irclog2html for gpe on 2002.07.12

09:51:00pbmorning
09:52:33mallumhey pb
09:52:45mallumhttp://handhelds.org/~mallum/matchbox/
09:58:24pbmallum: wahey!
09:58:55mallumpb: would you grab the 0.3 tarball and just check it builds for you ?
09:59:02pbmallum: sure thing
10:04:10pbmallum: am I supposed to need to run autoconfigure.sh?
10:06:14mallumno
10:06:19mallumjust configure
10:06:43pbconfigure: creating ./config.status
10:06:43pbconfig.status: creating Makefile
10:06:43pbconfig.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in
10:06:43pbpb@chelsea:~/matchbox-0.3$
10:06:44pb:-(
10:07:07mallumdoh
10:08:20mallumeating lunch
10:08:30mallumwill take a peek in a mo
10:12:23mallumarg, works fine for me :(
10:13:24pb:-|
10:15:18mallumyou just do a ./configure and then get that ?
10:16:20pbyup
10:16:29pbwell, ./configure --prefix=/usr, but I doubt the prefix matters
10:16:43mallumno shouldn't do
10:16:56pblet me try again, might have been a temporary NFS glitch or something
10:16:59mallumpb: let me try it on a woody machine ..
10:18:07mallumpb: I got xstroke working on powerpc last night :)
10:18:17pbcool :-)
10:18:31pbmallum: hmm, weird, it worked that time.
10:18:45pbmallum: guess NFS was to blame after all
10:19:02mallumpb: phew
10:19:15mallumpb: yes it worked ok for me on my x86 woody machnine
10:24:05pbmallum: all compiled, no problems.
10:28:18mallumpb: woohoo
10:28:53mallumpb: I was playing with X and ARM machine last night, it appears X may not support that card :(
10:29:34pbmallum: oh dear
10:29:46pbmallum: what version of X server are you using?
10:31:52mallum4.1
10:31:59mallumits an s3 trio64 card
10:32:28pbmallum: bizarre, S3 Trios must be the single most common type of card out there.
10:32:54mallumpb: yeah
10:33:14pbmallum: I suppose it's possible the driver didn't get ported to XF86 4, though.  Can you install XF86_S3 from release 3.3?
10:33:54mallumpb: maybe the vesa driver supports them, but I dont think the vesa driver can speak through the CATS weirdo bios
10:34:05pbmallum: indeed
10:34:20pbmallum: I don't think the CATS provides any BIOS services after the kernel has booted
10:34:24mallumpb: 3.3 is not really much good to me as I need xrender stuff which is only in 4
10:34:46pbmallum: ah
10:34:47mallumpb: the vesa driver pokes around for a bios and cant find one I think
10:35:32mallumpb: the idea behind getting X running on it would be to test GTK2 speeds, newer Xrender stuff before dumping on ipaq
10:35:33pbhmm, yes
10:35:36pb    Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2, ViRGE/MX, ViRGE/MX+, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X is provided by the "s3virge" driver. Support (accelerated) for the Savage3D, Savage3D/MV, Savage4, and Savage2000, is provided by the "savage" driver. Support for the other S3 chipsets has not yet been ported.
10:35:47pbthat's from the 4.1 documentation
10:36:17mallumpb: yeaeh but I dont think trio3d is the same as trio 64
10:36:26pbmallum: no, absolutely
10:36:35pbmallum: but it looks like it might be supported in 4.2:
10:36:39pb    Support (accelerated) for the 964 (revisions 0 and 1), 968, Trio32, Trio64, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Aurora64V+, Trio64V2, and PLATO/PX is provided by the "s3" driver (however, only models using the IBM RGB 524, Texas Instruments 3025, or an internal TrioDAC RAMDAC chip are supported). Support (accelerated) for the ViRGE, ViRGE/VX, ViRGE/DX, ViRGE/GX, ViRGE/GX2, ViRGE/MX, ViRGE/MX+, Trio3D and Trio3D/2X is provided by the "s3virge" driver.
