[XFree86] PCI Radeon 7500, DRI, and 4.4.0
First I must point out that everything works alright when I don't use DRI (more specifically, when I enable xinerama to disable DRI as a side effect). So the card's fine and X is fine and my installation isn't completely broken and my configuration must be right. But with DRI I wind up with a non-usable X. The first couple X-related commands (xsetroot, etc.) in my .xinitrc execute and their results are visible (the root window no longer drives me batty), but it doesn't take long for the display to freeze (I don't see wmaker start). Along the top of the screen I have a bar of garbage several hundred pixels thick. But stranger things are in evidence... X is taking 100% CPU. My mouse continues to work, but my keyboard is sometimes stuck (no LEDs, no Ctrl+Alt+...). And if I ssh in remotely and do the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh chainsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISPLAY=:0 xkbbell the X server beeps, so it's not totally frozen. I can't kill X, not even with SIGKILL, but I can take out xinit and .xinitrc. If I try to start a second X server while the broken one is running (which means any time between invoking the initial startx and me rebooting the machine), it blocks until I give up and kill it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/lspci 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] [EMAIL PROTECTED] X -version XFree86 Version 4.4.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a Linux chainsaw 2.4.22 #4 Wed Sep 24 00:25:40 CDT 2003 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/X11/XF86Config | dwim --excerpt Section ServerLayout Identifier 3d Screen 0 Alpha 0 0 InputDevice Logitech CorePointer InputDevice Sejin CoreKeyboard Option xinerama off EndSection Section Module Loaddri Loadglx EndSection Section DRI Mode0666 EndSection Section Device Identifier Radeon.DVI Driver radeon VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon RV200 QW [Radeon 7500] BusID PCI:0:9:0 Screen 0 Option MonitorLayout CRT, CRT EndSection Of course I can provide more information, including the full XF86Config and XFree86.0.log files. I can also text out patches and CVS versions and newer kernel versions (2.4 or 2.6). NoAccel doesn't help matters any. Ah, yes, I also had trouble with XF86Config and XFree86.0.log getting corrupted on some rare occasions. XF86Config sometimes was overwritten with something like the following: serial 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x00070300 0x0000 0x bttv 0x109e 0x0350 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x bttv 0x109e 0x0351 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x bttv 0x109e 0x036e 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x bttv 0x109e 0x036f 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x sis900 0x1039 0x0900 0x 0x 0x 0x 0x And XFree86.0.log grew a whole bunch of NULs at the end and other random bits elsewhere (I don't have an example handy, and I forget the details). When I first had this problem (back in May when I built this XFree86 release), I thought it was some kind of weird conflict with the S3 card I had in the same system. Now that I removed the card yet still have the same problem I'm ready to ask for help. Thanks in advance. -- Andy Goth + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://ioioio.net/ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] PCI Radeon 7500, DRI, and 4.4.0
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:54:27PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: Andy Goth wrote: First I must point out that everything works alright when I don't use DRI. But with DRI I wind up with a non-usable X. Along the top of the screen I have a bar of garbage several hundred pixels thick. It's now full-screen alternating white and black bars with a bit of color along the top. But that hardly means anything... But stranger things are in evidence... X is taking 100% CPU. It sounds like the chip is crashing and X is busy waiting for it to finish. Could you send a copy of your log? http://ioioio.net/xfree86/log.2004-06-24.1 http://ioioio.net/xfree86/cfg.2004-06-24.1 Layout multihead works, although I had to comment out Screen Charlie because I pulled my S3 card. Layout 3d is crashy. By the way, right now I have a hung xsetroot process. How is that possible? Also, X is taking 99.7% CPU--- even though I SIGKILL'ed it. As for chip is crashing, where can I read more about this? And how does this explain my mouse continuing to work (be redrawn, alpha- blending and everything) and continuing to be able to click on (invisible) stuff, such as full-screen -command bell Tk buttons? Also, could you try a more recent version of the DRI driver? See Snapshots on http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download ETA 15 minutes... I'll get back to you on that. I hope it works with my system, which has glibc 2.2.1 at the moment. Thanks for the help. -- Andy Goth + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://ioioio.net/ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] PCI Radeon 7500, DRI, and 4.4.0
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:47:59PM -0400, Andy Goth wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:54:27PM -0700, Ian Romanick wrote: Also, could you try a more recent version of the DRI driver? See Snapshots on http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download ETA 15 minutes... I'll get back to you on that. I hope it works with my system, which has glibc 2.2.1 at the moment. Thanks for the help. Okay, I downloaded and installed radeon-20040624-linux.i386.tar.bz2 , then I rebooted and restarted X. Everything behaves just like before... http://ioioio.net/xfree86/log.2004-06-24.2 Hmm, odd. The ati_drv.o I got from the DRI snapshot appears to actually be an older version than that which came from the 4.4.0 disribution: - compiled for 4.4.0, module version = 6.5.6 + compiled for 4.3.99.12, module version = 6.5.3 -- Andy Goth + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://ioioio.net/ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] VESA modes for Toshiba P25 laptop (GeForce 5200 GO, 1440x900 lcd)
On Saturday, September 6, 2003 7:29 am, you wrote: i am curious - did you find a solution for the vesa 1440x900 or even nvidia? I don't even remember that I was looking, heh. May I see your XF86Config and XFree86.0.log? If you already posted them, give me a URL to the http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86 online archive entry. i saw 1280x1024 working booting suse82, cutting the 124 pixels from bottom and giving you ugly black boxes on the left and right? the nvidia driver 4496 dosent have the fxgo5200 0x0324 mode listet - question is adding a device.. You can't add it yourself. You'll have to contact nVidia and let them know they missed a card. is there any way to turn the fans off by reducing the clockspeed of the cpu ? With Toshibas you can turn the fans off from software, but then you run the risk of overheating. In Linux 2.5/2.6 there's support for changing the CPU speed too. Give that a try. I am no longer subscribed to the list, as you may have guessed. Now that I'm back at school I don't have time to handle the full volume. But I suppose I'll take an odd question every once in a while. :^) -- (o .--- Andy Goth --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --. (__) \\\_\ || oo ) ) `-- http://ioioio.net/ (End communication.) ' |_/\ ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] A Wiki for this project
On Monday, July 21, 2003 7:19 am, Egbert Eich wrote: Andy Goth writes: I guess xwin.org is setting a good example...? :^) Actually, if you look back thru the changelogs you'll see that we've started to fill this Wiki with some content long before Xwin.org's was even around. Yeah, I saw that, but I was just being cute... never mind, please. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Fatal Server Error
On Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:52 am, Muench, Dennis wrote: I'm having problems establishing the log-in screen when start my computer. Enclosed, you will find the XFree86.0.log file. Any help will be appreciated. This question has been answered countless times throughout the eternal struggle that is XFree86. Look it up: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86w=2r=1s=%22could+not+open+default+font+%27fixed%27%22q=b 977 hits this year alone... -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] VESA modes for Toshiba P25 laptop (GeForce 5200 GO, 144
On Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WW) VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum I wonder if this is causing us problems. Yeah, I don't know either. If this means video bios, then who provides it: the motherboard manufacturer or nVidia? I don't know the particulars of V_BIOS, but with software/firmware checksums in general, a bad checksum doesn't necessarily mean corrupted software/firmware, but it does mean there's no way of verifying that it is correct, or rather, was correctly read. It usually means the original manufacturer was careless. And which of those two BIOS's contain the VESA mode definitions? V_BIOS I would imagine. VESA doesn't use modelines. Thanks for the tip. I checked the VESA source, too, and there are no modeline-related code or comments anywhere that I could see. If there are, then they're hidden behind some generic XFree86 library call that I didn't bother to trace. (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 1280x1024 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 1024x768 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 800x600 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 640x480 (width too large for \ virtual size) 640? Too wide!? Yup, seems a little odd to me too. So how does this virtual size parameter get determined, anyway? What happens if you explicitly set it with the Virtual entry in the Display subsection of the Screen section? /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: [...] Section Screen [...] SubSection Display [...] Virtual 1024x768 [...] EndSubSection [...] EndSubSection [...] looks good but futzes up the bottom row of text on your screen. Is it an 80x25 screen? What's the character size in pixels? 9x16? What happens if (Using the nv driver...) The vc shows me 100 columns and 37 rows (where the last row is the one that's half chopped off) I don't know anything about how to determin character size in pixels, or how to control the fonts used on VCs. Care to enlighten me? One way to determine the size by visually counting pixels. Except with LCD-type screens, logical pixels are often spread around to fill multiple physical pixels, so you'll instead have to count little rectangles, which gets quite hard due to blurry edges. Adjust the font (therefore font size) with setfont. you set a smaller font? Have you tried SVGATextMode? fbcon? I don't know what SVGATextMode or fbcon are. SVGATextMode programs your video hardware to display an arbitary text mode given modelines and clocking information. It needs to support your hardware, though, so you might not get anything more than generic VGA modes, which then again might not be so bad. fbcon is a Linux kernel driver for using a framebuffer (pixel matrix) rather than a text matrix for its console display. You may have seen boot-time penguins on other people's computers. fbcon allows this. I think it's still marked experimental but I'm not sure. Get fbset to enable acceleration and to select different modes. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Re Linux 9.0 installation
On Friday, July 18, 2003 6:38 am, Chiranjib wrote: I have tried to install LINUX 9.0 I take it you mean Red Hat. Remember, Red Hat is not the same thing as Linux! Red Hat is a Linux distribution, meaning it contains GNU, XFree86, other useful software, plus the Linux kernel. The latest stable (released for public consumption) version of the Linux kernel is 2.4.21 (2.4.22 is coming soon, and 2.6.0 is on the horizon). Talking about Linux 9.0 only makes people angry that Red Hat has caused such widespread confusion. If you have problems specific to Red Hat, try asking Red Hat customer support. on IBM Netvista A-30 Desktop PC (P4, 2.4 GHz) with 17 monitor (IBM, E74). But I think there is some problem with the display driver. During installation, it failed to detect the monitor. Finally, on user intervention, it gets loaded but the the graphic display is coming very bad. The resolution is very poor, and there is no effect on incerasing the resolution to higher value. The default screen resolution should be 1024 X 768. Show us your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, the configuration file for XFree86. /var/log/XFree86.0.log should also help. Install lspci, run it, and give us the output. Then we may be able to help you write a better configuration. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] A Wiki for this project
On Friday, July 18, 2003 8:53 am, Peter \ wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org Brilliant :) I guess xwin.org is setting a good example...? :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Errors
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:43 pm, Rob Deschaine wrote: When I try to compile any software I get a error. ERROR: /etc/x11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/x11r6/etc. Then the install fails and cant install, any ideas Is that a direct quote? I don't see the phrase but is not a symlink *anywhere* in 4.3.0. It sounds bogus to me. After all, I have an /etc/X11 , and it certainly isn't a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc . I don't even *have* a /usr/X11R6/etc ! What version are you trying to build? Where did you get it? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Help with Intel 845 video
