Re: [PATCH 1/4] Drop the input-thread core file implementation

2008-09-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
+tid_generation = syscall(__NR_gettid); Anything involving syscall() screams non-portable. Is there a pthread interface you can use instead? pthread_self() maybe? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: 7.5 release plans

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
5 should look like: >>>> * Nowish: Release 7.4. Yeah. To the pub! >>> Instead we release 7.3.1 with xserver 1.4.2 !? ( I leave happily with >>> it ) > >> No, who said anything about 7.3.1? > > Nowish means: "don't want" or am I missing

Re: Dispatching and scheduling--basic questions

2008-09-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of OpenGL. (I guess Xdmx could be used to essentially simulate thread-per-GPU X, with the penalty of all that overhead communicating between the master & slave servers.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lly surprised me, that's all. Xorg is not Linux-only, but evdev is. On Solaris & BSD, Xorg uses the xf86-input-keyboard & xf86-input-mouse drivers instead. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: Various patches

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
than a Xorg-private C language version.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Whence be libXevie tarball?

2008-09-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
org contrib area - never part of the official sample implementation, just X related bits we can afford to host git/tarballs of. For those, like libXevie, tarballs are, as always, at: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Xnest

2008-09-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
erver/tree/hw/xnest -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: [PATCH] [pixmap] rename/convert devKind and devPrivate fields

2008-10-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
mes rather than some obscure > remnant of the past. If you're going to rename things like this, please make sure the names & descriptions in docs like these are updated to match: xorg-docs/sgml/core/Xserver-spec.sgml xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml --

[ANNOUNCE] libpciaccess 0.10.4

2008-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith: Fix various typos (mostly in comments) Correct comment about devices used on Solaris scanpci: add -v flag to enable verbose mode like old scanpci Correct Sun license notice Fix bus probing on Solaris

Ansification of X.Org code & other cleanup work

2008-10-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n't keyworded: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=patch&product=Xorg&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering __

Re: modular: Changes to 'master'

2008-10-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
is stopping it from being shipped? I haven't seen anything in this thread to suggest that the driver will no longer be allowed to be hosted on freedesktop.org's git, ftp or http servers, just that it, like many other modules X.Org hosts and maintains, is no longer in one

Re: [PATCH] RFC: Add XF86XK_Suspend and XF86XK_Hibernate keysym defs.

2008-10-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ine XF86XK_Hibernate 0x1009FFA8 /* Sleep to disk */ > + > /* Keys for special action keys (hot keys) */ > /* Virtual terminals on some operating systems */ > #define XF86XK_Switch_VT_1 0x1008FE01 -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Rotating X Fonts?

2008-10-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ls of each of the 13 other fields between the dashes. A PDF version is posted at http://www.xfree86.org/current/xlfd.pdf - the section you are looking for is "Matrix Transformations", starting on the page numbered 24 (page 26 of the PDF). -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: LBX? or faster remote X?

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cent X servers include it by default). Out of date docs - the LBX extension was removed from Xorg-server 1.2 (X11R7.2) and later. > Any alternatives? Keith & Jim's 2003 Usenix paper suggests ssh with compression beats LBX in most cases: http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/us

Re: how to set CFLAGS variable for compiling Xorg

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
git-log - I never found a way to put *.am fragments in a macro file like we can do with configure.ac fragments, or a lot of the man page rules replicated across all our modules would be in one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X

Re: how to set CFLAGS variable for compiling Xorg

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tting it in xorg-macros.m4 will make it easier to adjust for new gcc warnings added in future releases and for additional compilers, like the Intel compiler. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: XEvIE

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
aw the reply, but I saw the commit that removed it yesterday. Is there something the accessibility programs like GOK should be using instead? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libXaw 1.0.5

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xlogo, xman, xphelloworld, xfd, > xclock, editres, xbiff, listres, possibly others, fail to build now. Why would they fail to build? Shouldn't the released versions have configure scripts with the xaw.m4 already included? Or do you mean they fail if you try to regenerate their configure s

