Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-08 Thread gene heskett
my trackball). I get the same with 2 different arguments from 0 to 15 on this machine. My usb tree looks like a weeping willow. best Vladimir Dergachev On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: On 7/7/25 18:24, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: xinput was not installed  but is now, and here is the out

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-08 Thread gene heskett
rolling Pixel Distance Default (337):    15     libinput High Resolution Wheel Scroll Enabled (338):    1 gene@coyote:~$ end-of-paste The man page is pretty opaque to someone who has not seen this b4 so I have no idea how to modify anything above. Is something totally fubar? Thank you Vladimir De

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-07 Thread gene heskett
On 7/7/25 09:09, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: On 7/7/25 00:05, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: With KDE (kubuntu) there is "Discover" package manager that runs from user space. It asks you for root password before you install. I actually thou

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-06 Thread gene heskett
On 7/7/25 00:05, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: No problem then:) You don't actually need to mess with a quarter of xorg code, as most of xorg works just fine. The only problem that might arise is lack of support for newer cards. This is an iss

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-06 Thread gene heskett
On 7/6/25 18:46, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2025, gene heskett wrote: On 7/5/25 01:32, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: There are many developers having fun with Xorg. Some on the list, some not, some will reply to you, some not. There might be some that are employed to work on

Re: Question about the future of Xorg

2025-07-05 Thread gene heskett
well, and despite the limitations of a fixed income, I do monetarily support 2 of them on a monthly basis. The rest go out of their way to make such donations difficult to do, or get bamboozled into some 50% off the top swindle as the middleman, so stop it. Good code is worth paying for. rant off:

Re: 2 yo hp monitor, old dell, no video

2022-08-19 Thread gene heskett
On 8/19/22 21:38, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2022-08-16 19:08 (UTC-0400): I bought two of these monitors around 20 months back when they were on sale at Staples. This one works great on a newer ASUS mb & debian bullseye. 1920x1080, no xorg.conf. The 6 or 8 yo AOC 1366x768

2 yo hp monitor, old dell, no video

2022-08-16 Thread gene heskett
ttached. Thank you for any insight on this. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectabl

Re: R128 errors

2021-05-23 Thread Gene Heskett
$85 running out to buy it in about 1999. At least the $29 nvidia card worked with the vesa driver. But that experience taught me to not believe a thing Alex tells me. YMMV. > The driver seems to be identifying the card okay. I don't know why it > is still generating errors. Any ideas? &g

Re: Colour cycling / Dell monitor service menu (was: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors)

2020-10-05 Thread Gene Heskett
wer button to exit service > mode. > > Cheers, > Adam. Thank you Adam. Printed and carried up the hill to the shop for prompting. I spotted it, looking pretty new, at a yard sale nearly 20 years ago, and brought it home for a $20 bill. Its been above and behind a CNC'd 7x12 lathe eve

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 October 2020 15:10:03 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 10/3/20 1:08 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 02 October 2020 16:28:45 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Fortunately, there's already an existing script which knows about > >> the most common screen

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 05:25:50 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> which suggests there are several ways to disable it, including one > >> where you can simulate user activity. > >> > >> This was just a quick loo

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 04:17:53 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 October 2020 00:39:27 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings x-people; > >>> >

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 October 2020 16:28:45 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 10/2/20 12:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have now been 3 days looking for a way to disable this blanker, > > trying several methods by way of xset, only to find 15 minutes later > > that its been undone and

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2020 00:39:27 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings x-people; > > > > The LinuxCNC people have just brought it up from Debian wheezy to > > buster for a base install. > > > > But the se

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
s Aaron. > > > I would also take this issue up with the LinuxCNC community. Is it > > supposed to work like that? Does a new install from the LinuxCNC > > "Install DVD" behave the same? At the instant yes, Andy has an install patched and running, and if it's st

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
ro X showing in htop. Go up the hill and see since the monitor is in fact turned off till I turn it on. Which I did. Didn't bither it a bot. 11 minutes later I'm looking at a color cycling screen, and when I move the mouse, I'm looking at the lightdm-greeter login requester. N

Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
are done for the day, but we can't tolerate anything getting in the way of controlling that runaway machine with one keystroke during the day. Please advise. And thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo

Re: Xorg.0.log stuck, never stops

2020-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
, USB devices, etc. > > Cheers, > Adam. The one thing I found is this in the root crontab /5 * * * * date & >>/tmp/mouse-trace; sudo lsusb -vv 2>/dev/null | grep "Bus 001 Device 006" & >>/tmp/mouse-trace /5 * * * * lsusb -v 2&>/dev/null | grep "

