Netflix – Not fit for purpose?

One of my family has a Netflix account. The account is accessible from any of the desktop and laptop computers in the house, whichever OS they are running.

Recently we bought a so-called ‘smart TV’ (an LG 40UF770V 4K Ultra HD TV, as it happens), and are pleased with it. It runs WebOS 2.0 (yay, Linux!) and the LG Content Store contains a Netflix app, which we promptly installed. The app worked perfectly for several weeks but then stopped being able to access Netflix. When the app was launched, the usual screen with the Netflix logo and the ‘Loading’ rotating indicator would appear but, after a minute or so, an error message would be displayed informing us that Netflix error ‘ui-113’ had occurred. One of the on-screen options then offered by the app was to check the network connection, which we tried, but everything was reported to be working correctly. Not to mention that all the other apps that require an Internet connection work fine. In order to watch a film using Netflix over the Christmas period we had to resort to connecting a laptop to the TV via an HDMI cable and accessing Netflix in a Web browser on the laptop. It is ridiculous to have to resort to such measures to view content on smart TVs which have Netflix apps.

I searched the Web and discovered that many, many people experience the same problem with Netflix and smart TVs. As in our case, they had no trouble accessing their Netflix account on their home network with other devices such as computers, tablets and smart phones. I came across reports by owners of smart TVs made by LG, Philips, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, and other manufacturers. People who had contacted the relevant TV manufacturer were often told the problem is caused by Netflix, and people who had contacted Netflix were often told the problem is caused by the TV manufacturer.

Netflix has a Help page for this error message, but none of the steps Netflix listed worked, and neither did any of the remedies suggested by others on the Web (including in various YouTube videos). Resetting the TV did not solve the problem. Neither did cycling the mains power to the TV, broadband modem and router (however long the power was off). Nor did changing the TV’s setting for the IP address of the DNS server to one of the well-known public DNS servers such as Google’s. Nor did suggestions such as un-installing and re-installing the Netflix app. Nor did configuring the router to perform port forwarding for Netflix on the TV (not that this should be necessary, but I tried it anyway). Several people wrote that the parental lock in their routers caused the problem, but the parental lock is definitely not enabled in my router. I also tried to access Netflix via the TV’s Web browser; it can log-in to the Netflix account but cannot play content as it does not support the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in or HTML5 required by Netflix.

Nothing we tried solved the problem, and two weeks of this messing around was exasperating. Some people reported that changing the DNS server address in the TV to Google’s DNS servers worked, whereas others reported it didn’t. Even if some lucky person managed to get Netflix working on their smart TV using a certain procedure, other people in the same country with the same model of TV could not, even if they used the same procedure.

In addition to people in a given country trying to get the Netflix app in their smart TV to access their Netflix account in that country, I came across posts by people wanting to access Netflix in a different country (mostly people not in the USA wanting to access US Netflix because it offers a wider range of films and programmes, but also expatriates wanting to access Netflix for their home country with their home-country Netflix account). So I tried recommendations to configure the TV to use a DNS server in the US that some people in the UK had recently indicated would give the Netflix app access to US Netflix rather than UK Netflix (even though we wanted to access UK Netflix from the UK). But that didn’t work either.

However, I didn’t give up. I trawled the Web for lists of DNS servers that some people claimed would give access to Netflix in the UK. I found various Web sites listing IP addresses for DNS servers and tried several of them. Eventually I found one that actually enables the Netflix app in the TV to work, but it accesses US Netflix instead of UK Netflix. Given that the Netflix app has not worked for several weeks, I’m not complaining, but it is not what we were trying to achieve (US Netflix does not provide all the UK TV series available on UK Netflix). Furthermore, according to some of the posts I’ve read, periodically you have to change the DNS server address in the TV because Netflix stops working with the existing address.

Now, I’m a technically-oriented person and it took me several hours over a two-week period to find a solution (well, a work-around). Someone with little or no IT knowledge in the same situation would be at a complete loss as to how to get their Netfix account working. In order for streaming media services to become as ubiquitous as e.g. terrestrial TV, they have to be reliable and be accessible easily to paying customers. Use of Geolocation, GeoDNS and other complex techniques should not cause such a headache to bona fide users. Someone with a Netflix account in his/her country of residence and who simply wants to access Netflix on a smart TV should not have to jump through hoops or hit a brick wall. Clearly this is happening to many people.

On top of that, people such as myself who have to travel internationally frequently because of their work need to be certain that, if they subscribe to a streaming media service, it will work in whatever country they happen to be in at the time (except if blocked by Great Firewalls or content filters on proxy servers, of course) and not be purposely or inadvertently prevented from working by the media service provider’s network concept.

I myself had considered signing up for a Netflix account so that I could view films and TV programmes during my overseas work trips, but, after having to struggle for days to help a family member access a valid Netflix account on a smart TV in the country where the account was set up, will definitely not be giving Netflix my business. In this day and age it is ridiculous that users should have to try umpteen DNS server addresses and reset TVs, routers and modems in order to access their account with a media provider. Services such as Netflix will never have my business until their networking and DRM are sorted out properly and made to work reliably. Until Netflix changes its network delivery model, its service will remain a curate’s egg in my opinion.

Downloading YouTube video or only audio

One of my favourite Linux applications is the command-line utility youtube-dl, which I use quite often to download YouTube videos or extract only the audio, either for leisure or work purposes.

Downloading a video

1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video from the browser’s address bar. I’ll use the video ‘Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha‘ as an example.

2. Ascertain the types and resolutions available for that particular video:

   $ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuQCD8eh9k
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading webpage
8BuQCD8eh9k: Extracting video information
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading DASH manifest
[info] Available formats for 8BuQCD8eh9k:
format code extension resolution  note
171         webm      audio only  DASH audio  118k , audio@128k (44100Hz), 5.05MiB
140         m4a       audio only  DASH audio  129k , m4a_dash container, aac @128k (44100Hz), 5.99MiB
141         m4a       audio only  DASH audio  256k , m4a_dash container, aac @256k (44100Hz), 11.90MiB
160         mp4       256x144     DASH video  111k , 15fps, video only, 5.03MiB
242         webm      426x240     DASH video  190k , 1fps, video only, 7.19MiB
133         mp4       426x240     DASH video  248k , 30fps, video only, 11.33MiB
243         webm      640x360     DASH video  378k , 1fps, video only, 13.83MiB
134         mp4       640x360     DASH video  465k , 30fps, video only, 12.98MiB
244         webm      854x480     DASH video  744k , 1fps, video only, 27.11MiB
135         mp4       854x480     DASH video  873k , 30fps, video only, 25.98MiB
247         webm      1280x720    DASH video 1378k , 1fps, video only, 49.45MiB
136         mp4       1280x720    DASH video 1837k , 30fps, video only, 58.40MiB
17          3gp       176x144
36          3gp       320x240
5           flv       400x240
43          webm      640x360
18          mp4       640x360
22          mp4       1280x720 (best)

3. Chose which video resolution you would like to download. For example I’ll download the highest resolution available for this particular video (Format 22, which is a 1280×720 MPEG-4 file):

   $ youtube-dl -f 22 -o Como_fazer_um_bom_churrasco_de_Picanha.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuQCD8eh9k
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading webpage
8BuQCD8eh9k: Extracting video information
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Como_fazer_um_bom_churrasco_de_Picanha.mp4
[download] 100% of 83.77MiB in 07:09

Extracting audio from YouTube videos

Let’s say you just want an audio file of the video’s sound track. There are several options, so I’ll just show a few simple examples here:

1. MP3 file at default quality:

   $ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuQCD8eh9k
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading webpage
8BuQCD8eh9k: Extracting video information
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a
[download] 100% of 11.90MiB in 00:56
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a"
[ffmpeg] Destination: Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3
Deleting original file Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a (pass -k to keep)

   You can see from the console output above that youtube-dl downloads an M4A file and then uses ffmpeg to convert it to the audio file type you specified. You can check the file’s properties:

   $ file Como\ fazer\ um\ bom\ churrasco\ de\ Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3
Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 64 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Stereo

2. MP3 file of 128 kbps:

   $ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 128K -t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuQCD8eh9k
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading webpage
8BuQCD8eh9k: Extracting video information
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a
[download] 100% of 11.90MiB in 01:23
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a"
[ffmpeg] Destination: Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3
Deleting original file Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a (pass -k to keep)
$ file Como\ fazer\ um\ bom\ churrasco\ de\ Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3
Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.mp3: Audio file with ID3 version 2.4.0, contains: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz, Stereo

3. M4A file at best quality available for that particular video:

   $ youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format best -t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuQCD8eh9k
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading webpage
8BuQCD8eh9k: Extracting video information
8BuQCD8eh9k: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a
[download] 100% of 11.90MiB in 01:07
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a"
Post-process file Como fazer um bom churrasco de Picanha-8BuQCD8eh9k.m4a exists, skipping

To see the many options available in youtube-dl:

$ man youtube-dl

or:

$ youtube-dl --help

Have fun!

Fixing unperceived errors in my X Windows configuration

Prologue

Last week I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade X Windows to the latest version available in the main Portage tree: 1.16.3-r1. I updated my entire installation (I ’emerged world’, in Gentoo parlance). The package eselect-opengl was one of various other packages updated as well (it was updated to Version 1.3.1-r1). Fortunately I scan the Gentoo Forums regularly and noticed the threads ‘new x11 update breaks glx‘ and ‘After xorg-server-1.16.2.901-r1 update 3D stopped working‘, so I was forewarned that a "Files" section is not allowed in more than one X Windows configuration file if an installation has more than one (e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf). The eselect-opengl ebuild was subsequently bumped to 1.3.1-r2 to display a warning to users regarding this restriction.

I’m using ~amd64 multilib and the FGLRX driver (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU). Before updating, my laptop’s installation had a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and no /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory.

Before updating I cleaned up a few broken symlinks (indicated by flashing red text in Konsole) relating to the FGLRX driver — presumably left over from previous updates several years ago judging by the file dates — that I found during a cursory search:

# ls -la /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/extensions/
# rm /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx-libglx.so
# rm /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
# ls -la /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/
# rm /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/FGL.renamed.libglx.so
# rm /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/fglrx-libglx.so

(There may have been other broken symlinks relating to the FGLRX driver and GLX, but I didn’t look further.)

Then I updated all packages using the Portage command ‘emerge -uvDN --keep-going world‘ as usual. After the update was complete, the contents of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf included the following two consecutive lines:

Section "Files"
EndSection

and there is a new directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which contained a single file 20opengl.conf with only five lines:

Section "Files"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib32/xorg/modules"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/ati"
        ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Heeding posts in the aforementioned two Gentoo Forums threads I deleted the above-mentioned two lines in xorg.conf and I also deleted the first ModulePath (the one with ‘lib32‘) in 20opengl.conf. After rebooting, X Windows, GLX and Direct Rendering worked fine as usual. (I subsequently discovered it is not necessary to delete that ModulePath in my case, as there are no longer any files in /usr/lib32/xorg/modules and its subdirectories in my case.)

So everything was good. Well, not quite. Although the installation was working properly, there were still some long-standing messages in the X.Org log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log that indicated my installation was not configured completely correctly. I had ignored them for too long and resolved to find their causes and eliminate them. Here is what I did.

AIGLX error message

The contents of log file Xorg.0.log included the following error message:

(EE) AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

Despite the error message, AIGLX was working, but I resolved to get rid of the message anyway by creating a symlink for the missing file mentioned in the message:

# ls /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules
extensions
# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/
# ls -la /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37365968 Jan 10 18:16 /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
# ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so
# cd /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri
# ls -liat
total 8
2229069 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 22 22:30 .
2230340 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 22 22:30 fglrx_dri.so -> /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so
685665 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 22 22:29 ..