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:55 am, Sal Valente wrote: I'm using an IBM NetVista with a video controller that Windows claims is Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller. I installed RedHat 9 with XFree86 4.3.0-2. The RedHat installer claims the video is Intel 845. When I run X, the only mode it will use is 640x480. How can I fix this? I'll attach my XF86Config and XFree86.0.log. After examining the logs and groping* around the source code for i810 (the i810 driver also covers the i845), VBE, and other common stuff, it looks like only mode 41 (640x480, 16bpp) gets added to the mode pool. Heh, duh, I should have known that just because it was the only line in the mode list with an asterisk and also the only mode not rejected, but I didn't catch on until I saw the code actually responsible for printing said asterisk. My guess is the following test is what kicks all the other modes out of the running: #define VBE_MODE_SUPPORTED(m) (((m)-ModeAttributes 0x01) != 0) This appears to fail for all 16bpp modes except 640x480. It works for several more 8bpp modes. It fails for all 32bpp modes. SAL VALENTE: try 8bpp mode and see if you can get any higher resolutions. If I'm reading the log right, you should be able to go up to 1024x768 that way. Here's a quote from i810's README: In order to use most resolutions, it is necessary to install the 'agpgart.o' module which accompanies this server. You will probably have to compile the module yourself (see the notes in the module). I wonder if this has anything to do with the problem at hand. Also, I'm a little concerned about how the i810 and descendents use system RAM as video RAM. Maybe it's not grabbing enough memory? (allowed) 640x480x16bpp = 614,400 bytes (600 KiB). (allowed) 1280x768x8bpp = 786,432 bytes (768 KiB). (not allowed) 800x600x16bpp = 960,000 bytes (937.5 KiB). (not allowed) 1280x1024x8bpp = 1,310,720 bytes (1.25 MiB). It could be that it's only prepared to take between 768 KiB and 937 KiB of system RAM, or at least that's what the BIOS mode list's ModeAttributes's MODE_SUPPORTED field suggests. ACK! Oh, crud, all that work and now I see it. (--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte Bletch. If I had seen that line a couple hours ago I would have saved myself... a couple hours! So how do we increase this limit? *** Footnotes appearing in the node Andy is an amateur *** * groping is vainly grepping through vast swathes of never-before-seen code. I really want to help, but maybe I should leave this to the pros. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Overwriting Mandrake 9.1's XFree software
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:51 am, Christian Convey wrote: Mark Vojkovich is working with me (on a thread in this list) to get through the issues, and he asked me to grab the newest code from CVS to see if that helps. Guess I haven't been paying attention. No, I mean stack trace. As in, I build XFree86 in debug mode, and when it crashes (actually producing a core dump), I use gdb to get a symbolic stack dump. That's not good... Now that you're on the latest CVS, it would probably be helpful if you shared the stack trace. Include line numbers if you can, and be sure to give the date on which you downloaded the latest and/or greatest. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] ati all inwonder please help
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:37 am, rijovm wrote: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cannot find the display is the error when configure xconfig with my original settings. Your configuration and log file(s) look fine. It sounds like you have a problem with your DISPLAY variable and/or your X authentication. Do you get error messages like xterm Xt error: Can't open display:? What do you type or do to get the error? When I install xconfig at the prompt(dos) textmodus That's not DOS. :^) MS-DOS is a different operating system altogether, and it's not really worth anyone's time except as a curiosity. What's xconfig? Is it a package that comes with your distribution? What distribution would that be? Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, etc. are GNU/Linux distributions. By install do you mean start? and fill in everything correctly from my books that go with my monitor and my videocard. Frequency ranges and such? then I get errors like that . When exactly does the error come up? How can i make a screen dump in linux in the text mode do you no the right commands. You can use script to track everything you type and everything that is displayed (in text). When you're done making the script, type exit. The result will be in a file called typescript. Upload it somewhere or post it to the list if it is not too large. By the way what do they mean by virtual sreens. A virtual screen, to X, is where you have a larger display area than your monitor can show at one time. You use the mouse to scroll around by moving the pointer to the edges of the displayed area. It's pretty annoying, so don't use it if you can avoid it. You reminded me of something else that's probably worth mentioning: The Linux console lets you have multiple virtual consoles that you can flip through using Alt+F1, Alt+F2, Alt+F3, and so on. When you start XFree86, it creates a new virtual console for its display (Alt+F7 with most distributions). To temporarily switch back to text, use Ctrl+Alt+F1, F2, or whatever, and then use Alt+F7 or similar to get back to X. Why Alt sometimes and Ctrl+Alt others? When you're on a normal text screen, Linux is handling your keyboard, and Linux likes Alt+F__ to change virtual consoles (also Alt+Left and Alt+Right). When you're in X, XFree86 handles your keyboard, and since Alt+F__ is commonly needed by applications and window managers, it uses Ctrl+Alt+F__ instead. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is another important key combo---it kills the X server. I tryed Xrandr but get error like cannot open display (null) If your server isn't running (see startx or xdm), then there's nothing for X clients such as xrandr to connect to. If your server is running, normally you're executing commands like xrandr from inside a menu or xterm already connected to X, and the DISPLAY variable is automatically inherited. DISPLAY says what server to connect to. X is actually a network server, but it's also suitable for single-computer use. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Odd problem with terminals
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:05 am, Christian Convey wrote: Also, I stopped using xfs, based on a recommendation from Andy Goth, just to take one more potential problem out of the situation. I now explicitely use font paths, and I verified they work ok before I started installing the new version of XF86. We might want to come back and debug the xfs problem. Problem 2: When I then rebooted, X came up, but not in a good way. My background was a small black/white cross-hatch, and I had a very plain console in the top-left corner. The mouse worked, but they keyboard didn't. I couldn't even alt-shift-f1. Alt+Shift+F1 probably did exactly what it was supposed to do, that is, nothing. Try Alt+CTRL+F1. :^) Run more programs, including a window manager, from the xterm (twm is great if you like ugly displays, heh). Use xsetroot -solid steelblue for a prettier background. Don't forget to start long-running programs backgrounded by putting a at the end of the command line. You can also put this stuff into an .xinitrc in your home directory or into /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (or even /usr/X11R6/bin/startx if you really want to). It's been so long since I used xdm that I can't really help with it. I'd read the logs and the rest of the email, but it's time for mass. See you all later. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD on ATI Radeon QL
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:38 pm, jpavelek wrote: (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid DDC mode(s) found: 0 (WW) RADEON(0): Mode 1280x1024 is out of range. [...] (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 0 (EE) RADEON(0): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD Is there, by chance, anything plugged in your composite or S-Video port? If so, remove it, reboot, and try again. Thanks - this worked. Would there be any explanation why this doesn't work anymore? I just hate unplugging the S-Video (connected to my TV) every time I boot Linux:-( Plus I would like to get this working for my own system. Recall that someone else had this same problem. Just search the list archive for psychic :^) For those just tuning in, we're having trouble with composite and S-Video output on Radeons. jpavelek, did this work correctly with the previous version of XFree86? Are we supposed to set up special modelines for special resolutions or something? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Overwriting Mandrake 9.1's XFree software
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:42 am, Christian Convey wrote: Andy Goth wrote: Guess I haven't been paying attention. OK, I'm cuting your pay for this help in half ;) Crap! I needed that extra $0! That's not good... Now that you're on the latest CVS, it would probably be helpful if you shared the stack trace. Include line numbers if you can, and be sure to give the date on which you downloaded the latest and/or greatest. Now that I downloaded it again this morning and am not using xfs, I don't crash (I followed your advice for going from xfs to simple directory lists.) What happens if you re-add unix/:7100 to your font path list? Put it at the bottom, then the top, and then comment out all other entries, until you see a crash. Do this with and without xfs actually running. That is, if you really want to pursue this. I guess the morals of the story are... 1. I'll try to give stack traces when this happens, and Cool. 2. Maybe what's in CVS right now can't handle unfound font servers? (I also noticed that it was saying the socket # to look for the font server on is -1. Could that be the cause of the problem?) xfs is supposed to listen on port 7100. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] VESA modes for Toshiba P25 laptop (GeForce 5200 GO, 1440x900 lcd)
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:36 am, Christian Convey wrote: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 CVS? Mine says 4.3.0.1. Release date: 9 May 2003; Build date: 07 June 2003 (By the way, why is there a leading zero on the build date and not the release date?) (WW) Option XkbCompat requires an string value (WW) Option XkbOptions requires an string value From your XF86Config-4: Option XkbCompat Option XkbOptions Why do you have these lines? (WW) VESA(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum I wonder if this is causing us problems. *Mode: 112 (640x480) *Mode: 115 (800x600) *Mode: 118 (1024x768) These three modes (all 32bpp) will fit on your screen. Alas, VESA doesn't define a 1440x900 mode... unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't do hardware acceleration, either. From XF86Config-4: Modeline 1440x900 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync VESA doesn't use modelines. (II) VESA(0): Not using mode 1440x900 (no mode of this name) See? :^) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 1280x1024 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 1024x768 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 800x600 (width too large for \ virtual size) (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode 640x480 (width too large for \ virtual size) 640? Too wide!? From XF86Config-4: Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1440x900 #1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection 1440x900 fails since there's no matching VESA mode. Then XFree86 appears to fall back on its no-Modes-list heuristic, that is, find the biggest usable mode. At least, that's what I think it does---I don't rely on it. Could someone confirm/correct? But why doesn't it try the 320x VESA modes? Mode 10f would have worked, I think... (EE) VESA(0): No valid modes (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. The end. Does nVidia's proprietary driver work? You said that XFree86's nv driver looks good but futzes up the bottom row of text on your screen. Is it an 80x25 screen? What's the character size in pixels? 9x16? What happens if you set a smaller font? Have you tried SVGATextMode? fbcon? If these questions have been asked before, forgive me. I'm tired. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Odd problem with terminals
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:30 am, Christian Convey wrote: What's the best way - just send you XFree86.0.log file resulting from a vesa run of XF86? That'll do. I don't care if it's a crash or not. I just want to see the mode list (plus the rest of the file, if it's convenient). -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] help with chips 65548 XF86Config
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:40 am, Egbert Eich wrote: Andy Goth writes: From 4.3.0's README.chips, This driver must be considered work in progress, and those users wanting stability are encouraged to use the older XFree86 3.3.x versions. Thanks Andy, this is a pretty lame suggestion. A lot of work has been invested since these lines were included in the README to make this driver more stable. Unfortunately the README gets updated less frequently than the driver therefore this was overlooked. Your comments belittle those who have worked hard to make this driver more stable. Sorry, I only read the README and man page. I did an ls on the driver directory, but only for the purpose of hunting down the README/ChangeLog, which is/are of course elsewhere. I should have researched more and said less. I meant no insult. I even tried (lamely) to make a compliment... In the past I got 3.3.x chips working with a ct65554, but that's a different engine, so my experience might not be helpful. Which also works with 4.3. I admit that I have not tested the Chips driver on the 6554x generation lately, mainly because my only test system is a laptop and building the current version of X on this laptop is no fun. Unfortunately Code built on a current system isn't compatible with the libc on the ancient installation that runs on this box. Installing a current Linux on this box is out of the question since the required resources are not available on it. Despite this I've dug out the old machine and I'm currently building XFree86 on it over nfs. I have the same problem with my network; each host has a different CPU. I'll have to see about using nfs to build for the weaker machines---last time I tried (long ago), I got very frequent stale file handle errors, so it was easier and faster to do tar|nc/chroot/rsync instead. I'd test as well, but the laptop in question has been in the trash for quite some time now. Those things have a hard life! At least I managed to save the hard disk... it's kind of funny to see a 2 1/2 drive in a half-height bay. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] NVidia Drivers
