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: 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

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 "

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: 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

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

2020-10-03 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

2020-10-03 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 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 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

2020-10-04 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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

2025-07-08 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

2025-07-07 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

2025-07-05 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: 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

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