Re: change /root/xorg.conf.new

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
wolk wrote: > How to change default path(/root/xorg.conf.new) for Xorg -configure? > I need autodetection but my /root is ro. I want to save config to /tmp setenv HOME /tmp -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engin

Re: Moving xkbcomp into the server

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
this data/parsing code needed by users of both libX11 & libxcb, and the Xserver itself. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing lis

[PATCH] Always use server-.xkm for xkbcomp output files

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
nt vt's at the same time. (Of course, the oft-mentioned change of not forking xkbcomp to compile to xkm would also solve this, but this is a much simpler short-term fix.) Does this look good to everyone? Anyone know of a reason it would not be a good idea? -- -Alan Coopersmit

Re: Xorg 1.5.1 SEGV on Solaris 10

2008-11-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:53:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Drop dead PowerPC PCI code. 3c03d9f1efbbacec6e8be58da99bf0977a8e0fec From: Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:37:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Remove sparcPci.c cc78d977cac74fcfb7c9b27e7109a1e369018dd8 From: Alan Coopersmi

Re: Xorg 1.5.1 SEGV on Solaris 10

2008-11-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:45 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> 3c03d9f1efbbacec6e8be58da99bf0977a8e0fec >> From: Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:37:42 -0400 >> Subject: [PATCH] Remove sparcPci.c > > Ha

Re: Possible bitrot detected while compiling full xorg tree

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ild.sh change to stop building it. (The replacement, xf86-video-openchrome, doesn't live in X.Org's git repos, so needs to be grabbed & built on it's own.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___

Re: X input module binary compatibility across xorg 1.3, 1.4, or 1.5?

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
le initialization with pointers to the functions for the correct ABI.It would be a lot of work... -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@list

Re: [rant] keeping policy in HAL

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
to set the X keyboard layout. I've been working with our HAL team to have HAL do this as well as we're moving to Xorg 1.5, and it seems to be working for us, but it depends on the Solaris keyboard layout ioctls, so won't be generally useful, other than as proof that something

Re: Keysyms: HomePage vs WWW

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > Of course, this is only for kbd driver (which is nearly deprecated > these days, isn't it?;) Except on non-Linux systems, where kbd is still used since evdev can't be. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems,

Re: Draft: License policy for contributors

2008-12-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
relicensing Sun's contributions to a standard format until we actually decided what the preferred standard license notice was. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: [PATCH] xfree86: Only use the evdev ruleset on linux.

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
; : "base"), > - "pc105", "us", NULL, NULL); > +#if defined(linux) > + if (xf86Info.allowEmptyInput) > +rules = "evdev"; > +#endif > +XkbSetRulesDflts(rules, "pc105", "us", NULL, NULL); > #endi

Re: [PATCH] Xext: un-export all XGE functions.

2008-12-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Hutterer wrote: > These functions are only to be used by X server extensions, so let's not > expose them to the world. What about extensions in loadable modules? -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
c and how fragmented your heap is. X does nothing special beyond free() on the memory. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop

Re: [PATCH] Remove #define NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES

2008-12-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ined, and all the reply definitions required NEED_REPLIES. Looks like Xproto.h dropped them by X11R6.3, which didn't have the #ifdef's anymore, so these are truly ancient now. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Wi

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
27;s also more work no one has signed up for. (I know on Solaris there's a slab allocator version of malloc available in libumem, I don't know about libraries for other platforms though, or if Xorg would have to write it's own.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTE

[ANNOUNCE] util-macros 1.2.1

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (3): Allow setting XORG_SGML_PATH to a non-default path when running configure Replace gitweb URL with cgit URL in README Version bump: 1.2.1 Matthieu Herrb (2): Fix CWARNFLAGS for gcc versions < 4