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:08 am, Nickolay Kolev wrote: I have recently had to look into my X server log and found a few disturbing log messages. It seems like my video card is trying something it cannot do for a while before giving up. This does explain the small delay (and blinking) I thought was normal when switsching form console to X. What log messages concern you? The only thing I see that appears repeated is: (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode 640x350 (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode 320x175 (vrefresh out of range) [...] (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode 1024x768 (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode 1152x864 (width too large for \ virtual size) This is nothing to worry about, unless your hsync/vrefresh/etc values aren't correct. These are supposed to be autodetected, but since your monitor doesn't appear to support DDC (Failure reading EDID parameters) they might be wrong, unless you got the values you list in Section Monitor from an official source (manual or similar). I'm not sure I believe your VertRefresh range really is 75.0 - 75.0, so maybe you should look into the matter... This won't cause flickering. XFree86 doesn't actually try to set these modes. All it does is perform a sanity check on all modes it knows about so that it can never set your monitor into a potentially hazardous state. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Matrox G450 on solaris
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 5:43 am, Miroslav Novy wrote: I am using XFree 4.3 on solaris 9 (intel) with Matrox G450 card. When I run xdm I have got only black screen. xdm error (pid 335): Hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), aborting xdm error (pid 335): server open failed for :0, giving up xdm error (pid 331): Display :0 cannot be opened Does startx work? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:26 pm, Daniel Stone wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Andy Goth wrote: On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote: Daniel Stone writes: I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's just *wrong*. Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address into the Reply-To. Daniel is probably referring to: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ... which expresses an opinion not that widely held. Sorry, I lost about 10min worth of mail when I switched hosts my mail spooled on, and Egbert's reply must've been in that. Reply-To considered harmful is an opinion I hold, and it seems to be the opinion of most everyone I've encountered. The pressure should be on the MUA to do the right thing; either the user should set a Mail-Followup-To header, or you should reply to all per default, or you should just do a list reply. Since everybody has a different opinion, I think it would make sense to set up the mail server so that people can choose whether or not they want Reply-To fields tacked onto emails they receive. This should make everybody (except the admin, heh) happy. Then only remaining debate would be what should be the default. Existing users should be set to Reply-To mode until they tell the server otherwise. As for new users, the subscribe page should have a checkbox (by default checked) enabling Reply-To fields. If there is also an email-only way to subscribe (I don't know), it should by default enable Reply-To, and the subscription confirmation message should explain the issues and how to change the Reply-To setting. Rationale: My observations indicate that it's mostly people with longtime experience who complain about Reply-To, so these people should be capable of follow simple instructions to change their account settings. It doesn't matter much to me if someone actually implements this suggestion. If it happens, I'll turn off Reply-To's for mails sent to me. If it doesn't happen, I won't complain. It may be a little ugly, but I know how to use my mua to send to the original poster despite Reply-To's setting, so long as he/she didn't have to set Reply-To in the first place. Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't reply, but I think that maybe, just maybe, the above might lead to a resolution nearly everybody can (grudgingly?) live with. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] problem with xfree
On Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:58 am, Marek Kopec wrote: i'm trying to start x-terminal via etherboot and ltsp (x-klient 486 dx 66 with tseng et 4000 w32p , x-server something better :) but i have some problem with xfree. (ww) tseng: no matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:65:21:0) A 486DX/66MHz with PCI? Well, the w32p was used on PCI cards, so it must be so. But I really don't trust that BusID... What does lspci say? I had a Tseng ET4000 (I think that's the chip name), but it caused hardware lockups when too much changed on the screen at a time (I could reproduce this with the BIOS menus), so I had to throw it in the garbage. I managed to make it work with XFree86 4.3.0, in a multihead configuration no less, but I only got a valid display one time in ten or so, and it would immediately halt the computer thereafter. But hey, I pulled it from a computer whose motherboard caught fire, so I couldn't really expect it to work right. :^) I use xfree 4.1.0 (ltsp x core 3.0.4) and have tseng et 4000 w32p video card. Can you take this opportunity to upgrade to 4.3.0? Compiling X on a 66MHz, is, to misquote Egbert Eich, no fun. If you can make the binary elsewhere, you should be set. 4.2.0 made some various updates to the tseng driver (http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/RELNOTES2.html#3), which you are probably in need of. It could be that upgrading will fix your problem, so go for it. According to http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/tseng/ , the latest change to tseng (aside from removing an #ifdef) predates 4.3.0 by several months, but you should get the latest anyhow since the underlying PCI code, etc, has been updated. Lastly, I have been considering making a couple cheapie dedicated X servers for my house. Will a 486DX2/50MHz work? How about a 486SX/25MHz? Overclocked to 33MHz? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] LOG File
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi.. I have a Slackware 9 and when trying to initialize KDE the system said it couldn't find the images.. what can I do? Your log file says: Parse error on line 279 of section InputDevice in file /etc/X11/XF86Config Section is not a valid keyword in this section. (EE) Problem parsing the config file Show us /etc/X11/XF86Config and we should be able to find the problem there. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Overwriting Mandrake 9.1's XFree software
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 7:13 pm, Christian Convey wrote: I've got Mandrake 9.1 installed, and it's time for me to replace the installed version of xf86 4.3, with a newer build from xf86's CVS tree. Cool. Is there a specific reason why you're upgrading, or do you just want to see what has changed since 27 February 2003? I had some trouble with the process, so could someone familiar with Mandrake 9.1 verify that I'm doing it right? step 1. build xf86's 'xc' package (make World) step 2. put its code into /usr/X11R6 (make install) step 3. reboot (the only way this newbie knows how to restart x) Problem is, when I do this I get crashes in the x server. (Stack trace suggests its related to not finding the font server.) Stack trace? You mean log file, right? font server? Be sure xfs is running. (xfs = X Font Server) Personally, I don't use xfs since I don't see a reason to serve fonts to myself when I can just as easily configure XFree86 to internally grab them from disk. To do this, adjust your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to contain FontPath entries for all the font directories you have: Section Files [...] FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ EndSection Something like this... but be sure to only list directories you really have, or else you'll get warnings every time you start X. Do ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ to get a list. List 100dpi before 75dpi if you like bigger fonts. You can keep the unix/:7100 line if you want. Put it near the top of the list if you want the other directories to be used as fallbacks in case xfs dies or doesn't start correctly (something we see very often with Red Hat and friends). Your system might use /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 instead. The -4 version takes precedence, if it exists. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:48 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:06 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: I crashed X again but fail to see how i can ping my computer from a different host if my comuter is frozen... It's just a test to see if your computer really is frozen or if you only lost keyboard/monitor I/O. You might be surprised. Every time I try to get DRI working I wind up with what appears to be a frozen machine, but I can still log in via telnet. Yes, I understand the theory behind doing this, but... i only have one computer... how do I do this with one computer? Do I not need a second one to be able to ping the one im having problems with?? One of us could try ping, if we knew your IP address... Try this. Hit http://ioioio.net/geoff and I'll see you in the log. Then I'll start pinging you. I'll record the time when the pings fail and send it to you in email. You record the time when your computer appears to lock up and when you reboot. Be sure to sync with ntp first or we won't get anywhere. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] help with chips 65548 XF86Config
On Monday, July 14, 2003 12:17 am, j y wrote: I installed RedHat9 on a HP laptop Omnibook 5500CT, which has CT 65548.XFree86 4.3 is installed. I looked around and copied some modeline cfg, but the best result I get is a very low-resolution, I figure it was about 480x320(it may be 640x480, but it definitely doesn't look that way), The modeline says 800x600. each character was about only 6pixel x 6pixel, and I could hardly make them out. Modelines should not affect your font size. (1) Do the builtin modelines not work for you? (2) Why do you have Option noaccel in your XF86Config? (3) What's mmion? Don't you mean MMIO? (4) Don't use 'Option whatever'. Instead do 'Option whatever true'. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:05 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: On July 14, 2003 05:59 am, Andy Goth wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:48 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:06 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: I crashed X again but fail to see how i can ping my computer from a different host if my comuter is frozen... It's just a test to see if your computer really is frozen or if you only lost keyboard/monitor I/O. You might be surprised. Every time I try to get DRI working I wind up with what appears to be a frozen machine, but I can still log in via telnet. Yes, I understand the theory behind doing this, but... i only have one computer... how do I do this with one computer? Do I not need a second one to be able to ping the one im having problems with?? One of us could try ping, if we knew your IP address... Try this. Hit http://ioioio.net/geoff and I'll see you in the log. Then I'll start pinging you. I'll record the time when the pings fail and send it to you in email. You record the time when your computer appears to lock up and when you reboot. Be sure to sync with ntp first or we won't get anywhere. excuse my newbieness but... sync with ntp?? What is that? Network Time Protocol. That's just so that we're working with the same clock. After writing that email I checked your mail headers. It seems you're at 24.86.80.207. Is that right? Get http://ioioio.net/geoff and we'll see. Of course, you might be behind a proxy or similar, in which case my plan will be foiled. Then again, if we're not using the same clock, there's no point anyway. Try instead starting a stopwatch at the time you download the above URL and then write down what it says when you halt your system and when you reboot (be sure to wait at least fifteen seconds between the two). -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Monday, July 14, 2003 1:17 am, Andy Goth wrote: Try instead starting a stopwatch at the time you download the above URL and then write down what it says when you halt your system and when you reboot (be sure to wait at least fifteen seconds between the two). Okay, I got pings all the way up to approximately 600 seconds after you got http://ioioio.net/geoff (for the first time---I see three hits from you, the last occurring 141 seconds after the first) and then I gave up. Can it really take you ten whole minutes to crash or reboot your computer? So much for synchronization... This is getting silly. :^) Go find a friend with a laptop and wire it to yours using SLIP, PLIP, Ethernet, a second modem, or whatever works. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Switching Modes now Virtual Screen
On Monday, July 14, 2003 1:34 am, Jurgens du Toit wrote: I believe X creates a virtual screen when you don't list your highest resolutions first. Just make sure your resolutions are going from highest to lowest, and delete all those up until your preferred one is first in the list. My preferred resolution is first in the list, and there is no virtual screen if I am in that resolution. My problem comes when I'm switch to a lower resolution (800x600 instead of 1024x768). X then creates a Virtual screen. How can I prevent X from doing that? So, you want X to actually change the root window size? Like I said before, use xrandr for that. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] No DRI with my new Kernel...
