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brycecya00:02
mlankhorstwoops, broke switching back10:56
jcristaufyi http://bugs.debian.org/693158 may be somewhat relevant to ubuntu as well12:44
ubottuDebian bug 693158 in xserver-xorg-input-penmount "Xorg: symbol lookup error: ...penmount_drv.so: undefined symbol: xf86XInputSetScreen" [Grave,Open]12:44
mlankhorstproof that nobody uses it? :-)12:48
tjaaltonbah12:48
mlankhorsthm maybe we use a newer version12:49
mlankhorstoh we don't12:50
mlankhorsttjaalton: hey can we drop penmount from universe? :>13:01
tjaaltonsounds like a plan13:03
mlankhorsthttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-penmount/+bug/1082015 weee13:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1082015 in xserver-xorg-input-penmount (Ubuntu Raring) "please remove xserver-xorg-input-penmount from universe" [Undecided,New]13:11
DandelSarvatt and RAOF: I spotted a code merge for piglit that enables EGL, opengl es1 and opengl es2 tests.14:51
=== Amaranthus is now known as Amaranth
mlankhorstwaffle one?15:52
Dandelmlankhorst: yes, waffle is required for opengl es 1/2 tests ( and to use egl w/ opengl on piglit )16:01
Dandeland there's a missing environmental variable... PIGLIT_SOURCE_DIR needs to be set ( most likely to /usr/share/piglit/ )16:02
mlankhorsttjaalton: hm can I add recommends xserver-xorg-{video,input}-all, libgl1-mesa-glx to xserver-xorg ?17:07
mlankhorstshould make stack switching slightly more robust17:08
mlankhorstI fear that may end up installing xserver-xorg-(input,video)-all again on machines that previously removed them, though..17:10
tjaaltonyeah i think it'd have some side-effects..17:11
mlankhorstI'll try without..17:13
spindritfhey, how do I view and change my font path? I want programs to search ~/.fonts first and /usr/share/fonts later17:27
spindritfis that up to X? 17:27
mlankhorstguessing fontconfig cares17:41
mlankhorsttjaalton: can we recommend xserver-xorg-input-all at least?17:43
tjaaltonmlankhorst: i'm not sure, and not able to check now what issues it might have17:56
mlankhorstok :/17:56
mlankhorstwell in the worst case switching back will only leave you with evdev then..17:56
tjaaltondo you have a dl for the stack?18:02
mlankhorstit's in my experimental ppa18:03
mlankhorstbut still testing a little18:05
mlankhorstmaybe things clear up if I re-add the conflicts/replaces to itself back in *-all18:08
tjaaltonso no immediate deadline then. i should be able to test it tomorrow18:09
tjaaltonthe up/downgrade18:09
mlankhorstit's still broken on -dev packages though18:10
bjsniderphoronix headline: AMD's New Catalyst Linux Driver Isn't Too Good18:21
mlankhorstI don't think amd has to worry about catalyst drivers being too good18:27
MCR1mlankhorst: Stupid fglrx makes it impossible to operate 3 monitors, while open-source gallium has no problem with it...18:33
MCR1grmpf18:33
mlankhorsttjaalton: forward switching should be ok though, still seem to hit some bug with multiarch18:38
mlankhorstapt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-quantal libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-quantal:i38618:38
mlankhorstworks around it18:38
DandelMCR1: that's not a issue.19:00
MCR1Dandel: ?19:00
DandelMCR1: just add "Virtual   4096 4096" to the display subsection19:00
Dandelwhere the other lines are "viewport 0 0" and "depth 24"19:00
DandelMCR1: use xrandr19:01
MCR1I need more than 4096x409619:01
Dandelit's so xrandr plays nicely with hotplugging19:01
Dandeltry higher, but my experience was not good19:01
MCR1I need 1920+1280+1920 in x axis19:01
MCR1and in that case fglrx fails with not enough vram error or something like that19:02
MCR1which is ofc not true19:02
Dandelcare to give me the system information?19:02
DandelI know how to get the bug report to the right people19:02
MCR1ATI HD 5750, Quantal, latest AMD fglrx beta19:03
Dandelbuild id?19:03
MCR1one moment19:03
MCR19.01-121018a-148746E-ATI19:04
MCR1Driver Packaging Version ^^19:04
Dandelk... care to get the output from? /usr/share/fglrx/atigetsysteminfo.sh19:05
Dandelthat will need a pastebin tho19:05
Dandelit'll output to a text file ~/atisysteminfo-report.txt19:05
MCR1grmpf, it is too long for pastebin.com19:07
Dandelcompress it and file a launchpad report with the file?19:07
MCR1Dandel: Got it now (pastebin.ubuntu.com): http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1377782/19:09
Dandelthanks19:09
MCR1thanks to you - would be great to have 3 monitors running with fglrx also...19:10
DandelMCR1: i think i see the issue.19:13
Dandelyou need 3 seperate screens? or just one large one?19:13
DandelMCR1: that configuration is mangled.19:16
MCR13 separate ones... combined to one big desktop, not mirrored19:16
Dandeldo you mind fixing it using xrandr?19:19
bjsniderMCR1, you have to admit that 3 monitors is really, really, really difficult for them19:21
Dandelhttp://pastebin.ubuntu.com/1377815/ - try th is for a second.19:25
Dandeldon't expect immediate fix, because you will need to open up xrandr and move the screen around and disable mirror19:25
Dandelfor now, set the 1920x1200 at point (0,0), the 1280x1024 at point (0,1200), and the 1920x1080 at the point (1920,1080).19:26
Dandelor if that's hard... two commands: "xrandr --output DFP2 --right-of DFP4" and "xrandr --output CRT2 --below DFP4"19:28
Dandelif that gives you big desktop, but setup a little odd, it's ok... the next test is to change the virtual size once more.19:28
Dandelchange "Virtual   4096 4096" to "Virtual   6144 6144" then just move the crt and dfp to the positions you desire.19:29