10:36:39pbSupport (accelerated) for the Savage3D, Savage3D/MV, Savage4, Savage2000, and SuperSavage, is provided by the "savage" driver. Support for the other S3 chipsets has not yet been ported.
10:36:47mallumpb: aha
10:37:03mallumpb: are the exp 4.2 debs built for ARM yet ?
10:37:15pbmallum: dunno
10:38:10pbgetting lunch, back in 10
10:38:32mallumpb: everything but arm :( -> http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/
10:48:59pb:-|
10:49:06pbmallum: wanna build 'em yourself?
10:50:55Suppressor_g3hello all
10:51:36mallumpb: doing it
10:51:43pbgood man
10:51:52Suppressor_g3which the site of packages latest qtopia?
10:52:03pb#opie
10:53:53pbmallum: yesterday I was trying to figure out how to build TinyX packages for debian; it seems to be quite hard.
10:54:35mallumpb: the build rather than the packaging ? or the otherway round ?
10:54:46pbmallum: well, the combination.
10:55:09pbmallum: it doesn't seem to be possible to build both the "normal" XFree86 and the kdrive server in a single "make World" invocation
10:55:28pbmallum: so debian/rules would have to build once, change the .cf file, selectively "make clean" and then build again.
10:55:41mallumpb: I think you do a Buildserveronly in host.def and a buildkdrive too
10:56:08pbyeah
10:56:22pbI'll send email to Branden
10:57:30mallumthen packaging wise I guess you'd have a xserver-kdrive
10:57:46pbyup
10:57:53mallumor maybe xserver-kdrive-fbdev or xserver-kdrive-vesa whatever
10:58:07pbwell, probably xserver-h3600 in practice; it seems to be rather chummy with the touchscreen driver
10:58:10mallumpb: and that would just link /etc/X11/x to its binary
10:58:44mallumpb: yeah, they are meant to be converting it over to the rmk's tslib stuff
10:59:18pbmallum: yup, I think there is already some mechanism in place to select between different X servers, so you can go on using the 3.3 legacy servers if you need to, while still having the 4.x libs and apps.
10:59:24mallumpb: cos the ucb-whatever touchscreen does not work with tinyX as it supports new tslib /dev/ts format whilst tinyX the old
10:59:25pbmallum: dunno, you'd have to ask jg I guess.
10:59:33pbhmm, right
10:59:41pbit would be kind of cool to be able to run X on my assabet board
10:59:58mallumpb: is assabet ucbXXXX based ?
11:00:05pbmallum: think so
11:00:05mallumpb: like touchscreen ?
11:00:15mallumpb: tiny is pretty easy to patch to do it
11:00:25pbah, ok
11:00:49mallumpb: but fontenot said that tslib was just too slow doing the filtering etc in userspace
11:00:56pb:-|
11:01:09mallumpb: Id like to patch tinyX to do click and hold for left click ;)
11:01:17pbseems strange, I can't see that it would be all that much slower in userspace than in the kernel.
11:01:31pbfor right click, you mean?
11:01:36mallumpb: I think they needed to use sigio or something
11:01:38mallumpb: yeah
11:01:42mallumpb: sorry
11:01:50mallumpb: that what jg mentioned
11:01:59pbbizarre, guess I ought to look at the tslib code and see what's going on.
11:02:17pbI'd have thought they could just use blocking I/O, it seems like a fundamentally single threaded process.
11:02:32pbmallum: you don't buy into the cworth "fix it in the toolkit" school of thought then?
11:03:07mallumpb: hmm, sure. But I also believe in practicality ;)
11:03:20pbheh
11:03:41mallumpb: Im sure originally jg+gang it was like 'hey look run desktop apps on your handheld'
11:03:49pbwell, it'd be interesting to look at what it would take to do that in Gdk/Gtk.
11:03:59pbmallum: mmm.
