[meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto

[Tom Zanussi]

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 13:00 -0500, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> 
> > -----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 

I think it probably doesn't need to added in unconditionally.

> making image bigger. And as it is binary file, if it segaults, then we can't do much about it.
> 

In the case of segfaults, I think our internal contacts for EMGD would
probably have fixes or workarounds, so we could check with them.

Tom


> 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
> > > > >
> > > > > This message and attachment(s) may contain confidential and/or
> > > > > privileged information.  Access, disclosure, copying, distribution
> > > > > or reliance on any content of this message by anyone other than
> > > > > the addressee is prohibited.  If received in error, please advise
> > > > > the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > meta-intel mailing list
> > > > > meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> > > > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel
> > >
> > >
> > > This message and attachment(s) may contain confidential and/or
> > > privileged information.  Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or
> > > reliance on any content of this message by anyone other than the
> > > addressee is prohibited.  If received in error, please advise the
> > > sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message.
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > meta-intel mailing list
> > > meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel
> > 
>