[Xpert]Xfree86 4.2.0 using 99% CPU on SiS?
G'day all, Has anyone seen a problem where XFree86 uses all available CPU when started from init. I'm just building a system from Red Hat 7.1 with 2.4.18 kernel, X4.2.0 on SiS730 chipset Duron processor... I used the binary dist. of X 4.2.0 I created a service to start xinit on boot to run a custom app. When it boots X takes up all the CPU. If I kill it and restart it works as expected 1% CPU. If anyone has any clues, I'd appreciate it. Cheers, Peter. -- Peter McNeil Engineering Manager Newton Pty Ltd http://www.newton.com.au Ph : +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Bug in polygon clipping code in XFree86 4.2.0
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:11:28PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: Problem: If a polygon which is being filled with a stipple intersects a clip region, the fill fails and paints the clipped region black. Here's a pair of X window dumps from before and after the window was hidden and then re-exposed. Do they exhibit the correct behavior? Actually, yes. Your rendering engine does exactly the right thing. The reason why most of the 4 left rectangles disappear is that the call to XSetClipRectangles actually excludes them from being redrawn. If you had the bug, the 4 small rectangles on the right would be completely black. Since the Voodoo card gets this right, its a good indicator that the bug is probably in the ATI driver rather than the rendering architecture. -a ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440
IIRC XFree86 4.2.0's nv driver is able to do 1920x1440. You could also check out http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ That project is about getting the binary NVIDIA driver going on FreeBSD. I understand they've accomplished quite a bit already. Hth, Yuri On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, solomon Fulop wrote: I was just wondering if it would be possible to get X to run at 1920x1440 with an Nvidia Geforce 3 ultra and a 21 inch monitor (btw this is on a FreeBSD machine).any help would be greatly appreciated _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon VE dual head support?
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:07:33PM -0700, hy0 wrote: Have you put Screen 0 and Screen 1 in your SeverLayout section? If yes, post your log file. x420 supports VE dual-head setup. However if you are using some OEM version of VE card (like DELL's) you might be out of luck. Can you explain this a little more further ? Do you mean that the OEM chip isn't supported by the XFree driver ? I did some test on DELL's OEM Radeon VE card with a 4.2.0 XFree86, and both cards get initialized, but 2nd screen remain with no signal. Stephane ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]!!HELP!! - I cannot get my card working! (HIS ATI Radeon 8500)
Hello folks! I have got an HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card, which is not manufactured by ATI but by Hightech Information Systems (http://www.hightech.com.hk/html/index.html). Xfree does not detect my card at all. I think this is because my OEM card has a different device id than an original ATI Radeon 8500 card which is manufactured by ATI themselves (my device id is: 0x514c, as you can see in the XFree output file at the bottom of this mail). I have already tried a different XFree driver (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/)but it does not seem to detect my graphics card, too. 1. Is there any alternative XFree driver which supports my HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card? 2. Is it possible just to modify the device id recognition in the original XFree driver in order to make it determine my chipset properly? (because I think my OEM card is in principle the same as the original ATI Radeon 8500 card, it's just the device id that is different) Thanks in advance Martin M. Here is my XF86Config file and the XFree output file: Section Module Loaddbe SubSection extmod Optionomit xfree86-dga EndSubSection Loadtype1 Loadfreetype Loadglx EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc101 Option XkbLayout de EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Belinea 101560 HorizSync 30-61 VertRefresh 56-75 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon 8500 Driver radeon VideoRam65536 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 1 Device ATI Radeon 8500 Monitor Belinea 101560 DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Simple Layout Screen Screen 1 InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510) Release Date: 2 June 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.4-4GB i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Mar 11 09:52:19 2002 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Belinea 101560 (**) | |--Device ATI Radeon 8500 (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) XKB: layout: de (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.1.0, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading
Re: [Xpert]!!HELP!! - I cannot get my card working! (HIS ATI Radeon8500)
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, M. Meyer wrote: Hello folks! I have got an HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card, which is not manufactured by ATI but by Hightech Information Systems (http://www.hightech.com.hk/html/index.html). Xfree does not detect my card at all. I think this is because my OEM card has a different device id than an original ATI Radeon 8500 card which is manufactured by ATI themselves (my device id is: 0x514c, as you can see in the XFree output file at the bottom of this mail). I have already tried a different XFree driver (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/)but it does not seem to detect my graphics card, too. 1. Is there any alternative XFree driver which supports my HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card? XFree86 v4.2 supports the 0x514c chip. 2. Is it possible just to modify the device id recognition in the original XFree driver in order to make it determine my chipset properly? (because I think my OEM card is in principle the same as the original ATI Radeon 8500 card, it's just the device id that is different) Try adding the line ChipId 0x5144 to the Device section of your config file. This will make the server pretend you have a Radeon QD. But I'd still prefer you to upgrade to XFree86 v4.2. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]TAKE2: Does this XFree86 3.3.6 fix for multi-scroll-wheel mice work for 4.2.*?