MCR1Dandel: Thanks a lot for your suggestions and help - I'll try to do that :) Great !20:01
MCR1Do you think it would be possible to make a 3-screen horizontal config also ?20:02
Dandelyes.20:02
Dandeljust apply the change i mentioned about a half hour ago.20:03
Dandeland then use xrandr to move displays around20:03
Dandelit's mainly the use of the command: xrandr --output "Display to be effected" (--left-of, --right-of, --above, --bellow) "display to anchor by"20:05
Dandelalthough, i also know that the gnome monitor preferences ( or mate monitor preferences ) should do a great job also.20:08
Dandelsince what this did is fix the built in desktop manager screen configuration utility on the system... what happens is the login screen will most likely get mirrored, but once you login, the setting will reapply.20:09
Dandelricotz: would it be possible to update libwaffle from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0?20:15
MCR1Dandel: I am sorry for my slow responses, but I was attending a meeting on #ubuntu-desktop - Once again, thanks a lot 4 your help - It is highly appreciated. I will try and report success or failure to you in the next days...20:23
MCR1bjsnider: Fact is that AMD/ATI advertise their cards for 3-monitor usage and it works with gallium... But maybe I get it to work with fglrx also, thanks to the help of Dandel... I hope so at least as I wanna watch movies on my TV ;)20:27
Dandelbjsnider and MCR1, amd actually advertises support for up to 6 monitors on a single card, but many cards can only can handle up to 320:33
mlankhorstYou don' t get what 'up to' means then20:33
ricotzDandel, i guess i can do20:43
ricotz1.2.1 that is?20:43
Dandel1.2.1 works... it's mainly to get the latest fixes ( including the opengl es 3 support )20:44
MCR1\o/ OpenGL ES 320:45
ricotzDandel, pushed it to the ppa, but precise will probably fail20:46
Dandelit should work just fine due to the fact that the last piglit worked fine.20:47
ricotz(due missing cmake multiarch support in precise debhelper)20:47
Dandelcmake in precise needs a blanket upgrade anyways20:48
ricotzDandel, is there any care for the oneiric/lucid builds in there?20:48
Dandelthe debian build using cmake is broken20:48
Dandelit generates packages that can't be installed20:48
ricotzi see20:48
* ricotz meants to delete the oneiric/lucid packages there20:49
Dandeloneiric and lucid, i don't care about... i have one machine using precise, the other using ocelot ( or w/e 12.10 is called )20:50
ricotzquantal ;)20:50
Dandelactually, i just had to reinstall on the other machine because grub upgrade balked ><;20:50
Dandel10.04.1 ( lts) to 12.04.1 (lts) broke grub and i had to rework the install from scratch.20:51
MCR1urgh20:51
Dandelnothing like a grub 2 install without any modules :/20:51
DandelMCR1: if fglrx crashes with the 8192x8192, it's because of driver bug ( it fails on the hd6520G i have )20:52
Dandelthat's part of why i suggested 4096x4096 initially since that did not crash the test machine i use.20:53
MCR1Dandel: I do not have the energy today anymore to try and fix if it fails, so I'll try tomorrow... but IIRC it crashed last time I tried 8192x8192 with some not enough videomem error20:53
DandelMCR1: your config was weird20:54
MCR1yeah, something went wrong during last update I guess, but I did not look at it in detail before, because my 2-screen config was working perfectly - so I did not even know that it was bortched20:55
MCR1but I could not change config by disabling one monitor and enabling the TV instead via AMDCCC anymore, I guess the weird config was causing this20:57
MCR1so I still see a chance in your suggestions and will try to apply them ;)20:57
MCR1Does Virtual always need the same x and y to work ?20:58
MCR1Or is something like "8192 2048" also valid ?20:58
Dandelshould work20:58
Dandelbut it'd limit the screen orientation changes20:59
MCR1I do not need to change orientation never, so I would not care20:59
Dandelthen it should be fine.21:00
MCR1thx again - I'll promise to report the outcome ;)21:00
MCR1afk21:01
bjsniderricotz, pkg-config tool not found21:03
bjsnideron that waffle build21:03
bjsniderMCR1, why not use radeon instead of fglrx?21:04
ricotzbjsnider, i know21:04
MCR1bjsnider: Used gallium, was very satisfied and it was very stable, had no problems with 3 monitor-config, had a much smoother 2d-scrolling in chromium, no gfx-error with docky, but 3d performance was not comparable and unfortunately weak... I have a quite fast card with lots of fast DDR-5 VRAM and I expect it to max out Compiz framerate on 3 screens, which it wasn't capable of...21:12
bjsniderit's an exapnsion card?21:13
MCR1bjsnider: ?21:13
bjsnideris the gpu built into the board or is it plugged into the mainboard21:13
MCR1ATI HD 5750 PCI-E21:13
MCR1plugged-in21:13
bjsnideri don't understand why you bought an amd card in the first place21:14
MCR13 screens ?21:14
bjsniderwhy not nvidia?21:14
MCR1not possible with nvidia 1 card21:14
bjsnidersure it isn't21:14
MCR1and at the time this card offered a good value for the price and was 40 nm GPU tech21:16
MCR1and DDR5, while Nvidia was still using DDR321:16
MCR1other computer uses GTX-570-448 cores...21:17
Dandelricotz: there's a pull request for piglit packing that has had 1 approval, and just needs some review... mind looking at it?21:19
ricotzDandel, seems fine21:31
Dandelthe only other thing i can see is the missing opencl libs being an issue the stock repo for precise. ( i know there's a backport request for it21:32

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