Re: Xorg.0.log stuck, never stops

2020-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
f another. And it seems to be fairly consistent. Something cron is doing might be one possibility. It is a raspbian buster install as an armhf but could at some point be done as a full 64 bit install. R-pi-4b, 2 G's ram. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in d

Xorg.0.log stuck, never stops

2020-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
2258.846] (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0 108.00 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e) [322258.846] (II) modeset(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e) [322258.846] (II) mode

Re: X not starting on a 4GB rock64

2018-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 26 April 2018 08:57:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2018 02:58:55 Michal Srb wrote: > > It looks to me like if both armsoc and modesetting are trying to use > > the same GPU, acting like there are two separate GPUs. > > There are supposedly 2 gpu&#x

Re: X not starting on a 4GB rock64

2018-04-26 Thread Gene Heskett
e_init(); to add platform_specific_data to platform_device_of_mali. Apr 24 15:47:47 rock64 kernel: [3.583509] mali-utgard ff30.gpu: gpu_leakage=12 Apr 24 15:47:47 rock64 kernel: [3.587421] mali-utgard ff30.gpu: gpu_leakage-volt-sel=1 Apr 24 15:47:47 rock64 kernel: [3.591424] m

X not starting on a 4GB rock64

2018-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
331.741] (==) modeset(G0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) [ 331.741] (**) modeset(G0): Display dimensions: (430, 240) mm [ 331.741] (**) modeset(G0): DPI set to (60, 81) [ 331.741] (II) Loading sub module "fb" [ 331.741] (II) LoadModule: "fb" [ 331.742] (II) Loa

Re: arm64 aka rock64, x fails on stretch

2018-04-25 Thread Gene Heskett
driver or something > as a backup. I think a different kernel config might knock that out. > I had a devil of a time with my hp which is nvidia. > > On 4/24/18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But its ayufan's latest kernel, > > > > It makes it, after pressing enter, to a

Re: opengl and drm on a pi 3b?

2017-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
t; > breaking force, so it would be a definite safety advantage if the > > video could keep up with the machine in something resembling real > > time. > > > >So what, if any, is the status of faster video drivers for the pi's > > that use the bcm video? > >

Re: opengl and drm on a pi 3b?

2017-03-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 March 2017 13:55:44 Eric Anholt wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > Hello all, been a while since I rang your doorbell, greetings from > > West Virginia; > > > > I am in the process of converting an old lathe to cnc, and using a > > pi 3b as the d

opengl and drm on a pi 3b?

2017-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
video? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ___ xo

Bringing up a raspi in a machine shop environment.

2016-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
other hate and discontent. Can this PITA be disabled/ignored? It seems to be slow for a mouse, but very sensitive to a touch, so I am not convinced that a sheet of lexan glued above it would disable the touch functions. There is also a std wireless mouse plugged in which works much better, and is

Re: raspian, jessie full install on a raspi 3b, mouse in heavy syrup.

2016-11-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 30 November 2016 06:38:36 Eric Gunther wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 00:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've no clue if any of you are familar with raspian, built for the > > armhf > > SBC's.. > > > >

raspian, jessie full install on a raspi 3b, mouse in heavy syrup.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
ct on this moving in cold molasses motion. Its very distracting, taking around 4 to 6 seconds to do something with the mouse, that I can do in a second or less on a Dell 6 feet away running a milling machine. Clues checked, url's read etc. Thanks all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 November 2016 03:39:51 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >root 797 0.0 1.9 271380 33600 tty7 Ssl+ 20:50 > >0:02 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -core :0 -seat > >seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -noliste

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 29 November 2016 13:48:07 Antoine Martin wrote: > On 29/11/16 18:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 November 2016 04:18:09 Antoine Martin wrote: > >>>>>> If you exclude the 4k fullscreen video use case - which is a > >>>>>>

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
Antoine > >> > >> http://xpra.org/ > > > > xpra is its own display system effectively separate from x11. > > Sort of. Nitpick: Xpra is an X11 compositing window manager and we use > a completely stock / unmodified / distro supplied X11 server, the > clie

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
rms of compression > (let along lossy compression) of pixel data. xpra is a separate > display tech much like rdp, miracast, vnc etc. would be. :) This also sounds appealing. I'll see if its available for both of these beasts. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxe

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
aspian download, which I didn't have yet, but the iso is trickling in now. It is not part of the odroids ubtuntu-16.04 LTS install so I'll have to see about how to acquire the free home version. That assumes that it can function in the presence of a x server on the droid whose liste