I bought myself an AOpen Optical OpenEye mouse (gotta love our northern neighbours with their faintly discordant understanding of English) which in addition to the basic two buttons has two scroll wheels, one of which also acts as a third button (maybe their next version will have the second wheel act as a 4th button too) and two side switches. Hunting around the Web for instructions to make the second scrollwheel work, I ran across this page, which makes it all happen for XFree86-3.3.6: http://www.consistent.org/terran/multiscroll.shtml I can get the scroll wheels to operate, but both wheels appear to X applications to be the same wheel. This is precisely the behaviour described in the page above, which makes room for no less than 8(!) scroll wheels. I am using XFree86-4.2.0-10mdk (double-heading a Banshee and a Savage4, it's the XFree86 that shipped with Mandrake 8.2) and am wondering if (1) the patch on the page above or something very close to it would work in XFree86 v4.*; and (2) if so, could such a patch _pretty_please_ be included in the main XFree86 code tree? Pulling down all of XFree86, de novo, applying one patch and compiling it is not a trivial exercise, especially to fix such an apparently trivial problem. Cheers; Leon ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions
Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a portable X application level) set about distinguishing between events from each? In particular, I want to write simultaneous multiplayer games (both co-operative and competitive, mostly educational) for X (-: and would like to run an X server that supports this as it makes testing a good deal easier :-). Cheers; Leon ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]startx and two graphic cards
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 20:37, Jing Xu wrote: I have two graphic cards in my box, one is ATI Rage XL(PCI) and one is ATI Radeon VE QY(AGP). I would like to control the AGP card from a kernel module we have written (which displays on a projector) and I would like to let X control the PCI card (which displays on a flat panel monitor). While in console mode the kernel module correctly displays images using the AGP card and the message ATI Rage SDRAM BIOS P/N 113-72307-100 4.330 is displayed using the PCI card. We used the vesafb driver to configure the AGP card (primary card according to BIOS) to the desired mode of 1024x768. The problem begins when we use startx. The PCI controlled monitor starts X correctly but our kernel module no longer has control of our AGP card (no image displays on projector). Does any know why X seems to be taking our control of the AGP card away? The X server disables graphics chips it doesn't use because they can cause problems otherwise. That should be relatively easy to hack around though if you're confident it should work with your configuration. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]two radeon 8500 questions?
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 23:32, Frank Van Damme wrote: I'll hopefully be receiving my brand new ati radeon 8500 shortly. My question was: I know Xfree86 can make most ati cards output composyte sync signals. Is this feature allready in the driver for the Radeon 8500? Probably not yet, but with the attached patch it should support modes with the composite sync flag set. Second question: 3d isn't supported in the 8500 driver yet. I understand the workload on the shoulders on the Xfree devellopers. But does anyone have an idea when openGL and the like may be supported? If you don't find this info around http://dri.sf.net, you should probably ask there. