reproducing the old "tinyx" server

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:21:14 -0400, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> hi -- i'm an xorg newbie.  have patience.
> 
> i have a handheld device on which i run the current debian testing
> releases.  it has a 640x480 16bpp display, accessed solely via fbdev.
> i run the Xfbdev server that was available in the debian stream until
> earlier this summer as "xserver-tinyx-fbdev", version 4.1.0-3, built
> for mips.  this server was falling pretty far behind in maintenance,
> and was pulled from debian sometime early this summer.  i'm still running
> with the "obsolete" package, which is okay for now, but in looking
> forward, i thought i should try to build the "latest".
> 
> so, seeing that there was brandy-new 6.8.1 just out, i decided to
> build it.  and, much to my surprise, i was successful.  :-)  even
> more to my surprise, it actually runs, and works.  :-)
> 
> i tried to trim things out of the host.def as much as possible -- fbdev
> only, for instance -- but i still have the following sizes:
> 
>     [ the debian release ]
>     $ size /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfbdev
>        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     1041350   27352   33324 1102026  10d0ca /usr/X11R6/bin/Xfbdev
> 
>     [ my 6.8.1 build ]
>     $ size /sandbox/fun/xorg/mips/programs/Xserver/Xorg
>        text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     5906759  550916  149036 6606711  64cf77 /sandbox/xc/programs/Xserver/Xorg
> 
> clearly i wasn't as successful in my trimming as i'd like to be.  :-)
> 
> so:  can anyone offer up a recipe, or a template, for building something
> that's closer to what i'm currently running?  my host.def file is here:
>     http://www.foxharp.boston.ma.us/tmp/host.def
> 
> another issue is the touchscreen.  previously i was using the /dev/ts
> interface provided by Xfbdev, which i think is an alias for /dev/h3600_ts,
> or something like that.  what should i use currently?

I think it depends on the kernel 2.6, I believe, uses the event
interface, while 2.4 uses the system specific ts stuff.  You may want
to ask on one of the MLs on handhelds.org.

Alex

> 
> thanks for any help...
> 
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 64.4 degrees)
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