xorg-x11 6.9.0 with compose cache ebuild [OBSOLETE]

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pwe · Post by **pwe** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:34 pm

im on it, and its nice !! transculency working (for now) fine - on 6.8.2 i had X crashes. nice work

but can anybody tell me why evdev isnt workin? i had on it my mx310

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:11 pm

pwe wrote:im on it, and its nice !! transculency working (for now) fine - on 6.8.2 i had X crashes. nice work

but can anybody tell me why evdev isnt workin? i had on it my mx310

You need to reconfigure it. The configuration in 6.9 is different from 6.8.2 since evdev support is now included upstream.

r.abbott · Post by **r.abbott** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:32 pm

Yeah, this ebuild is really nice. I was able to get my Logitech Mediaplay working with all of the buttons using the evdev driver. Yay!!!

I do have one little problem though. Xdm won't start when the mouse is unplugged. That's kind of a bummer, since I often use my laptop both with and without this mouse. Has anybody seen this problem? Here's the xorg.conf sections:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "MediaPlay"
Option "Name" "Logitech MediaPlay"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mediaplay"
EndSection

...

Section "ServerLayout"
InputDevice "MediaPlay" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

If the mouse is unplugged, then /dev/input/mediaplay doesn't exist, X doesn't start, and I get the error:

(**) MediaPlay: always reports core events
(**) MediaPlay: Device: "/dev/input/mediaplay"
(EE) Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/mediaplay".
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "MediaPlay"
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"

Any suggestions? I thought about maybe creating a permanent node for the mouse (mknod), but I don't know what major and minor numbers to use or whether this would even fix the problem.

EDIT: Okay, I got the node created, I'm pretty sure with the right numbers, but it didn't change the error.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:37 pm

I've never played with evdev but can't you use something like /dev/input/mice device that always exists?

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:39 pm

I'm working on a new overlay that I'll upload later today. It'll have a new snapshot, some patches from the bugzilla and perhaps also the suse compose cache patches for a more responsive dekstop.

enderandrew · Post by **enderandrew** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:41 pm

Outstanding. I'm in the middle of a fresh install, and I'll hold off on xorg until later tonight.

r.abbott · Post by **r.abbott** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:02 pm

I've never played with udev but can't you use something like /dev/input/mice device that always exists?

Evdev driver doesn't seem to work with /dev/input/mice. I think it is reserved for the 'mouse' driver.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:03 am

r.abbott wrote:
I've never played with udev but can't you use something like /dev/input/mice device that always exists?
Evdev driver doesn't seem to work with /dev/input/mice. I think it is reserved for the 'mouse' driver.

I meant "I've never played with evdev" of course.

This is just a guess but peharps you can have two mouse settings in your xorg.conf, one for the touchpad and one for the external mouse.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:07 am

Anyway, I've uploaded the new overlay! It's based on a 2005-11-15 snapshot, has a patchs for the annoying bug 1752 and the compose cache patches. The reason why it was a bit delayd was because I couldn't get the compose cache to work (no cache files are created). I'm not sure what's wrong but ti's included if you want to figure it out yourself. More info in this bug-report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3104

bladus · Post by **bladus** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:29 am

Thanks for the update, compiling right now!

Edit: Somehow the Scrollwheel and the extra-buttons of my mx510 are not working anymore, with 20051111 it was fine.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:32 am

bladus wrote:Thanks for the update, compiling right now!

Edit: Somehow the Scrollwheel and the extra-buttons of my mx510 are not working anymore, with 20051111 it was fine.

It's probably these changes:

2005-11-14 Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>

* programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c: (MousePreInit):
Bug #4915: ButtonMapping default changed from one-to-one mapping
to "1 2 3 8 9 10 11...".

2005-11-14 Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>

* programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c: (MousePreInit):
Bug #4915: Move buttonMapping initialization before calling OS
specific PreInit.

hoschi · Post by **hoschi** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:37 pm

hello, i tried to install xorg 7.0.0_rc2 on fresh system (only gcc 3.4 avaible):
at first it want to install xterm, is this possible:

because the dependecies of xterm are:

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     x11-libs/libX11
    x11-libs/libXaw
    x11-libs/libXft
    x11-libs/libxkbfile
    x11-libs/libXmu
    x11-libs/libXrender
    x11-libs/libXt
    doc sys-apps/groff
    Xaw3d x11-libs/Xaw3d
    virtual/utempter 
    virtual/x11

Xterm complains about missing Xaw3D and Athena-Library (never heard, only seen in the Deps above), and the emerge stops with a failure?
Is this a portage error?

bladus · Post by **bladus** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:24 pm

nxsty wrote:
bladus wrote:Thanks for the update, compiling right now!

Edit: Somehow the Scrollwheel and the extra-buttons of my mx510 are not working anymore, with 20051111 it was fine.
It's probably these changes:

2005-11-14 Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>

* programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c: (MousePreInit):
Bug #4915: ButtonMapping default changed from one-to-one mapping
to "1 2 3 8 9 10 11...".