On Friday, September 12, 2003 2:34 am, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Since about two weeks I´m trying to get DRI working with my newly compiled 2.4.21-Kernel. I enabled agpgart for my ali-chipset and 4.1-DRI for my Radeon (Mobility Radeon M?). After reading the above a suspicion formed in my head, and then I read the XFree86.0.log and got my confirmation: (WW) RADEON(0): [dri] Some DRI features disabled because of version mismatch. [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but 1.3.1 or later is preferred. Try building and using the radeon.o that comes with XFree86: (as user) $ cd xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel $ make -f Makefile.linux (as root) # mv /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o \ /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon-orig.o # cp radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/char/drm # depmod Above, xc is the root directory of the XFree86 source/build tree. After restarting XFree86, run glxinfo to see if you have hardware acceleration or not. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] about ATI radeon IGP 350M
On Monday, July 14, 2003 2:50 am, Fang, Li (¤èÄR IES) wrote: can ati_drv.o and radeon_drv.o support ATi radeon IGP 350M 3D acceleration? http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030324/ says that an IGP 350M is just a Radeon 7000(B) IGP with DDR 333 instead of DDR 266 for memory. Radeon 7000(VE) is explicitly listed as supported by the radeon driver, so it might work. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Modelines
On Monday, July 14, 2003 3:51 am, Sudev Barar wrote: Can any one on the list give me modelines for bw SVGA monitor? The make is MicroTek (I think this is only their Indian name) I want to use few of these monitors under XF86_SVGA server in 800x600 or 640x480 resolution. Do the builtin modelines not work? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XFree API
On Monday, July 14, 2003 8:29 am, Mathias Brito wrote: Where can I get the XFree86 API? Include headers, library, and technical documentation all come with the standard XFree86 distribution at http://www.xfree86.org/rel430.html . However, if you go this route, you must compile it all yourself. Don't be afraid: It's surprisingly easy. :^) If you're using a distribution/package manager, you can probably use the -devel rpm or deb or tgz or whatever. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Monday, July 14, 2003 12:35 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Geoff Petzold wrote: I crashed X again but fail to see how i can ping my computer from a different host if my comuter is frozen... I have attached the log file... When X crashes i get a terminal screen with what looks like part of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file printed on it... it says at the end: PanoramiX eror : Incompatible screens. No common Visuals. Fatal server error: could not create connection block info. Xinerama requires that both screens are running in the same depth. It cannot work otherwise. Wow, very sharp. :^) Missed that. From the XF86Config file given earlierr in the thread: Section Screen Identifier screen0 [...] DefaultColorDepth 16 [...] EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 [...] DefaultColorDepth 24 [...] EndSection Geoff, change one or the other and you should be set. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Monday, July 14, 2003 11:03 am, Pigeon wrote: Unfortunately, SVGATextMode doesn't support the Radeon 7500. (Yet. I'm trying to hack it, but don't expect results any time soon :-) ) It supports generic VGA mode. That's what I have it for---resetting my screen when I really, really need it. I hacked my kernel to set a nice screen resolution and a custom font at boot time. SVGATextMode doesn't honor this, so when I use it I lose my resolution until reboot, but it beats a black or mangled display. Last resort stuff, y'know. (If anyone cares, I can give you my patches. The font looks awesome, but I might be a little biased since I drew it, hehehe.) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] help with chips 65548 XF86Config
On Monday, July 14, 2003 10:07 pm, j y wrote: Thanks, Andy. I got it working now. I found that using chips driver gave me a double-image problem, but using vesa solved it. The chips driver is supposed to support hardware acceleration on the ct65548 using the Basic Architecture, so if you can get it to work, the display should be faster. From 4.3.0's README.chips, This driver must be considered work in progress, and those users wanting stability are encouraged to use the older XFree86 3.3.x versions. You might consider trying 3.3.x. I've had to do this myself for really old cards salvaged from the junkheap in the attic at work. The biggest advantage of using 3.3.x or earlier is that it lets you know just how good 4.3.0 is. Sort of like the time I accidentally switched on half-speed mode in ZSNES, played for an hour, and then realized that it wasn't just the game. :^) Or you can use 4.3.0 and selectively enable/disable features in an attempt to isolate the problem(s) to aid in bug squashing. This can be a lot of work, though. If you're not serious about development, don't bother. If your display is already fast enough to suit you, leave things as they are. You can only stand to break it... In the past I got 3.3.x chips working with a ct65554, but that's a different engine, so my experience might not be helpful. Besides, all I remember is that I got lucky somehow. :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Odd problem with terminals
On Monday, July 14, 2003 6:31 pm, Christian Convey wrote: With files this time :/ ---//--- XFree86.0.log: (II) LoadModule: nv ---//--- XF86Config: Section Device Identifier device1 #Driver nv Driver vesa Option DPMS Option FlatPanel Option CrtcNumber 1 EndSection ---//--- The log and the config files don't match. The log shows nv and the config shows vesa. Could you give us a log file for vesa? I'd like an up-to-date list of the VESA modes. Hopefully 1440x900 snuck in there while I wasn't looking. :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ Engineers love to change things. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Driver Cirrus logic gd-546x vga
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 3:10 am, Giacomo wrote: ho un problema con la scheda video integrata su un IBM CIRRUS LOGIC GD-546X VGA, e no riesco a trovare il driver Attempted translation: I have a problem with my integrated video card, an IBM CIRRUS LOGIC GD-546X VGA, and I am not able to find a driver. Have you tried the cirrus driver that comes with XFree86 4.3.0? Or even vesa or simply vga? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] ati all inwonder please help
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 6:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here are my config and log file's i hope you find the answer. cannot find the display is the error when configure xconfig with my original settings. Your configuration and log file(s) look fine. It sounds like you have a problem with your DISPLAY variable and/or your X authentication. Do you get error messages like xterm Xt error: Can't open display:? What do you type or do to get the error? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.1 with a Diamond Stealth II S200 Video card
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:50 pm, Jim Strzyzewski wrote: I am a newbee working on learning Linux. Purchased the 9.1 release of Mandrake from Ebay. The machine is: Pentium II 450 MHZ The install went smooth until the configuration for the graphics card. No matter how I twiddled with the parameters I kept on getting the Caught Signal 4. error message. Also, the software seemed to want to configure the video card as a Rendition video card. So I just continued with the installation. When I log on I use the bash shell. From SIGNAL(7) (type man 7 signal to read the whole thing): SIGILL4C Illegal Instruction What processor is your X server compiled for? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] CRASH
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 3:55 pm, Bruce Lindquist wrote: XFree86.0.log attached I don't see a crash of any sort in the log. Normally if XFree86 stops for any reason it writes an explanation to the log before terminating. If XFree86 somehow manages to freeze your machine and you cycle the power, then the log might look like this. One possibility is that XFree86 crashed once, but you started it again to send your email. The new instance of XFree86 would have moved the old XFree86.0.log to XFree86.0.log.old (after deleting the old old log). So, what were the circumstances of the alleged crash? For the most part, the logs tell us only about startup issues... -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X starts to crash at boot
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 4:00 pm, w bugar wrote: X has started to crash at boot time after my PC was booting OK for about a year. I'm running an updated RH7.2. The only thing that happened lately is that I almost filled up my /home partition. Any suggestions would be appreciated. ---//--- Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ---//--- We get at least 4,000 of these a day. Next time, take a look around the archives before posting. It appears your X font server isn't running. Be sure xfs starts correctly at boot time. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:57 pm, gabe f wrote: reset must be a linux thing, or something. I can barely read it says something like delete is now backspace kill is now . interrupt but, didn't reset my screen. Thanks anyway. reset only attempts to clear your terminal and set it to a sane state. It doesn't actually fiddle with your graphics card. reset is good for fixing problems like having echo disabled, the wrong character set, vertical scrolling disabled, and so on---just logical terminal mis-settings. SVGATextMode, on the other hand, will reset your graphics card as well. Gvie that a try. I'm not sure what all platforms SVGATextMode works on, though. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 3:14 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: I have stumbled onto something thsat is interesting... if i move the file into my /etc/X11/ directory and rename it as XF86Config-4 then everything works fine (ie both screens work the way i thought they would. Thats wierd how that when i typed X -xf86config /root/blah it wouldnt work... but if i move it into /etc/X11/ it works... does anyone know why that is?? Shrug. That's weird. It works except that it is two SEPERATE desktops... i can move the mouse from one to annother but not any windows. If i put the Option Xinerama into the Xf86Config file my xserver crashes and i have to reset my computer so right now i can get the two monitors up and running but with two seperate desktops... and i want to know how i can set them up so it is one desktop accross two monitors... Xinerama problem? Why do you have to reset your computer? Do you get a black or garbled display? Do Num Lock and Caps Lock fail to respond? Try crashing X again and then ping your computer from a different host. If you get a response, then your computer isn't really halted. Then try telnetting in. See if you can bring down X through the remote shell (first use kill, and then if that doesn't work, kill -9). Also you might want to try strace or gdb to see what XFree86 is up to. top can tell you if X is caught in an infinite loop or similar (~100% CPU time). -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Odd problem with terminals
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 8:34 pm, Christian Convey wrote: (II) VESA(0): Not using mode 1440x900 (no mode of this name) because in my config file I do seem to have a Monitor--ModeLine defined with that name. vesa works by calling your BIOS to set modes. ModeLines have no effect (right?). Try a standard mode like 640x480, 800x600, or anything else in the list your XFree86.0.log gives following (II) VESA(0): Searching for matching VESA mode(s):. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Dual display problems...
On Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:06 pm, Geoff Petzold wrote: I crashed X again but fail to see how i can ping my computer from a different host if my comuter is frozen... It's just a test to see if your computer really is frozen or if you only lost keyboard/monitor I/O. You might be surprised. Every time I try to get DRI working I wind up with what appears to be a frozen machine, but I can still log in via telnet. When X crashes i get a terminal screen with what looks like part of my /var/log/XFree86.0.log file printed on it... it says at the end: PanoramiX eror : Incompatible screens. No common Visuals. Fatal server error: could not create connection block info. I wish I could help you more, but all I know about Xinerama is that it works for me. No clue how... :^) I have to reset my computer because it will not do anything... the cursor is flashing at the bottom of the screen but it does not respond to anything (i do not have lights for numlock or capslock so i dont know if they are flashing [damn wireless logitech keyoard!!!:)]) What a dumb design. Oh well. If you really had a kernel panic, you'd probably see a message on your screen as well as on the blinking LED's. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Switching Modes
On Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:30 am, Jurgens du Toit wrote: When I switch video modes (Ctrl+Alt+plus/minus), the one resolution gives me a virtual screen which is larger than the physical screen. Ctrl+Alt+Plus/Minus doesn't change your root window size, only your displayed resolution. I don't want that! I've played around with the Virtual OPtion, but could not get it to work... Any advice? Use xrandr instead. Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 Virtual 800 600 ViewPort0 0 A virtual screen size of 800x600 won't work for a physical screen size of 1024x768. EndSubsection -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X Using 99,9% CPU
On Saturday, July 12, 2003 8:33 am, Edoardo Serra wrote:
After X initialisation I need to move the mouse in the lower left corner,
so I built a little utility
to do it
May I see the source code? Ditto /etc/X11/XF86Config.
The problem is:
If I run any program after having started X, it eats 99,9% of the CPU.
Does it do this with absolutely any program or just gflashplayer?
Running a 'strace' on it, I see it's in an endless loop
# strace -p `pidof X`
gettimeofday({1058016041, 958536}, NULL) = 0
select(256, [1 3 4 5 8 9 10], NULL, NULL, {1759, 893000}) = 1 (in [4], left
{1759, 90})
read(4, , 64) = 0
gettimeofday({1058016041, 958943}, NULL) = 0
select(256, [1 3 4 5 8 9 10], NULL, NULL, {1759, 893000}) = 1 (in [4], left
{1759, 90})
read(4, , 64) = 0
This is pretty weird. select returns indicating that reading from fd 4 won't
block. This means either that there's more data to be read or that fd 4 is
at end-of-file. read's return value of 0 indicates the latter. Yet fd 4
isn't removed from the readfds set...
Or maybe I'm misreading this...
Here's my init script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# S99local
echo Starting up the WeBRainstorm Access control ...
export PATH=[...]
export DISPLAY=:0.0
I take it the following two lines aren't supposed to be split...
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/gflashplayer
/usr/local/src/myacces/XMLSockMonitor.swf
Does your movepointer script warp the pointer and then quit or does it stay
running? Why do you need to move the pointer anyway? I presume gflashplayer
is running full-screen, or else you'd want to do some xsetroot magic to hide
that awful background image. You could just configure/modify gflashplayer to
use a blank mouse pointer image.
/usr/local/odontomax/movepointer 800 600
You should probably put the calls to gflashplayer and movepointer in an
.xinitrc-style script to be executed by xinit. Then you don't need to export
DISPLAY=:0.0.
P.S. the problem is still there even if i sobstitute the 'movepointer' with
a simple 'sleep 5'
This probably means that movepointer isn't responsible for hosing your server.
Try using a program other than gflashplayer. Maybe use xterm instead and
then start gflashplayer from the prompt. See if the server halts then.
