Re: [Mesa-dev] Interested in contributing to WGL support in Waffle Project, for GSoC 2014

2014-03-11 Thread Jordan Justen
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Vidudaya Bandara wrote: > Hi all, > I'm Vidudaya Neranjan Bandara , Currently I'm an undergraduate from > University of Moratuwa , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri > Lanka. I'm very much interested in open source software development and > thoug

How does screenshot work in an OS running Xorg

2014-03-11 Thread Hongze Zhao
Hi List, I am curious about how screenshot in an OS running Xorg works? I guess Linux does not provide such a system call or interface. Is screenshot implemented by calling a special xorg interface? Thanks, Randy ___ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Arc

Re: How does screenshot work in an OS running Xorg

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Dienstag, 11. März 2014 21:06:20 CEST, Hongze Zhao wrote: Hi List, I am curious about how screenshot in an OS running Xorg works? I guess Linux does not provide such a system call or interface. Is screenshot implemented by calling a special xorg interface? Coding C(++): XLib: http://tronch

Re: xscreensaver and ldap authentication

2014-03-11 Thread Tormod Volden
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: > I know this is somewhat OT for this list, but I've run out of options... > > I am trying to get xscreensaver to work with PAM, and in particular with > ldap. I've tried all sorts of things, including saslauthd, and nothing > works. There doesn'

Re: [Mesa-dev] Interested in contributing to WGL support in Waffle Project, for GSoC 2014

2014-03-11 Thread Chad Versace
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:20:41PM +, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Vidudaya Bandara > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm Vidudaya Neranjan Bandara , Currently I'm an undergraduate from > > University of Moratuwa , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri > > Lan

Re: [Mesa-dev] Interested in contributing to WGL support in Waffle Project, for GSoC 2014

2014-03-11 Thread Chad Versace
Vidudaya, I have some comments on Jordan's list of subgoals. 1. Waffle's examples/gl_basic.c gl_basic is a little toy program that developers can use to test Waffle when adding support for new platforms, such as WGL. If you can get gl_basic to work on WGL, then that wil

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-synaptics 1.7.4

2014-03-11 Thread Peter Hutterer
synaptics 1.7.4 is now available. One fix: closing the fd again if the device cannot be enabled properly, and two reverts: scrollbuttons and circular pad support are making a comeback. Apparently there are still a few laptops out there that require either feature. Next version we'll bring back mull

Re: [Mesa-dev] Interested in contributing to WGL support in Waffle Project, for GSoC 2014

2014-03-11 Thread Vidudaya Bandara
Hi Jordan, First of all thank you for your reply. Your explanation gave more details about the project. I will look into it. I think It's better to have a understanding about waffle also. meanwhile if you can guide me through this it would be very much help me. First as we know I want to make a g

Re: [Mesa-dev] Interested in contributing to WGL support in Waffle Project, for GSoC 2014

2014-03-11 Thread Vidudaya Bandara
Hi Chad, Thank you for your very detailed description about the project Idea. It Increases my Interest about this Idea. First of all I thought the mentor is Jordan Justen (As the Idea page says). If he is not please tell me how should I get a mentor to this project. As it says I think I have to