11:04:16mallumpb: the only solid way to do it is in the Xserver
11:04:46pbyou mean solid as in reliable, or solid as in coping with all those bare-metal Xlib programs?
11:05:02mallumpb: and as far as Im concerned its no different to big X emulating 3 buttons
11:05:11pbmallum: agreed
11:05:47mallumpb: solid as in reliable. I did it once in gdk and it difficult to balance up events ( up and downs ) which then confuses X
11:05:55pbmallum: I see
11:05:59mallumpb: and also it approx 5 line patch to tinyX
11:06:32mallumpb: also I have a touchscreen machine which has a modifier button for the 2nd mounse button, tinyX has no way to deal with that
11:07:20pbmallum: right
11:09:34mallumpb: also theres no reason why you couldn't do it in tslib ;)
11:09:49pbmallum: mmm, that's a thought.
11:10:07mallumpb: as long as the tslib spec has an allowance for a second button
11:10:08pbmallum: well, I suppose you still have the problem of the modifier button on your hardware, unless that gets exposed as a key event or something.
11:11:05mallumpb: X people couldn't complain if it was done in tslib
11:12:15pbmallum: indeed, that's a big plus.
11:12:30pbmallum: just downloaded the tslib source, looking at it now.
11:16:36mallumpb: if I put http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/source/ in my sources.list as a src, do I just do an apt-get -b source XFree86_4.2.0 ?
11:16:44pbmallum: yes
11:16:55mallumpb: okey
11:17:23pbwell, I can't see anything obvious in tslib that ought to slow it down too much
11:17:52pband it doesn't seem to have any concept of multiple buttons at all: the event structure it gives you looks like:
11:17:56pbstruct ts_sample {
11:17:56pb        int             x;
11:17:57pb        int             y;
11:17:57pb        unsigned int    pressure;
11:17:57pb        struct timeval  tv;
11:17:59pb};
11:18:03pb:-|
11:19:27mallum:(
11:19:53mallumneed to find more touchscreens with modifier buttons
11:20:07mallumI wonder if one exists with the modifier button on the pen ?
11:21:05pbnever seen one like that, but it doesn't seem unlikely
11:22:40mallumpb: do you knwo rmk personally ?
11:23:43pbmallum: depends what you mean
11:23:45pbmallum: I've met him a few times
11:23:56mallumrealises not just the build of X is gonna take some time - only 11k p/sec download
11:24:21mallumpb: maybe you could mention it to him. I d be too scared to post and suggest it ;)
11:24:44pbmallum: probably better coming from you to be honest, rmk tends to have a very low opinion of things I suggest
11:25:52mallumpb: :(
11:26:28mallumpb: he can get very aggressive on the arm list
11:26:36mallumpb: sometimes it is funny
11:26:40pbindeed
11:26:47mallumpb: he does do alot of work on that list though ...
11:27:46pbyeah
11:28:08pband he mostly seems to have given up styling himself "THE developer", which I guess is a step in the right direction :-)
11:28:23mallum?
11:28:54pbsee his sig: e.g. http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-announce/2001-March/000043.html
11:33:07mallumooo-err
11:34:10mallumand THE is capitalised
11:34:21pbyup, that's the best part :-)
11:36:24mallumwas he making a statement, or just being a twat ?
11:36:31pbI've never been able to figure it out.
11:36:42mallumI think he likes ac alot
11:36:48pbyeah
11:38:07mallumhe is having an affair with tesla ;P
11:38:15pbheh
11:39:45mallumI find all there diarys very entertaining I must say
11:40:33pbI haven't read any of them recently, maybe I should have a look
11:41:22mallumI imagine alan cox being quite nice in person, as long as you dont mention doing any audio filtering in kernel space
11:41:44pbyeah, I should think so
11:41:51pbI've never actually spoken to him in person
11:44:42pboh dear
11:44:46pbJul 12 12:53:11 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00001000
11:54:02mallumouch
11:54:23pbtrying to get my wireless LAN card working
11:54:23mallumpb: why do people sometimes put a pad 'element' in a struct ?
