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[666philb]

i'm trying to compile linphone on racy and i'm getting this error

[pemasu]

# find /root/my-documents/x_xorg76_mega_pkg_DEV-7.6-5-w5c -name "Xv*"
/root/my-documents/x_xorg76_mega_pkg_DEV-7.6-5-w5c/usr/X11R7/include/X11/extensions/Xvlib.h

/root/my-documents/x_xorg76_mega_pkg_DEV-7.6-5-w5c/usr/X11R7/include/X11/extensions/Xv.h

http://her.gr.distfiles.macports.org/mirrors/linux/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/x_xorg76_mega_pkg_DEV-7.6-5-w5c.pet

DISTRO_PKGS_SPECS:
yes|x_xorg76_mega_pkg|x_xorg76_mega_pkg|exe,dev,doc,nls| #RACY Xorg 7.6 mega-pkg

[firak]

Racy work better then others on my neetbok - atom based.
On my asus 1215p - the micropone is finally sopported and working.
Heavy browsing (10 tabs)+ falsh videos, seems folwing better then 528Puppyes, for this atom cpu.
Wireless cofig perstency - happend ounly after 4th time I store the IP adress.

I think that is a great distro , whit the new kernel,and a full repository of programs!

[vtpup]

[01micko]

vtpup

"Xorg High" is essentially "mesa", which Racy has built in so there is no more you can do as far as intel is concerned apart from recompiling Xorg and adding features which Barry has left out. I don't know what they would be exactly but I do know he made a concerted effort to remove xcb.

Perhaps there are options you can enable in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for your particular video card. That is an exercise which will require plenty of searching. Arch wiki is always a good place to start.

HTH

[vtpup]

thanks 01micko for the explanation. I don't think it's worth pursuing further then.

The only program this seems to affect is gmplayer. VLC doesn't have the view re-size problem. So I can simply make that the default.

Otherwise, graphics intensive and typically difficult programs seem to run well. For instance, I can run Google Sketchup (3D CAD) in Wine.

So doesn't seem worth it jto try to solve ust for a gmplayer quirk, unless I find some other problem down the road.

I'm still curious for future reference, how one could recover from a messed up video driver .pet installation. Is there a way to remove the .pet and restore the former Xorg system?

I imagine it would be a sequence performed in the console before starting X. Can you remove a .pet from the command line?

Seemed like if there was something wrong with xorg, you used to be able to boot into xvesa and correct it. But I don't think I saw that as an option this last time -- or maybe it didn't work. Can't quite remember.

[666philb]

[Karl Godt]

There are two possibilities :
1) The configure script is testing something not correctly (buggy or lacks options)
2) the needed library does not include the needed function (function not enabled at compile time, function not implemented (anymore) in library or library not found in the search PATH)

[rjbrewer]

One Gmplayer solution with Racy:

My Latitude D820 has 945gm graphics.
The default boot loads vesa, which gives the big yellow
border when trying to use Mplayer full screen.
Running Xorgwizard and choosing "intel Intel" solves the
problem.

Having a PAE kernel is useless for machines with 945 graphics.
It will not read past 3.3 of the 4Gb of ram.

edit:

Deleteing the i915 files from the new (3.xx) kernel versions
increases glxgears speed from 20fps to 330 fps on the
Latitude.

[vtpup]

After trying out 5 other late kernel Puppies and testing for a week, Racy is the clear winner on this brand new dual proccesor machine. It is far superior to the others in performing graphics intensive CADs through Wine.

Racy 53 also worked perfectly out of the box with wireless, and sound, and the screen dimming keys also worked.

Racy will now be the day-to-day operating system for this computer. It replaces Puppy 4.3.2 v3 and my old Thinkpad T43, which gave years of stable use as a heavy duty work computer.

Thank you Barry for this solid high-performance OS!


(EDIT: blacklisting i915 module caused big problems with this particular computer, overloading the proc when clicking on desktop icons. Restoring i915 to the loaded modules solved the problem. I'm not messing with the graphics system any more. Performance is great using vanilla setup and simply choosing "Probe" in xorgwizard.)

[vtpup]

It looks like the new Puppy wallpaper setter actually alters image files in /Usr/share/backgrounds/.

I put an image in there, and running the wallpaper setter actually cropped the image and saved the new file over the old one!

In Nathan wallpaper setter, the image wasn't overwritten in /.../backgrounds, and you could select it and show it uncropped as a tile or centered, etc.

This new wallpaper setter actually messes up the image, and once that happens you can never go back to showing the whole image as a tile or centered. It seems to serially re-write the image every time you make a change.

I'd like to get rid of this app and bring back Nathan Wallpaper setter on this computer, if possible.

Programs like these should never re-write an image!

EDIT: Clarification -- I was using an image that was larger than the screen pixel dimensions, and the monitor is a wide screen.

Basically the wallpaper setter cropped the image to wide screen aspect ratio, then saved it over the original image.

This destroyed a lot of the original image. When I tried to "center" or "tile" it to see the original whole image, it didn't work because the new cropped and saved image exactly fit the screen. I had expected that the original image would be retained and fit onto the screen with gray space at the edges when "centered".

I've subsequently found that if I use an image that is smaller than the screen, centering and tiling work. I do not believe under these circumstances that the image is re-written. But I'm not sure about the stretch option which may rewrite the image. Haven't tested that.

[rjbrewer]

[vtpup]

RJBrewer, would you explain further in relation to i915 files:

1.) Why it would be desirable to trash them? What do they do and why would they interfere with graphics speed?

2.) What is the difference in system modules loaded and running between either trashing all i915 files, or blacklisting the i915 module?

[rjbrewer]

[vtpup]