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
8 Nov 2016 17:03:17 -0500 Gene Heskett said: > >>>> On Monday 28 November 2016 13:12:03 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>>>> On 11/27/16 04:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>>>> Okay Alan, I've had 3 or 4 folks over the last 36 hours claim > >>

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 November 2016 21:43:54 Antoine Martin wrote: > On 29/11/16 07:57, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:03:17 -0500 Gene Heskett said: > >> On Monday 28 November 2016 13:12:03 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >>> On 11/27/1

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 November 2016 18:11:29 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> remove the '-nolisten tcp' from its launch of > >> exec /usr/bin/X "$@" > >> in xinit/xserverrc, and that would enabl

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 November 2016 13:12:03 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 11/27/16 04:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Okay Alan, I've had 3 or 4 folks over the last 36 hours claim that X > > is its own forwarding agent, why am I even using ssh? saying I'm not > > needin

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 November 2016 08:49:03 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2016 07:31:07 Thomas Lübking wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:29:14PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >Okay anyone, I've had 3 or 4 folks over the last 36 hours claim > > > that X

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 November 2016 07:31:07 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:29:14PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Okay anyone, I've had 3 or 4 folks over the last 36 hours claim that > > X is its own forwarding agent, why am I even using ssh? saying I'm &

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 November 2016 12:32:22 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 11/21/16 02:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I am assuming the X built for it is single threaded, and it could be > > made more pleasant to use if it scattered its jobs about the 4 cores > > in the typical arm cp

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 November 2016 07:21:10 Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > 2016-11-25 11:24 keltezéssel, Gene Heskett írta: > > On Monday 21 November 2016 17:41:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings X experts; > >> > >> I bought a monitor that should have been able

Re: Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 21 November 2016 17:41:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings X experts; > > I bought a monitor that should have been able to do 1920x1080p60Hz. > One would expect thats a given when the card gets $140 lighter > carrying it out past the RF stuff in Wallies front door fra

Question about X on the arm's.

2016-11-21 Thread Gene Heskett
is a quad core 64 bit arm cpu, running at its default clock of 1.5GHz which it seems like should have the ponies to handle the load. More heat sink maybe. Is there anything I can do, considering its only other job is serviceing the keyboard and rodent? Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: Flickering single display in multi-head XRandR setup

2016-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 26 March 2016 01:55:53 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-03-25 20:52 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > > ... > > >> Looks like a 3-wire cord to me, and $14.99 in the current sale > >> catalog. > > > > By golly gee,

Re: Flickering single display in multi-head XRandR setup

2016-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 March 2016 17:47:48 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-03-25 15:55 (UTC-0400): > >> http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/TENMA-21-8230-/21-8230 > >> wouldn't do it? > > > > Possibly, that looks a lot like the one I used (handle

Re: Flickering single display in multi-head XRandR setup

2016-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 March 2016 13:23:52 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2016-03-25 09:29 (UTC-0400): > > the U.S. industry, since General Cement is gone, cannot sell me a > > tweezer-like soldering iron needed to remove them so fresh ones can > > be put in their pl

Re: Flickering single display in multi-head XRandR setup

2016-03-25 Thread Gene Heskett
eal, plug it in and use it till it fails, and when it fails, go to the store and get another to plug into that function/position. No repair is possible at a cost that makes repairing it feasable. Toss in that such people are a dying breed and are not being replaced by the younger generation. I di

unclutter again

2015-10-14 Thread Gene Heskett
n written to /var/spool/mail. Very occasionally it will restart kmail too, but probably piled up on workspace 1 with the rest of the terminal sessions. So how can one effectively restart a process normally started by a file in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett --

Re: Mouse blanker function?

2015-09-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 September 2015 23:57:24 Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 09/28/15 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Is there such a critter as a mouse blanker in the xorg kit of > > utilities? > > Sorry, I've never heard of a "mouse blank

Mouse blanker function?

2015-09-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Is there such a critter as a mouse blanker in the xorg kit of utilities? Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 08:35:40 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? > > > > It works well on a 4x3 monitor, but circles are squash

Re: [solved] intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 08:06:23 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-07-18 07:22 (UTC-0400): > > Xorg.0.log is in my other reply, Felix. I'm just up, need a quart > > of coffee I haven't made yet to function correctly. :-\ > > Clearly. From th

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 02:41:44 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-07-18 01:51 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > >> What, if any, video parameters do you have on your kernel cmdline? > > ??? > > ... > > > This isn't TCC, but t

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 02:33:22 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Samstag, 18. Juli 2015 07:51:41 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The default seems to be 1280x768. There is a 13nnx800 mode but the > > images are bigger than the screen and circles are still smunched > > verticall