11:54:34mallumpb: what card is it ?
11:54:44pbmallum: either space for future expansion, or aligning to a known boundary
11:54:47pbmallum: some kind of prism2
11:55:05pbmallum: it calls itself "ACTIONTEC", "PRISM Wireless LAN PC Card", "0381", "RevA"
11:55:42mallumpb: is it lying about its voltage ?
11:56:06pbmallum: hard to tell, the single sleeve apparently doesn't report voltage information
11:56:29mallumpb: the dwl650 have a lot of problems due to broken firmware
11:56:42mallumpb: I could never get the prism2ap drivers to work with that
11:56:50pbmallum: but it's a 3V card, and I'd expect it would have exploded with smoke and fire by now if it was going to go wrong.
11:57:07mallumpb: they used to with newer orinoco driver, if you passed some vcc option in
11:57:17mallumpb: but the card was pure evil
11:59:09pbah, hmm, yeah, the orinoco driver seems to be working a bit better
11:59:16pbJul 12 12:11:58 localhost kernel: eth0: Error -110 setting multicast list.
11:59:21pbI guess that's harmless enough
11:59:40mallumpb: yeah
12:00:14mallumpb: I got a cheap sitecom? prism2 card from PC world for 50 quid and that worked strait off as an AP no problems at all
12:00:47pbyeah, I have a Netgear prism2 in my other machine and that "just worked" with wlan-ng.
12:01:47pbdunno if it's an ARM specific failure, or something about the actiontec card; I can't put the actiontec into the i386 machine because the latter is 5V only, but I guess I could try the netgear in the ipaq.
12:24:00mallumErr http://people.debian.org sid/source/ xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v1 (tar)            3
12:24:00mallum  Error reading from server Remote end closed connection
12:24:03mallum:(
12:24:07mallumits started again
12:24:40pbsigh
12:25:48mallumwill that be mirrored anywhere ?
12:26:03pbdon't think so
12:26:14mallumoh no wait it picked up where it left off :)
12:26:26mallumand 14k per sec now - wooohooo !
12:28:37mallumpb: is gpe what working now ?
12:28:49pbmallum: think so, want to try it out?
12:30:13mallumpb: yeah will do
12:30:27mallumjust build some matchbox 0.3 ipkgs :)
12:31:10mallumIm gonna leave xft on by defualt for these
12:31:17mallumand make some nonxft alternates
12:31:50pbcool
12:31:52mallumpb: hmm ipkg does not do suggests or recommends ?
12:32:03pbdon't think so
12:32:29pbnor does dpkg, as such -- it's just dselect etc that looks at those.
12:32:39mallumok
12:45:12mallumpb: uploading 0.3 ipkg
12:45:16mallumpb: seems fine
12:45:22mallumpb: couple of minor theme issues
12:45:34pbcool
12:45:40mallumpb: but other than that seems cool
12:46:09mallumpb: Im gonna write some release notes then get it in unstable
12:47:08pbgreat
12:48:18mallumpb: wehay gpe-what docked :)
12:48:26mallumpb: now 'what' does it do ?
12:49:03pbmallum: open up, say, gpe-calendar or gpe-todo
12:49:10mallumpb: I see :)
12:49:31mallumpb: I click it then a widget and it tells me stuff
12:49:35pbyup
12:49:42mallumpb: how does it work ?
12:51:54pbmallum: tooltips, basically
12:53:00pbmallum: when you click on the gpe-what button in the dock, it sets a magic property on the root window; all the other apps notice this and put themselves into "help mode".
12:54:01pbmallum: the application-side stuff is all implemented in libgpewidget, it's completely transparent to the programmer.
12:55:35mallumpb: cool
12:55:56mallumpb: you could maybe use the tray_message() call to send a large amount of help too ?
