[Xprint] Re: Newer version of the combined video+print serverfrom?

Julien Lafon julien.lafon at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 10:15:48 EDT 2005


On Apr 3, 2005 6:01 AM, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > > > > > Roland - had you time to continue your work on the combined
> > > > > > > ('unified') video+print server patch yet?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Unfortunately no (except the integration of the fixes you send me) ...
> > > > > > almost every minute of my spare free time was consumed by my duties as
> > > > > > release manager of the X11R6.8.2 release (and then I was at the
> > > > > > XDevconf+LinuxWorld in Boston) ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Attached is a new version of the patch for testing. It deals with most
> > > > > of the problems of the previous version except that there is no switch
> > > > > to define a server mode yet (e.g. "video", "print", "unified").
> > > >  ===================================================================
> > > > > RCS file: /cvs/xorg/xc/config/cf/Imake.rules,v
> > > > > retrieving revision 1.8
> > > > > diff -u -2 -0 -r1.8 Imake.rules
> > > > > --- xc/config/cf/Imake.rules    1 Feb 2005 22:27:00 -0000       1.8
> > > > > +++ xc/config/cf/Imake.rules    5 Mar 2005 20:12:50 -0000
> > > > > @@ -3529,40 +3529,66 @@
> > > > The patch does not apply to XOrg head. Am I doing something wrong here?
> > >
> > > Uhm... uhm... that's likely my fault as I have dismanteled the patch and
> > > already commited smaller chunks of it to Xorg trunk (like
> > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2653) ... either wait until
> > > I have a new patch or pull-by date (e.g. % cvs -z9 checkout -D "Fri Mar
> > > 4 23:38:24 MET 2005" xc # should pull a version of the tree where the
> > > patch applies correctly...) ...
> >
> > Attached is the next cycle of the patch. As usual you have to compile it
> > with
> > - #define PrintOnlyServer NO
> > to enable the "unified" (video+print) display
> >   and
> > - #define DoLoadableServer NO
> > as the Xprint DDXs are no loadable modules yet and have some dependicies
> > (mainly the Postscript DDX which hooks deeply into the Freetype2 font
> > module)
> 
> For the log:
> I've commited an updated version of the patch to Xorg trunk (see
> attached commit log). However there is a dispute about the dependicies
> the patch has introduced which require some adjustments or even a
> backout... ;-(
Roland: What is the exact matter of the dispute?

Julien
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Julien Lafon
Senior Staff Engineer, Hitachi


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