[ANNOUNCE] mkfontscale 1.0.6

2008-12-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (6): Add support for bzip2 compressed fonts if configured --with-bzip2 Use XORG_CWARNFLAGS & XORG_CHANGELOG from xorg-macros 1.2 Add basic README with URL's of git, bugzilla & mailing list

[ANNOUNCE] libXfont 1.3.4

2008-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Jackson (2): Nuke fontcache. Retry font server connections faster. Alan Coopersmith (8): Add support for bzip2 bitmap font compression Pad CreateAC packets with 0 auths to workaround xfs bug Always scan catalogue

Re: xscope compilation error

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gt; but as I consistently fail at getting the autotools to > do what I want I'm just reporting this without a patch, sorry. Does the patch added for cygwin fix this for you? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xscope/commit/?id=eb05316a471da962eefe82c9b9a16a7590653ba7 --

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.4.0

2009-01-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-evdev Linux) will need this version of the mouse driver to run with Xorg 1.6. Adam Jackson (1): Remove useless call to xf86AddModuleInfo Alan Coopersmith (18): Merge some hardware support information from README.mouse into man page Fix sun_mouse.c build on Solaris Rename

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.4.0

2009-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Le 10/01/2009 05:45, Alan Coopersmith a écrit : >> The big change in 1.4.0 is the move of the OS-specific mouse handling code >> from the Xorg server to the mouse driver. This code was removed from the >> Xorg server in the Xorg 1.6 development cycle,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.4.0

2009-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Beso wrote: > 2009/1/10 Alan Coopersmith : >> Rémi Cardona wrote: >>> Le 10/01/2009 05:45, Alan Coopersmith a écrit : >>>> The big change in 1.4.0 is the move of the OS-specific mouse handling code >>>> from the Xorg server to the mouse driver. This cod

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.4.0

2009-01-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
, so I'll probably end up stealing code from the xf86-input-evdev module to add new Xi features like input properties to xf86-input-kbd and xf86-input-mouse at some point (though if someone else is interested enough to beat me to it, please go ahead! My to-do list is always far longer than I can ev

[ANNOUNCE] xtrans 1.2.3

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (4): 18748: xtrans.m4 causes configure --help to list --enable-ipv6 in wrong case. Switch ChangeLog generation to use XORG_CHANGELOG from xorg-macros 1.2 Add bugzilla, mailing list & git repo pointers to RE

Re: [PATCH] xkb: Set sane build time XKB defaults

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
$withval" ], +[ XKB_MODEL="pc104" ]) Shouldn't the default model be pc105? (Won't hurt the US kbd users, but the rest of the world would probably appreciate their extra key working by default.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.c

Re: [PATCH] xkb: Set sane build time XKB defaults

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Daniel Stone wrote: > Or maybe even something like this, rather ... >From a test build, looks like you also need to do a s/__XKBDEFRULES__/XKB_DFLT_RULES/ in hw/xnest/Keyboard.c -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window

Re: [PATCH] xkb: Set sane build time XKB defaults

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the default rules definition exported to drivers in xorg-server.h to the new name - still need to update at least xf86-input-keyboard to use the new define if it's present, haven't checked any other drivers. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-mouse 1.4.0

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:28:35AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> I don't know if our kernel guys will be doing that (it would have to be >> a reimplementation instead of a port of the kernel driver due to the >> license issues).When I discus

Re: Current tinderbox regression (xserver)

2009-01-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
x for that in a few. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Compile error building xf86-input-keyboard from current git

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
amp; defined(__XKBDEFRULES__) # define XKB_DFLT_RULES __XKBDEFRULES__ #endif -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Compile error building xf86-input-keyboard from current git

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: > Alan Coopersmith escribió: >> Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote: >> >>> kbd.c:154: error: 'XKB_DFLT_RULES' undeclared here (not in a function) >>> >>> This is from a recent git pulled this morning. I am pulling the chang

Re: Compile error building xf86-input-keyboard from current git

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r last night from the folks at linux.conf.au, so things may be a bit off until they wake up again. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg maili