12:56:08mallumpb: that messaging is part of the spec BTW
12:56:58pbmallum: at the moment, all the display is done by the client application, gpe-what itself is literally just a button that toggles a property.
12:57:16pbmallum: I think the Gtk tooltips architecture does provide for longer help messages, but none of the apps set them at the moment.
12:57:31mallumpb: sure
12:57:53pbI'll have a look at tray_message.
12:58:33mallumpb: Im thinking about extending a little ...
12:59:37mallumpb: oh if gpe-what sticks a file in /usr/share/matchbox/mbdock - it'll get included in the menu
12:59:45pbah, cool
12:59:56mallumpb: the file format is simple
13:00:54mallumpb: though currently I dont dynamically reload it :(
13:01:05mallumpb: Id better add that to the 3.1 todo
13:05:31pbgood plan
13:06:49mallumX has started building ....
13:06:56pbyay
13:07:03mallumhow many hours ?
13:07:04mallum12
13:07:07pbabout that I think
13:07:34mallumouch
13:07:51pbyou could check buildd.debian.org, the logs have total build time at the end.
13:17:03mallumIf I have too packages matchbox_0.3 and matchbox_0.3noxft - ipkg is gonna think the noxft one is newer isn't it ?
13:17:24pbyes
13:17:31pbyou need to put the "noxft" before the _
13:17:40pbie, have matchbox_0.3 and matchbox-noxft_0.3
13:17:43mallumyeah
13:17:47mallumthats what I thought
13:17:56mallumshould I change the name in control too ?
13:17:59pbyes
13:18:31pbwith big debian, matchbox-xft would say "Conflicts: matchbox; Provides: matchbox" or something; dunno if there is a direct equivalent with ipkg
13:19:48mallumoh dear;
13:19:51mallummallum@debian:~/Projects/X4.2/xfree86-4.2.0$ df -h
13:19:51mallumFilesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
16:03:07mallumpb__: you there ?
16:04:38pb__mallum: kind of
16:05:09mallumpb__: I sent an announce to familair lists and it dont seen to have shown up :(
16:05:18pb__I think the lists are a bit slow at the moment
16:05:32pb__sometimes taking up to 12 hours or so
16:06:15mallumhmm, okey
16:06:33mallumI hope too many people dont upgrade before the mail ;(
16:07:57mallumbrb...
19:25:26lars_gGreetings everyone.
19:25:30lars_g:)
19:26:59pb__yo
19:29:39lars_gpb__: Yo :)
19:30:13lars_git's quite lonely here today
19:45:01mallumhey
19:46:27pb__hey mallum
19:48:32mallumhey pb__, X still a building ...
19:48:41pb__:-|
19:48:47pb__is building glibc
19:49:27mallumwhat for ?
19:49:36mallumas in what device ...
19:49:39pb__arm
19:49:44pb__CATS, more specifically
19:49:58pb__mostly just to find out whether libc 2.3 actually works on arm at the moment
19:50:21mallumaha
19:50:24pb__and I installed your matchbox packages, once I figured out that ipkg considers "0.3rc1" to be newer than "0.3" (duh)
19:50:38mallumand you are in charge of that port ?
19:50:43pb__yes
19:50:49pb__I guess so, anyway
19:52:01mallum;)
19:52:04pb__is also building new dillo packages for debian
19:52:09mallumAny probs with matchbox ?
19:52:17pb__mallum: no, seems to be working pretty well so far
19:52:50pb__I did notice that if you rotate to landscape mode, put the dock slider near the right hand edge, and then rotate back to portrait, the slider is still off the side of the screen.  But I guess you could file this under "don't do that, then".
19:53:15mallumThe slider is unaccessable ?
19:53:23mallumThe slider will disapear if its not needed
19:53:58pb__mallum: yeah
19:54:25mallumyeah thats whats probably happening
19:54:36mallumI think I need to rethink how the slider should work
19:54:41mallumI have some other ideas
19:55:01pb__mallum: I've also been noticing that miniapm seems to just "go away" occasionally, not sure exactly what's going on there.
