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Preparing GNU Xnee 3.06 (and testing new XI2 features)

hesa — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:31:35 +0000

It’s been a while since the RECORD problems was found. Anyhow, now they’re solved (in Xorg) and GNU Xnee is now working as it should (given you’re using CVS HEAD and the latest Xorg server). I’ll start preparing a GNU Xnee 3.06 right away.

If you’re checking out the branch: xinput2-support ( http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/xnee/?root=xnee&pathrev=xinput2-support ) you should be able to see the latest happenings when it comes to supporting XInput Extension (especially multiple input devices). I’ve just finished testing 8 (faked using swinput) faked “mouses”. Some 300 000 events were sent and all went fine so we’re actually making some progress here as well.

FOSDEM – here we go

hesa — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:09:03 +0000

… having finished a hectic period I must say that leaving for FOSDEM tomorrow morning feels great. I will team up with Daniel Stenberg, Magnus Hagander and of course some GNUs, I know that some of the people at last year’s GNU Hackers Meeting (held the days before FSCONS) will come over to FOSDEM as well . Going to be great meeting Brian Gough and Jose E. Marchesi while I am not stressed of work overload, GHM planning and FSCONS planning. Brian and Jose were organising the GNU Hackers Meeting with me. … and as always I’ll team up with the FSFE folks.

As for the presentations I will surely go and see:

Sylvain Beucler talk about GNU Savannah: 100% free software mass-hosting

a topic I find interesting for many reasons, more on that later

Daniel Stenberg talk about Rockbox: open source firmware replacement for music players

since I missed Daniel talk about this at FSCONS. As a FSCONS organiser I can’t just sit

Mirko Lindner, Jon Phillips talk about Copyleft Hardware and the Ben Nanonote

I missed Mirko’s presentation at FSCONS as well …. always on the move at FSCONS

And, of course I hope I will be able to do some business (Sandklef GNU Labs) down there. During some breaks I will prepare some presentations at “my” University next week and also prepare a Free Software presentation for a company later on in February (more on that later).

This year I’ll be traveling with Andreas Nilsson and Jeremiah Foster. Same procedure as last year…

see you there

… did you see how I managed to mention FSCONS 6 times (including that very last)

swinput 0.7.4 is out

hesa — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:55:01 +0000

Minor stuff to get swinput to work on Linux 2.6.30 (and above?)

Download 0.7.4 here:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=swinput

… and thanks Jesse W for not haunting me for being late

GNU Xnee in maemo.org

hesa — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:22:37 +0000

Got a note from Jeremiah Foster that Xnee is now available on the maemo device.

http://maemo.org/development/tools/doc/diablo/xnee/

RECORD extension malfunctions, Xnee too

hesa — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:58:23 +0000

There seems to be an issue with the RECORD extension in Xorg.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3722

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20500

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21971

http://www.sandklef.com/hesa/index.php/2009/04/28/gnu-xnee-303-ready-is-xorg-version-160/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/315456

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/379432

I will do my best to find a workaround for Xnee (the one I came up with yesterday didn’t work that well ) and also focus on solving the problem in X.

GNU Xnee 3.03 ready, is X.Org version: 1.6.0??

hesa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:23:12 +0000

When executing GNU Xnee under

name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number:    10402000
X.Org version: 1.4.2

everything is OK. …. but when I run cnee under

name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    The X.Org Foundation
vendor release number:    10600000
X.Org version: 1.6.0

it crashes. Seems as if there something strange going on in XRecordEnableContextAsync in the latest X.org release.

Will halt Xnee 3.03 for a short while just to make sure.