Re: Writing a new driver for nested Xorg servers based on Xephyr code

2014-10-08 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 12:32 -0700, Jamey Sharp wrote: On Sep 26, 2014 7:52 AM, Laércio de Sousa laercioso...@sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br wrote: Now I've started playing with xf86-video-nested and Xephyr code, trying to merge as much code as possible. It's still in an embrionary stage, so I

Re: Writing a new driver for nested Xorg servers based on Xephyr code

2014-10-06 Thread Jamey Sharp
On Sep 26, 2014 7:52 AM, Laércio de Sousa laercioso...@sme-mogidascruzes.sp.gov.br wrote: Now I've started playing with xf86-video-nested and Xephyr code, trying to merge as much code as possible. It's still in an embrionary stage, so I want to ask you some questions: * Is there an official

Re: Writing a new driver for nested Xorg servers based on Xephyr code

2014-09-29 Thread Laércio de Sousa
I don't believe a driver is the correct thing to do. Xorg, in many places, assumes it's on raw hardware and does things like modesetting and VT switching, which obviously won't work in a nested environment. Xorg 1.16 already avoids VT switching if it's a non-seat0 X server (i.e., if -seat option

Re: Writing a new driver for nested Xorg servers based on Xephyr code

2014-09-28 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
I don't believe a driver is the correct thing to do. Xorg, in many places, assumes it's on raw hardware and does things like modesetting and VT switching, which obviously won't work in a nested environment. Additionally, I think the Xorg maintainers think that less drivers is better -- the

Writing a new driver for nested Xorg servers based on Xephyr code

2014-09-26 Thread Laércio de Sousa
Hi there! Some time ago, I've asked you about current situation of video drivers for nested Xorg servers as an alternative to Xephyr. This is mentioned in http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.8/ Currently there's a project named xf86-video-nested, which is written somehow independently from Xephyr,