Call for Testing: Xorg Updates (20100830)

rworkman · 10-24-2010, 05:59 PM

zsd: I'm not sure what's going on there. In my experience here, the evdev catchall is applied, but the synaptics driver still overrides it later:

Code:

[130112.099] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event6)
[130112.099] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[130112.099] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad"
[130112.099] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[130112.099] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[130112.099] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[130112.099]    compiled for 1.9.0, module version = 1.3.0
[130112.099]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[130112.099]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 11.0
[130112.099] (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 1.3.0
[130112.099] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
[130112.143] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5598
[130112.143] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4670
[130112.143] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[130112.143] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15
[130112.143] (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right
[130112.143] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[130112.143] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[130112.143] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
...

I notice that Ubuntu uses an older version of the synaptics driver, so maybe it's a regression in that. Perhaps try grabbing the 1.2.2 source and finding out

rworkman · 10-24-2010, 06:00 PM

abrouwers: I saw you guys fussing on IRC about it ;-) so I whipped up a talloc build and rebuilt mesa against it (along with some more patches from mesa git), so I'll be uploaded new stuff soonish.

rworkman · 10-24-2010, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cathectic

Looks about right - in the past we had HAL doing this for us, so Slackware probably does need to provide a pre-populated /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d to do some of this.

These packages provide both /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ (with commented examples and defaults) and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

grissiom · 10-25-2010, 10:28 AM

Thanks RW! Your new xorg set(1.9.1) works fine with Intel HD graphic in the Core i3

However, the synaptic's gesture is still missing... ;(

rworkman · 10-25-2010, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grissiom

However, the synaptic's gesture is still missing... ;(

Is this something that the driver supports? From my (limited) research, it appears to be something that synaptics.com offers in a proprietary driver. I think the open driver supports some of that, but I won't swear to it - I keep my touchpad disabled most of the time

zsd · 10-26-2010, 08:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrZ

Dont know if it is the right approach:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

ps: I'm using one external mouse, so it came as mouse2. My old config was suppressed inside xorg.conf.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it out, and that did not improve things. I guess the next thing to do is to try the older Synaptics stuff as RW suggested. But I appreciate you taking the time to suggest that.

grissiom · 10-26-2010, 09:57 AM

Besides, http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html introduced a new lib - libva which seems support hardware video decoding. Is there any plan to include it?

ponce · 10-26-2010, 10:57 AM

maybe in the meantime we can use the slackbuilds.org version

after installing talloc, ldconfig complains

Code:

ldconfig: /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2 is not a symbolic link

Code:

# ls -la /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    14 2010-09-16 10:17 /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so -> libtalloc.so.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38928 2010-09-14 20:58 /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38072 2010-10-25 02:29 /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2.0.1*

Code:

# grep libtalloc.so.2 /var/log/packages/*
/var/log/packages/samba-3.5.5-x86_64-1:usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2
/var/log/packages/talloc-2.0.1-x86_64-2_rlw:usr/lib64/libtalloc.so.2.0.1

I'll try a

Code:

cd /usr/lib64
mv libtalloc.so.2 /tmp/libtalloc.so.2
ln -s libtalloc.so.2.0.1 libtalloc.so.2

and test a little samba to see if it breaks

in the meantime I'll try to build samba over the new libtalloc.

EDIT: sorry, I spotted also this

Code:

# grep talloc /var/log/packages/* | grep include | grep '.h'
/var/log/packages/samba-3.5.5-x86_64-1:usr/include/talloc.h
/var/log/packages/talloc-2.0.1-x86_64-2_rlw:usr/include/talloc.h

ponce · 10-26-2010, 11:45 AM

looks like samba (that I configured with --enable-external-libtalloc) looks for /usr/lib64/libtalloc.so: if there isn't (like when I removed samba and reinstalled talloc) build breaks while linking to it

Code:

...
creating /tmp/SBo/samba-3.5.5/source3/exports/libwbclient.syms
Linking shared library bin/libwbclient.so.0
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.5.1/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ltalloc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bin/libwbclient.so.0] Error 1

hand-linking to libtalloc.so.2 make the build go on and package builds fine

now testing time on my girlfriend smb share: she'll surely be enthusiastic, she has all her work in it!

P.S. If you don't see me posting anymore drink a beer to my memory

ponce · 10-26-2010, 12:13 PM

phew, it works.

I'm risking my friggin' life for slackware: this is too "bleeding edge", gotta slow down LOL

zsd · 10-26-2010, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

zsd: I'm not sure what's going on there. In my experience here, the evdev catchall is applied, but the synaptics driver still overrides it later:

<snip>

I notice that Ubuntu uses an older version of the synaptics driver, so maybe it's a regression in that. Perhaps try grabbing the 1.2.2 source and finding out

Easier said than done, as it turns out. Thre is no configure file in the source I found, so I try
autoconf configure.ac
which gives me

configure.ac:39: error: must install xorg-macros 1.3 or later before running autoconf/autogen
configure.ac:39: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

I've searched the web a bit, but so far no answers. Is this something you've already figured out for which you can tell me? Thanks.

rworkman · 10-26-2010, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zsd

Easier said than done, as it turns out. Thre is no configure file in the source I found, so I try
autoconf configure.ac
which gives me

configure.ac:39: error: must install xorg-macros 1.3 or later before running autoconf/autogen
configure.ac:39: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

I've searched the web a bit, but so far no answers. Is this something you've already figured out for which you can tell me? Thanks.

ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/drive...-1.2.2.tar.bz2

rworkman · 10-26-2010, 09:52 PM

talloc stuff is fixed in BUILD=3_rlw

Quote:

Originally Posted by grissiom

Besides, http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html introduced a new lib - libva which seems support hardware video decoding. Is there any plan to include it?

I haven't looked recently, but it didn't appear useful when I did. Is anything else actually using it now?

grissiom · 10-26-2010, 10:38 PM

I've tried build the libva but it seems only support i965. nv users could try vdpau-video backend(does it means driver?...). I tried vlc with/without libva installed but see no significance difference. I think the reason might be alien doesn't build vlc with libva....

There are a lot of work to do if we want to take full use of it... ;(

Alien Bob · 10-27-2010, 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grissiom

I've tried build the libva but it seems only support i965. nv users could try vdpau-video backend(does it means driver?...). I tried vlc with/without libva installed but see no significance difference. I think the reason might be alien doesn't build vlc with libva....

There are a lot of work to do if we want to take full use of it... ;(

I do build my VLC with libva support, but indeed for Nvidia cards you have to install libva as well as vdpau-video additionally.

Also, it is critical that the versions of libva which I compiled into VLC and the one you install on your computer are matching. Currently slackbuilds.org offers a newer version of libva than I used, so acceleration does not work then (at least, I am getting library version mismatch errors).

Eric