debug them? try > dropping -pedantic-errors, and maybe -std= > > Dave. Much better progress .. for a while : == == Processing module/component: "xcb/proto" ==conf

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Dave. As an explanation, I hope, ultimately, to get a nice up to date Radeon driver on my Debian wheezy laptop[1] as per : http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo So really I have a plan .. to get to a better quality build with great graphics which can actually play high quality framerat

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > So you are using insane C flags and you want us to debug them? try > dropping -pedantic-errors, and maybe -std= Not at all .. I don't have a point of reference and those CFLAGS were in my .profile ... I just never thought to look at them. I was certainly able to build piles of stuff like

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:53:24 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > So the problem, at the moment, is the source me thinks. > > > Try again. aster $ diff ./font/util/bdftruncate.c_backup ./font/util/bdftruncate.c 170c170 <

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > So the problem, at the moment, is the source me thinks. > > > Try again. > > $ (echo '#include '; echo SSIZE_MAX ) | cpp -E | tail -1 > 9223372036854775807L > $ grep '^# *include' /usr/include/limits.h > #include > #include > # include_next > # include > # include > # include > $ gre

Re: trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-21 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > However needing "xorg-macros version 1.12 or higher" I do not see what > > the issue is there because the blog says you get everything you need > > in one shot. > > Running 'apt-cache search xorg-macros' leads to the xutils-dev package, > which includes these macros. Tried that right away a

trying to build X from git on Debian 6.0.6

2013-01-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
m: Dave Airlie Date: Monday, January 14, 2013 8:43 pm Subject: Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc To: Dennis Clarke Cc: xorg@lists.x.org >> you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your >> existing one: >> http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-se

Re: Updating my Xorg on Debian etc

2013-01-18 Thread Dennis Clarke
- Original Message - From: Dave Airlie Date: Monday, January 14, 2013 8:43 pm Subject: Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc To: Dennis Clarke Cc: xorg@lists.x.org >> you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your >> existing one: >> http://who

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> When RHEL6.4 is released it would probably be more worth doing, as its > planned to have a newer Mesa. Ah well .. I'll should just await the 6.4 release. I figure it can't be far down the road from this : $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 (Santiago)

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your > existing one: > http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-servers-from-git.html side question, who in your opinion makes the absolute best graphics hardware avail for the niX and X world ? Seriously, your opinion.

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Has anyone done this sort and thing AND written a blog somewhere > about it ? > > > >Just looking for pointers in the right direction, along with "be > careful of .." type stuff. > > you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your > existing one: > http://who

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Dennis Clarke > wrote: > > > > Dear X folks : > > > > One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the > ground up and replace the > > version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommen

Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear X folks : One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the ground up and replace the version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended by the Red Hat folks as I am using RHEL 6 workstation and I am sure that future updates from them would mess with any