Driver updates/releases needed for Xorg 1.6 release

2009-01-27 Thread Alan Coopersmith
fixed in git master. xf86-input-tek4957 1.2.0: - xf86Tek4957.c:155: warning: `miPointerCurrentScreen' is deprecated - Also has above described `InitValuatorClassDeviceStruct' error Fixed in git master: 033361925bf0f425.. don't use deprecated calls for newer XInput AB

Re: Missing freetype module

2009-01-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
gt; \ > --with-module-dir=/usr/lib/xorg/modules \ > --with-dri-driver-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri \ > --with-os-name="Slackware 12.1" \ > --with-os-vendor="Beton Project for Slackware Linux Project" \ > --with-xkb-path=/etc/X11/xkb \ > --with-xkb

Re: libXrender - documentation?

2009-01-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ld be supported on almost all hardware/drivers. On SPARC hardware, the drivers for the Xsun server only support render on some graphics cards, and some require patches from SunSolve and/or adding +xrender to the Xsun command line options to enable it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coo

Re: Recent input changes

2009-01-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
named 'maxKeysPerModifier' >>> kbd.c:857: error: 'KeyClassRec' has no member named 'modifierKeyMap' >>> kbd.c:857: error: 'KeyClassRec' has no member named 'maxKeysPerModifier' >>> kbd.c: At top l

Re: Driver updates/releases needed for Xorg 1.6 release

2009-01-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I dropped 1.5.99.901 into our build system that's currently building > 1.5.3 and the latest driver releases okay, and got failures in many > of the driver builds - most of these appear to be fixed in git, just > need tarballs released, while one or two ma

Re: libXrender - documentation?

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Charles Lindsey wrote: > In <49809721.2020...@sun.com> Alan Coopersmith > writes: > >> Charles Lindsey wrote: >>> RENDER extension not supported by server >>> >>> Aaaarhh! > >> Render support

commit mails for xf86-video-mach64 & -rage128 still say -ati

2009-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I was confused tonight to get three commit messages for pushes from me to -ati, until I realized two were for -mach64 & -rage128, just have the wrong mail subject - one of our local git gurus want to fix the hooks? -alan- Alan Coopersmith wrote: > README | 20 ++

Re: Fedora 10, Xorg 7.4 and US15W - Poulsbo - please help - I'm stuck

2009-01-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
for them on their hardware or not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

[PATCH] Constify atom name strings

2009-02-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Changes MakeAtom to take a const char * and NameForAtom to return them, since many callers pass pointers to constant strings stored in read-only ELF sections. Updates in-tree callers as necessary to clear const mismatch warnings introduced by this change. Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith

Re: xorg/app/xhost: [PATCH] Remove support for old kerberos5 api.

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
er is doing the work.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

[PATCH] Print Composite extension version for "-ext Composite"

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The only other information I could see to query in the Composite 0.4 protocol spec is the Composite Overlay Window XID, but the request to get that ID has the side effect of mapping the overlay window, and xdpyinfo shouldn't have side effects like that. Signed-off-by: Alan Cooper

Re: xorg/driver/xf86-input-mouse: [PATCH] Janitor: use $PKG_CONFIG and update .gitignore.

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o OpenSolaris, where /bin/sh is ksh93, but there's always stragglers on old OS versions.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing

Re: macros: Changes to 'master'

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ACROS_VERSION macro, so that when we first added it people wouldn't complain "Why do I get the install xorg-macros message when I have xorg-macros 1.0.2 installed?" -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems,

Re: [macros PATCH] Handle patch level version checking (x.y.z) in XORG_MACROS_VERSION

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
would be bumped on adding new macros, and micro versions would reflect bug fixes, so most packages wouldn't care about the micro versions. I assume you want the micro version to force using versions with bug fixes like those in 1.2.1, right? -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: GIT Noise