Re: intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 18 July 2015 01:20:35 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-07-18 00:06 (UTC-0400): > > Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? > > > > It works well on a 4x3 monitor, but circles are squashed on a 16x9. > > What, if any, vide

intel atom D525MW w/i915 onboard gfx vs 16x9 monitor

2015-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Does anyone know how to get a square pixel on this gfx set? It works well on a 4x3 monitor, but circles are squashed on a 16x9. Thank You. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 06:21:43 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 05:37:00 Thomas Lübking wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 02:51:04 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Now, where is the last script that X executes as it completes it > > > initializ

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 05:37:00 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Mittwoch, 29. April 2015 02:51:04 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now, where is the last script that X executes as it completes it > > initialization? > > This depends on you DM (xdm, kdm, ldm, gdm, sddm, ...

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2015 16:21:12 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Dienstag, 28. April 2015 19:16:17 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > You missed the point Thomas. I have a mouse. I want that touchpad > > totally and absolutely nuked > > Try > synclient TouchpadOff=1 This works wel

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2015 13:45:47 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-28 13:16 (UTC-0400): > > I am now trying to get lubuntu 14.04-2 LTS to start the > > install, but its stuck looking for a network connection it will > > never find because there is not a d

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2015 10:39:04 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Dienstag, 28. April 2015 12:47:21 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Can you kind folks recommend a distribution with a lightweight gui > > that actually works?, or do I have to open this 12 year old puny > > powered la

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
ed on, running. The drive led is on for 90% of this lag period. Its 100Gb drive tests perfectly. It only has a gig of memory, but hasn't touched swap yet. This one, Mint-17.1 xfce ain't it. > -eg > Thanks Eric. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in de

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2015 02:53:28 Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:02:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 April 2015 23:53:00 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-27 23:10 (UTC-0400): > > > > Mint 17.1 Xfce. I h

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 April 2015 23:53:00 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-27 23:10 (UTC-0400): > > Mint 17.1 Xfce. I had to make that directory, and moved it to > > 50-synaptics.conf in that otherwise empty, newly created dir. > > Rebooted now, I'll chec

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 April 2015 22:02:42 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-27 21:24 (UTC-0400): > >> > Can someone tell me how to edit the > >> > /usr/share/X11/50-synaptics.conf file, which when copied to > >> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf, will disabl

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 April 2015 22:29:11 Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:24:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 27 April 2015 20:17:57 Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:15:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings al

Re: xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 April 2015 20:17:57 Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:15:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Can someone tell me how to edit the /usr/share/X11/50-synaptics.conf > > file, which when copied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf,

xserver-xorg.synaptics question

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
is still an inch or more away from actually touching it. It is a major pita on my old HP dv5120us laptop, when I have to go grab the mouse, find it on screen, and then reclick on the terminal screen I am using before I can type another character. Hints please. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libXdmcp 1.1.2

2015-03-21 Thread Gene Heskett
ividual/lib/libXdmcp-1.1.2.tar. >bz2.sig > > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/libXdmcp-1.1.2.tar. >gz MD5: ab0d6a38f0344a05d698ec7d48cfa5a8 > SHA1: 486a7fea7c7e43df0b9032ae23f592420728ad52 > SHA256: > 6f7c7e491a23035a26284d247779174dedc67e34e93cc3548b648ffdb6fc57c0 PGP:

Still more Q on nouveau driver & version missmatch

2014-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
ll path to it? Attempting to insmod it, I get an unknown symbol in module error return. How can I alleviate this audio & video pain? Thanks & Merry Christmas to all. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Plea

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 15:09:31 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Samstag, 6. Dezember 2014 03:21:10 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is it on git, or do I have to dl a tarball? > > Either. [1][2] > The problem rather is that you'll *have* to compile seve

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 14:27:34 Alan Coopersmith did opine And Gene did reply: > On 12/ 5/14 10:31 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And it is still unloading the nv driver, which I_thought_ was the > > nvidia driver. > > "nv" is the old open source xf86-video-

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 December 2014 06:14:12 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On 6/12/2014 12:33 , Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote:

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 18:46:58 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On 6/12/2014 01:56 , Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 17:01:56 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 19:31:28 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > > ... > > (EE) [drm] failed to open device > > See > http://nouveau.freede

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 13:01:10 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:42:24 Gene Heskett did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lط£آ¼bking did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > &g

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 12:42:24 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lأ¼bking did opine > > And Gene did reply: > > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > using the nouveau driver. Fro