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Re: [XFree86] ati all inwonder please help
On Saturday, July 12, 2003 5:22 am, rijovm wrote: I have Instald redhat linux 8.0 arklinux latest version alpha 7 Red Hat *and* Ark Linux? but there is aproblem with my videocard ATI ALL INWONDER 128 PRO AGP i think because I get 3 times the grafical shell of redhat or arklinux on my monitor a iiyama vision master pro 411/i70a/mf701u only 480/640 works but is from the 80ties. Where can i get the good driver and how to install it (newbie) What do you think you need a driver for? The graphics card? All the usual drivers you should need already come with the standard XFree86 distribution, unless Red Hat or Ark Linux chopped it up. Do you get any error messages? If not, is there something visibly wrong or just annoying with your display? Please let us know (check /var/log/XFree86.0.log). Also show us your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Ask it raxet irc. Which irc server? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem with ATI Radeon 9000 and Proview LCD 15-inch 568/BMM568 monitor
On Friday, July 11, 2003 4:00 am, Emilie et Sébastien WOLNIEWICZ wrote: Hello, I have a problem with XFree86 X server, I can't start xserver Video hardware : ATI Radeon 9000 Just the other day I was messing around with my ATI Radeon 7500's composite video output port. I never managed to get it working before, probably because I never tried before :^), but after connecting it to something else (in my case, a video capture card, ha ha) and rebooting, I got the same odd-looking error messages as you: (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid DDC mode(s) found: 0 (WW) RADEON(0): Valid modes must be between 320x200-0x0 (II) RADEON(0): Total number of valid FP mode(s) found: 0 (EE) RADEON(0): No valid mode found for this DFP/LCD I don't fully understand it. Check that: I don't understand it at all. :^) What the hell kind of range is 320x200-0x0 anyhow? That's even worse than xvinfo's 'XV_COLORKEY (range 0 to -1)' which is might just be due to mismatched signededness somewhere. But you still might want to check to see if you have anything plugged into your composite or S-Video port. If so, yank the cable out, reboot, and try again. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem
On Friday, July 11, 2003 4:56 am, poltavec wrote: I have: XFree86 ver 4.3.0. and the mga driver that came with XFree86 4.3.0., OS is FreeBsd 4.7, video card is Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, 2 monitors and problem. I see one screen on every monitor when I run X server. I wish to use my card with 2 displays operating as a single logical display. The First and the 2nd screen is draw same picture. You probably want to load Xinerama if you want to be able to move windows from one monitor to the other. Add Screen # lines to your Screen sections. But I'm not sure this will fix your problem, since as far as I know this is just to specify which heads to use, and from what you describe the server already handles that correctly. I think. MGA(4) doesn't seem to list any CloneDisplay-type options... ---//--- add to /etc/X11/XF86Config Section ServerFlags Option Xinerama true EndSection ---//--- Look before to see where to add the Screen lines. Section Screen Identifier Screen1 Device Matrox1 MonitorMonitor1 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection Screen 0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen2 Device Matrox2 MonitorMonitor2 DefaultDepth 16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection Screen 1 EndSection -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Error report
On Friday, July 11, 2003 6:16 am, witold wawrzyniak wrote: I have permanent X-crash after several hours of working. It just close everything suddenly. What were you doing at the time of the crash? Did it happen in response to something you did, or did it appear to happen at a random time without provocation? Is it possible to reproduce the crash? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] * Xserver up-grade problem *
On Friday, July 11, 2003 12:43 pm, Juan Padilla Noriega wrote: Hello: I am up-grading a workstation from Red Hat Linux 7.1 to Red Hat Linux 9, but I could not succeed in installing the X server. The video card is GeForce2 GTS and the monitor is Dell M781.Please find enclosed the log file, and the config file as well. I appreciate your help. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failure allocating root object. The NVIDIA kernel module (EE) NVIDIA(0): may not be installed correctly! Please refer to the FAQ for (EE) NVIDIA(0): installation instructions. When you change your kernel you need to recompile and reinstall your nvidia kernel module. Probably you want to take the opportunity to get a newer version of it and the XFree86 driver. I've made this mistake myself many times... -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote: Daniel Stone writes: I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's just *wrong*. Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address into the Reply-To. Daniel is probably referring to: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$
On Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:12 pm, David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote: On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote: Daniel Stone writes: I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's just *wrong*. Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address into the Reply-To. Daniel is probably referring to: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html This comes up from time to time, and has been for years. There's no point rehashing that particular matter of personal preference again. Sorry I brought it up... :^( I didn't mean to start anything. I just happened to remember seeing the words munge alongside reply-to and thought there might be a reference. I will not reply to this thread again. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X Windows Problem
On Monday, July 7, 2003 4:04 am, Manoj y Kashikar wrote: Sir , Herewith i have attached a log file. Plz guide me why should i have problem with startx. (II) Setting vga for screen 0. Why are you using VGA? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Help
On Monday, June 30, 2003 2:34 am, Renata Horvath wrote: Hi, could you please help me with the XServer crash. For some reason after I have correctly restart PC my XServer couldn't start. See the attached log file for more details. Hmm. ---//--- (**) FontPath set to unix/:7100 ... Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' ---//--- I'm tempted to say start xfs, but I don't see any warnings about being unable to use/stat font path element unix/:7100, so unless I'm missing something xfs is running. Ack, I'm confused! Maybe Red Hat removed the warning...? Make sure xfs is running. Then see if you have the same problem. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem with glxinfo
On Monday, June 30, 2003 2:01 pm, Stéphane Purnelle wrote: I donwloaded and updated Mesa to Mesa 5.0.1. Maybe it's the source of problem ? I'm more inclined to think that the following is the problem: Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. Try adding Load dri to /etc/X11/XF86Config . Showing us your /etc/X11/XF86Config and /var/log/XFree86.0.log may help. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] 8+24 overlay
On Saturday, June 28, 2003 10:56 pm, Oisin Feeley wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:07 PM, Andy Goth wrote: On Friday, June 27, 2003 7:45 am, Malcolm Stevens wrote: On the same topic of 8+24 overlay, my ibook, when running Apple's X11, provides 24 bit truecolor visuals and an 8 bit pseudocolor visual. Does anyone know how this is done? If I remember correctly, the video chip inside is an ATI Rage Mobility 128 and as far as I can tell ATI chips don't have hardware overlay features. Does this mean Apple is doing something in software? Their X11 is based on XFree86 4.2.1 but I think it's been modified quite a bit. Forgive me if I'm totally wrong... I haven't had an Apple in my house since the SE/30, so I'm just drawing on minimal observations. Maybe Photon allows different windows to have different color depths. Then a modified XFree86 would have an easier time doing the same. I don't follow. Is Photon what Apple calls Quartz? I was just curious about it anyway. I believe some of the windows X11 emulators/servers do pseudocolor stuff in software. The one I remember is from hummingbird I think. Photon is the name given by QNX to their own windowing system, it's nothing to do with Apple: http://www.qnx.com/products/ps_photon/ Oops. I guess I had QNX on the brain. Yes, Quartz is what I meant. But you probably shouldn't be listening to be about this subject anyway. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] (no subject)
On Sunday, June 29, 2003 8:58 am, vinayak swarup saxena wrote: (II) VGA: Generic VGA driver (version 4.0) for chipsets: generic Are you sure you want to use VGA? (**) VGA(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16 (==) VGA(0): RGB weight 565 How does 16bpp work with a VGA anyway? (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 256 kBytes. Yeah, that's all a VGA had, and since it's broken up into planes, accessing it all is so gross that the most popular VGA mode, 320x200x8bpp, BIOS int10h mode 13h, only used the first 64 kBytes of it. History... So, what kind of video card do you have, anyway? (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,2562 card 8086,4c59 rev 01 \ class 03,00,00 hdr 00 This is all I see, and I don't recognize the numbers. You'll have to tell us. lspci might help. I am having problems with getting started with startx on my system. Iam having a P-4 2.4GH, LINUX version 7.2-RedHat You mean Red Hat version 7.2 with Linux version 2.4.7 and XFree86 version 4.1.0 (both Red Hat-modified). -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] change the background color
On Sunday, June 29, 2003 12:52 pm, saiph wrote: hi list, i've searched and asked a lot but without succes: i'm tring to change the default X background color at startup. In your .xinitrc or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, add a call to xsetroot. You can also edit any other scripts that your system happens to call on X startup, xdm startup, user login, or window manager startup. Examples: $ xsetroot -solid puce This will set your root window color to puce, or at least it would if puce were listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt $ xsetroot -solid '#00' This makes your computer do a fair imitation of MS-Windows 95. $ xsetroot -cursor_name gumby This makes your mouse pointer infinitely more hip. If you have ImageMagick, try: $ display -window root foobar.png Be sure to check the documentation for xsetroot, display, wmsetbg, or whatever other program you have that will set your root window color or image. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Newbie: Setting up XFree on a single board computer
On Sunday, June 29, 2003 6:11 pm, Christian Hvid wrote: I have been given the daunting task of setting up XFree on an Axiomtek SBC84500. It has an absolutely minimal linux (embedix / Caldera): uname -a Linux (none) 2.4.5-pre1 #25 Wed Jan 8 03:22:27 UTC 2003 i586 unknown (Not even the clock is set.) Surely you can fix that. :^) I have followed the instructions on http://www.xfree.org/4.2.0/Install4.html#manual-install, I have run XFree86 -configure but when I run XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new the screen shows some surreal graphics and it stops with a bunch of error messages. Could you describe the display? Do you have a rolling screen, flickering, amorphous areas of wrong colors, or anything of the sort? Or are all the problems at the pixel level? What kind of monitor are you using, anyway? Does your card output to a VGA port, S-Video, composite, DVI, proprietary connection, what? Can anyone give me an idea to what is wrong? The system is a little shaky and runs on some old RAM - there might a problem there (shared video ram). Have I messed up something in the installation or it is just a mouse driver that is missing? Can you temporarily swap the RAM? If that fixes it, then that fixes it. If not, look elsewhere for the problem. XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System Try 4.3.0, perhaps? (++) Using config file: /root/XF86Config.new May we see this file? (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) Does your kernel have support for this? If so, mknod the file in question. Read linux/Documentation/devices.txt for more information. (II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 1078,0100 card , rev 30 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:12:4 (--) Chipset vesa found Does this card work with svgalib or fbcon? (==) VESA(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8 (==) VESA(0): Default visual is PseudoColor Are you having palette problems, that is, wrong colors? (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC supported (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC Level 2 (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC transfer in appr. 3 sec. (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE DDC read failed Again, what kind of monitor? (--) VESA(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 640x400 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 640x480 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 800x600 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 1024x768 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 1280x1024 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 320x200 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 320x240 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 400x300 (unnamed) (--) VESA(0): Default mode 512x384 (unnamed) Which one do you use? (**) VESA(0): Using Shadow Framebuffer Could this be the problem? (WW) System lacks support for changing MTRRs Does your computer have MTRR support? If so, enable it in your kernel. (**) Option Device /dev/mouse (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse No such file or directory. (EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Mouse0 (II) UnloadModule: mouse (II) Keyboard Keyboard0 handled by legacy driver (WW) No core pointer registered Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap No core pointer Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Here's your showstopper. You don't have a /dev/mouse. If it's under a different name, adjust your XF86Config file. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] [Fwd: Re: Welcome to the XFree86 mailing list]
On Sunday, June 29, 2003 10:18 pm, Jagdish Rao wrote: I am having a problem with my IBM Netvista. The Monitor is E54. The display is Intel 845.I was trying to install Red Hat 8.0. I got the error no screens found when I tried to run startx. The kernel is 2.4.18-11 smp i686 The release is 4.2.0-72. The graphic card selected was 82845 G/GL with 16Mb Video RAM. Please send us /var/log/XFree86.0.log and maybe /etc/X11/XF86Config . -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] dumb proxy
On Friday, June 27, 2003 12:46 am, Vladimir wrote: this is what i'm trying to do I'll clean up the ASCII art since it appears to have been damaged. A --ssh-- B --ssh-- C --ssh-- D a and D are both on private networks and can't talk to each other, Are these private networks secure? By that I mean is there any danger in sending unencrypted data over the wire? I consider my home network to be secure since I more or less trust all hosts on it and the rest of the Internet cannot directly monitor my Ethernet. but b and c can talk to each other and b can talk to a and c can talk to d, Can A connect to C? Can D connect to B? I am trying to get an X application on D to show up on A. A, B, and D have X installed but C does NOT have X installed. When i try to do an ssh -X from A to B it works fine, but when i do that from B to C it does not set the diplay to anything. and when i do ssh -X from C to D again the display is not set and i dont get any forwarding I also cannot set up a vpn because i almost no controll over c and d, but i do have root on a and b if that helps. Here's the simplest way. It does not require root anywhere. Make port 6789 on host B connect to port 22 on host D via host C. Add -f to automatically fork ssh into the background (I prefer using shell job control to do this, since autobackgrounding is evil). Remove -N to also start a shell on host C. Change 6789 to whatever port you want. Add -C to compress the tunneled data. B$ ssh C -L 6789:D:22 -N -g Log into host D via the forwarded port on host B; also enable X forwarding. Add -C to compress the shell connection and X protocol. Note that double compression probably won't buy you anything. A$ ssh B -p 6789 -X If A can directly connect to C, change the above to: A$ ssh C -L 6789:D:22 -N A$ ssh localhost -p 6789 -X This way you can do it all without running anything on B. Instead you rely on B automatically routing packets from A destined for C. I'm using the second method right now as a test, and it worked without any problems (except I replaced C with null.sevatech.com and D with localhost, which is still a valid test because localhost only maps to null from null's point of view). Plus, -g never worked properly for me, so maybe it's broken. My only complaint with this is that it tunnels ssh over ssh, which is redundant and wasteful of CPU time. But the only real reason I care is because toaster, my network's equivalent of your host B, is a 50MHz 486 on which ssh encryption is noticeably slow. If you really care, you can write your own port forwarder without encryption, but it probably won't be worth it. You won't lose any security, though, since you'll be forwarding ssh-encrypted data. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] weird monitor problem: some distortion and blacking out..
