Re: Ubuntu & xorg 6.8.2-10 patches

[Ken M. <ke...@th...>]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 03:33 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> 
> --- Ken McCord <ke...@th...> wrote:
> 
> > Mark Hurenkamp wrote:
> > 
> > >>I'm using the pre-experimental Debian packages
> > based on the original
> > >>Ubuntu packages.  The /etc/apt/sources.list line
> > for them is:
> > >>
> > >>deb http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xorg ./
> > >>
> > >>With a 2.6.8 kernel, here's a snippet from my
> > xorg.conf file.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Section "InputDevice"
> > >>    Identifier "Keyboard"
> > >>    Driver "kbd"
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >^^^ Here's what solved my problem.
> > >I had a line 'Driver "keyboard"' here, which
> > apparently does not work
> > >with evdev.
> > >I replaced it with the line above, and now things
> > work perfectly.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>    Option "Protocol" "evdev"
> > >>    Option "Dev Phys" "usb-*.0-1.1/input0"
> > >>    # Option "Dev Name" "NMB Dell USB 7HK
> > Keyboard"
> > >>    Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> > >>    Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
> > >>    Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> > >>EndSection
> > >>    
> > >>
> >
> 
> Your post made me curious how far xorg had gotten
> along and I installed from the site you mentioned.
> 
> There was another fix needed to avoid mozilla from
> diappearing and wmxmms to show up, from here:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency#Enabling_shadows_and_real_transparency
> which solved it.
> 
> Then of course the "eyecandy", I found xcompmgr here:
> http://freedesktop.org/xapps/release/ it apparently is
> not with the .debs.
> 
> And to compile that had to install xcomposite, xfixes,
> xdamage and xrender and link pkgconfig for X to where
> he wants it apparently.
> 
> There is a transset on a key here:
> http://forchheimer.se/transset-df/
> 
> But I never got that to run because e16keyedit dies.
> 
> Which brings us to what all that gets you.
> 
> With a 2.1GHz CPU running xcompmgr -c on only 1 X puts
> the CPU at a constant 56% and X is cute to look at but
> in no whay ready to useful work: way to slow on a
> Nvidia TNT with acceleration set.
> 
> Anybody actually use this in a production mode for
> useful work, like answering emails?
> 
> Hugo
> 


1 - Please reread the first sentence - 'pre-experimental Debian
packages'.

2 - They're based on Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog packages - why not check
there?  As far as my limited usage, they're working fine.

Ken