Now there is no error message and functionality has not been affected:

# grep -i GLX /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.773] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
[ 31.098] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 31.098] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
[ 31.167] (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
[ 38.949] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized OpenGL driver(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0

Touchpad

In looking through /var/log/Xorg.0.log I noticed some messages (not all contiguous) relating to the touchpad which indicated there were other problems:

[    31.940] (**) |-->Input Device "SynapticsTouchpad"
[    32.538] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[    32.538] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[    32.576] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    33.416] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[    33.416] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[    33.416] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    41.253] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynapticsTouchpad'
[    41.253] (**) SynapticsTouchpad: always reports core events
[    41.282] (EE) synaptics: SynapticsTouchpad: Synaptics driver unable to detect protocol
[    41.282] (EE) PreInit returned 11 for "SynapticsTouchpad"
[    41.282] (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"

The touchpad was working fine, but I didn’t understand why the synaptics module was being loaded twice, then unloaded. Also, the message about an undetectable ‘protocol’ indicated a problem.

Now, as I mentioned at the beginning of this post, previously my installation did not have the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and there was only the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Below is what xorg.conf contained before I updated:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Main Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "SynapticsTouchpad" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	SubSection "extmod"
		Option	    "omit xfree86-dga"
	EndSubSection
	Load  "i2c"
	Load  "ddc"
	Load  "vbe"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "SynapticsTouchpad"
	Driver      "synaptics"
	Option	    "AlwaysCore" "true"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
	Option	    "SHMConfig" "false"
	Option	    "LeftEdge" "1700"
	Option	    "RightEdge" "5300"
	Option	    "TopEdge" "1700"
	Option	    "BottomEdge" "4200"
	Option	    "FingerLow" "25"
	Option	    "FingerHigh" "30"
	Option	    "MaxTapTime" "180"
	Option	    "VertEdgeScroll" "true"
	Option	    "HorizEdgeScroll" "true"
	Option	    "CornerCoasting" "true"
	Option	    "CoastingSpeed" "0.30"
	Option	    "VertScrollDelta" "100"
	Option	    "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
	Option	    "MinSpeed" "0.10"
	Option	    "MaxSpeed" "0.60"
	Option	    "AccelFactor" "0.0020"
	Option	    "VertTwoFingerScroll" "true"
	Option	    "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "true"
	Option	    "TapButton1" "1"
	Option	    "TapButton2" "2"
	Option	    "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device      "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor     "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Mode         0666
EndSection

The only mention of a ‘protocol’ in xorg.conf was the line:

Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"

Searching the Web soon showed me that auto-dev is obsolete (Debian Bug report #649003 – xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Option “Protocol” “auto-dev” does not work anymore – documentation needs fixing), so I simply deleted that line from xorg.conf. Another error message eliminated, but several more to go.

I knew that, since Version 1.8 (I believe that was the release), X Windows allows the use of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf files instead of, or as well as, /etc/X11/xorg.conf as a means of configuring X Windows (see e.g. Gentoo Xorg-server 1.8 Upgrade Guide).

As my latest installation update had resulted in the creation of the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, I decided to move the touchpad configuration from the xorg.conf file to a new file in that directory, and therefore I created the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf containing the following:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "35"
        Option "FingerHigh" "40"
EndSection

However the log file Xorg.0.log still contained messages such as the following:

[    41.535] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"

Notice that I had named the InputClass "touchpad" in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf, not "evdev touchpad catchall", so I began to wonder if X Windows configuration files existed in other directories and were also being parsed by X Windows. I searched and found three in the directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/:

# ls /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
10-evdev.conf  10-quirks.conf  50-synaptics.conf

These three files contained, respectively, the following:

10-evdev.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

10-quirks.conf

  
# Collection of quirks and blacklist/whitelists for specific devices.


# Accelerometer device, posts data through ABS_X/ABS_Y, making X unusable
# http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22442 
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer blacklist"
        MatchProduct "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523914
# Mouse does not move in PV Xen guest
# Explicitly tell evdev to not ignore the absolute axes.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Xen Virtual Pointer axis blacklist"
        MatchProduct "Xen Virtual Pointer"
        Option "IgnoreAbsoluteAxes" "off"
        Option "IgnoreRelativeAxes" "off"
EndSection

# https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55867
# Bug 55867 - Doesn't know how to tag XI_TRACKBALL
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Tag trackballs as XI_TRACKBALL"
        MatchProduct "trackball"
        MatchDriver "evdev"
        Option "TypeName" "TRACKBALL"
EndSection

# https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62831
# Bug 62831 - Mionix Naos 5000 mouse detected incorrectly
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Tag Mionix Naos 5000 mouse XI_MOUSE"
        MatchProduct "La-VIEW Technology Naos 5000 Mouse"
        MatchDriver "evdev"
        Option "TypeName" "MOUSE"
EndSection

50-synaptics.conf

# Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver
# to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on
# InputClass.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite
# it when updating. Copy (and rename) this file into
# /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d first.
# Additional options may be added in the form of
#   Option "OptionName" "value"
#
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
# This option is recommend on all Linux systems using evdev, but cannot be
# enabled by default. See the following link for details:
# http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-ignore-configuration-errors.html
#       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchOS "Linux"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

# This option enables the bottom right corner to be a right button on clickpads
# and the right and middle top areas to be right / middle buttons on clickpads
# with a top button area.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Default clickpad buttons"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
        Option "SecondarySoftButtonAreas" "58% 0 0 15% 42% 58% 0 15%"
EndSection

# This option disables software buttons on Apple touchpads.
# This option is only interpreted by clickpads.
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Disable clickpad buttons on Apple touchpads"
        MatchProduct "Apple|bcm5974"
        MatchDriver "synaptics"
        Option "SoftButtonAreas" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

Looking at the InputClass section names and the messages in Xorg.0.log, the penny dropped: X Windows uses all the configuration files it finds in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/,  /etc/X11/ and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directories. I had not realised this before; I had simply assumed X Windows only uses configuration files in the latter two directories (I should have looked more closely in Xorg.0.log, as it mentions /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/). So I did the following:

1.  Deleted the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf (my laptop does not have a clickpad, so I don’t need the sections relating to a clickpad anyway).

2.  Modified the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to contain the parts of /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf that stop X Windows assuming the touchpad is a mouse (udev detects it as a mouse in addition to detecting it as a touchpad):

 
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad catchall"
        Driver "synaptics"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Option "TapButton1" "1"
        Option "TapButton2" "2"
        Option "TapButton3" "3"
        Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
        Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
        Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
        Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
        Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
        Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
        Option "FingerLow" "35"
        Option "FingerHigh" "40"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "touchpad ignore duplicates"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/mouse*"
        Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection

Notice that I also changed the Identifier of the first section from “touchpad” to “touchpad catchall”, although I could have left it as it was.

Note that the following pair of messages in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log do not worry me, as I believe they indicate that an InputClass section named "touchpad ignore duplicates" in an X Windows configuration file made X Windows ignore udev when it detected the touchpad again, this time as a mouse instead of a touchpad. As X Windows has already loaded the synaptics module for the touchpad device /dev/input/event5 (it could be a different event number in your case), it is therefore correct to make the synaptics driver ignore /dev/input/mouse*.

[    41.581] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
[    41.581] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"

3.  Moved the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf and edited it to contain the following:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
        MatchIsTablet "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Note that I removed the section "evdev touchpad catchall" because I believe its purpose is already covered by the section "touchpad catchall" in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf.

Actually, as my laptop does not have a tablet connected and neither does it have a touchscreen, I could also have removed the last two sections, but I left them in as they would do no harm.

4.  Checked in the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log which modules loaded by /etc/X11/xorg.conf are loaded anyway, and therefore do not need to be included in xorg.conf:

$ grep extmod /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.773] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 30.773] (II) Module "extmod" already built-in

$ grep i2c /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.775] (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
[ 30.775] (II) Module "i2c" already built-in

$ grep ddc /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.775] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[ 30.775] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
[ 35.114] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
[ 35.114] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[ 35.114] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
[ 35.421] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
[ 35.421] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[ 35.421] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in

$ grep vbe /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.775] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[ 31.162] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
[ 31.175] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 35.073] (II) Loading sub module "vbe"
[ 35.073] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[ 35.073] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
[ 35.073] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"

$ grep \"dri\" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 31.175] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[ 31.175] (II) Module "dri" already built-in

$ grep glx /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 30.775] (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also specified in the config file.
[ 31.175] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 31.175] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
[ 31.193] (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."

The module vbe was the only one being loaded exclusively because of a Load command in the xorg.conf file.

5.  Edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to: a) remove the unecessary loading of those modules that are already being loaded; b) remove the section relating to the touchpad, as I had moved it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Main Layout"
        Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "vbe"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        Option      "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
        Option      "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
        Option      "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
        Device      "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Monitor     "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth    24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode         0666
EndSection

According to the xorg.conf(5) manual page:

Option “AllowMouseOpenFail” “boolean”

This tells the mousedrv(4) and vmmouse(4) drivers to not report failure if the mouse device can’t be opened/initialised. It has no effect on the evdev(4) or other drivers. Default: false.

so I left the section ServerFlags in xorg.conf, as the global X.Org Server option "AllowMouseOpenFail" does no harm. I could have deleted it, though.

6.  I left /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf as it was, because there is nothing in it that relates to the specific hardware in my laptop. I could have just deleted the file.

Outcome

Now that I have removed the superflous X windows configuration files with some duplicate sections, /var/log/Xorg.0.log no longer contains duplicate messages relating to the touchpad and evdev. As I have also removed superflous module-loading commands from xorg.conf, there are also no longer any messages regarding already-loaded modules or the unloading of a module. And my removal of the obsolete auto-dev protocol option also eliminated the error message regarding an undetectable protocol and the PreInit error message. The file Xorg.0.log in my installation now looks like this:

[    29.801] 
X.Org X Server 1.16.3
Release Date: 2014-12-20
[    29.801] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    29.801] Build Operating System: Linux 3.17.1-gentoo-r1 x86_64 Gentoo
[    29.801] Current Operating System: Linux meshedgedx 3.17.1-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Wed Nov 5 16:41:59 GMT 2014 x86_64
[    29.801] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda6 ro BOOT_IMAGE=/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.17.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:Emergance console=tty1 quiet resume=swap:/dev/sda5 real_resume=/dev/sda5 intel_iommu=off net.ifnames=0 snd_hda_intel.power_save=0
[    29.801] Build Date: 20 January 2015  08:46:39AM
[    29.801]  
[    29.801] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
[    29.801]    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
[    29.801] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    29.801] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 25 23:59:52 2015
[    29.846] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[    29.846] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    29.846] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    29.918] (==) ServerLayout "Main Layout"
[    29.918] (**) |-->Screen "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" (0)
[    29.918] (**) |   |-->Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
[    30.063] (**) |   |-->Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
[    30.063] (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
[    30.063] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    30.063] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    30.063] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    30.166] (==) FontPath set to:
        /usr/share/fonts/misc/,
        /usr/share/fonts/TTF/,
        /usr/share/fonts/OTF/,
        /usr/share/fonts/Type1/,
        /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,
        /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/
[    30.166] (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib32/xorg/modules,/usr/lib64/opengl/ati,/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
[    30.166] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
        If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[    30.166] (II) Loader magic: 0x805c60
[    30.166] (II) Module ABI versions:
[    30.166]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[    30.166]    X.Org Video Driver: 18.0
[    30.166]    X.Org XInput driver : 21.0
[    30.166]    X.Org Server Extension : 8.0
[    30.167] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:68c1:14c0:0043 rev 0, Mem @ 0xc0000000/268435456, 0xd8000000/131072, I/O @ 0x00006000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[    30.167] (II) "glx" will be loaded by default.
[    30.167] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[    30.679] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
[    30.692] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    30.692]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 1.1.0
[    30.692]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[    30.692] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    30.692] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/ati/extensions/libglx.so
[    30.710] (II) Module glx: vendor="Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."
[    30.710]    compiled for 6.9.0, module version = 1.0.0
[    30.710] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
[    30.710] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
[    31.508] (II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
[    31.508]    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 14.50.2
[    31.508]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    31.509] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
[    31.509] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[    31.509] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
[    31.554] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
[    31.554]    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 14.50.2
[    31.554] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Version Identifier:14.50.2
[    31.554] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Release Identifier: 14.501.1003                          
[    31.554] (II) AMD Proprietary Linux Driver Build Date: Nov 20 2014 21:22:54
[    31.554] (++) using VT number 7