2005-11-14 Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de>

* programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/mouse/mouse.c: (MousePreInit):
Bug #4915: Move buttonMapping initialization before calling OS
specific PreInit.

I don't get it, usually i would use:

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$ xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 8 9 10 4 5"

What's this one-to-one mapping?

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:20 pm

You probably don't need to use xmodmap anymore. From fdo bugzilla:

See the upstream bug report -- basically, it sanitises the mouse code so
ZAxisMappings do the right thing, without having to xmodmap your pointer to
enable extra buttons beyond the ZAxisMapping.

kevnician · Post by **kevnician** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:08 pm

r.abbott wrote:
I've never played with udev but can't you use something like /dev/input/mice device that always exists?
Evdev driver doesn't seem to work with /dev/input/mice. I think it is reserved for the 'mouse' driver.

I was having similar issues with Xorg not seeing my mx1000 on start up. I would have to unplug-replug the base unit in to get it to work. It was odd because cat /proc/bus/input/devices said the mouse was attached, evdev was loaded and every other check I found on the forums said it should work. I eventually compiled evdev into the kernel rather then a module and it solved the issue.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:54 am

I've uploaded a new overlay based on a snapshot as of today. Still no luck with the compose cache. Yesterday x.org had a bugday but not a single bug where closed. I wonder if they can ever make this release happend.

EDIT: It seems like the compose cache does work after all, partly. It's just the mkcomposecache program that fails to create the global cache files. The local cache however in ~/.compose-cache works. So just create the .compose-cache dir in your home to enable it.

jarealist · Post by **jarealist** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:08 pm

nxsty:

Just a short question. mkallcomposecaches.sh is being installed on my / directory. Is that correct?

BTW, thanks again for your work.

HecHacker1 · Post by **HecHacker1** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:29 am

i am really interested in this build, but does it include the exa patch for the i810? I use composite regularly on my laptop, but it is slow compared to my renderaccel nvidia desktop.

anyways, i will be trying out this build to see how it goes.

mpytasz · Post by **mpytasz** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:45 am

Hi,

I just tried this ebuild. I have Radeon RV350 based card. xorg-6.9_pre20051122 built fine, than I did X -configure to have new xorg configured, corrected xorg.conf(.new and copied it to /etc/X11), but I did not get direct rendering (missing libGL.so).
Ok, I found that symlinks in /usr/lib were missing, created tneccesary ones using files in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib - one problem was gone, next one appeared.
glxinfo says Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Well, ok, I've noticed xorg.conf did not have glx module loaded and there was no libglx in /usr/lib/modules/extensions, found it in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions so once again created a symlink and... here comes a real problem, which I don't know how to resolve.
When kdm starts background is displayed properly, however login window seems disordered. There are both text inputs (for login and password), only password input is labeled, no login button or any other are displayed, keyboard does not seem to work, although mouse is moving. Moreover system appears as if it hung (I can't even ssh to it - I get timeout) however if I try to turn it off through acpi power button it does work.
Another problem I have noticed is that r300_dri.so has not been built.

Any suggestions how to resolve "hang" problem when glx is loaded?

The PC is:

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r1, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.po.opole.pl http://src.gentoo.pl http://gentoo.zie.pg.gda.pl/"
LC_ALL="pl_PL"
LINGUAS="pl en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa amd64 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gif glut glx gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speedo spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_pl linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS

My xorg.conf (relevant sections) say:

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Section "Module"
        Load  "extmod"
        #Load  "glx" #disabled to be able to write this post
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

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Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BusType"                   # [<str>]
        #Option     "CPPIOMode"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CPusecTimeout"             # <i>
        #Option     "AGPMode"                   # <i>
        #Option     "AGPFastWrite"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AGPSize"                   # <i>
        #Option     "GARTSize"                  # <i>
        #Option     "RingSize"                  # <i>
        #Option     "BufferSize"                # <i>
        #Option     "EnableDepthMoves"          # [<bool>]
        #Option     "EnablePageFlip"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoBackBuffer"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DMAForXv"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "PanelOff"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DDCMode"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MonitorLayout"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseFBDev"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CRT2HSync"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2VRefresh"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "CRT2Position"              # [<str>]
        #Option     "MetaModes"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "MergedDPI"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "MergedXinerama"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedXineramaCRT2IsScreen0"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedNonRectangular"      # [<bool>]
        #Option     "MergedMouseRestriction"    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DisplayPriority"           # [<str>]
        #Option     "PanelSize"                 # [<str>]
        #Option     "ForceMinDotClock"          # <freq>
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCrystal"        # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreTunerPort"      # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreCompositePort"  # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreSVideoPort"     # <i>
        #Option     "TunerType"                 # <i>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocPath"     # <str>
        #Option     "RageTheatreMicrocType"     # <str>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SubPixelOrder"             # [<str>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DynamicClocks"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "BIOSHotkeys"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VGAAccess"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ReverseDDC"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "LVDSProbePLL"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "AccelMethod"               # <str>
        Option     "ColorTiling"                "false"# [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Michal

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:39 am

jarealist wrote:nxsty:

Just a short question. mkallcomposecaches.sh is being installed on my / directory. Is that correct?

