<div dir="ltr">So, I'm not having success yet, but I discovered that the Xnest package that's part of the Ubuntu distribution isn't the driver you pointed me at. So, I have:<div><br></div><div>1) cloned the git repository</div><div>2) ran ./autogen.sh</div><div>3) ran make</div><div>... and it seems to be successful to this point, but I'm clueless about how to install these drivers. I tried "make install" and it didn't like that, and I don't see anything in readme or similar.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone offer any guidance or research pointers?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks!</div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Simon Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@dancingcloudservices.com" target="_blank">simon@dancingcloudservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for this Alan, I can't report success yet, but after trying to build it but failing to install it, I discovered it's available as a pre-built package for Ubuntu, and then managed to build an xorg.conf.d entry that totally trashed my GUI! Ah, thank goodness I always carry a bootable USB drive for just such emergencies. So, I'll try more with this later (when it's less critical if I lock myself out more permanently ;)<div><br></div><div>In the meantime, is there a resource somewhere that might tell me more about the startup order (which I presume is the purpose of the various numbers on the individual files in xorg.conf.d...?) and it's significance? I'm inclined to think that by putting my efforts at "position 20", after the primary display (at 10) but before all the input devices (at 50 something) I killed all my inputs because I had a bad config element. Is that plausible? I got a login screen, but no input devices, mouse, keyboard, external USB mouse / keyboard, touchscreen, would generate any input (I couldn't even change to the other text-based virtual terminals!)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for the direction!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Alan Coopersmith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 10/30/16 04:13 PM, Simon Roberts wrote:<br>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I want to add an external XServer (running on a tablet device as it happens,<br>
though I doubt that's significant) to the configuration of my windowing system,<br>
and hopefully have it visible to xrandr, so I can use it as another display<br>
alongside my regular laptop screen.<br>
<br>
I assume that I'd need to add, for example, <a href="http://192.168.2.44:0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">192.168.2.44:0</a><br></span>
<<a href="http://192.168.2.44:0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://192.168.2.44:0</a>> into my xorg.conf, but I'm drawing a complete blank on<span><br>
how I might achieve this.<br>
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<br>
In theory you can do this with the xf86-video-nested driver, but I've never tried it:<br>
<a href="https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nested/tree/README" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cgit.freedesktop.org/x<wbr>org/driver/xf86-video-nested/t<wbr>ree/README</a><br>
<br>
Other options would be using a multiplexer/proxy such as Xdmx (FOSS) or XBIGX<br>
(commercial software from X-Software).<span class="m_-4341688746361410825HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- <br>
-Alan Coopersmith- <a href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" target="_blank">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a><br>
Oracle Solaris Engineering - <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="">-- <br><div class="m_-4341688746361410825gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Simon Roberts<div><a href="tel:%28303%29%20249%203613" value="+13032493613" target="_blank">(303) 249 3613</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Simon Roberts<div>(303) 249 3613</div><div><br></div></div>
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