[    31.671] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
[    31.855] (II) Loading PCS database from /etc/ati/amdpcsdb /etc/ati/amdpcsdb.default
[    31.892] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    31.893] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    31.893] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    31.893] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    31.893] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 9, (OK)
[    33.746] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 9
[    33.746] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    34.157] (--) Chipset Supported AMD Graphics Processor (0x68C1) found
[    34.174] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
[    34.180] (II) fglrx(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x1fe9bc0
[    34.180] (II) fglrx(0): === [xdl_xs116_atiddxPreInit] === begin
[    34.180] (II) fglrx(0): FB driver is enabled
[    34.180] (II) Loading sub module "vgahw"
[    34.180] (II) LoadModule: "vgahw"
[    34.180] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvgahw.so
[    34.354] (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    34.354]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 0.1.0
[    34.354]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[    34.355] (**) fglrx(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[    34.355] (II) fglrx(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
[    34.355] (==) fglrx(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    34.355] (**) fglrx(0): Option "DPMS" "true"
[    34.355] (==) fglrx(0): RGB weight 888
[    34.355] (II) fglrx(0): Using 8 bits per RGB 
[    34.355] (==) fglrx(0): Buffer Tiling is ON
[    34.355] (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
[    34.355] (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
[    34.355] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/linux/libfglrxdrm.so
[    34.355] (II) Module fglrxdrm: vendor="FireGL - AMD Technologies Inc."
[    34.355]    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 14.50.2
[    34.358] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    34.358] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    34.358] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    34.358] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    34.358] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK)
[    34.358] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 11
[    34.358] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    34.358] (**) fglrx(0): NoAccel = NO
[    34.358] (**) fglrx(0): AMD 2D Acceleration Architecture enabled
[    34.358] (--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series" (Chipset = 0x68c1)
[    34.358] (--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x14c0, PciSubDevice = 0x0043)
[    34.358] (==) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT original AMD
[    34.358] (--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xc0000000
[    34.358] (--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xd8000000
[    34.358] (--) fglrx(0): I/O port at 0x00006000
[    34.358] (==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
[    34.561] (II) fglrx(0): AC Adapter is used
[    34.585] (II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
[    34.631] (II) Loading sub module "vbe"
[    34.631] (II) LoadModule: "vbe"
[    34.631] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libvbe.so
[    34.631] (II) Module vbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    34.631]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 1.1.0
[    34.631]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA BIOS detected
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI ATOMBIOS
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 12.17
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: (C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc. 
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: MADISON
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): AMD Video BIOS revision 9 or later detected
[    34.709] (--) fglrx(0): Video RAM: 1048576 kByte, Type: DDR3
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): PCIE card detected
[    34.709] (--) fglrx(0): Using per-process page tables (PPPT) as GART.
[    34.709] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): [FB] MC range(MCFBBase = 0xf00000000, MCFBSize = 0x40000000)
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 support is enabled!
[    34.709] (II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 rotation support is enabled!
[    34.709] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[    34.709] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    34.709] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[    34.731] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    34.731]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 1.0.0
[    34.731]    ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    34.731] (II) fglrx(0): EDID Management option: EDID Management is enabled
[    34.731] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
[    34.731] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[    34.731] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Output LVDS using monitor section aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Output DFP1 has no monitor section
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Output CRT1 has no monitor section
[    35.087] (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
[    35.087] (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
[    35.087] (II) Module "ddc" already built-in
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Connected Display0: LVDS
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Display0 EDID data ---------------------------
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: AUO  Model: 10ed  Serial#: 0
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Year: 2008  Week: 1
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Digital Display Input
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34  vert.: 19
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): No DPMS capabilities specified
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4 
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.620 redY: 0.340   greenX: 0.330 greenY: 0.570
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.150 blueY: 0.060   whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): Supported detailed timing:
[    35.087] (II) fglrx(0): clock: 134.4 MHz   Image Size:  344 x 193 mm
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1920  h_sync: 1950  h_sync_end 1970 h_blank_end 1982 h_border: 0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1080  v_sync: 1090  v_sync_end 1100 v_blanking: 1130 v_border: 0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):  AUO
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):  B156HW01 V0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): EDID (in hex):
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     00ffffffffffff0006afed1000000000
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     01120103802213780ac8959e57549226
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     0f505400000001010101010101010101
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     0101010101018034803e703832401e14
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     aa0058c1100000180000000f00000000
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     00000000000000000020000000fe0041
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     554f0a202020202020202020000000fe
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     004231353648573031205630200a0054
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): End of Display0 EDID data --------------------
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT1
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: ACR  Model: ad52  Serial#: 1426067087
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005  Week: 50
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Analog Display Input,  Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.700 V
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Sync:  Separate
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 41  vert.: 26
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): DPMS capabilities: Off; RGB/Color Display
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Default color space is primary color space
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.642 redY: 0.348   greenX: 0.288 greenY: 0.601
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.143 blueY: 0.072   whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Supported established timings:
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 720x400@70Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@60Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@67Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@72Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@75Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@56Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@60Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@72Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@75Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 832x624@75Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@60Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@70Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@75Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Supported standard timings:
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1440  vsize 900  refresh: 60  vid: 149
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Supported detailed timing:
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): clock: 106.5 MHz   Image Size:  408 x 255 mm
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1440  h_sync: 1520  h_sync_end 1672 h_blank_end 1904 h_border: 0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 900  v_sync: 903  v_sync_end 909 v_blanking: 934 v_border: 0
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 145 MHz
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Monitor name: Acer AL1916W
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Serial No: ETL5209014
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): EDID (in hex):
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     00ffffffffffff00047252ad8f0e0055
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     320f010368291a782e4fa5a459499924
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     125054bfef0081808140714f95000101
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     0101010101019a29a0d0518422305098
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     360098ff1000001c000000fd00384c1e
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     520e000a202020202020000000fc0041
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     63657220414c31393136570a000000ff
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0):     0045544c35323039303134202020008c
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): End of Display1 EDID data --------------------
[    35.088] (II) fglrx(0): Dynamic Surface Resizing Enabled
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID for output LVDS
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: AUO  Model: 10ed  Serial#: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Year: 2008  Week: 1
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Digital Display Input
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34  vert.: 19
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): No DPMS capabilities specified
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4 
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.620 redY: 0.340   greenX: 0.330 greenY: 0.570
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.150 blueY: 0.060   whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Supported detailed timing:
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): clock: 134.4 MHz   Image Size:  344 x 193 mm
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1920  h_sync: 1950  h_sync_end 1970 h_blank_end 1982 h_border: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 1080  v_sync: 1090  v_sync_end 1100 v_blanking: 1130 v_border: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Unknown vendor-specific block f
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):  AUO
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):  B156HW01 V0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID (in hex):
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     00ffffffffffff0006afed1000000000
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     01120103802213780ac8959e57549226
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     0f505400000001010101010101010101
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     0101010101018034803e703832401e14
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     aa0058c1100000180000000f00000000
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     00000000000000000020000000fe0041
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     554f0a202020202020202020000000fe
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     004231353648573031205630200a0054
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "AUO", prod id 4333
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0  134.40  1920 1950 1970 1982  1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz eP)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Printing probed modes for output LVDS
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x60.0  134.40  1920 1950 1970 1982  1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz eP)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1680x1050"x60.0  134.40  1680 1950 1970 1982  1050 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1400x1050"x60.0  134.40  1400 1950 1970 1982  1050 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1600x900"x60.0  134.40  1600 1950 1970 1982  900 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x60.0  134.40  1280 1950 1970 1982  1024 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x60.0  134.40  1440 1950 1970 1982  900 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x60.0  134.40  1280 1950 1970 1982  960 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x768"x60.0  134.40  1280 1950 1970 1982  768 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x720"x60.0  134.40  1280 1950 1970 1982  720 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0  134.40  1024 1950 1970 1982  768 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x600"x60.0  134.40  1024 1950 1970 1982  600 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.0  134.40  800 1950 1970 1982  600 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x480"x60.0  134.40  800 1950 1970 1982  480 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x60.0  134.40  640 1950 1970 1982  480 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID for output DFP1
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID for output CRT1
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: ACR  Model: ad52  Serial#: 1426067087
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005  Week: 50
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.3
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Analog Display Input,  Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.700 V
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Sync:  Separate
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 41  vert.: 26
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Gamma: 2.20
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): DPMS capabilities: Off; RGB/Color Display
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Default color space is primary color space
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): redX: 0.642 redY: 0.348   greenX: 0.288 greenY: 0.601
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): blueX: 0.143 blueY: 0.072   whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Supported established timings:
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 720x400@70Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@60Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@67Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@72Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 640x480@75Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@56Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@60Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@72Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 800x600@75Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 832x624@75Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@60Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@70Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 1024x768@75Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Supported standard timings:
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): #0: hsize: 1280  vsize 1024  refresh: 60  vid: 32897
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): #1: hsize: 1280  vsize 960  refresh: 60  vid: 16513
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): #2: hsize: 1152  vsize 864  refresh: 75  vid: 20337
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): #3: hsize: 1440  vsize 900  refresh: 60  vid: 149
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Supported detailed timing:
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): clock: 106.5 MHz   Image Size:  408 x 255 mm
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1440  h_sync: 1520  h_sync_end 1672 h_blank_end 1904 h_border: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 900  v_sync: 903  v_sync_end 909 v_blanking: 934 v_border: 0
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Ranges: V min: 56 V max: 76 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 82 kHz, PixClock max 145 MHz
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Monitor name: Acer AL1916W
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Serial No: ETL5209014
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): EDID (in hex):
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     00ffffffffffff00047252ad8f0e0055
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     320f010368291a782e4fa5a459499924
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     125054bfef0081808140714f95000101
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     0101010101019a29a0d0518422305098
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     360098ff1000001c000000fd00384c1e
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     520e000a202020202020000000fc0041
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     63657220414c31393136570a000000ff
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0):     0045544c35323039303134202020008c
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Printing probed modes for output CRT1
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x60.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x75.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x60.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x60.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x800"x60.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  800 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x75.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x60.0  106.50  1152 1520 1672 1904  864 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x768"x60.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  768 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x720"x60.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  720 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x75.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x70.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x600"x75.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  600 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x600"x70.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  600 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x600"x60.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  600 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x72.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    35.205] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x75.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x480"x72.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  480 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x480"x75.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  480 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x480"x60.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  480 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x480"x56.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  480 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x75.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x72.0   31.50  640 656 696 832  480 481 484 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x67.0   27.28  640 664 728 816  480 481 484 499 -hsync +vsync (33.4 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x60.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Output LVDS connected
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Output DFP1 disconnected
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Output CRT1 connected
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Output LVDS using initial mode 1440x900
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Output CRT1 using initial mode 1440x900
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Using default gamma of (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) unless otherwise stated.
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Setting highest common mode
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Display dimensions: (340, 190) mm
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): DPI set to (107, 120)
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Eyefinity capable adapter detected.
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Adapter AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series has 6 configurable heads and 2 displays connected.
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0):  PseudoColor visuals disabled
[    35.206] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[    35.206] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[    35.206] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0): NoDRI = NO
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0): Capabilities: 0x00000000
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0): CapabilitiesEx: 0x00000000
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0): OpenGL ClientDriverName: "fglrx_dri.so"
[    35.206] (==) fglrx(0): UseFastTLS=0
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Shadow Primary option: ShadowPrimary is enabled
[    35.206] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): doing swlDriScreenInit
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): swlDriScreenInit for fglrx driver
[    35.206] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    35.206] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    35.206] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    35.206] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    35.206] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    35.206] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 12, (OK)
[    35.206] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 12
[    35.206] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] DRM interface version 1.0
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] created "fglrx" driver at busid "PCI:1:0:0"
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x2000
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] mapped SAREA 0x2000 to 0x7f5337485000
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] framebuffer handle = 0x3000
