[oe] xtscal fails + other Xorg init problems.

[Ulf Samuelsson]

Stanislav Brabec skrev:
> Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>> Stanislav Brabec skrev:
>>> Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
>>> It didn't work for kdrive based builds, because kdrive recipe wants
>>> libxcalibrate, but xtscal wants xcalibrate. One dependency chain
>>> overwrites the another with undefined result depending on the build
>>> order.
>> What is the difference between "xserver-kdrive-1300" and
>> "kdrive based builds" ?
> 
> Just a package selection for particular target that causes different
> order of overwriting of staged files.
> 
>> Do you mean it does not work with later revisions of xserver-kdrive?
> 
> xserver-kdrive-1300 is the oldest version in the tree. If the latest
> libxcalibrate works with it, I guess that it will work with any newer
> version.
> 
>> Should we try to focus on xorg-xserver-1.6.1 which seems to have kdrive
>> support?
> 
> Are you sure that it is "kdrive support" and not just "kdrive in the
> source tree", as it was in past (i. e. deprecated and without support)?
> 

No, I am on really deep water here.
This weekend was the first time I ever looked at X-Windows source.
Thankfully there are competent people here to answer questions.
Phil Blundell seems to have written most of the files I looked at!


> Well, anything newer than ancient xserver-kdrive-1300 working on
> machines like spitz would be a win.
> 
> With a highly modularized Xorg, upgrade to full Xorg may be an option,
> as it could support modern desktop extensions.
> 
> It also seems, that Xorg has much better performance in rotated fbdev
> driver than xserver-kdrive-1300.
> 
> I was even able to run Xorg with OpenGL (Mesa emulated) on my Zaurus
> (5-8FPS in glxgears).
> 
> Problems that block upgrage:
> 
> - broken keyboard driver (keyboard map loads only sometimes, some keys
> or autorepeat doesn't load, kdrive > 1.3.0.0)

I think I saw that Autorepeat requires an extension which has been removed

> - support for different orientation of touchscreen and display (both
> kdrive > 1.3.0.0 and xorg)
> - working XRandR in fbdev driver (xorg, last time I tested it, just a
> code for runtime rotation was missing, rotation itself was already
> implemented)
> 
> 
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> 
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Ulf Samuelsson