So, I'm not having success yet, but I discovered that the Xnest package that's part of the Ubuntu distribution isn't the driver you pointed me at. So, I have:
1) cloned the git repository 2) ran ./autogen.sh 3) ran make ... and it seems to be successful to this point, but I'm clueless about how to install these drivers. I tried "make install" and it didn't like that, and I don't see anything in readme or similar. Can anyone offer any guidance or research pointers? Many thanks! Simon On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Simon Roberts < si...@dancingcloudservices.com> wrote: > Thanks for this Alan, I can't report success yet, but after trying to > build it but failing to install it, I discovered it's available as a > pre-built package for Ubuntu, and then managed to build an xorg.conf.d > entry that totally trashed my GUI! Ah, thank goodness I always carry a > bootable USB drive for just such emergencies. So, I'll try more with this > later (when it's less critical if I lock myself out more permanently ;) > > In the meantime, is there a resource somewhere that might tell me more > about the startup order (which I presume is the purpose of the various > numbers on the individual files in xorg.conf.d...?) and it's significance? > I'm inclined to think that by putting my efforts at "position 20", after > the primary display (at 10) but before all the input devices (at 50 > something) I killed all my inputs because I had a bad config element. Is > that plausible? I got a login screen, but no input devices, mouse, > keyboard, external USB mouse / keyboard, touchscreen, would generate any > input (I couldn't even change to the other text-based virtual terminals!) > > Thanks again for the direction! > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Alan Coopersmith < > alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> On 10/30/16 04:13 PM, Simon Roberts wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I want to add an external XServer (running on a tablet device as it >>> happens, >>> though I doubt that's significant) to the configuration of my windowing >>> system, >>> and hopefully have it visible to xrandr, so I can use it as another >>> display >>> alongside my regular laptop screen. >>> >>> I assume that I'd need to add, for example, 192.168.2.44:0 >>> <http://192.168.2.44:0> into my xorg.conf, but I'm drawing a complete >>> blank on >>> how I might achieve this. >>> >> >> In theory you can do this with the xf86-video-nested driver, but I've >> never tried it: >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nested/tree/README >> >> Other options would be using a multiplexer/proxy such as Xdmx (FOSS) or >> XBIGX >> (commercial software from X-Software). >> >> -- >> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com >> Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc >> > > > > -- > Simon Roberts > (303) 249 3613 > > -- Simon Roberts (303) 249 3613
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