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] added 1 reserved context for kernel
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): swlDriScreenInit done
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Version Information:
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Name: fglrx
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Version: 14.50.2
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Date: Nov 20 2014
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Desc: AMD FireGL DRM kernel module
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module version matches driver.
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): Kernel Module Build Time Information:
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel UTS_RELEASE:        3.17.1-gentoo-r1
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel MODVERSIONS:        yes
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel __SMP__:            yes
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0):     Build-Kernel PAGE_SIZE:          0x1000
[    35.206] (II) fglrx(0): [uki] register handle = 0x00004000
[    35.209] (II) fglrx(0): Display width adjusted to to 1536 due to alignment constraints
[    35.209] (II) fglrx(0): DRI initialization successfull
[    35.240] (II) fglrx(0): FBADPhys: 0xf00000000 FBMappedSize: 0x010e0000
[    35.252] (==) fglrx(0): Backing store enabled
[    35.252] (**) fglrx(0): DPMS enabled
[    35.252] (II) fglrx(0): Initialized in-driver Xinerama extension
[    35.252] (**) fglrx(0): Textured Video is enabled.
[    35.252] (II) LoadModule: "glesx"
[    35.252] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/glesx.so
[    35.649] (II) Module glesx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    35.649]    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 1.0.0
[    35.649] (II) fglrx(0): GLESX enableFlags = 8784
[    35.656] (II) fglrx(0): GLESX is enabled
[    35.656] (II) LoadModule: "amdxmm"
[    35.656] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/amdxmm.so
[    35.667] (II) Module amdxmm: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    35.667]    compiled for 1.4.99.906, module version = 2.0.0
[    35.758] (II) fglrx(0): UVD feature is enabled(II) fglrx(0): 
[    35.768] (II) fglrx(0): Enable composite support successfully
[    35.768] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
[    35.768] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
[    35.768] (II) fglrx(0): X context handle = 0x1
[    35.768] (II) fglrx(0): [DRI] installation complete
[    35.768] (==) fglrx(0): Silken mouse enabled
[    35.776] (==) fglrx(0): Using HW cursor of display infrastructure!
[    35.777] (II) fglrx(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[    35.780] (II) fglrx(0): 'LVDS LCD' ConnectorType, abstracted as 'Panel'
[    35.780] (II) fglrx(0): 'eDP LCD' ConnectorType, abstracted as 'Panel'
[    36.472] (--) RandR disabled
[    36.495] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.495] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.495] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    36.495] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    36.496] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 13, (OK)
[    36.496] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 13
[    36.496] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    36.834] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.834] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.834] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.834] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    36.834] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 14, (OK)
[    36.834] ukiGetBusid returned 'PCI:1:0:0'
[    36.834] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card1
[    36.834] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card2
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card3
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card4
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card5
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card6
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card7
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card8
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card9
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card10
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card11
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card12
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card13
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card14
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card15
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    36.835] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    36.835] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    36.835] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 14, (OK)
[    36.835] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 14
[    36.835] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    38.352] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized OpenGL driver(II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0
[    38.353] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    38.353] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    38.353] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 15, (OK)
[    38.353] ukiGetBusid returned 'PCI:1:0:0'
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card1
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card2
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card3
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card4
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card5
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card6
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card7
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card8
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card9
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card10
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card11
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card12
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card13
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card14
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card15
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device)
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: Open failed
[    38.353] ukiDynamicMajor: found major device number 241
[    38.353] ukiOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID PCI:1:0:0
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: node name is /dev/ati/card0
[    38.353] ukiOpenDevice: open result is 15, (OK)
[    38.353] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiOpenMinor returns 15
[    38.353] ukiOpenByBusid: ukiGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
[    38.707] (II) fglrx(0): Setting screen physical size to 381 x 238
[    39.511] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event3)
[    39.511] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.511] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[    39.511] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[    39.776] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    39.776]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 2.9.1
[    39.776]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    39.776]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[    39.776] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    39.776] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[    39.776] (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
[    39.776] (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
[    39.776] (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
[    39.776] (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.776] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3/event3"
[    39.776] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
[    39.776] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.776] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.776] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.803] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Video Bus (/dev/input/event9)
[    39.803] (**) Video Bus: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.803] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Video Bus'
[    39.803] (**) Video Bus: always reports core events
[    39.803] (**) evdev: Video Bus: Device: "/dev/input/event9"
[    39.803] (--) evdev: Video Bus: Vendor 0 Product 0x6
[    39.803] (--) evdev: Video Bus: Found keys
[    39.803] (II) evdev: Video Bus: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.803] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:08/LNXVIDEO:01/input/input10/event9"
[    39.803] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7)
[    39.803] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.803] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.803] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.804] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event0)
[    39.804] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.804] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    39.804] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[    39.804] (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[    39.804] (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
[    39.804] (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
[    39.804] (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.804] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:10/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0/event0"
[    39.804] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 8)
[    39.804] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.804] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.804] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.805] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Lid Switch (/dev/input/event1)
[    39.805] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.805] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.805] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Sleep Button (/dev/input/event2)
[    39.805] (**) Sleep Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.805] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[    39.805] (**) Sleep Button: always reports core events
[    39.805] (**) evdev: Sleep Button: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[    39.805] (--) evdev: Sleep Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x3
[    39.805] (--) evdev: Sleep Button: Found keys
[    39.805] (II) evdev: Sleep Button: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.805] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:10/PNP0C0E:00/input/input2/event2"
[    39.805] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Sleep Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[    39.805] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.805] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.805] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.805] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event11)
[    39.805] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.805] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.806] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Digital PCBeep (/dev/input/event12)
[    39.806] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.806] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.806] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel MID Mic (/dev/input/event13)
[    39.806] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.806] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.807] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel MID Headphone (/dev/input/event14)
[    39.807] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.807] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.808] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel (/dev/input/event6)
[    39.808] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[    39.808] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel'
[    39.808] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: always reports core events
[    39.808] (**) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Device: "/dev/input/event6"
[    39.808] (--) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Vendor 0x45e Product 0xd1
[    39.808] (--) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Found 9 mouse buttons
[    39.808] (--) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Found scroll wheel(s)
[    39.808] (--) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Found relative axes
[    39.808] (--) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Found x and y relative axes
[    39.808] (II) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Configuring as mouse
[    39.808] (II) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: Adding scrollwheel support
[    39.808] (**) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[    39.808] (**) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[    39.808] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0/0003:045E:00D1.0001/input/input7/event6"
[    39.808] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel" (type: MOUSE, id 10)
[    39.808] (II) evdev: Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: initialized for relative axes.
[    39.809] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[    39.809] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[    39.809] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[    39.809] (**) Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[    39.809] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Microsoft Microsoft Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel (/dev/input/mouse1)
[    39.809] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.809] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.810] (II) config/udev: Adding input device USB 2.0 Camera (/dev/input/event15)
[    39.810] (**) USB 2.0 Camera: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.810] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'USB 2.0 Camera'
[    39.810] (**) USB 2.0 Camera: always reports core events
[    39.810] (**) evdev: USB 2.0 Camera: Device: "/dev/input/event15"
[    39.810] (--) evdev: USB 2.0 Camera: Vendor 0x64e Product 0xa115
[    39.810] (--) evdev: USB 2.0 Camera: Found keys
[    39.810] (II) evdev: USB 2.0 Camera: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.810] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0/input/input16/event15"
[    39.810] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "USB 2.0 Camera" (type: KEYBOARD, id 11)
[    39.810] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.810] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.810] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.812] (II) config/udev: Adding input device NOVATEK USB Keyboard (/dev/input/event7)
[    39.812] (**) NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.812] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'NOVATEK USB Keyboard'
[    39.812] (**) NOVATEK USB Keyboard: always reports core events
[    39.812] (**) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
[    39.812] (--) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Vendor 0x603 Product 0xf2
[    39.812] (--) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Found keys
[    39.812] (II) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.812] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6/2-1.6.4/2-1.6.4:1.0/0003:0603:00F2.0002/input/input8/event7"
[    39.812] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NOVATEK USB Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 12)
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.812] (II) config/udev: Adding input device NOVATEK USB Keyboard (/dev/input/event8)
[    39.812] (**) NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.812] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'NOVATEK USB Keyboard'
[    39.812] (**) NOVATEK USB Keyboard: always reports core events
[    39.812] (**) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event8"
[    39.812] (--) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Vendor 0x603 Product 0xf2
[    39.812] (--) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Found 20 mouse buttons
[    39.812] (--) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Found keys
[    39.812] (II) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Forcing relative x/y axes to exist.
[    39.812] (II) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Configuring as mouse
[    39.812] (II) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.812] (**) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[    39.812] (**) evdev: NOVATEK USB Keyboard: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[    39.812] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.6/2-1.6.4/2-1.6.4:1.1/0003:0603:00F2.0003/input/input9/event8"
[    39.812] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NOVATEK USB Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 13)
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.812] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.813] (II) config/udev: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (/dev/input/event4)
[    39.813] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[    39.813] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[    39.813] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[    39.813] (**) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
[    39.813] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Vendor 0x1 Product 0x1
[    39.813] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[    39.813] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[    39.813] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4/event4"
[    39.813] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 14)
[    39.813] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[    39.813] (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104"
[    39.813] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[    39.813] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event5)
[    39.813] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
[    39.813] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[    39.814] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[    39.857] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    39.857]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 1.8.1
[    39.857]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    39.857]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[    39.857] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[    39.857] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[    39.857] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event5"
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5772 (res 69)
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 5086 (res 118)
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7
[    39.887] (**) Option "FingerLow" "35"
[    39.887] (**) Option "FingerHigh" "40"
[    39.887] (**) Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" "40"
[    39.887] (**) Option "EmulateTwoFingerMinW" "8"
[    39.887] (**) Option "VertEdgeScroll" "on"
[    39.887] (**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "on"
[    39.887] (**) Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
[    39.887] (**) Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "on"
[    39.887] (**) Option "TapButton1" "1"
[    39.887] (**) Option "TapButton2" "2"
[    39.887] (**) Option "TapButton3" "3"
[    39.887] (**) Option "CircularScrolling" "on"
[    39.887] (**) Option "CircScrollTrigger" "0"
[    39.887] (**) Option "CoastingSpeed" "0"
[    39.887] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[    39.887] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[    39.899] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6/event5"
[    39.899] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 15)
[    39.899] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[    39.899] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[    39.899] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.035
[    39.899] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[    39.899] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[    39.899] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[    39.899] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[    39.899] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found
[    39.900] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
[    39.900] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"
[    39.900] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event10)
[    39.900] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    39.900] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[    39.906] (II) fglrx(0): Restoring Recent Mode via PCS is not supported in RANDR 1.2 capable environments
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    70.796] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    70.797] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[    72.599] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    72.600] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    72.600] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[    72.600] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    72.600] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    76.950] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[    76.951] (II) fglrx(0): xdl_xs116_atiddxDisplayScreenEnableDisplays
[    78.915] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[    78.915] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[    78.915] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[    78.916] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[   134.000] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   136.027] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   136.035] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   139.822] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): EDID vendor "ACR", prod id 44370
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1440x900"x0.0  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   40.00  800 840 968 1056  600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   36.00  800 824 896 1024  600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 656 720 840  480 481 484 500 -hsync -vsync (37.5 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   31.50  640 664 704 832  480 489 492 520 -hsync -vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   30.24  640 704 768 864  480 483 486 525 -hsync -vsync (35.0 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "640x480"x0.0   25.18  640 656 752 800  480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "720x400"x0.0   28.32  720 738 846 900  400 412 414 449 -hsync +vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   78.75  1024 1040 1136 1312  768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   75.00  1024 1048 1184 1328  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1024x768"x0.0   65.00  1024 1048 1184 1344  768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "832x624"x0.0   57.28  832 864 928 1152  624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync (49.7 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   49.50  800 816 896 1056  600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync (46.9 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "800x600"x0.0   50.00  800 856 976 1040  600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync (48.1 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x0.0  108.00  1280 1328 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (64.0 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1280x960"x0.0  108.00  1280 1376 1488 1800  960 961 964 1000 +hsync +vsync (60.0 kHz e)
[   139.829] (II) fglrx(0): Modeline "1152x864"x0.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)