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast Index: radeon_driver.c === RCS file: /cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c,v retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -r1.51 radeon_driver.c --- radeon_driver.c 2002/01/21 18:49:16 1.51 +++ radeon_driver.c 2002/01/27 13:58:01 -3705,6 +3705,9 | ((mode-Flags V_DBLSCAN) ? RADEON_CRTC_DBL_SCAN_EN : 0) + | ((mode-Flags V_CSYNC) + ? RADEON_CRTC_CSYNC_EN + : 0) | ((mode-Flags V_INTERLACE) ? RADEON_CRTC_INTERLACE_EN : 0)); -3715,6 +3718,7 save-crtc_ext_cntl = RADEON_VGA_ATI_LINEAR | RADEON_XCRT_CNT_EN; save-crtc_gen_cntl = ~(RADEON_CRTC_DBL_SCAN_EN | + RADEON_CRTC_CSYNC_EN | RADEON_CRTC_INTERLACE_EN); } else -3837,6 +3841,9 | ((mode-Flags V_DBLSCAN) ? RADEON_CRTC2_DBL_SCAN_EN : 0) + | ((mode-Flags V_CSYNC) + ? RADEON_CRTC2_CSYNC_EN + : 0) | ((mode-Flags V_INTERLACE) ? RADEON_CRTC2_INTERLACE_EN : 0)); -4197,6 +4204,7 pScrn-depth, pScrn-bitsPerPixel); if (mode-Flags V_DBLSCAN) ErrorF( D); +if (mode-Flags V_CSYNC) ErrorF( C); if (mode-Flags V_INTERLACE) ErrorF( I); if (mode-Flags V_PHSYNC)ErrorF( +H); if (mode-Flags V_NHSYNC)ErrorF( -H); -4219,6 +4227,7 pScrn-depth, pScrn-bitsPerPixel); if (mode-Flags V_DBLSCAN) ErrorF( D); +if (mode-Flags V_CSYNC) ErrorF( C); if (mode-Flags V_INTERLACE) ErrorF( I); if (mode-Flags V_PHSYNC)ErrorF( +H); if (mode-Flags V_NHSYNC)ErrorF( -H); Index: radeon_reg.h === RCS file: /cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_reg.h,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 radeon_reg.h --- radeon_reg.h 2001/09/26 12:49:25 1.13 +++ radeon_reg.h 2002/04/10 13:27:52 -364,6 +364,7 # define RADEON_CRTC2_DISP_DIS (1 23) # define RADEON_CRTC2_EN (1 25) # define RADEON_CRTC2_DISP_REQ_EN_B(1 26) +# define RADEON_CRTC2_CSYNC_EN (1 27) # define RADEON_CRTC2_HSYNC_DIS(1 28) # define RADEON_CRTC2_VSYNC_DIS(1 29) #define RADEON_CRTC_GUI_TRIG_VLINE 0x0218
Re: [Xpert]Radeon Mobility and Dual-Head Support?
The screens are running at different resolutions. The internal flat panel is running at its native resolution of 1400x1050, and the external monitor is running at 1024x768 (the highest resolution it supports with a reasonable refresh rate). I grabbed the screen (actually the window) while the movie was playing on the external monitor. The screengrab was a black screen with the window decorations. When I moved that display over the colorful rectangle, I noticed two things. First, the colorful rectangle was the same size as the inside of the window - not terribly surprising. Second, as I slide the image over the rectangle, the rectangle apparently distorted the image slightly. Once it was in place, the rectangle look as it had without the blank image there. However, as the title bar was sliding across the rectangle, there was an effect similar to a kaleidoscope - multiple copies of something resembling the text moved across the screen. Does this help? Is this what you were looking for? dbr On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 23:11, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On 9 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: I tried watching the movie xine_about.avi using xine 0.98. On screen 0, the builtin flat panel display, it worked fine. On screen 1, the external monitor, it did not. Instead, the xine screen on the external monitor went black. At approximately the same location on screen 0 as the xine screen on screen 1, a rather colorful rectangle appeared. It was made up of pink lines and stuff that looked like static. When I stopped the movie, the static stopped moving. However, the pink box remained until I exited xine. Thanks :)) Are the screens running at the same resolution ? Can you try this: grab the xine screen (while displaying movie) with gimp (or anything that can take a snapshot). You should get a black or almost black image. Now try displaying that image on the first screen in the same place as the colourful rectangle.. Let me know what happens. thanks ! Vladimir Dergachev dbr On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 15:26, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On 8 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: Never mind! I got it working. FYI - here's my XF86Config file. Great :) Could you report on how well Xv works on both screens ? Thanks ! Vladimir Dergachev dbr ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- David B. Ritch High Performance Technologies, Inc. -- David B. Ritch High Performance Technologies, Inc. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Yuri van Oers wrote: IIRC XFree86 4.2.0's nv driver is able to do 1920x1440. You could also check out http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ That project is about getting the binary NVIDIA driver going on FreeBSD. I understand they've accomplished quite a bit already. It works for me. It'll the binary driver well enough to use the DVI port (at 1600x1024). It's worth giving it a try. -- Matt Piechota ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Radeon 7500 with 1600x1200 via DVI offset problem/bug
