Hands-on Projects for the Linux Graphics Subsystem New book from Christos Karayiannis Available in Amazon Kindle format at: amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.de   amazon.es   amazon.fr   amazon.it

•      Introduction

• 1   The X Client side and the X Client-Server connection
  • 1.1   Xlib program samples, that implement the X Client
  • 1.2   The Xlib routines used for the X Client
    • 1.2.1 The Display struct
  • 1.3   Flushing the Client's X Protocol requests to the X Server
  • 1.4   Sockets: the X Client-Server connection at the interprocess communication level
    • 1.4.1 Sockets theory
    • 1.4.2 Sockets implementation in the X Window client-server system
    • 1.4.3 Sockets experiments with netstat and lsof      Hands-on!
  • 1.5   Inspecting the X Client-Server handshake using gdb      Hands-on!
  • 1.6   Inspecting the X Client-Server handshake using strace and Wireshark      Hands-on!
  • 1.7   Inspecting the X Client-Server handshake using xtrace, xdpyinfo and xwininfo      Hands-on!
  • 1.8   Summary of Section 1

• 2   The X Client - X Server interaction at the X Protocol layer
  • 2.1   The X Protocol messages
  • 2.2   Analyse the communication between X Server and X Client with xtrace      Hands-on!
  • 2.3   Inspecting the X Client-Server X protocol message exchange using gdb      Hands-on!
  • 2.4   X Client - X Server interaction overview
    • 2.4.1   X Client - X Server connection establishment
    • 2.4.2   X Client's X Protocol Requests Dispatching
  • 2.5   X Replies

• 3   The X Server side
  • 3.1   Overview
  • 3.2   X Server main() routine
    • 3.2.1 CreateWellKnownSockets()
    • 3.2.2 InitOutput()
              ▫ 3.2.2.1 Parsing the xorg.conf file (Part 1)
              ▫ 3.2.2.2 Parsing the xorg.conf file (Part 2)
              ▫ 3.2.2.3 General PCI probe
              ▫ 3.2.2.4 Configuration
              ▫ 3.2.2.5 Module Loading
                            ·  3.2.2.5.1 Quiz: which is the address of the 'Setup' function? (Hint! gdb)      Hands-on!
                            ·  3.2.2.5.2 The Virtual Address space of the X Xerver and the modules      Hands-on!
              ▫ 3.2.2.6 Driver Processing
              ▫ 3.2.2.7 Screen Matching
              ▫ 3.2.2.8 Driver's PreInit(), MGAPreInit(), is called
              ▫ 3.2.2.9 Further initialization
              ▫ 3.2.2.10 AddScreen()
              ▫ 3.2.2.11 MGAScreenInit()
              ▫ 3.2.2.12 fbScreenInit()
              ▫ 3.2.2.13 Screen functions called by main() after InitOutput()
    • 3.2.3 InitInput()
    • 3.2.4 InitAndStartDevices()
    • 3.2.5 Dispatch()
              ▫ 3.2.5.1 ProcessInputEvents()
              ▫ 3.2.5.2 WaitForSomething()
              ▫ 3.2.5.3 Read and Process Client Requests
              ▫ 3.2.5.4 FlushAllOutput()
              ▫ 3.2.5.5 EstablishNewConnections()

• 4   The X Server - Video interaction
  • 4.1   X Server and the Video card
  • 4.2   X Server and the PCI bus
    • 4.2.1 The role of the PCI
    • 4.2.2 Case Study: Linux
    • 4.2.3 How the X Server code uses PCI
    • 4.2.4 PCI Experiments part I: Inspecting Configuration Space variables      Hands-on!
    • 4.2.5 PCI Experiments part II: The Video Driver used by the system      Hands-on!
    • 4.2.6 PCI Experiments part III: The Video Driver memory regions      Hands-on!

• 5   The X Server - Input devices interaction
  • 5.1   Overview
    • 5.1.1 SetupMouse()
    • 5.1.2 Implementation of the SIGIO signal handler
    • 5.1.3 A case study of read_input: MouseReadInput()
    • 5.1.4 Post Mouse Events

• 6   X Events
  • 6.1   Overview

• 7   X Request Dispatching
  • 7.1   Case study: XMapWindow()
    • 7.1.1 miComputeClips()

Hands-on Projects for the Linux Graphics Subsystem New book from Christos Karayiannis Available in Amazon Kindle format at: amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.de   amazon.es   amazon.fr   amazon.it