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:22 pm, ved wrote: Tomorrow evening i'll problably have another monitor to test it out so i'll maybe post some more info then. I didn't make any changes to cfg files, the problem just started out spontaneously. Sounds like hardware, then. The /tmp files i don't think is the problem because i already rebooted and my system erases the tmp dir on boot. I was being facetious. i'll try this after i try with another monitor and yes, my card is a nvidia tnt2 m64 16mb I'm not sure it's even possible for a graphics card to exhibit display problems such as you have described, at least not without it being consciously designed to do so. yes i had the same problem at 1024 and 640 but on text mode i still didn't get this behavior, i just today changed the textmode resolution from the default 80x25 to 100x37 with 9 pixel fonts i believe, it was one of the settings that came with svgatextmode that got an output that i liked. i'll see if it does the same thing now that i'm using it, but so far it's going well, no blackouts. I'll take a wild guess, probably an incorrect one, and say that you're not having problems in text mode since most of your display is black. heh, thanks, i know a little but not beeing a native i always excuse any possible mistakes. I'm from Madeira Island in Portugal btw =) http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=980524 Thanks for your response, i'll give some more feedback tomorrow when i test on another monitor. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem: XFree86 couldn't work in Dell D600 Laptop with FreeBSD.
On Friday, June 27, 2003 1:16 am, George wrote: I used nm and got the same return as yours. Also i add ddc, this time the symbol not warning again but still core dump. As the log said, the unresolved symbol may not have been the cause of the crash. I have removed Red Hat and only left its XF86Config as attached. Red Hat 9 come with XFree86 4.3.0_2. My current FreeBSD is 5.0 but XFree86 4.3.0 for BSD5.1 packages. I think it doesn't matter. (Am I wrong?) In the laptop I have tried FreeBSD 4.8 with XFree86 4.3.0 before, each time told me another symbol warning unresolved in nsc_drv.o. Symbol XAAPatternROP_PM from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nsc_drv.o is unresolved! Now try adding Load xaa. I'm sure this won't fix your SIGSEGV (11), though. To pinpoint the crash, try running XFree86 in strace. At least on Linux, strace writes a detailed list of all kernel calls to stderr. For even more fine-grained debugging, recompile your X server its requisite libraries with -g -ggdb -lefence added to the gcc command line, that is, if you're using gcc and gdb. -lefence means use ElectricFence for malloc, realloc, and free (get it from perens.org). Then either save the core file (first enable core dumping) or run the X server inside gdb (you may have to do so over telnet or through a serial connection because XFree86 takes over the screen). Give us a stack trace and a line number (use the bt command in gdb), upload the core file to a web site, and/or try to hunt down the true cause of the crash yourself. I love BSD and decide to use NetBSD when i got message from Alan Barrett http://news.gw.com/netbsd.ports.i386/30161 , but after when i tried to configure XF86, it told me hard to find suitable screen. I return to FB5 then. Ask Alan for his XF86Config file. Ask what version of XFree86 he is using, whether he got it from xfree86.org or a BSD site, and whether or not he patched it. Also ask if he did anything special during a compile. His email address from the news article is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Forgive my ignorance, but what is FB5? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Error Log
On Friday, June 27, 2003 12:29 am, Bujji Krishna R B wrote: I have a problem starting the xserver. I have attached the log. Kindly let me know , the solutions for resolving this problem. (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) S3 unknown chipset (0x8d04) rev 0, Mem @ 0xe100/19, 0xd800/27 You have some sort of S3 graphics card in what appears to be your AGP slot. What, exactly, is it? Also, may we see /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? Consider upgrading to XFree86 version 4.3.0. You're using 4.1.0, whose second birthday anniversary we celebrated 25 days ago. (You should have seen the cake!) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XFree86 Problem
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:15:30PM +0200, aljosa wrote: I have problems with starting and configurating X on (command: XFree86 -configure) my computer: FreeBSD 5.1 XFree86 4.3.0 Intel P2 450MHz/Intel BX chipset Graphic Card S3 Trio3D (AGP) In attachemnt You can find error log. Are you sure that's the full error log? It's only one kilobyte. Do you have /dev/io? Who owns it, and what is its mode? (ls -l will tell you.) Is your X server suid root, or suid or sgid whatever user(s) or group(s) have access to /dev/io? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Changing resolutions under X
On Friday, June 27, 2003 1:21 pm, Ethan Trevino wrote: ///Compiler Output// # gcc -o screen screen.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXxf86vm screen.c: In function `changeResolution': screen.c:45: warning: passing arg 4 of `XF86VidModeGetModeLine' from incompatible pointer type ---//--- /* The documentation says that XF86VidModeModeInfo wants a double * pointer. But the function definition says that it wants a triple * pointer. So, we declare a double and pass the address * XF86VidModeModeInfo **modes; */ ---//--- Huh? XF86VidModeModeInfo is a data type, not a function. What you're probably thinking of is XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines, whose prototype reads: Bool XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines(Display*, int, int*, XF86VidModeModeInfo***); (xc/include/X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h, lines 197-202) This is definitely different from what XF86VIDMODE(3X11) says, so yeah, there is a documentation bug here. (Somebody please fix this!) But your problem isn't with XF86VidModeGetAllModeLines. It's with XF86VidModeGetModeLine. Its fourth parameter is supposed to be an XF86VidModeModeLine*, but you give it an XF86VidModeModeInfo***. That's two too many *'s and you use ___Info instead of ___Line. ---//--- XF86VidModeModeInfo **modes, **oldMode; XF86VidModeGetModeLine(dpy, 0, dotclock, modes); ---//--- This alone should cause a SIGSEGV. (I know that if I were the computer, I wouldn't settle for anything less, hehehe.) screen.c: In function `changeResBack': screen.c:70: warning: passing arg 3 of `XF86VidModeSwitchToMode' from incompatible pointer type screen.c:71: warning: passing arg 3 of `XF86VidModeSwitchToMode' from incompatible pointer type ---//--- XF86VidModeSwitchToMode(dpy,0,oldMode); XF86VidModeSwitchToMode(dpy,0,oldMode); ---//--- Both xc/include/X11/extensions/xf86vmode.h and XF86VIDMODE(3X11) say that XF86VidModeSwitchToMode's prototype is: Bool XF86VidModeSwitchToMode(Display*, int, XF86VidModeModeInfo*); But you pass it a XF86VidModeModeInfo**, with one too many *'s. Why is oldMode a ** anyway? Good luck. You might want to read the SwitchCB function in xc/programs/xvidtune/xvidtune.c . In 4.3.0, it starts on line 930. Also check out the xrandr program for a more flexible way of doing almost the same thing. (Except that xrandr doesn't appear to work at all with xinerama, so it's currently useless to me...) Heh, I just noticed a misspelling on line 5 of xrandr.c... -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Help for a problem about XFree86.
On Friday, June 27, 2003 11:31 am, george goffe wrote: Joe, If xfreee86 ignores the sigterm it's probably blocked in some system call. As far as I know, that's how processes ignore signals. Actually, all it takes to ignore SIGTERM is: signal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN); See signal(2) and sigaction(2). But I sincerely doubt XFree86 would do such a thing. I don't know whether or not the signal handler (be it application-provided or the system default) is called if the program is blocked in a system call. I'm also not sure how a program could be blocked in a system call, oblivious to signals. The documentation for functions like wait(2) explicitly say that they resume execution of the current process if a signal is delivered under certain reasonable conditions. What does strace say? The %CPU field in top includes time spent in the kernel on the process's behalf, correct? Maybe the XFree86 SIGTERM signal handler sets a flag for an event loop to catch. Just a wild guess... I'm trying to figure out why a program would not properly handle such a signal. Joe: It's fine to install X on a server, but you have to be extra careful about security if the server is exposed to the Internet. You're probably safe as you are, at least as safe as is possible with Red Hat, which probably isn't enough. :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] 8+24 overlay
On Friday, June 27, 2003 7:45 am, Malcolm Stevens wrote: On the same topic of 8+24 overlay, my ibook, when running Apple's X11, provides 24 bit truecolor visuals and an 8 bit pseudocolor visual. Does anyone know how this is done? If I remember correctly, the video chip inside is an ATI Rage Mobility 128 and as far as I can tell ATI chips don't have hardware overlay features. Does this mean Apple is doing something in software? Their X11 is based on XFree86 4.2.1 but I think it's been modified quite a bit. Forgive me if I'm totally wrong... I haven't had an Apple in my house since the SE/30, so I'm just drawing on minimal observations. Maybe Photon allows different windows to have different color depths. Then a modified XFree86 would have an easier time doing the same. Aside from Cadence, is there any need for this feature? Allegro and SDL and similar typically provide their own color depth emulation code, and I have written 8bpp-only code that displayed just fine on 32bpp displays and vice versa. (But since it used Allegro the same program worked in MS-DOS, MS-Windows, fbcon, X11, and others...) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] image that causes LCD to flicker violently
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 10:09 pm, Case Jones wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:28:27 -0500 Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GIMP-1.3 says it's a 1329x6 pixel image. Is that really what you want? That image contains the essential ingredients to make my screen flicker every single time. To use it, the entire image needs to be visible, and I get the most flickering when the image is close to the left edge of the screen. The image came from a gimp windowshot of mozilla displaying a company website, and I cropped it down until the resultant image was of a reasonable size to send to the mailing list. I tried it again right now, and it still makes my LCD flicker. How weird. Do you get the same flickering if you display the image using fbcon or svgalib or Microsoft Windows or MetroX or anything besides XFree86? If so, it's either your graphics card or monitor. If not, it's XFree86. Either way, it's strange. You say this came from a screenshot. What resolution are you using? What refresh rate does your screen run at? Have you tried with different resolutions and/or refresh rates? If your monitor or graphics card has an option to scale the image to fill the screen, try toggling it. Also, see if the image still causes trouble if you rotate the colors, convert it to black-and-white, rescale it horizontally, drop the red, green, and/or blue channels, blur it horizontally, and so on. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] weird monitor problem: some distortion and blacking out..