The Xorg.0.log file is now cleaner, and I noticed a tiny improvement (I estimate a couple of seconds) in the loading of X Windows when the laptop starts up. Although there has been no change in video and touchpad functionality as far as I can tell, tidying up and removing redundant and incorrect X Windows configuration lines was a worthwhile exercise as I learned something in the process.

You will notice that no keyboard layout and variant are specified in any X Windows configuration file listed above. This laptop has an English (UK) keyboard layout, but sometimes I use it with external USB keyboards having English (UK), English (US), Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain) layouts. As the laptop runs KDE, I had already configured KDE to allow me to toggle between the four keyboard layouts and so did not need to configure X Windows for the keyboard layout. However, on machines running Linux with desktop environments that do not have such a facility I add a file with a name such as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-keyboard.conf containing the following to suit my particular requirements:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
        Option "XkbLayout" "gb,us,br,es"
        Option "XkbVariant" "pc104"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
EndSection

As the last option suggests, pressing Alt+Shift would toggle between the layouts specified.

WebRTC – A viable alternative to Skype

Skype for Linux 4.3 and upwards requires the use of PulseAudio, which has caused discontent amongst those Linux users who do not use PulseAudio. Although I do use PulseAudio, I recently found out about WebRTC, an API (application programming interface) for browser-based communication offering most of the functions provided by Skype, namely: voice calling, video chat, text chat, file sharing and screen sharing. The official WebRTC site states:

WebRTC is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

Our mission: To enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed in the browser via simple JavaScript APIs and HTML5.

WebRTC was originally released by Google but is now a draft standard of the World Wide Web Consortium, and is supported by Chrome, Firefox and Opera browsers. Several commercial Web sites offer WebRTC-based communications to fee-paying customers, but I thought I would try WebRTC by using one of the so-called ‘demo’ WebRTC pages. AppRTC is a WebRTC demo page which can be reached from a link on the official WebRTC site, but I prefer Multi-Party WebRTC Demo by TokBox which offers a more polished experience with better features. Both are free to use and viable substitutes to Skype for video chatting (one-to-one or conference).

So, how do you actually use WebRTC-based sites? Below is a quick guide to get you going.

Text and video chatting

Open the following URL in Chrome or Firefox:

https://opentokrtc.com/

Enter a Room Name that is likely to be unique. I used ‘fitzchat’ (without the quotes), but you can use any name you want.

The other party or parties can do the same thing, i.e. they enter the same Room Name as you, and you will all become connected.

Alternatively, to send an e-mail invitation to someone, click on the URL at the top of the pane on the right-hand side (which is Invite: https://opentokrtc.com/fitzchat in this example, as I chose to name the Room ‘fitzchat’). The partially visible pane at the right-hand side of the browser window will slide into full view when you click on it.

That’s all there is to it. You should see a video window showing each party, and they should see the same. Each party should also be able to hear the other parties. In the top right-hand corner of each video window is an icon (microphone for you; speaker for each of the other parties) which you can click on to mute/un-mute that party.

Click on the partially visible pane at the right-hand side of the browser window. Notice the ‘chat bar’ at the bottom where you enter commands and chat text. Read the grey instructions listed near the top of the pane:

Welcome to OpenTokRTC by TokBox
Type /nick your_name to change your name
Type /list to see list of users in the room
Type /help to see a list of commands
Type /hide to hide chat bar
Type /focus to lead the group
Type /unfocus to put everybody on equal standing

For example, to give myself a meaningful name instead of the default username Guest-0120e48c which was given to me automatically, I entered the following:

           /nick Fitz

Screen sharing

I found that screen sharing already works well in Chrome 36.0.1985.125 but is not yet supported in Firefox 31.0. It will be supported in Firefox 32 or 33, apparently, or you can already use Firefox Nightly providing you add the appropriate preferences via about:config.

To be able to share screens in Chrome, I had to perform two steps: enable a Chrome flag and install a Chrome extension. The two steps, which do not need to be repeated, are given below (see Ref. 1).

To enable screen sharing in Chrome, do the following:

1. Open a new tab or window in Chrome.
2. Copy the following link: chrome://flags/#enable-usermedia-screen-capture and paste it in the location bar.
3. Click on the ‘Enable’ link below ‘Enable screen capture support in getUserMedia().’ at the very top of the screen.
4. Click on the ‘Relaunch Now’ button at the bottom of the page to restart Chrome.

To install the screen sharing extension in Chrome, do the following:

1. Launch Chrome and click on the Menu icon.
2. Click on ‘Settings’.
3. Click on ‘Extensions’.
4. Click on ‘Get more extensions’ and search for ‘webrtc’.
5. Download ‘WebRTC Desktop Sharing’.
6. This places an icon to the right of the URL bar in Chrome.

To share your screen or just a window, do the following in Chrome:

1. Click on the ‘Share Desktop’ icon to the right of the URL bar and select either ‘Screen’ or the window you wish to share.
2. Click ‘Share’.
3. When sharing has started in a new Chrome window, select the URL of the relevant tab in that window and send it to the other parties via the chat pane on the right-hand side of the first browser window.

To stop sharing, click on ‘Stop sharing’ and click on the ‘Share Desktop’ icon to the right of the URL bar to get it to return to displaying the ‘Share Desktop’ icon instead of the || (Pause) icon.

File sharing

I did not bother to try file sharing using WebRTC, but there are various Web sites you can use to do that. One such is ShareDrop, and googling will find others.

Caveats

Chrome 36.0.1985.125 and Firefox 31.0 were used in this trial (I did not try Opera). I found that video chat worked faultlessly when both parties were using Chrome, and when both parties were using Firefox. However, when one of the parties was using Firefox and the other was using Chrome, I could not see myself in one of the video boxes in the browser window (although I could see the other party in the other video box in the browser window). Furthermore, there was a grey bar across the middle of the video images in the AppRTC demo, whereas the Multi-Party WebRTC Demo video images were normal. Other than those two issues, the experience was smooth and straightforward. My recommendation would therefore be to use Multi-Party WebRTC Demo and for all the parties to use the same browser, be it Chrome or Firefox. If you want to share your screen or a window, the logical choice at the moment would be Chrome.

References

1 LiveMinutes Blog – Beta Testers: How To Activate Screen Sharing!

UPDATE (January 2, 2015): Mozilla has added a button to Firefox 34 to provide account-free video chat using WebRTC. Mozilla calls this feature ‘Firefox Hello’.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/where-firefox-hello-button

I have it in Firefox 34.0.5 (I had to drag the ‘Hello’ button from ‘Customise’ | ‘Additional Tools and Features’). It works quite well. I didn’t bother creating an account; I just clicked on the ‘Email’ button to e-mail the automatically-generated URL to someone, and he clicked on the URL in the e-mail he received, which launched Firefox on his laptop and rang Firefox on my laptop. We tried both video and audio-only conversations, and both worked well. Firefox Hello is not as polished as Skype but, if Mozilla keeps working on it, they could end up with a good product.

Installing and using the Pipelight browser plug-in with Firefox 30 for Linux

I use Gentoo Linux (~amd64) on my main laptop. Although I do not use Netflix or any of the other streaming video services that require the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in, I do need to use a browser with the Silverlight plug-in to access an office Intranet site. So I was interested in installing the Pipelight plug-in.

Although Pipelight works with most of the Silverlight test sites I have found on the Web, I cannot get it to work with the above-mentioned office Intranet site, which is why I ended up installing Firefox for Windows and Silverlight in WINE (see my previous post). Anyway, below I explain how I installed and configured Pipelight 0.2.7.1 and Firefox 30.0 for Linux. Even if you use a different Linux distribution to me, almost all of this post will still be relevant; only the package installation commands will differ.

Google Chrome 34 and onwards does not support NPAPI, so Pipelight does not work any more with Chrome. Actually, Mozilla has disabled some NPAPI support by default in Firefox 30: with the exception of the Flash plug-in you have to explicitly give permission for plug-ins to be activated via Click-to-Activate (also known as Click-to-Play). You can configure how Firefox Click-to-Activate behaves via Open menu > Add-ons > Plugins (choose either ‘Ask to Activate’, ‘Always Activate’ or ‘Never Activate’). See ‘Issues related to plugins – 4.1 Click to Play in Mozilla browser versions 23 and above‘ on the mozillaZine Website and ‘How to always activate a plugin for a trusted website‘ on the Mozilla Support Website.