Hello Xperts, we'll try to get an Radeon 7500 + 19'' 1600x1200 TFT via DVI working but fail so far (Redhat i386 Linux 7.2 + rawhide XFree 4.2.0 rpms from 1-Apr: *-4.2.0-6.52). VGA connectior works but TFT is hard/impossible to sync with the gfx card signal. Best DVI result is with Option NoDDC Option PanelSize 1600x1200 Without NoDDC screen is simply black and the OSM shows a sync to 720x400@70Hz. Without PanelSize option Radeon driver insists that resolution bigger than 1024x768 are not possible. With PanelSize 1600x1200 and NoDDC the resolutions of 1600x1200 and 1024x768 via DVI behave like: Xreturn gives a screen with the lower ~ 16.5 cm okay but the upper ~ 19.5 cm flicker like hell. Further there's a ghost image of the mouse cursor: If the mouse cursor is at the bottom the ghost cursor is at the border of the non- and flicker area (only the upper half of the cross is visible just as for the real mouse cursor). The host cursor is always ~ 18 cm to the right and ~ 16.5 cm above the real cursor. Without panelsize the resolution 1024x768 is correctly displayed as perfect as possible on a 1600x1200 TFT panel ;) Appended are the config and log log files, one with NoDDC and one without NoDDC. Do we miss another options? Driver bug? Thx, Achim -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] XF86Config-4.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data XFree86.0.log.ddc.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data XFree86.0.log.noddc.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
[Xpert]SiS 6326 Datasheet
Hi, people! I need a copy of the SiS 6326 Datasheet for a new project. In the SiS web site, the link to the datasheet (http://www.sis.com/ftp/Databook/6326/6326ds10.exe) is dead, and so it is not possible to get it from there. Does anybody have a copy that could be sent to me? Thanks a lot! Emerson ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, solomon Fulop wrote: I was just wondering if it would be possible to get X to run at 1920x1440 with an Nvidia Geforce 3 ultra and a 21 inch monitor (btw this is on a FreeBSD machine).any help would be greatly appreciated I just tried XFree86's built in 1920x1440 mode on my GeForce4 and it worked fine. I would expect it to work fine with GeForce2 and 3 as well. You'll definitely need XFree86 4.2.0 though. There were bugs in the nv driver in 4.1.0 that prevented getting modes higher than 1600x1200. Super-high res modes like 2048x1536 don't work in the nv driver yet though. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Bug in polygon clipping code in XFree86 4.2.0
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:11:28PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: Problem: If a polygon which is being filled with a stipple intersects a clip region, the fill fails and paints the clipped region black. Here's a pair of X window dumps from before and after the window was hidden and then re-exposed. Do they exhibit the correct behavior? Actually, yes. Your rendering engine does exactly the right thing. The reason why most of the 4 left rectangles disappear is that the call to XSetClipRectangles actually excludes them from being redrawn. If you had the bug, the 4 small rectangles on the right would be completely black. Since the Voodoo card gets this right, its a good indicator that the bug is probably in the ATI driver rather than the rendering architecture. It renders correctly on an NVIDIA card as well. I don't think a generic XAA bug of that sort would have remained undetected for this long. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon Mobility and Dual-Head Support?