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:50 am, ved wrote: hello, recently my xfree started to behave strangely, Did this happen in response to any configuration changes? If not, it's likely to be a hardware problem. Then again, maybe it's a bug that's triggered by the fact that you have one too many files in /tmp ... but I doubt it. See if you can borrow another monitor. If things clear up, your problem is solved, assuming you have sufficient bling in your wallet to get a replacement. :^) it randomly blacks out the monitor, to get it back on i have to chenge to the console with ctrl+alt+Fx, turn off the monitor and then turn it back on and finally get back to X with alt+f7. I tried lots of diferent configurations of modelines and resolutions but they all eventually black out the monitor. In another (maybe related) problem, the right margin of my monitor gets progressivly shrinken i mean the contents on the aproximately 1cm of the right monitor border gets really narrow and it is when it's really narrow that the screen backs out. It could be that your monitor's power supply is going out. I've had this happen to me twice before. The first time was with a 13 CRT circa 1993. It first exhibited strange behavior not entirely unlike what you describe, and then it got flaky to the point of unusability. The second time was with a 17 CRT circa 1999. It worked mostly alright, but every hour or so a couple of scanlines would vertically jitter, as if it had lost power for a millisecond. One day, the horizontal suddenly and completely failed, reducing the image to a very bright vertical line in the center of my screen. A quarter-second later, the vertical went too, and within no time at all I lost the dot as well. It now awaits proper disposal... i am thinking that either my monitor is badly setup or the monitor is somehow damaged and creates this right side distortion and eventually blacking out. If i stop X and restart it, it stays fine but progressivaly the right monitor side starts do shrink until it blacks out again. I find this very odd and can't seem to find a cause. If a change of monitor doesn't help, try using either VGA 640x480x4bpp or VGA 320x200x8bpp, whichever is more usable. See if you get the same trouble. But I seriously doubt you'll get this far. If you do, though, try a different graphics card. I had an nVidia die on me some time ago, and while I never lost the horizontal or vertical, the image turned to mud. My monitor is a rather rare Likom L5034LD and it's timmings according to the manual are: H: 30 ~ 69 V: 50 ~ 104 It's a CRT, correct? If you said it was a LCD I'd be stumped. Tell me when it was made. Is it multisync? It sounds like it, or else changing resolutions (flipping between text and graphics) might not resuscitate it (bring it back to life). But I'm no expert. My preffered resolution for X is 1024x768 but i also use 640x480 when i play quake. Do you get the same problem in either resolution? Also, does this ever occur with text mode? By the way, what text mode do you use? The default is nearly universally 80x25 character cells with 9x16 dot boxes, so the effective resolution is 720x400. (I use 132x60 with 8x8, giving me 1056x480.) Thanks in advance and sorry for any bad english. Your English is admirable. I see and hear worse in my own household. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] dumb proxy
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:58 pm, Peter \ wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Vladimir wrote: it seems that ssh will not do X forwards on a machine that does not have X installed any way around that? Use -L and -R. Set the DISPLAY manually. Get the MIT cookie on the already running X server and install it manually into ~/.Xauthority on the machine you want the X clients to run on. Summary: Possible but not pleasant. Why would you want to forward connections to a machine that doesn't have a real X server on it? The way the -X option of ssh works, a proxy X server is opened on the remote host that forwards back to the local host's real X server. The only thing I can imagine is forwarding one proxy to another, but unless you're going through multiple firewalls and NAT networks, I'm not sure what purpose this would serve. If you mean that ssh won't honor -X if you're attempting to open a proxy X server on a computer that doesn't have X installed, well, I'm not sure why you would want that either since that machine probably doesn't have any X clients installed (no libX11). If you want to do this so that many computers in the remote network could use that one computer to tunnel to your real X server, I think you would have to use the -g option, but -g has never worked for me for ordinary port forwarding, so I doubt you would get results with the more-complex X11 forwarding. If you really, really want to do something like this, use VPN by running pppd over ssh or similar and then no X11 proxy will be necessary since the remote computers will be able to access yours as if it were on the same network despite however many layers of firewalls and NAT networks you had to tunnel through. If you gave us a bit more information about what exactly you would like to accomplish, I'm sure we will be able to figure something out. Note that PuTTY for MS-Windows also does X forwarding. I'm not certain whether it just goes from the remote machine back to an X server running in Windows or if it has an option to go the other way. I don't know why the latter would be useful, though. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XFree86 Error in Redhat 9
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:05 am, Sayed Zahid Ali Rizvi wrote: I have install redhat 9 linux on my PC with Intel celeron 1.2 Ghz, 128 Mb Ram, 40 Gb Hdd, Intel 810 Mother Board onboard sound VGA, Microtek 38F1C, Redhat Linux 9 CDs with Bible. The error log says there's a problem with your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. We need to see it. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] 8+24 overlay
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:39 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote: 8+24 requires hardware 8 bit overlay support. NVIDIA GeForce products do not have hardware 8 bit overlay nor do they support the 8+24 mode. The 8+24 option is only supported by some Matrox and 3Dlabs hardware. I'm curious... can Xnest be used to run at a different color depth than the host X server? I imagine it is technically possible for it to provide an 8bpp X server for Cadence, handle all palette issues and such to convert to 24bpp, and send the modified X protocol to the real server. I've never used Xnest, so I'm just groping in the dark here, but the above seems like a possibility. Lodovico, why would setting your X server to run in 8bpp impact your display resolution? Having a lower color depth should allow you to have more pixels onscreen and off rather than less. Or maybe by resolution you simply mean color resolution... Another solution you may not have considered is running multiple X servers. Run one at 24bpp for your normal work and another at 8bpp for Cadence and its support tools. If you're using Red Hat, you would flip between the two with Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8. I know this would be a pain, but running Cadence inside Xnest might not be much better. The only real solution would be to support color depth emulation as a basic feature common to all servers, but of course this would bloat XFree86 beyond measure. Also, unless I'm mistaken, there's virtually no demand for this. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Falha na Detecção da Placa de Vídeo
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:56 am, ACFUtinga wrote: Olá, Hi. Estou instalando o linux em uma máquina que tem placa de vídeo onboard, mas essa máquina não é minha e não consigo saber qual placa é. A instalação não a reconhece dando mensagem de Falha na detecção da placa de vídeo. Já tentei usar um driver vga e vesa genérico, mas não funciona o ambiente X. [I am installing Linux on a machine that has an onboard video card, but this machine isn't mine and I don't know what kind of card it is. The installer program doesn't recognize the card. I already tried using VGA and Generic VESA drivers but neither worked.] O monitor é um LG Studioworks 560A, sendo que também não tem o driver. Eu coloco 560SC sendo que tem tabém a opção 560Si ou usar monitor genérico (se vem que não sei também quais as opções de genérico posso usar... tem várias...) [The monitor is an LG Studioworks 560A, and I also don't have a driver for it. I tried the 560SC, 560Si, and generic monitor drivers, but I don't know what options to give to configure generic monitor.] Please write in English next time. Also, please correct my paraphrased translation. Portuguese, after all, isn't Spanish. :^) What distribution are you using that is giving you these options? Try typing XFree86 -configure at the prompt to attempt once more to autodetect your graphics card, monitor, and other system parameters. Is there a way to get XFree86 to use fbcon? I never tried it myself, but I hear it exists. Anyway, you might try checking to see if the Linux kernel's framebuffer subsystem directly supports your video card, but that may be trickier than getting X to use it. If the owner of the machine allows it, you should be able to install a different graphics card, one that is known to work with Linux and XFree86. (This is why I don't like integrating anything in the motherboard beyond the bare minimum...) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Video Problems
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:49 pm, Bartolo, Timothy J. wrote: I have a IBM Net vista Model 8307-25U in the standard configuration except that I have the Ram expand to 1GB. I have loaded Linux version 7.3 using a government application called JCATS. I am trying to get the Video on the computer to display at 1280X1024 and the best I can get is 600X480. I have loaded 4.2.0 from your website and I have gone to the Intel website and loaded the driver for the 845 chipset but I still cannot get the video to display correctly. When configuring the Xserver through Xconfigurator we receive an error saying that it cannot write to it and that a file libglide2.so is missing. Am I doing something wrong? If so can you tell me what so I can get this fixed to display the higher resolution. I am using an IBM P275 Monitor model 6652-U3N. Attached is the log file that it said to send to you. XFree86.8.log As the log file says, send us the output of scanpci -v. Maybe support for your card has been added to 4.3.0 or the recent CVS development tree. Try those (4.3.0 first). I believe glide (glide2) is 3dfx-specific. A quick search indicates http://sourceforge.net/projects/glide/ is the place to go for it. There aren't any releases there, but the CVS repository has some good stuff in it. But maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing... If you can, contact the developers of JCATS. Ask why they require glide. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Help for a problem about XFree86.
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:22 pm, J. Joe Wang wrote: I met a problem with the XFree86 of my RH7.2 box. Hope somebody can help me out. Thanks in advance! The problem is the machine usually (happened per 1-3 days) goes into a status that there is no response from the X Windows system at all. All the stuff on the screen stopped. There is no response too when I pushed the Num Lock button. But some services are ok (apache http service, ftp service and etc). Can you telnet or ssh to the machine? From there you can try killing X to see if that brings about any response. Or you could try starting a secondary X server (startx -- :1 might work). Probably if Num Lock fails to respond, Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace won't work either, but try them anyway. You should probably upgrade to XFree86 4.3.0. You're using 4.1.0, and possibly a copy mangled by Red Hat. On my machine, when I try to start X with dri support, I get a blank screen yet Num Lock still works. When I telnet in to kill X, the machine halts and I am forced to reboot. Therefore, you should try to save all important data and issue the sync command before attempting to kill X. (I have to use kill -9 since XFree86 gets so screwed up that it ignores SIGTERM.) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem with virtual console 2
On Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:31 am, Mike Red wrote: Module Loader present OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (++) Log file: /dev/null, Time: Wed Jun 25 15:38:39 2003 (++) Using config file: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Input/output error) When does this happen? During installation? Configuration? What version of Red Hat are you using, 9? Maybe they should rename Red Hat 9 to Red Hat, SIGKILL edition... :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XSERVER CRASH - newbie needs help!
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:22:26PM +0100, Andy Myers wrote: X server wont start says: could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:24 am, Daniel Godas Lopez wrote: im am almost a newbie too but it seems you deleted one of the fonts, if its that the only thing you have to do is find it (search for it on google) and put it in the directory it was before, if it isnt that i have no idea what happened :s I'm sure Mr. Myers didn't delete the font. :^) Just be sure xfs is running. This has probably been brought up before, but since this is the #1 FAQ, XFree86 should probably print an extra line in the error log: Tip: xfs isn't running, but XFree86 needs it to access your fonts. Restart xfs by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start Or similar, if it sees that unix/:7100 is the only font path element and that no process named xfs is running. Actually, something like this might better be left up to distributors due to the WIDE variance in startup and service scripts, but still, it's worth considering. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] dumb proxy
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:26 am, Vladimir wrote: does anyone know of a dumb X proxy that would take incomming X connections and forward them on to a different machine? ssh will do this for you. Plus, it can transparently compress and encrypt the protocol. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] image that causes LCD to flicker violently
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:40 pm, Case Jones wrote: I've noticed that some websites cause my screen to flicker. It seems to have something to do with something in the image that is attached to this email.. To reproduce the flickering, all I need to do is open the png in full size and move it to the left edge of the screen, and then my LCD will flicker violently. Does this image cause the same effect for anyone else here? GIMP-1.3 says it's a 1329x6 pixel image. Is that really what you want? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] XConfig Server crash
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir Please look into this matter I have some problem in my Xconfig server display flickers continously Attached log file This message was sent using G8Webmail Ver: 2.11 Rel: 24. For more information, please visit http://www.g8.net Please do not post your log files in doc format. I had a very difficult time reading doc'ed logs the last time someone did it, so if you want your question to be answered, send your logs in plain text, the way they exist on disk. If your mailer is at fault, get a different mailer. doc files are the antithesis of universal. Their portability is artificially restricted by Microsoft in an attempt to force people to upgrade frequently and to use Microsoft Word on Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by your display flickering. Do you see streaks or unexplained colors? For all I know, you might have your refresh rate set too low. 60Hz is particularly bad if you use fluorescent lighting since it makes the screen look very flickery. (Personally, I use 60Hz, but since I do it in a darkened room or under natural sunlight, it doesn't bother me.) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X-ing to other hosts
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:32 pm, News/Info wrote: Psuedo-newb here... Two hosts mars and jupiter both have linux and XFree installed, both work fine and without incident. My objective would be to use just mars and be able to start an X session on either mars or jupiter without having to go back and forth between two keyboards. Suggestions? How is this done...? Set the DISPLAY environment variable or use the -display option of your client application to specify which X server to connect to. Examples: $ xterm -display jupiter:0 $ DISPLAY=mars:0 xclock The number after the colon says which numbered server to connect to, in case you run multiple servers on the same machine. If one server manages multiple screens (like if you use a multihead configuration without xinerama), add a period and a screen number, as in xterm -display jupiter:0.0 What config is required on jupiter to allow X access from mars? jupiter$ xhost + mars What config is required on mars to enable me to launch an X session on either mars or jupiter? mars$ xhost + jupiter But I'm not sure I understand your question correctly... Please somebody explain to the both of us how real X security is attained. The above method (xhost) makes many insecure assumptions: - You are the only person with shell access to either mars or jupiter. - It is impossible for anyone to pretend to be mars or jupiter. - Neither mars nor jupiter contain malicious or buggy scripts that can play havoc with your X server. At my university, they make the fatal mistake of having their NCD X servers grant host-based access to the #1-used UNIX server on campus. This allows me to make my friends' mouse pointers turn to Gumby, but it allows anyone at all to track your keystrokes or even execute arbitrary code as you through stuff like the send command in Tcl/Tk. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] No window
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 1:00 pm, Stephane Corbe wrote:
Le Mardi 24 Juin 2003 08:03, Andy Goth a écrit :
What if you try 'startx $(which xclock)' ? Remember that
CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will stop X.