I updated an existing Pipelight ebuild so that it will install the latest version of Pipelight (0.2.7.1) via a Portage local overlay. You can download the new ebuild from Gentoo Bugzilla Bug Report No. 481596 (see Comment 40). I can only get it to merge by using the –binary-pluginloader USE flag. [Update August 18, 2014: The package is now in the main Portage tree, at least for ~amd64]

Installation

Install Firefox if it has not already been installed:

root # emerge firefox

Install Pipelight (installation fails unless I disable binary-pluginloader):

root # USE="-binary-pluginloader" emerge pipelight

Install WINE with the Compholio patches:

root # USE="pipelight" emerge wine

As you can see below, I have wine-1.7.21 and pipelight-0.7.2.1 installed.

user $ eix -I wine
[I] app-emulation/wine
Available versions: 1.2.3^t (~)1.3.28^t 1.4.1^t 1.6.1^t 1.6.2^t (~)1.7.0^t (~)1.7.3^t (~)1.7.4^t (~)1.7.8^t (~)1.7.9^t (~)1.7.10^t (~)1.7.11^t (~)1.7.12^t (~)1.7.13^t (~)1.7.14^t (~)1.7.15^t (~)1.7.16^t (~)1.7.17^t (~)1.7.18^t (~)1.7.19-r1^t (~)1.7.20^t (~)1.7.21^t **9999^t {+X (+)alsa capi cups custom-cflags dbus dos (+)fontconfig +gecko gnutls gphoto2 gsm gstreamer jack (+)jpeg lcms ldap +mono mp3 nas ncurses netapi nls odbc openal opencl +opengl osmesa (+)oss +perl pipelight (+)png +prelink pulseaudio +realtime +run-exes samba scanner selinux (+)ssl test +threads +truetype (+)udisks v4l +win32 +win64 xcomposite xinerama (+)xml ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_X86="(+)32 (+)64 x32" ELIBC="glibc" LINGUAS="ar bg ca cs da de el en en_US eo es fa fi fr he hi hr hu it ja ko lt ml nb_NO nl or pa pl pt_BR pt_PT rm ro ru sk sl sr_RS@cyrillic sr_RS@latin sv te th tr uk wa zh_CN zh_TW"}
Installed versions: 1.7.21^t(13:39:36 06/07/14)(X alsa cups fontconfig gecko gphoto2 gsm jpeg lcms mp3 ncurses nls openal opengl perl pipelight png prelink pulseaudio realtime run-exes scanner ssl threads truetype udisks v4l xinerama xml -capi -custom-cflags -dos -gstreamer -ldap -mono -netapi -odbc -opencl -osmesa -oss -samba -selinux -test -xcomposite ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" ELIBC="glibc" LINGUAS="en pt_BR -ar -bg -ca -cs -da -de -el -en_US -eo -es -fa -fi -fr -he -hi -hr -hu -it -ja -ko -lt -ml -nb_NO -nl -or -pa -pl -pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -sk -sl -sr_RS@cyrillic -sr_RS@latin -sv -te -th -tr -uk -wa -zh_CN -zh_TW")
Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/
Description: Free implementation of Windows(tm) on Unix

user $ eix -I pipelight
[I] www-plugins/pipelight
Available versions: (~)0.2.3[1] (~)0.2.6[2] (~)0.2.7.1[2] {adobereader +binary-pluginloader flash foxitpdf grandstream installation-dialogs npactivex roblox shockwave +silverlight static unity3d}
Installed versions: 0.2.7.1[2](21:57:35 10/07/14)(silverlight -adobereader -binary-pluginloader -flash -foxitpdf -grandstream -installation-dialogs -npactivex -roblox -shockwave -static -unity3d)
Homepage: http://fds-team.de/cms/index.html https://launchpad.net/pipelight
Description: A browser plugin which allows one to use windows-only plugins inside Linux browsers.

[1] "sabayon" /var/lib/layman/sabayon
[2] "local_overlay" /usr/local/portage

Now update the dependency-installer script and enable the plug-in:

user $ sudo pipelight-plugin --update # sudo has to be used for this command only.
user $ pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight

Applies to AMD ATI GPUs only: My main laptop has an AMD ATI HD 5850 GPU, and hardware acceleration causes Firefox to hang when the Pipelight plug-in is enabled, so I have to disable hardware acceleration:

user $ cp /usr/share/pipelight/configs/pipelight-silverlight5.1 ~/.config/

Edit the Pipelight configuration file:

user $ nano ~/.config/pipelight-silverlight5.1

In order to force GPU acceleration uncomment the line:
overwriteArg = enableGPUAcceleration=true

In order to disable GPU acceleration (even if your graphic driver is probably supported) uncomment the line:
overwriteArg = enableGPUAcceleration=false

Instead of disabling GPU hardware acceleration in the Pipelight configuration file (pipelight-silverlight5.1), I could have instead done it each time I launch Firefox by entering the following command:

user $ PIPELIGHT_GPUACCELERATION=0 firefox

But I prefer to be able to enter just the following command:

user $ firefox

or to launch Firefox from the as-installed entry for Firefox in the Desktop Environment’s launcher menu.

After launching Firefox for the first time, a series of pop-up windows will show that the Silverlight plug-in is being installed. Once the final pop-up window has closed, install the Firefox extension User Agent Overrider (do not install User Agent Switcher or any other user agent selection extension for Firefox), click on the down-arrow of the User Agent Overrider icon in Firefox and select ‘Windows / Firefox 29’ from the pull-down menu. I also selected ‘Preferences…’ and added another user agent string to the end of the list:

# Custom
Windows / Firefox 15: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1

Check that the plug-in is installed correctly

Enter about:plugins in the Firefox Address bar to check which plug-ins are installed, their version and current state.

Use the Pipelight diagnostic page to check the plug-in is working.

Pipelight options

To see what commands the Pipelight plug-in supports, enter the following command in a Konsole/Terminal window:

user $ pipelight-plugin --help

Further information

Below are some links to Silverlight tests and other information regarding Pipelight and Silverlight.

Silverlight test pages

Silverlight Version Test

Bubblemark animation test

Silverlight Project Test Page | Deep Zoom

Silverlight DRM Test (Select ‘No DRM’ because the following bug report says that the Silverlight DRM test at the aforementioned Web page is broken and Microsoft will not fix it: Bug 762056.)

Becky’s Silverlight Test Site

Microsoft Silverlight – IIS Smooth Streaming Demo

Experience IIS Smooth Streaming

Silverlight Project Test Page | Deep Zoom Tag Browser

Microsoft Case Studies

Silverlight Demos

Here is an article on Netflix’s intention to dump the awful Silverlight plug-in:
Netflix to dump Silverlight, Microsoft’s stalled technology

Background information on the Pipelight project

This presentation was made by the Pipelight developers:
Pipelight – Windows browser plugins on Linux

Useful pages on the Pipelight Web site

Pipelight | News

This page, about selecting a User Agent String that will work, is important to read if you’re having problems:
Pipelight | Installation – User Agent

Background reading on User Agent Strings

How to Change Your Browser’s User Agent Without Installing Any Extensions

The IE10 User-Agent String

You can find out your current user agent string by using the following link:
What’s My User Agent?

UPDATE (16 February 2017): Pipelight has been discontinued

Michael Müller, the developer of pipelight, posted the following notice in mid December 2016 (see http://pipelight.net/):

Pipelight has been discontinued!
What does this mean?

Pipelight will not suddenly stop working, but you will not receive any further updates. As a result all enabled plugins (e.g. Silverlight/Flash) stay at the same version and do not get any security fixes. This might be a security threat for your system and we therefore recommend to remove Pipelight using the package manager of your distribution.

Alternative to using Pipelight

If you still have trouble viewing Web pages that use Silverlight, you might like to try an alternative approach: use Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in in WINE. See my previous blog post Installing Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in in WINE.

Installing Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in in WINE

I use 64-bit (~amd64) multilib Gentoo Linux on my main laptop, and had been using successfully Version 0.2.3 of the Pipelight browser plug-in in 64-bit Firefox 29.0.1 for Linux to access an office Intranet Web site that uses Microsoft Silverlight. However, after installing 64-bit Firefox 30.0 for Linux recently I found that Mozilla has removed NPAPI support by default in Firefox 30, and Web sites using Silverlight would no longer load.

By updating Pipelight to Version 0.2.6 and changing the user agent string — see ‘Firefox UserAgent Switcher list‘ — I was able to browse in Firefox 30.0 for Linux only some of the Web sites that use Silverlight, but the aforementioned Intranet Web site would no longer load and displayed the following error message instead:

It appears the browser you are using to access this site is unsupported. Please use one of the following browsers …

· Internet Explorer 8.0

· Internet Explorer 9.0

· Internet Explorer 10.0

If you are using one of these browsers and you are still seeing this message, please contact company support.

I tried changing Firefox’s user agent string to the following, which I found from the post ‘Firefox UserAgent Switcher list‘:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.6; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; InfoPath.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 3gpp-gba UNTRUSTED/1.0

That user agent string allowed the Intranet’s Web page to start loading, but a window popped-up displaying the error message shown below and Firefox stopped responding (froze).

Error reading Localization file

[Xml_UnexpectedTokens2]
Arguments: Content-Type,”,’,4,18
Debugging resource strings unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide
sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?
linkid=106663&Version=5.1.30214.00&File=System.Xml.dll&Key=Xml_UnexpectedTokens2

After trying various user agent strings without success I decided to install 64-bit Firefox 30.0 for Windows and the 64-bit Silverlight plug-in in WINE. The 64-bit Firefox 30.0 for Windows installed successfully and I could launch it and browse the Internet. However, I found that the 64-bit Silverlight plug-in would not install (according to a message in the Silverlight Installer window, installation of the plug-in crashed at 82% complete), so I then installed 32-bit Firefox 30.0 for Windows with the 32-bit Silverlight plug-in, and that worked. Below I list the steps I used to install and configure 32-bit Firefox 30.0 with the 32-bit Silverlight plug-in in WINE (which, in my installation, was compiled to support both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications).

Installation and configuration of 32-bit Firefox for Windows and the Silverlight plug-in

1. I used a Web browser to download the file ‘Firefox Setup 30.0.exe‘ from the Mozilla Firefox Web site to the /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/ directory. The Mozilla Web site offers a choice of localised versions, so I downloaded the installer for Firefox for Windows in British English.

2. I opened a Konsole window and entered the following commands:

$ cd
$ export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine-firefox
$ export WINEARCH="win32"
$ winecfg # Set Windows Version to Window 7.
$ cd ./.wine-firefox/drive_c/
$ wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks # Download winetricks so I can install Windows fonts.
$ chmod +x winetricks # Make winetricks script executable.
$ ./winetricks # Launch winetricks and install Windows fonts.
$ cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/Firefox\ Setup\ 30.0.exe .
$ wine Firefox\ Setup\ 30.0.exe
$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox" WINEARCH="win32" wine /home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe # Launch Firefox and download the Silverlight installer.

N.B. Keep the Konsole window open and use it to enter all the commands listed in this post.

Notice that I downloaded and launched the excellent winetricks script so that I could install some Windows fonts that Firefox for Windows might need to use. When the winetricks window opens, all I needed to do was:

• Select ‘Select the default wineprefix’ and click ‘OK’
• Select ‘Install a font’and click ‘OK’.
• Select ‘allfonts’ and click ‘OK’.
• Optionally, if you have an LCD monitor and you would like to enable subpixel font smoothing, select ‘Change Settings’ then ‘fontsmooth=rgb’ and click ‘OK’.

3. I used the 32-bit Firefox for Windows Web browser to download the Silverlight plug-in installer to the /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/ directory. The files downloaded were Silverlight.exe and Silverlight.exe:Zone.Identifier which were both downloaded when I clicked on the ‘Click to Install’ button on the ‘Get Microsoft Silverlight‘ Web page and I then moved them from the directory /home/fitzcarraldo/Desktop/ to the /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/ directory.

4. I exited Firefox for Windows and installed the Silverlight plug-in:

$ cp /home/fitzcarraldo/Downloads/Silverlight* .
$ wine Silverlight.exe # Now install 32-bit Silverlight.

5. Then I launched Firefox for Windows again to configure the User Agent:

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox" WINEARCH="win32" wine /home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe

I entered ‘about:config‘ (without the quotes) in the Address bar and added a new preference named general.useragent.override containing the following string (it is a User Agent string for Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.6 in 32-bit Windows 7):

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.6; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; InfoPath.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 3gpp-gba UNTRUSTED/1.0

N.B. This is the user agent string I used to get a specific office’s Intranet Web site that uses Silverlight to load in the Firefox 30.0 for Windows browser. You may need to use a different user agent string for the particular Web site you want to load. Use a search engine to search the Web for suitable user agent strings for the specific Web site you wish to browse. I have seen various user agent strings given for Netflix, for example, so you may have to try several to find one that works for you.