2009-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
cussion into a separate list". -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ction of the >> total, i admit). > > Does one not submit patches to the maintainer for the sub-project anymore?.. Most don't have dedicated maintainers or are maintained by the developer community as a group. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: [PATCH] xdpyinfo: Print Composite extension version for "-ext Composite"

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > The only other information I could see to query in the Composite 0.4 > protocol spec is the Composite Overlay Window XID, but the request to > get that ID has the side effect of mapping the overlay window, and > xdpyinfo shouldn't have side effects like

Re: Janitor/RFC: Xorg packages

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
every driver. Stuff specifically for Xorg drivers should be in xserver/xorg-server.m4 not the general xorg-macros package. I have become a fan of the "DRY" (Don't Repeat Yourself) programming mantra - every extra copy of code is an opportunity to get out of sync and need to spend more

Re: [PATCH] libXfont: Avoid sending uninitialized padding data over the network

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Peter Åstrand wrote: > > When libXfont is talking to a font server, it doesn't initialize padding > bytes. Thanks - patch applied to git master. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Syst

Re: Current tinderbox regression (libtrans)

2009-02-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sock.c, but it's used in Xtranslocal.c which is included before Xtranssock.c). -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Chris Ball wrote: > http://tinderbox.x.org/builds/2009-02-07-0001/logs/libICE/#build >

Re: xf86-input-keyboard fails to build

2009-02-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Anders Juel Jensen wrote: > current git of xf86-input-keyboard fails to build Yes. See the previous dozen messages on this topic in the archives of this list in the last week. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window Sys

Re: Where is xkeyboard-config in the X tree

2009-02-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alex Bennee wrote: > Searching the source tree I can't find an xkeyboard-config module. > Which module is it part of? http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Wi

Re: Help please, with compile drm

2009-02-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Before asking in irc, I was told I should use gmake to do this, but >> still it doesn't seem clear >> enough for me to do anything ahead. >> Suggestions appreciated! > > I could be wrong, but I don't think drm has solaris support. Just > linux and the bsds.

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tain them - not that I find you > believable. The idea that anyone uses PEX is rather implausible. Even with Solaris's deep commitment to backwards compatibility, we dropped PEX in Solaris 7 in 1998. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems,

Re: libX11-6.2.1 and pkg-config 0.23

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/ Most of them got version numbers starting at 1.0 when X11R7 split them into individual releases instead of just being released as part of the X11R6 monolithic release. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com

Re: Severe memory leaks make X.org unuseable

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
everal years before the current X.Org organization was formed and our development tree was forked from their 4.4rc2 release? http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#5 -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: Building Xorg/xserver from git

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
> Also , where would I specify the config options (--enable-dri2,etc) to be > passed to the /xserver directory? Set the CONFFLAGS environment variable to include flags that are passed to all configure scripts (unknown flags to other modules should be harmless). See the top of the build.sh scr

Re: XVideo support in xf86-video-nv / G90

2009-02-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ther words for "It's a lot of work we already paid people to do in the encumbered driver, and don't see any profit in paying them to do again in the open one."Companies usually are more interested in their bottom lines than in crushing the dreams of open source users. --

Re: Listing of Xmodmap pointer versus button actions

2009-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
- all others are just more buttons with no specific role assigned. Even what the scroll wheel does is up to the application - it can scroll your text area, zoom in and out on an image, go forward/back in a browser or perform some other application-specific function. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: Bug# 1382

2009-03-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ill update to a newer release. (X.Org only releases the source files - RPM's and other package formats are put together by others.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Re: Xlib - reporting X errors [+patches]

2009-03-16 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o get the information out of Xlib that it already has - it might help avoid things like the abomination that is the gtk error handler, which swallows up useful information like which extension the error was hit in, just so it can print a longer and more useless error message than the Xlib defaul

Re: clarification requested: apparent termination of xrx project due to deletion of lbx from xorg

2009-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ts we're committing to maintain. If you need one of those parts, then you can contribute your time to maintaining it - we're still hosting the code trees and releases, even if they're not a core part of the X Window System releases any more. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

Re: clarification requested: apparent termination of xrx project due to deletion of lbx from xorg

2009-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
But I've run XRX on recent Xorg server versions, so I don't think it's really as dependent on XRX as you think it is. Have you actually tried it? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System E

Re: How to restrict X server to localhost ?