BTW, thanks again for your work.

Oops. No that's wrong. It's fixed now.

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:44 am

mpytasz wrote:Hi,

I just tried this ebuild. I have Radeon RV350 based card. xorg-6.9_pre20051122 built fine, than I did X -configure to have new xorg configured, corrected xorg.conf(.new and copied it to /etc/X11), but I did not get direct rendering (missing libGL.so).
Ok, I found that symlinks in /usr/lib were missing, created tneccesary ones using files in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib - one problem was gone, next one appeared.
glxinfo says Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Well, ok, I've noticed xorg.conf did not have glx module loaded and there was no libglx in /usr/lib/modules/extensions, found it in /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions so once again created a symlink and... here comes a real problem, which I don't know how to resolve.
When kdm starts background is displayed properly, however login window seems disordered. There are both text inputs (for login and password), only password input is labeled, no login button or any other are displayed, keyboard does not seem to work, although mouse is moving. Moreover system appears as if it hung (I can't even ssh to it - I get timeout) however if I try to turn it off through acpi power button it does work.
Another problem I have noticed is that r300_dri.so has not been built.

Any suggestions how to resolve "hang" problem when glx is loaded?

You shouldn't need to create those symlinks, opengl-update or eselect should take car of that. What happens if you remove your symlinks and do a opengl-update xorg-x11? The r300_dri.so is probably only build if you use the insecure-drivers USE but I',m not sure the build will complete at all then. Perhaps using ATI's binary drivers would work better?

mpytasz · Post by **mpytasz** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:45 am

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

1. I tried eselect opengl set xorg-x11 - nothing happend that's why I cerated them manually
2. I built xorg with insecure-drivers use flag, here is emerge -pv of xorg (executed after build):

$ emerge -pv xorg-x11

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9_pre20051122 (-3dfx) +bitmap-fonts -cjk -debug -doc +font-server +insecure-drivers +ipv6 -minimal +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) +xprint +xv 0 kB [1]

3. I will check ati-drivers, but the main reason to build 6.9 was to get rid of ati's binaries

Thanks, any suggestions/solutions are welcome

Michal

nxsty · Post by **nxsty** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:36 pm

HecHacker1 wrote:i am really interested in this build, but does it include the exa patch for the i810? I use composite regularly on my laptop, but it is slow compared to my renderaccel nvidia desktop.

anyways, i will be trying out this build to see how it goes.

No I don't include any of the exa patches yet but I'm planing to do that with a exa USE-flag.

basquiat · Post by **basquiat** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:04 pm

mpytasz wrote:Another problem I have noticed is that r300_dri.so has not been built.

As far as I know, r300_dri.so is only part of the Mesa-CVS, which hasn't been merged to the Xorg-CVS yet. For DRI, you need to compile yourself a kernel-driver - just have a look at this thread. As it is a very quick moving target, maybe there is a chance to get the r300- and Mesa-CVS built with this experimental ebuild, too? I really don't know how much complexity this would add to the whole process, so it might be I'm just asking for too much.

Unfortunately, there are known issues to the stability of the radeon driver at the moment, causing frequent lockups for some users, including me and my Thinkpad. On my desktop, everything runs fine using Nvidia's binary driver.

So nxsty, thank you very much for your work - it's great!

Ricky · Post by **Ricky** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:50 pm

Iluminatus wrote:I've looked over kernel 2.6.14 drm and althought it has significant changes, the latetst changes only appear in 2.6.15rc1. Can you use cvs DRM instead of kernel drm.

Latest of latest please.

By the looking of your log

2 things worry me

No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:0) found

(EE) RADEON(0): Static buffer allocation failed. Disabling DRI.
(EE) RADEON(0): At least 11700 kB of video memory needed at this resolution and depth.
It's almost has if your card isn't known, and drm couldn't found any viable memory. I need to do a little more research, but for now, i cannot help you much, important exam on monday sorry.

Just give a quick check in dmesg, in system messages..

Hi all,

School's gotten ahold of me too, so I haven't been fiddling w/ it much, although I've been keeping up with the snapshot releases (currently on 6.9_pre20051122) in hopes that it fixes something. Alas, nothing yet...

As for the "No matching device" thing, that's for my AGP card. I get that error when I load up on just the PCI card (which is 0:9:0) but the AGP card works fine by itself (and I get the same error but for 0:9:0 when on the AGP, so I don't think it's a big deal).

The "Static buffer allocation" error is kind of puzzling, because the card has 32 megs of memory, and I have "VideoRam 32768" in the device section. No clue there.

Also, I pulled DRM/Mesa from CVS, and no luck there. Didn't seem to make any difference. They're both R100 cards, so ati-drivers are of dubious value to me. Anybody have any other suggestions?

Edit: I should also add that dmesg/system logs didn't seem to have anything useful in it. Thanks.