[meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zanussi, Tom
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:23 PM
> To: Kamble, Nitin A
> Cc: Chad Bishop; meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] emgd-gui for Yocto
> 
> 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

Here is a bug for this:
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5012

Thanks,
Nitin
> 
> 
> > 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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