On 25 Jul 2003 16:24:36 +0200
Michel D�nzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 17:13, Felix K�hling wrote:
> > 
> > I just uploaded a first version of a graphical configuration tool to my
> > home page.
> > 
> >    http://fxk.de.vu/projects_cur_en.html
> 
> I've finally come around to trying config-0-0-1-branch and driconf, and
> I must say I'm impressed. Here's some feedback:
> 
> driconf doesn't deal very gracefully with being unable to find xdriinfo:
> 
> sh: line 1: xdriinfo: command not found
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./driconf", line 25, in ?
>     driconf.main()
>   File "./driconf.py", line 669, in main
>     dpy = dri.DisplayInfo ()
>   File "./dri.py", line 289, in __init__
>     nScreens = int(XDriInfo ("nscreens", dpy))
>   File "./dri.py", line 55, in XDriInfo
>     raise DRIError ("xdriinfo not found")
> dri.DRIError: xdriinfo not found
> 
> As for the GUI, GTK2 would be much nicer. :) Seriously though, it took
> me a while to find out how to use it. It wasn't obvious that the
> checkboxen are only for selection of the entries to change. A way to see
> the default value for each option would be nice. And having to select a
> config file for saving it feels awkward, just save to the file which is
> the parent node of the selected app?

Thanks for your feedback. I have started working on better fault
handling. Making the user interface more intuitive is next on the TODO
list.

> 
> While these are mostly cosmetic, the worse problem is that the attached
> ~/.drirc written by driconf doesn't work:
> 
> libGL error:
> Warning in /home/michdaen/.drirc line 1, column 0: unknown element: dri.
> libGL error:
> Warning in /home/michdaen/.drirc line 2, column 4: <device> should be
> inside <driconf>.

Yes, I realised this just this morning. It'll be fixed in the next
version. Anyway, this is just a warning, the config file parser in the
driver is extremely tolerant. All the settings in the config file should
be honoured anyway.

> 
> And the glxgears spin at full steam.

One more question, on which hardware did you test. I modified 4 drivers:
radeon r200, r128 and mga. I'd like to know which ones actually work ;-)

> 
> 
> Keep up the good work!

:)
Felix

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