Latest Xgl code

Christopher Bayliss bayliscg at baylisscg.org
Wed Jan 4 16:23:31 PST 2006


Rich Wareham wrote:
> Christopher Bayliss wrote:
> 
>> David Reveman wrote:
>>
>>> xserver seams to be working OK. I'll check on x86_64 later tonight as
>>> well. There were some problems with _XSERVER64 not being define when
>>> building mesa sources and I had to go through some trouble making that
>>> work in my tree. I want to make sure that's not a problem again...
>>
>>
>> I managed to build the kdrive code on my x86_64 under Ubuntu. 

 I built mine in a chroot so I have a list of, hopefully, all the
packages needed to build it. Anyone interested?

> I also managed to get it working under Ubuntu (just plain ol' x86 this
> time) along with patched Mesa and glxcompmgr. Is it worth my time fixing
> up glxcompmgr (e.g. to make it work with some non-metacity WMs like
> blackbox) or should I wait until David's snazzy compositing manager is
> available?

Well if he makes XDevConf it would be a little over a month to wait. I
use the nvidia driver so its less of an issue for me.

>> The keyboard *sometimes* doesn't work. I always get a warning about XKB
>> but sometimes I get either garbage or nothing when I type.
> 
> 
> I also get the errors but the garbage is due to sticky modifier keys
> (i.e. Alt being depressed over the Xgl window and released elsewhere).
> If you get garbage just press a load of modifiers over the window.





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