Steven Harms

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Posts Tagged xorg

Xorg / X11 programming update

Aug 25

Posted by sharms in Linux | No Comments

So I have been looking into Xorg development. I posted about it a few months ago, but little to no help came of asking where to start looking. After asking several places without any useful help, I actually found a great book:

However, in my haste to order that one, I ordered 2 of these:

So if you are looking to get started with X11 / Xlib / Xorg these are handy to have around. Since I have 2 copies of the pink reference manual, if you want one, email me at sharms at ubuntu period com and I will send you my extra copy for free. Or if you want I can bring it to Ohio Linux Fest 2009 and give it to you there.

Update: Book claimed already

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Getting started with Xorg development

Feb 17

Posted by Steven Harms in General | 5 Comments

I am doing some work with thin clients, so I wanted to figure out if there is a way I can replicate what I saw in a kvm demo video (Live migration while the client was playing an HD video). I believe they are using a version of the RDP protocol.

I would like to implement an open source alternative, and I figure that starts with Xorg as the protocol itself isn’t optimal for video apps over the network. So like anyone else, I went and did a git clone of the repo.

The question I have now is: is the best way to learn about how it works to just read the source over and over? The xorg wiki is devoid of most details, and the branch I was looking at (dmx-2) is pretty sparse when it comes to comments. Suggestions?

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AMD releases Intrepid compatible driver

Oct 14

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | 4 Comments

That is my desktop running on my Radeon 3870, with Compiz on and dualhead enabled. Awesome.

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OpenSUSE 11 fglrx

Sep 12

Posted by Steven Harms in Linux | 2 Comments

I bought a HD3870 ATI card, and for some strange reason, using the proprietary catalyst driver on OpenSUSE 11, just by feel mind you, not benchmarks, is about 2x slower with compiz than Ubuntu. What does Ubuntu do that is different than OpenSUSE that could cause this? Both distro’s are using Xorg 7.3 so I am a bit confused. Compiz on OpenSUSE is 0.7.6, on Hardy its 0.7.4 but I couldn’t see that making that big of difference.

Anyone else experience this? One thing to make firefox usable I did is disable smooth scrolling, but the effects on windows are still very slow.

On a side note, DropBox works great on my Ubuntu box and OpenSUSE box, definitely a cool tool.

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