2009-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ode to only bind to certain interfaces, as there is no existing code to allow the configuration of specific interfaces for X. (There probably should be, but since almost all OS'es today include some sort of firewall/IP filtering technology, it's not likely to be high priority on any

Re: Problem using libXevie

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ext/xevie.c?id=b5cdcfa55c399e83d51242e93d4f25d8bc4fec1f -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

Re: [PATCH] XKB: cache xkbcomp output for fast start-up v3 for 1.6.0

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
"); > - XkbWriteXKBKeymapForNames(stderr,names,xkb,want,need); > +/* write XKBKeyMapBuf to xkbcomp */ > +if (EOF==fputs(xkbKeyMapBuf, out)) > +{ > +ErrorF("[xkb] Sending keymap to xkbcomp failed\n"); > +

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ittle more friendly than a list of directory names. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesk

[ANNOUNCE] libX11 1.2.1

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (21): flags member of Display structure needs to be marked volatile Incorporate char range comments from Solaris version of ksc5601.h Incorporate more locale names/aliases from Solaris libX11 Add --with-locale

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ough, I just really noticed the the "million". That could indeed > change the balance.) Are there any systems in which you can write a million colors to a PsuedoColor colormap? I've not often seen PseudoColor supporting more than 8-bit/256 colors in the real world. --

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tream will be happy to discuss such patches with anyone who wants to write them, and freedesktop.org always needs more admins to keep up with the load of site work to do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Win

Re: SHA1 implementations

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
a few months ago? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

luit forked?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/luit Is there any reason we should have two forks of this? Which one do most distros ship? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engine

Re: [xserver] building xserver with glx but without DRI/DRM

2009-04-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
en backported to Solaris 10 or older kernels, but I think swrast will work on those without the kernel side. I haven't checked personally though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _

Re: A question about the default mode in xserver

2009-04-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
system himself. You'd have to go back to the XFree86 CVS to see who actually created those files. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@li

Re: disabling MIT-SHM on older Xorg-X11 servers

2009-04-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
error at start up. > > Any ideas? Rebuild the server? The Extensions section was added in X11R6.8. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg

[ANNOUNCE] libpciaccess 0.10.6

2009-04-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (12): Fill in byte swapping routines for big-endian Solaris machines Don't open/gzopen pci.ids if we're not going to read it Add AC_SYS_LARGEFILE to configure.ac Solaris: Use bus-range propertie

Re: Old System, New Install Isuue

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Butler wrote: > Is it possible to run X without an attached monitor, mouse or keyboard? Yes - Xvfb or Xvnc are the easiest ways. Xorg using the "dummy" video driver and "void" input driver is also a possibility. -- -Alan Coopersmith- a

Re: Old System, New Install Isuue

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James Butler wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> James Butler wrote: >>> Is it possible to run X without an attached monitor, mouse or keyboard? >> Yes - Xvfb or Xvnc are the easiest ways. Xorg using the "dummy" video >> driver and "void"

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-citron 2.2.2

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Coopersmith (4): Remove xorgconfig & xorgcfg from See Also list in man page Add README with pointers to mailing list, bugzilla & git repos Delete duplicate EXTRA_DIST line from Makefile Version 2.2.2 Paulo Cesar

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-mach64 6.8.1

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Plattner (1): Make sure the screen is a mach64 screen before doing anything in ATIMach64XVInitialiseAdaptor. Adam Jackson (1): Don't print the resource list on failure. Alan Coopersmith (3): Add README with pointe

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