[meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zanussi, Tom
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:29 AM
> To: Chad Bishop
> Cc: Kamble, Nitin A; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto
> 
> Hi,
> 
> IIRC, emgd-gui was installed by some early versions of the original Yocto
> emgd recipe, but removed because it would only segfault on startup.
> 
> I still think it would be a nice thing to have on the target, since it allows run-
> time tweaking of driver settings which at minimum should be useful at least
> to find good settings to plug into the Xorg.conf.
> 
> I'd suggest opening a bug for this..
> 
> Tom

I see it won't be hard to add emgdgui to the emgd recipe, but I see that, it is going to pull further dependencies 
making image bigger. And as it is binary file, if it segaults, then we can't do much about it.

I will open a bug for this.

Nitin

> 
> On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 15:56 +0000, Chad Bishop wrote:
> > Hello Nitin,
> >
> > Thank you for the timely response.
> >
> > I have used both CED and CED-lite on a windows development host to
> generate the graphics config for WES7.
> >
> > I was unaware that emgd-gui was provided for Windows.  Do I understand
> you correctly in that I should be able to use it to generate a valid xorg.conf for
> a Yocto build from Windows?  Or am I off in the weeds on that one.
> >
> > I had used emgd-gui on the FC14 remix for crownbay and was hoping to be
> able to build it for Yocto as it has proven very useful at runtime to help us
> support different configurations that we couldn't foresee at the time we ran
> CED.
> >
> > If this is not the forum for such inquiries, should I be opening an IPS case?
> >
> > Thank you for your time,
> > Chad
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kamble, Nitin A [mailto:nitin.a.kamble at intel.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:38 AM
> > > To: Chad Bishop; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> > > Subject: RE: emgd-gui for Yocto
> > >
> > > Hi Dylan,
> > >   The emgd-gui is one time use tool to create a graphics config for
> > > a BSP. We are not supporting it as a tool for target. The EMGD
> > > website provides more information on it. You can run it even on
> > > Windows to generate the right config for the target.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nitin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: meta-intel-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-intel-
> > > > bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Chad Bishop
> > > > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 2:43 PM
> > > > To: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> > > > Subject: [meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto
> > > >
> > > > Hello meta-intel team,
> > > >
> > > > I have been unsuccessful in finding how to build and run the
> > > > emgd-gui for Yocto.  I am targeting an E680 supplied on a Kontron
> COMe-mTT10.
> > > >
> > > > I have been working with Dylan and emgd v1.16.
> > > >
> > > > Can you please point me in the right direction?
> > > >
> > > > Thank You,
> > > > Chad
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