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 12:23:19 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 18:12:09 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > using the nouveau driver. From a 3.16.0 kernel tree I assume. > > Doesn't seem so. > > Posted log segment says, tha

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 December 2014 08:57:50 Thomas Lübking did opine And Gene did reply: > On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2014 03:43:44 CEST, Gene Heskett wrote: > > (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPUTCMAP: Invalid argument > > You might want to check whether there's a usable driver for your > graphic

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 December 2014 23:03:38 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:43:44PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Dec 04,

Re: Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 December 2014 16:18:16 Peter Hutterer did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:23:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a wireless M$ Explorer Touchmouse, and the touch pad is > > buggier than a 10 day old car

Need help with M$ touchmouse

2014-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
ve to use because you are forced to move the whole arm when using them. Thanks guys & gals. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://g

Re: cannot open gedit

2014-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
the ssh manpage and use the username and password that is you on the rh/fedora box. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:

Re: Radeon rv610 (2400HD-Pro card) question

2014-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2014 19:23:24 Alex Deucher did opine: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 07 February 2014 14:46:43 Alex Deucher did opine: > >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Greetings; > >

Re: Radeon rv610 (2400HD-Pro card) question

2014-02-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 07 February 2014 12:17:20 Gene Heskett did opine: > Greetings; > > Since it appears nvidia is not supporting the econo cards in the supply > pipeline, cards like the 8400 GS I just bought 2 of, I got the bright > idea to swap it out for an old radeon 2400HD-Pro ca

Radeon rv610 (2400HD-Pro card) question

2014-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Since it appears nvidia is not supporting the econo cards in the supply pipeline, cards like the 8400 GS I just bought 2 of, I got the bright idea to swap it out for an old radeon 2400HD-Pro card I had on the shelf. So I built a 3.13.1 32 bit kernel and rebooted after changing teh ca

nouveau question

2014-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Is there any hope of getting a driver for this video card: gene@coyote:/etc/init.d$ dmesg|grep nouveau [1.743185] nouveau [ DEVICE][:03:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x0a8180b1 [1.743233] nouveau [ DEVICE][:03:00.0] Chipset: GT218 (NVA8) [1.743273] nouveau [ DEVICE][

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 15:33:58 Alex Deucher did opine: > I guess gmail mangled it. Does the attached work any better? > > > Alex > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > When trying to verify this message, I get > > gpg: BAD signature from "Alex

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 14:54:23 Brad Rogers did opine: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:03:14 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hello Gene, > > >It came from j...@eukor.com. As was noted in my initial response. > > Sorry, I missed that. Neither did I see the messa

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 13:59:30 Brad Rogers did opine: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 13:06:36 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hello Gene, > > >No, here, when I enabled the html display of that poorly composed > >message, > > Alex's message had no HTML?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 12:58:50 Brad Rogers did opine: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:00:56 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Hello Gene, > > >This stuff doesn't work for mailing lists, and whom ever's bright idea > > What stuff? PGP Signing? No, here, wh

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 11:59:17 j...@eukor.com did opine: > This stuff doesn't work for mailing lists, and whom ever's bright idea it is should be unsubscribed, forthwith. If not sooner. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amm

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 7.3.0

2014-01-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 January 2014 11:57:01 Claus Assmann did opine: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, Julien Cristau wrote: > > gpg: BAD signature from "Alex Deucher " > > Same here. There's an echo in here. > > > If this isn't just me, any chance to get the tarball checksums in a > > properly signed mail? >

Re: Question needs asked

2014-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2014 00:52:42 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Friday 17 January 2014 00:51:17 Gene Heskett did opine: > > Greetings all; > > > > I had to replace my GeForce 9400gt card about 3 weeks ago because the > > color mapping was going in the toilet, a

Re: Question needs asked

2014-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 January 2014 00:51:17 Gene Heskett did opine: > Greetings all; > > I had to replace my GeForce 9400gt card about 3 weeks ago because the > color mapping was going in the toilet, and put a EVGA 8400GS in its > place, still using the nouveau driver. > > Video pe

Question needs asked

2014-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I had to replace my GeForce 9400gt card about 3 weeks ago because the color mapping was going in the toilet, and put a EVGA 8400GS in its place, still using the nouveau driver. Video performance can best be described as sucking dead toads through soda straws, long 4 or 5 second

command translation needed.

2013-11-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Due to some conflicts which I have not been able to run down, I ave a pair of Intel D-525MW boards running some cnc machinery, that must have the libgl-mesa-swx11 packages installed else no usb cameras actully work. The lspci for the video is: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation

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