19:56:04pb__mallum: and, right at the moment, I seem to have a mystery "<unnamed>" entry in my dock that I can't get rid of.
19:56:41mallumpb__: old xstroke ?
19:57:01pb__mallum: don't think so, I'm running your ma3 or whatever it was.
19:57:09mallumpb__: some timee the dock apps get clipped by the oom killer thingy
19:57:12pb__mallum: and xstroke itself is definitely visible separately in the dock.
19:57:21mallumpb__: old mmenu ?
19:57:32mallumpb__: I can remember seeing it ...
19:57:43pb__ah, might be an old mmenu
19:57:44mallumpb__: looking at ~/.mbdock may give a clue
19:58:10pb__I seem to have crashed my ipaq by swapping sleeves, gonna have to reboot
19:58:31pb__sigh
20:00:26pb__oh well, the mystery thing has gone away now, whatever it was.
20:02:45mallumI really need to set up a mini bugzilla
20:02:58mallumor something to track bugs, feature requests etc
20:03:04pb__mallum: you can create components in the gpe bugzilla if you want
20:03:19pb__mallum: or indeed a new top-level project
20:03:46mallumcool, thanks
20:03:57mallumbugzilla always seem overkill to me :(
20:04:02pb__yeah
20:04:07pb__but it seems to work pretty well
20:04:32mallumI tried to set up this 'roundup' but it dont work :(
20:04:46pb__let me know when you've set up a bugzilla account, and I'll turn on your admin privs.
20:04:56mallumhh.org bugzilla keeps mailing me bugs I've closed
20:05:05mallumcool, thanks again
20:05:11mallumI may have to take you up on your offer
20:05:21mallumwill sort it next week now though
20:06:03pb__sure
20:06:18pb__../sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h:428: `_dl_rtld_map' undeclared (first use in this function)
20:06:20pb__:-(
20:10:39mallumdoh
20:11:45pb__hmm, this is weird, I do "apt-get update" and:
20:11:49pb__Err http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
20:11:49pb__  416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
20:12:05pb__well, I suppose nothing should surprise me about www.uk.debian.org, but still.
20:12:08mallumoo a collectable
20:12:30pb__now using http.us.debian.org, sigh
20:12:44pb__groan
20:12:48pb__gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
20:12:48pb__make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/build/libc-2.3/elf/rtld.os] Error 1
20:14:50pb__fed up with enlightenment, gonna try metacity on my desktop for a bit :-)
21:28:15mallummetacity rocks
21:28:28mallumlots of nice themes at sunshineinabag.co.uk
21:28:41mallummatchbox dock runs fine it it too
21:28:56mallumor just run gnome-panel
21:29:01mallumor full blown gnome
21:30:29pb__cool
21:39:45pb_hmm
21:39:49pb_having some kind of X session grief here
21:40:54mallumpb_: what with ?
21:41:28pb_I'm not sure exactly.  Metacity keeps crashing, for one thing.
21:41:50pb_... and GNOME doesn't seem too keen on remembering my choice of WM, so I keep getting enlightenment back every time I log in.
21:42:14pb_I just blew away my ~/.gnome directory and restarted X, in hopes that this would fix things.  Fingers crossed, no problems so far.
21:42:25mallumis x-window-manager set to metacity ?
21:42:36mallumI think you can export WINDOWMANAGER=metacity too
21:42:37pb_mallum: well, that's not really how it works in big debian :-)
21:42:59pb_it's supposed to be configurable per user, so x-window-manager isn't all that appropriate.
21:43:34mallummallum@ti:~/src$ ls -la /usr/bin/x-window-manager
21:43:34mallumlrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           34 Apr  2 17:48 /usr/bin/x-window-manager -> /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
21:43:48mallumI think the X startup scripts use it as a fallback
21:43:51pb_right, that gives you the default for the "Debian" session
21:44:34mallumI dont run a display manager
21:44:46pb_oh right, I use gdm
21:44:49mallumso I just have metacity in the end of my ~/.xinitrc
21:46:00pb_I wonder if I might be in some kind of GNOME 1.4 vs GNOME 2 hell.
