VNC patch for Xserver 1.3

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Tue Oct 23 15:14:33 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 00:05 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:20:50PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 16:27 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:42:08PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:34:34PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > >>>> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:12:27PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > >>>>> AFAICS the pInfo structure is filled correctly in xf86rfbMouseInit(),
> > >>>>> but the content gets lost again in InitInput() before calling
> > >>>>> xf86ActivateDevice(). :-(
> > >>>> Obviously type_name/always_core_feedback, conf_idev/drv, and
> > >>>> options/history_size are swapped on x86_64.
> > >>> Sure it's being built with _XSERVER64?  All external modules require
> > >>> xorg-server.h.
> > >> Meanwhile I figured out that it is *not* set. A patch, which fixes
> > >> this issue for me, is attached. Some background:
> > >>
> > >> * fixes segfault on 64bit during Xserver start; make sure to define
> > >>   _XSERVER64 by having HAVE_DIX_CONFIG_H defined and therefore
> > >>   including dix-config.h, so Atom is CARD32 instead of unsigned long
> > >>   before and no longer messes up the pInfo structure in
> > >>   xf86rfbMouseInit/xf86rfbKeybInit
> > > 
> > > Thanks Stefan.
> > > 
> > > Committed.
> > 
> > I should point out that there is a current issue that I've not had time
> > to look into just yet:
> > 
> > "There's one minor problem: it's including xorg/xf86Cursor.h from
> > /usr/include instead of using the file from the compilation tree,
> > thus I can't pass it through our build-system.
> > 
> > (remove x11-xserver-devel and try to compile it)"
> > 
> > As I say I've not had time to fix this, but obviously it needs to be
> > fixed otherwise there is a bit of a chicken and egg scenario :)
> > 
> > If someone spots it please feel free to save me the trouble of creating
> > a patch ;) (I'm kinda rushed right now)
> 
> Since I use this patch since some time, here it is.

Committed.

Alan.




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