Alternatively, rather than using about:config you could install a Firefox extension such as User Agent Switcher and the associated ‘useragentswitcher.xml‘ file (see the ‘Firefox UserAgent Switcher list’ reference above for details of how to install), which would allow you to add, edit and select user agent strings more easily. An alternative to User Agent Switcher is the Firefox extension User Agent Overrider which may give you better results than User Agent Switcher on some Web sites that use Silverlight. I have tried it and it enables me to view the Silverlight test pages on the Web (I selected ‘Windows / Firefox 29’ from the User Agent Overrider pull-down menu).

6. I also made sure that plugins.click_to_play is set to ‘true’ (it should be by default) and I gave permission to Firefox to use the Silverlight plug-in on the relevant Web site I wish to use (Open menu > Add-ons > Plugins). See ‘Issues related to plugins – 4.1 Click to Play in Mozilla browser versions 23 and above‘ on the mozillaZine Website and ‘How to always activate a plugin for a trusted website‘ on the Mozilla Support Website.

Launching Firefox for Windows correctly in Linux

To launch Firefox for Windows from the command line you will need to enter either of the following commands:

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox" WINEARCH="win32" wine /home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox/drive_c/Program\ Files/Mozilla\ Firefox/firefox.exe

$ env WINEPREFIX="/home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox" WINEARCH="win32" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/fitzcarraldo/.wine-firefox/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\ Menu/Programs/Mozilla\ Firefox.lnk

Alternatively, you can set up a Desktop Configuration File (.desktop file) on your Desktop and/or an entry in the Desktop Environment’s launcher menu. In my case, WINE took care of doing both of those during the installation of Firefox for Windows, and it used the standard Firefox icon. I just needed to edit the entry’s command for launching Firefox, to make it match one of the commands listed above.

Postscript

Regarding the file Silverlight.exe:Zone.Identifier that was downloaded when I downloaded the Silverlight installer (Silverlight.exe), I had never come across such a file type before but have now found out what it is:

File that contains metadata describing the security zones associated with another file; generated automatically when a file is downloaded from the Internet or received as an email attachment; often created by Internet Explorer.

See the article .ZONE.IDENTIFIER File Extension for details.

You can therefore forget about the Silverlight.exe:Zone.Identifier file (if one even exists in your case). The important thing is to download the Silverlight installer, which is a single .exe file.

Can Linux cope with 24 Hours of Happy?

I enjoyed Pharrell Williams’ feel-good songs in ‘Despicable Me‘ and its sequel, ‘Despicable Me 2‘. ‘Happy‘, a very catchy ditty he wrote for the sequel, also features in the World’s first 24-hour-long music video, ‘24 Hours of Happy‘, shot in and around Los Angeles and released on 21 November last year. The song is played a total of 360 times over the duration of the video, each 4-minute take featuring a different person or persons dancing (improvised) along streets, in petrol stations, through Union Station, in a church, around a school, in a moving school bus, around a supermarket, in a bowling alley, and so on. Each 4-minute performance was filmed in one take using Steadicam, and the location at the end of each take segues into the next take. You see the sun rise; you see the bright sunlight of the morning and the warm sunlight of the afternoon; you see the sun set; you see the twinkling city lights at night. The concept is simple yet brilliant.

Clips from some of the takes were used to create the 4-minute official music video for ‘Happy’, so you can watch that on YouTube to get a flavour of the takes, although it does not do justice to the full video.

Williams appears in a different take every hour on the hour, and a few other takes have celebrity cameos, but the vast majority of the participants are unknown extras of all ages, races, shapes, sizes and looks. To quote Williams talking to the Los Angeles Times: “We wanted all humanity in there, not just the model-types you might expect.” Some are good dancers, others not so good. But they all have one thing in common: they’re having fun, so they look good. The joy is infectious, and I found myself watching far longer than I would have expected, having to return to the site again and again. Half the fun is watching the bystanders.

When you open the ’24 Hours of Happy’ site, the take that was in progress at the current time of day starts playing from the beginning. However, you can drag the pointer around the clock dial and watch any take from the 24-hour period. There are also buttons you can click on to jump between takes or to jump to each take featuring Williams. The yellow on-screen controls can be made to disappear by not moving the mouse pointer for 5 seconds.

Still from 24 Hours of Happy, showing on-screen controls

The Web site is well-designed and fun to use, so I was not surprised it was voted ‘Site of the Month‘ and ‘Site of the Year Users’ Choice‘ by AWWWARDS, and voted ‘Site of the Month‘ and ‘Site of the Year‘ by TheFWA.

It’s impossible to list them all, but a few of my favourite takes are:

01:36  Very perky woman with ponytail.
05:28  Jogger who has to keep pulling his shorts up!
08:24  Woman on roller skates.
09:52  Very cute little girl.
09:56  Woman with some groovy moves.
10:40  Woman in Union Station. Some of the bystanders are particularly amusing.
11:16  Man with cast on foot.
11:20  Boy with an Afro.
11:36  Three groovy old ladies.
11:44  Chubby guy with style.
12:36  Woman with some groovy moves.
13:32  Dancing couple in pink.
14:20  Two cool guys in dinner jackets inside and outside Union Station.
15:00  Pharrell Williams in a church with a gospel choir.
19:04  Woman with a lizard puppet. The lizard does the lip-synching!
19:36  Guy on stilts.
23:40  Woman with LED hula hoop (love it!).

If you want to start viewing a take made at a specific time of day, you can append the time to the URL, like so:

http://24hoursofhappy.com/09h53am

Obviously I think ’24 Hours of Happy’ is fabulous, but why am I discussing it in a blog predominantly about Linux? Because Firefox 27.0.1 (32-bit) running in Windows 8.1 (64-bit) on my new Acer Aspire XC-600 micro-tower PC (dual-core Intel Pentium G2030 @ 3 GHz & 3 MB cache, 4 GB DDR3 RAM) handles ’24 Hours of Happy’ at 720p with ease, but the story is very different on my main laptop running 64-bit Gentoo Linux with KDE (quad-core Intel Core i7 720QM @ 933 MHz & 6 MB cache, 4 GB DDR3 RAM). Both machines are on my home network, connected to the Internet via high-bandwidth broadband (FTTC).

On my laptop, the latest available versions of Firefox (27.0) and Opera (12.16_p1860-r1) for Gentoo, both 64-bit, do not even complete loading the ’24 Hours of Happy’ site: the black progress bar at the bottom of the home page stops about 7/8th of the way across the page and the KDE Network Monitor widget shows there is no network activity. Clearing Firefox’s Web content cache or increasing the cache’s size to 1 GB make no difference. Konqueror 4.12.2 (configured to use the WebKit browser engine rather than the KHTML engine) loads the site and plays it quite well at 720p to start with, but eventually video becomes choppy and I notice a lot of spawned kio_http processes. The KDE Network Monitor widget shows a continuous 3600 Kib/s data stream, which does not stop when I exit Konqueror. Numerous kio_http processes are spawned and remain after I exit Konqueror, and the 3600 KiB/s activity on the network only ceases when I kill all the kio_http processes. The number of spawned kio_http processes increases if I drag the pointer around the clock to select different takes, and the page just displays ‘LOADING’ ad infinitum if I do this several times. To be fair, if I do this a lot in Firefox running in Windows 8.1, I can get Firefox to stall too. I thought I’d try a lightweight browser and installed NetSurf (3.0-r1), but that couldn’t even render the title on the home page, let alone begin to load the video.

So, does ’24 Hours of Happy’ play nicely in your Linux installation? If it does, what hardware, distribution, desktop environment, browser and quality (360p, 480p, 720p or 1080p) are you using?

Fixing a problem with received video in Skype when using the AMD Catalyst (FGLRX) driver in Linux

Some users of Skype for Linux have reported that the bottom half of the received video image is corrupted in installations that use the closed-source video driver for ATI GPUs (the AMD Catalyst proprietary Linux driver, also known as the ‘FGLRX’ driver). One user described the lower half of the video image as “covered in small coloured squares like a chequer board”.

From what I have read in a few forums, it seems the problem does not occur when the open-source Radeon driver is used. My own experience corroborates that: I use the Radeon driver on one of my laptops, and received video in Skype is fine.

My main laptop has an AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU and I am using the Catalyst driver under Gentoo Linux. In this case there was a problem with received video in most Skype sessions. Either of the following effects usually occurred:

Snapshot 1 - Extract of received video image in Skype, showing an example of the corrupted image

Snapshot 2 - Extract of received video image in Skype, showing another example of the corrupted image

As shown in Snapshot 1, the lower half of the received video image was covered in a grid of thin green lines with areas tinged with purple, blue or green, whereas there was no grid of lines in the upper half of the image but some areas were tinged with red or blue.

As shown in Snapshot 2, the lower half of the received video image was covered in a grid of thin red lines, with a purple tinge in some areas, whereas there was no grid of lines in the upper half of the image, which looked reasonable but had some red-, green- or blue-tinged areas.

In all cases Skype’s thumbnail of my Webcam’s video image looked fine, and the person on the other end of the call said the video image received from me looked fine too.

Because of a bug in a previous version of the Catalyst driver a few years ago — see my blog posts Playing QuickTime videos in Firefox and Chromium + XVideo bug in AMD Catalyst 11.11 and 11.12 driver and AMD Catalyst for Linux driver 12.2 fixes the XVideo bug that crashed X.Org Server 1.11.x — I happen to know that Sykpe uses X11 overlays with the XVideo extension (xv), rather than using the OpenGL renderer (gl) or X11 with the SHM extension (x11). This made me wonder whether the use of XVideo with the Catalyst driver was causing the current problem. Unlike media players such as MPlayer and VLC, it is not possible to configure Skype to use gl or x11 instead of xv, so I thought it would not be possible to test whether the use of gl or x11 instead of xv would make a difference. Until, that is, I came upon a ‘trick’ posted by openSUSE user queequeg in 2009 during the period when an earlier version of the Catalyst driver had the aforementioned bug:

Skype Video Workaround for ATI

Anybody trying to make a video call with Skype and ATI fglrx drivers has had problems due to Skype using the “xv” video mode with the driver can’t handle. For anyone interested that is affected by this, there is a workaround:

1. Run the xvinfo command and look at the number of xv sessions available. Some cards have only 1, some have as many as 4. This is the number of xv occurances that the card can do at one time.
2. “Use up” all these xv sessions by opening videos in your favorite video player making sure to use xv for the video output. The videos can then be paused.
3. Once this (or they) are open, skype can be started and will default to X11 video and work properly with video calls.

I know this is a goofy way to get around this issue, but until fglrx can handle xv or skype allows an option to choose X11 for video render, I don’t know of any other way to do it.

(From what I hear, the 11.1 fglrx drivers can handle xv, but I haven’t confirmed this.)

So I tried his work-around. I had to launch four media players in order to use all available XVideo sessions. Lo and behold, when I launched Skype and made a video call the received video image was perfect. So it appeared that the Catalyst driver is not able to handle well the XVideo output from Skype. However, playing and pausing four videos every time I want to make a video call in Skype would hardly be practical, would it? And that is not the only downside: when I maximised a Firefox window during the Skype video call, my laptop spontaneously rebooted (I assume the X.Org server crashed).