21:46:14mallumbut I set sids machine up with gdm and metacity ( sid )
21:46:27mallumshe has gnome1.4 gdm
21:46:33mallumand gnome2 panel
21:46:35mallumit works ok
21:46:38pb_same as me, i think
21:46:44mallumone sec I'll check what I did on that
21:47:01pb_well, maybe it's working ok now here.
21:48:48mallumI have ;
21:49:06mallumdeb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
21:49:14mallumtoo for more gnome2 stuff
21:49:25pb_maybe I should try adding that too
21:53:13mallumhmm I cant actually tell how I set sids machine up :(
21:53:21pb_oh well
21:53:24mallumthe session entry is just set to 'last session'
21:53:46mallumbut I've put stuff in her .xsession file ( but not the wm )
22:01:51mallumpb_: I got a mail from nils saying that matchbox isn't letting apps using shm extension run
22:02:23pb_mallum: hmm
22:02:38pb_mallum: what does he say happens?
22:05:31mallumhe gets a bad access error
22:05:36pb_hmph
22:05:44pb_seems weird
22:05:44mallumfrom the app
22:06:00pb_I wouldn't have thought the wm would get involved there at all.
22:06:38mallumalthough he said it worked with ion, searching google for it, seems like it could be related to alignment memory stuff and only happen some times
22:07:05pb_does he give an example of an app that has the problem?
22:07:16mallummplayer
22:07:49mallumI cant get mplayer to run in xnest though, so its a pain to debug on the ipaq
22:08:25mallumI need to set an Xerror handler in the mplayer source, recompile it, set a breakpoint to that with gdb ....
22:08:53pb_crumbs, I just tried to run xawtv in Xnest and all hell broke loose
22:10:21mallumXnest is like an xserver from 1985
22:10:59pb_yeah, and xawtv seems to be some kind of poster child of bad engineering
22:11:51pb_it informed me that my X server "does not support DGA", which is fair enough I suppose, but then proceeded to start capturing into an apparently-random area of the screen anyway.
22:12:44mallumI just mplayer with -vo sdl and it Xnest crashed
22:12:49pb_sight
22:12:51pb_sigh even
22:13:25mallumI'll see what Nils comes back with ... he sounded like he wanted to figure out what it was
22:19:00mallumHmm, I've got mplayer working via -vo x11, but Im getting a badacess error, matchbox or no matchbox
22:43:27pb_hmm
22:43:40pb_well, I conceded defeat and set x-window-manager to metacity :-}
22:43:51mallum:(
22:44:09mallumI think you can do an export WINDOWMANAGER too
22:44:15pb_worse, metacity now crashes immediately when I log in
22:44:27mallumarg
22:44:34mallumdoes metacity run in xnest ?
22:44:41pb_though if I open an xterm and run it manually from in there, it seems to be fine after that
22:44:58pb_-- so, I guess something about the session startup is spooking it out.
22:45:20mallumpb_: it does attempt to connect to a session manager I believe
22:45:39mallumthis may be useful;
22:45:43mallumhttp://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/metacity/README
22:46:58pb_hmm, just thought to check my .xsession-errors
22:47:15pb_but sadly it doesn't seem to be getting updated by the gnome stuff.
22:48:43mallum:(
22:51:07pb_aha, .gnome-errors!
22:51:23pb_how embarrassing, it seems I didn't fix x-window-manager quite as thoroughly as I thought I had...
22:51:29pb_SESSION_MANAGER=local/kc:/tmp/.ICE-unix/336
22:51:30pb_/usr/bin/gnome-wm: exec: x-window-manager: not found
22:51:30pb_Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
22:51:30pb_Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
22:51:31pb_:-/
22:52:44mallumeek

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