Same things.
I have some other data :
xclock take 99.99% of the CPU time
and 34.6% of the memory ie 173MB ...
This means xclock (and probably not the X server) is locking up. X simply
waits for it to die. Does X stop when you kill xclock?
here is the end of the output of strace xclock, before blocking :
execve(/usr/X11R6/bin/xclock, [xclock], [/* 26 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys=Linux, node=chocolat, ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x12c3f000
brk(0x12c41000) = 0x12c41000
brk(0) = 0x12c41000
brk(0x12c49000) = 0x12c49000
munmap(0x40022000, 2369)= 0
stat64(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/clR6x10.pcf.gz,
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=2369, ...}) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir, O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=34065, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 34065, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x40022000
close(5)= 0
brk(0) = 0x12c49000
brk(0x12c59000) = 0x12c59000
munmap(0x40022000, 34065) = 0
stat64(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=34065, ...}) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/jisksp14.pcf.gz, O_RDONLY) = 5
fcntl64(5, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=176588, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 176588, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 5, 0) = 0x403e2000
close(5)
Does anyone know why xclock even needs fonts? Its default mode of operation,
at least on my system, is to give an analog display with no printed text.
But it looks like it succeeds in loading the font. It halts somewhere after
that, but before making any other kernel calls.
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Re: [XFree86] problem with starting kde
On Monday, June 23, 2003 2:41 am, Tomasz Bem wrote: I've installed Linux Red Hat 7.2 and KDE, but when I try to lunch kde kernel give me this information (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Parse error on line 242 od section InputDevice in file /etc/X11/XF86Config Device is not a valid keyword in this section (EE) Problem parsing the config file Is it really spelled that way? od ? We need to see this file, /etc/X11/XF86Config. Either upload it somewhere and give us the URL, or send it as an attachment to an email to the list. In line 242 in file /etc/X11/XF86Config is write something like this Device /dev/mouse. I thik this is a problem with my mouse, but I don't know how to configure it. I have notebook with touchpad. During instalation i don't have option to choose touchpad. Can you tell me what I must do to lunch KDE? Mmm, KDE. :^) Right now I'm using a weird mix of KDE apps and Window Maker. Anyway, you need to fix your XF86Config file. I can't say for sure what's wrong with it without taking a look at it myself, though. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Problem when starting x
On Monday, June 23, 2003 7:12 am, Ronald wrote: Hi all, I have just installed my Debian machine with the Desktop environment, but when I type startx X will start but during the process of initializing system peperials it just dies. I have already solved some things with the mouse and stuff, and it seemed to help a little bit, but it still dies. Iam out of ideasAnd searching the internet doesn't get me anywhere... [snippity] Fatal server error: Caught signal 4. Server aborting According to signal(7), that's SIGILL: Illegal Instruction What processor are you using? What processor is Debian 3.0_rc1 targeted at? -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] No window
On Monday, June 23, 2003 5:04 pm, Stephane Corbe wrote: Le Dimanche 22 Juin 2003 22:04, Mark Vojkovich a écrit : On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Stephane Corbe wrote: I tried to upgrade from 4.3.0 to the cvs snapshot, but I have problem I started X just by typing X so I have the X background and the mouse. From another console I typed export DISPLAY=:0 and xclock : nothing is printed on the console, nothing is displayed on the X screen. There's no error on the console, in log/message nor XFree0log. Do things change if you start with X -ac ? No... I can just admire the X cursor. Beautiful, isn't she? :^) What if you try 'startx $(which xclock)' ? Remember that CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will stop X. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Radeon 7500 DRI Lockup
Someone else on this list seemed to have the exact same problem... When I try to start X with DRI, I get a black screen. I can telnet in from a different host, though, and through that I see that X is taking 100% cpu time. When I SIGKILL X, the computer halts. http://ioioio.net/XF86Config http://ioioio.net/XFree86.0.log -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] cannot load startx
On Sunday, June 22, 2003 10:55 pm, root wrote: nothing :^( Your log doesn't indicate any error. Probably what's happening is X is starting successfully but whatever program it's trying to run either doesn't exist or exits/crashes immediately. Try this: startx $(which xterm) This ought to start the X server and connect an xterm to it. Whenever the xterm quits, the X server stops too. Tell us if it works. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] xFree86 crashes on startup - please help :)
On Monday, June 9, 2003 5:50 pm, Slava Mikerin wrote: Hi, I am a linux newbe. Could someone please help me with my xFree86 problem.. I would really appreciate it. I attaching the log file. It looks like GLX is making X crash for some reason. Try disabling GLX in /etc/X11/XF86Config . Find the line that says 'Load GLX' and comment it out by putting a # at the beginning of the line. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Fail to boot into X, please help
On Monday, June 9, 2003 12:32 am, Keung Chi Tat wrote: I am using Redhat linux 9.0. We feel for you. :^) Everytime my try to start X, it will switch into graphic mode ( look fine), after a few second, it switch back to text, and then switch between graphic mode and text mode serveral time. Final it show up a dialog in text mode with a sentence, Failed to start display server serval times in a short period; disabling display :0 attachments are my XFree86 log file and config , Your log doesn't indicate a failure. In fact, it doesn't even show the server exiting, as if the server was up and running at the time you copied it. One idea comes to mind... maybe your server is working but your X login program (xdm, kdm, etc.) either isn't there or exits immediately (crash?). That will cause your server to give all appearances of crashing without giving any errors in the log. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Xinerama with PCI Radeon 7500 and AGP Rage IIc
Okay, I got my ATI Radeon 7500 QW (PCI) to work. Yay! Now I can't seem to get it to work at the same time as the ATI Rage IIc (AGP)... xf86cfg displayed on both at the same time... When I type startx, I wind up with a (beautiful) display on only one head, the Radeon, but the Rage stays blank. startx -- -screen Secondary gives me a display on the Rage but not the Radeon. http://ioioio.net/XFree86.0.log http://ioioio.net/XFree86.0.log-4.3.0.1 http://ioioio.net/XF86Config I have the same problem with both 4.3.0 and 4.3.0.1 (downloaded earlier tonight). Go ahead; make a diff between the two logs... they're virtually the same except for some things that don't matter to me. I also tried with ati.2. Naturally, that didn't help anything. Somehow, it tries to use the radeon driver to drive the second card even though I say to use ati. Also, it says some other fishy stuff: (II) ATI: Candidate Device section Rage. (II) ATI: Candidate Device section Rage. (II) ATI: Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 detected. (EE) ATI: XF86Config Device secitons Rage and Rage may not be assigned to the same adapter. (WW) RADEON: More than one matching Device section for instances (BusID: PCI:1:0:0) found: Rage (--) Chipset ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP) found (WW) RADEON: Chipset ati in device section Rage isn't valid for this driver What gives? I'm also having problems getting DRI to work with the Radeon (I know it will never work for the Rage), but I didn't bother commenting that out of the configuration file since the xinerama option turns it off anyway. I'll deal with the DRI problem later after I fix xinerama. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Raedon 7500 card, blank window when booting
On Saturday, June 7, 2003 10:30 am, Daniel Liu wrote: I just installed redhat 9.0 and I have a ATI Raedon 7500 card. When I boot up in linux it goes through the loading screen and when it is supposed to go into the xwindows login screen, the screen just goes blank. Any helps or suggestions of how to fix this will be greatly appreciated. Okay, I can get iinux text mode now but everytime I run xwindows using the startx script my monitor stops responding and I can't do anything... What a coincidence. I have the exact same problem with my Radeon 7500 (PCI), except when I disable DRI. Try that. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Starting X Windows from an SSH session started from Windows (Putty)
On Friday, June 6, 2003 9:54 am, Jason Henderson wrote: Hello, I am trying to use an X desktop from my local workstation at home. I am using Putty to SSH to the remote Linux server. Please help! You need to run an X server on your local workstation (must be Windows to use PuTTY). If it must be XFree86, get cygwin. If you telnet/ssh to a different host and issue startx, the most that will happen is that XFree86 will start on the remote computer. The graphics will in no way stream back to you through telnet or ssh. However, ssh (therefore PuTTY) is perfectly capable of forwarding X connections from a remote host to an X server running on your local workstation. It's especially nice when you enable compression. :^) -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Xinerama with PCI Radeon 7500 and AGP Rage IIc
On Sunday, June 8, 2003 11:48 am, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Andy Goth wrote: http://ioioio.net/XFree86.0.log http://ioioio.net/XFree86.0.log-4.3.0.1 http://ioioio.net/XF86Config (II) ATI: Candidate Device section Rage. (II) ATI: Candidate Device section Rage. (II) ATI: Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 detected. (EE) ATI: XF86Config Device secitons Rage and Rage may not be assigned to the same adapter. (WW) RADEON: More than one matching Device section for instances (BusID: PCI:1:0:0) found: Rage (--) Chipset ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP) found (WW) RADEON: Chipset ati in device section Rage isn't valid for this driver You've monkeyed with your XF86Config too much. Regenerate it with -configure and start over. I found the problem: line 4 in XF86Config Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Primary 0 0 Screen 1 Secondary# -- Screen 1 Secondary RightOf Primary InputDeviceLogitech CorePointer InputDeviceSejin CoreKeyboard EndSection I did it that way because I'm sure I saw it like that in an example somewhere. I think it was like that in an autogenerated XF86Config file made by 4.1.0. Then again, I was using a broken graphics card at the time, so X somehow spotted over a hundred screens!!! Removing that line fixes the dual head/xinerama problem. Thanks for your help. Next up: DRI. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] Raedon 7500 card, blank window when booting
On Sunday, June 8, 2003 6:15 pm, Daniel Liu wrote: Sorry, but how do u disable DRI? In your XF86Config file, comment out the line that says 'Load dri' in the Module section: Section Module ... # Load dri ... EndSection That should do it. Tell us if this fixes your problem. If it does, then you and I are probably in the same boat, because I have this very same issue with my Radeon 7500. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
[XFree86] Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Is there any way to remap the zap-server key combination to be something other than Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Whenever I type it, X dies, but my computer also enters suspend mode, which is annoying. The stupid BIOS doesn't give me an option to disable this particular feature, so... Then again, I don't need Ctrl-Alt-Backspace all that often anyway. If there isn't an easy way to remap it, I'll just... cope. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