I did also wonder whether just disabling compositing would solve the problem, so I disabled KWin Desktop Effects, but that didn’t make any difference.

I had also read in several forums that enabling or disabling the TexturedVideo and/or VideoOverlay options in the xorg.conf file have an effect on the video image produced by the Catalyst driver, but I could not find a post mentioning the use of either of those options to fix the specific problem I was seeing. So I decided not to pursue the xorg.conf route.

In my searches of the Web I came across a post somewhere that mentioned using GTK+ UVC Viewer (guvcview) to adjust video properties and improve video in Skype. I thought guvcview was only for adjusting the video image from a Webcam connected to my machine, i.e. adjusting the outgoing video image, and would not have any effect on received video. Nevertheless, I decided to install and launch guvcview to see if I could adjust both incoming and outgoing video properties. To my surprise, guvcview appeared to have fixed the problem with the received video. These are the steps I followed:

1. I launched Skype and started a video call. The received video image had a grid of thin red lines and purple/green/blue tinting (similar to Snapshot 2).
2. I Installed guvcview using the package manager.
3. I launched guvcview in a Konsole (terminal) window. After guvcview created the file /home/fitzcarraldo/.config/guvcview/video0 and checked various video and audio settings it exited because my Webcam was being used by Skype (‘libv4l2: error setting pixformat: Device or resource busy‘).
4. I clicked on the Webcam icon in the Skype call window, to turn my Webcam off.
5. I launched guvcview again. The lower half of the received video image in Skype changed from a grid of thin red lines to a continuous green-coloured band, and the upper half of the image now looked reasonable but still had some red- or blue-tinged areas (see Snapshot 3 below).


Snapshot 3 - Extract of received video image in Skype after I launched guvcview again

6. On the ‘Image Controls’ tab in the ‘GUVCViewer Controls’ window I changed the video frequency from 60 Hz to 50 Hz then back to 60 Hz again. I was just tinkering, and I believe this had no bearing on the outcome.
7. I clicked on the ‘Quit’ button in the guvcview window to terminate the application.
8. I clicked on the Webcam icon in the Skype call window to turn on again the Webcam, and the received Skype video image changed to a perfect image (see Snapshot 4 below).


Snapshot 4 - Extract of received video image in Skype after I turned on again my Webcam in Skype

It appears that guvcview had an effect on the received video image in Skype, although, if it did, I do not understand how. To check if the fix was permanent I ended the Skype video call, signed out of Skype and quit the application, rebooted and made a new Skype video call. The received video image in Skype was again perfect. I even deleted the guvcview configuration file and repeated this check, just in case the configuration file was somehow being used even though I had not launched guvcview, but the received video in yet another Skype video call was still perfect. I also clicked on the Webcam icon in the Skype call window several times during each call in order to turn my Webcam off and on several times; the received video image of the other person remained perfect.

So there you have it: when using an AMD ATI GPU and the Catalyst driver, it seems that guvcview can be used — at least in my case — to eliminate the type of image corruption in received Skype video shown in Snapshots 1 and 2. So, if you are also using the AMD Catalyst for Linux driver and are experiencing a similar problem, try guvcview. It might just do the trick.

ARTE Live Web videos

The Franco-German cultural Web site ARTE Live Web is an excellent resource for lovers of music (classical, jazz, alternative and World) and dance. The show videos at the site are enjoyable but unfortunately only viewable for a fixed period of time before the site removes them. Back in 2011 I wanted to download the video of a performance I’d attended and loved. I searched for a Linux tool but could not find one, then found a Windows freeware GUI tool called artepupper, and used version 0.2 to download the video. You can read about the tool on the author’s blog pages artepupper 0.1, artepupper 0.2 and artepupper 0.3. The reason for the change from 0.2 to 0.3 was that ARTE Live Web changed the format of an embedded URL inside the XML page for the video on their Web site.

Now, artepupper is based on livewebarte1.1.sh, a 2010 Bash script by Carmelo Ingrao, and a Perl script livewebarte.pl by Juan Domingo based on livewebarte1.1.sh, both of which are still available on line at Carmelo’s download page and which I only discovered after using artepupper in Windows. I tried the Perl script in Linux back in 2011, and it worked for me.

Recently I wanted to download another video from the ARTE Live Web site and found that, although artepupper 0.3 in Windows worked, the Perl script livewebarte.pl no longer worked. Presumably this was because of the aforementioned change to the embedded URL. However, I found that the Bash script livewebarte1.1.sh still worked. Actually, I had to edit the script to replace “./rtmpdump” with “rtmpdump“, as I had installed the command-line tool rtmpdump using the Linux distribution’s package manager and the executable is not stored in the same directory as the Bash script. But, apart from that, it worked.

Carmelo is a star for having deciphered how to access and download videos from the site. However, looking at his Bash script, the part where he parses a line in the XML code and extracts a string between the delimiters “MP4” and “mp4” is based on a hard-coded character position, which could change if the Web site’s owners change the format of the URL. So I decided to modify the Bash script to avoid using character positions to extract a string. The Bash script livewebarte1.2.sh is an updated version of Carmelo’s livewebarte1.1.sh script.

#!/bin/bash
# Script pour récupérer les vidéos FLV du site liveweb.arte.tv
# par Carmelo Ingrao <carmelo42@gmail.com> http://c.ingrao.free.fr/code/
# version 1.0
# release date 21 février 2010
## modified by Fitzcarraldo 24 April 2013
## version 1.2
## release date 24 April 2013
# licence : GPLv2
# rtmpdump compilé doit être dans le même répertoire que le script
## rtmpdump must be installed and in user's $PATH (e.g. I have it in /usr/bin/)
# utilisation du script :
#
# ./script.sh url fichier.flv
# _______________

# url --> $1
# fichier --> $2

# fichier de sortie
# on efface l'écran avant de commencer
clear

# on affiche les infos sur le script
echo "livewebarte.sh version 1.0."
echo "(c) 2010 Carmelo Ingrao; License : GPL"
echo "livewebarte.sh version 1.2."
echo "updated from version 1.1 by Fitzcarraldo on 24 April 2013; License : GPL"
echo "usage : ./livewebarte.sh url_concert_sur_liveweb.arte.tv fichier.flv"
echo "rtmpdump must be installed and in your path."

# on télécharge le code source de la page streamant le concert dans le fichier sourceconcert.html
wget $1 -O sourceconcert.html

# on récupère le numéro d'event et on le copie dans eventok.txt
#cat sourceconcert.html | grep "new LwEvent" > event.txt
#cat event.txt | cut -b "15 16 17" > eventok.txt
grep "new LwEvent" sourceconcert.html | grep -E -o -e "[0-9]+" > eventok.txt

# on prend le fichier XML d'arte et on crée l'url avec le bon numéro d'event
# xmloriginal="http://arte.vo.llnwd.net/o21/liveweb/events/event-610.xml"

# url du xml sans le numéro d'event original (pour faciliter)
xmloriginal2="http://arte.vo.llnwd.net/o21/liveweb/events/event-"

# on assigne à la variable b le contenu de eventok.txt --> numéro correct d'event
b=$(cat eventok.txt)

# on créer l'url correct du fichier XML qu'on téléchargera
xmlok=$(echo $xmloriginal2$b)
finxml=".xml"
xmlfinal=$(echo $xmlok$finxml)

# on télécharge le bon XML
wget $xmlfinal -O xmlok.xml
echo "Fichier XML téléchargé"

## I have changed the code in this part:
# on extrait le nom du fichier MP4 depuis le fichier xmlok.xml
mp4hd=$(cat xmlok.xml | grep "urlHd")
# on efface le début de l'url du MP4
# on efface le surplus à la fin du nom du MP4 et on sauve le nom dans la variable mp4hdcut2
mp4hdcut2=${mp4hd#*MP4}
mp4hdcut2=${mp4hdcut2%%mp4*}
mp4hdcut2="MP4"$mp4hdcut2"mp4"
## end of my changes to evaluate mp4hdcut2

# on lance la commande rtmpdump avec les paramètres
# rappel :
# $2 = nom du fichier de sortie
# $mp4hdcut2 = nom du fichier MP4

## Carmelo had ./rtmpdump here, but I removed the "./"
rtmpdump -r rtmp://arte.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/a2306/o25 -a a2306/o25 -f LNX 10,0,45,2 -W http://liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf -t rtmp://arte.fcod.llnwd.net:1935/a2306/o25 -p http://liveweb.arte.tv/ -o $2 -y $mp4hdcut2

# on efface les fichiers crées
rm sourceconcert.html
#rm event.txt
rm eventok.txt
rm xmlok.xml

# Affichage des infos de fin
echo "________"
echo "Voilà, le téléchargement est terminé."
echo "Le fichier se trouve ici :"
echo " "
echo $2
echo " "
echo "Bon visionnage"
echo " "
echo " "
exit 0

Save it in your home directory and make it executable:

$ chmod +x livewebarte1.2.sh

Also make sure you have the package rtmpdump installed and that it is in your $PATH.

Then you can browse the ARTE Live Web site and select the performance video you wish to download. Hover the mouse pointer over the video pane and click on “INTEGRER LA VIDEO” to find the URL for that video, which will be of the form http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/foo/, where “foo” is some string of characters (not literally “foo”, of course). The command to download it is then as shown below. I’ll use a file name foo.flv here, but any prefix would do:

$ ./livewebarte1.2.sh http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/foo/ foo.flv

Note that it is essential to include the forward slash at the end of the URL. The file will be downloaded to your home directory and you can watch it in VLC or any other Linux media player that plays Flash video.

So there you have it; currently you can use artepupper 0.3 in Windows or livewebarte1.2.sh in Linux to download from ARTE Live Web a video of a performance you attended and loved.

Let’s hear it for Konqueror

My browser of choice on the desktop has been Firefox for many years. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine. As a backup Web browser I use Konqueror but configured to use WebKit, rather than KHTML, as the rendering engine. I’ve tried Chromium, Opera, Midori, rekonq, SeaMonkey and a bunch of others, but always found them lacking in some way in comparison to Firefox (I find Opera Mobile better than Firefox for Android on my mobile phone, though).

However, Firefox sometimes lets me down. For example, some months ago I wanted to book tickets online for a concert but Firefox would not display the seat map correctly, stopping me from being able to select seats. Konqueror saved the day. And, recently, Firefox no longer displays the video component of trailers on Rotten Tomatoes; only audio works. Firefox correctly plays videos from virtually all other sites I visit (YouTube, IMDb, iTunes Trailers, Vimeo, eTelegraph etc.) so why the sudden inability to display Rotten Tomatoes trailers? Today Firefox wouldn’t play a product video on an Amazon page either. So I launched Konqueror and it can play Rotten Tomatoes trailers and the Amazon video. What gives? They are both running on the same laptop in the same OS (Gentoo Linux) and desktop environment (KDE), using the same version of Flash, the same video driver etc. The only thing I can think of is that the Firefox rendering engine Gecko is the culprit. I assume WebKit in Konqueror is more capable than Gecko, although I don’t know enough to be certain that Gecko is the cause of the problem.

Anyway, if you want to configure Konqueror to use the WebKit rendering engine instead of the KHTML rendering engine, click on ‘Settings’ on the Konqueror menu bar, select ‘Configure Konqueror…’ and click on ‘General’. You’ll see ‘Default web browser engine’ in the right pane. Select WebKit and click ‘OK’. You’ll also need to have WebKit itself installed, of course. I have the packages qt-webkit (the WebKit module for the Qt toolkit) and kwebkitpart (a WebKit KPart for Konqueror) installed.