On 10 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: The screens are running at different resolutions. The internal flat panel is running at its native resolution of 1400x1050, and the external monitor is running at 1024x768 (the highest resolution it supports with a reasonable refresh rate). I grabbed the screen (actually the window) while the movie was playing on the external monitor. The screengrab was a black screen with the window decorations. When I moved that display over the colorful rectangle, I noticed two things. First, the colorful rectangle was the same size as the inside of the window - not terribly surprising. Second, as I slide the image over the rectangle, the rectangle apparently distorted the image slightly. Once it was in place, the rectangle look as it had without the blank image there. However, as the title bar was sliding across the rectangle, there was an effect similar to a kaleidoscope - multiple copies of something resembling the text moved across the screen. Does this help? Is this what you were looking for? No, this was not what I was looking for, but is useful to know nevertheless. thanks for testing. Vladimir Dergachev dbr On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 23:11, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On 9 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: I tried watching the movie xine_about.avi using xine 0.98. On screen 0, the builtin flat panel display, it worked fine. On screen 1, the external monitor, it did not. Instead, the xine screen on the external monitor went black. At approximately the same location on screen 0 as the xine screen on screen 1, a rather colorful rectangle appeared. It was made up of pink lines and stuff that looked like static. When I stopped the movie, the static stopped moving. However, the pink box remained until I exited xine. Thanks :)) Are the screens running at the same resolution ? Can you try this: grab the xine screen (while displaying movie) with gimp (or anything that can take a snapshot). You should get a black or almost black image. Now try displaying that image on the first screen in the same place as the colourful rectangle.. Let me know what happens. thanks ! Vladimir Dergachev dbr On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 15:26, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: On 8 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: Never mind! I got it working. FYI - here's my XF86Config file. Great :) Could you report on how well Xv works on both screens ? Thanks ! Vladimir Dergachev dbr ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- David B. Ritch High Performance Technologies, Inc. -- David B. Ritch High Performance Technologies, Inc. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]twister k support
will there be any in the near future? ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]missing code in VESA DPMS
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Randolph Bentson wrote: I'm trying to get DPMS screen blanking to work on a ViewSonic ViewPad 1000, but I'm concerned about the code which has appeared in 4.2.0. In 4.1.0, DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet, which called vgaHWDPMSSet, which called stdwriteCrtc via a pointer, which contained the lines outb(hwp-IOBase + hwp-PIOOffset + VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index); outb(hwp-IOBase + hwp-PIOOffset + VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value); In 4.2.0, DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet, which employs the WriteCrtc macro which expands to outb(VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index);\ outb(VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value) That seemed clearly bogus, and fortunatly for my peace of mind, in yesterday's 4.2.0 CVS fetch, DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet, which employs the WriteCrtc macro which now expands to outb(pVesa-ioBase + VGA_CRTC_INDEX_OFFSET, index);\ outb(pVesa-ioBase + VGA_CRTC_DATA_OFFSET, value) From inspection, this seems better, but isn't there still the need for some additional offset? Or was the presence of hwp-PIOOffset a red herring? These are missing VGA_IOBASE_COLOR. I've just committed a fix for this. Thanks for reporting the problem. Marc. +--+---+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax:1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +---+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply| | CANADA | | +--+---+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Xinerama
MV Xinerama is merely an extension that makes two X screens look like MV one. Merely? Juliusz ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]X server problems
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 equiped with NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card and a Toshiba's 15 UXGA TFT (1600x1200) display. I'm trying to make RedHat 7.2 working on that system, but I have problems with making X server to work. My current version of X is 4.1.0. I wonder if anyone knows what should be done and if the current version of XFree86 can handle this graphics card and display. Would update to 4.2.0 help? If yes, then how to do it better? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. Paul
Re: [Xpert]Xinerama
On 10 Apr 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: MV Xinerama is merely an extension that makes two X screens look like MV one. Merely? OK, a very large intrusive extension with many thousands of lines of code that merely makes multiple X screens look like one. There do seem to be some people confusing Xinerama with multihead though. Xinerama doesn't mean multihead, it's an optional modification to normal multihead behavior. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]X server problems
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, pemo wrote: I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 equiped with NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card and a Toshiba's 15 UXGA TFT (1600x1200) display. I'm trying to make RedHat 7.2 working on that system, but I have problems with making X server to work. My current version of X is 4.1.0. I wonder if anyone knows what should be done and if the current version of XFree86 can handle this graphics card and display. Would update to 4.2.0 help? If yes, then how to do it better? 4.2.0 will not help. GeForce4 440 Go is only supported in XFree86 CVS since about March 1 or so, or with NVIDIA's binary drivers available from the NVIDIA web site. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Reliability of DDC?
How sensitive is DDC to things like the video cable or the presence of KVM switches? I just encountered a situation where DDC worked randomly when run through a KVM but worked fine when directly connected to the monitor. I've never seen any problem like this with 30 previous identical machines plugged into the same KVM. (I can tell it doesn't work because without it, the DPI defaults to 75 which makes the fonts come out too small.) OS is stock Red Hat 7.2 with updates, XFree 4.1.0 plus whatever Red Hat does to it. Hardware is an Nvidia GF2Ultra. I'm running the nv driver, not the binary Nvidia one. I thought that DDC was just a low speed serial connexion and thus should be pretty robust. I notice no loss of video clarity and no noise through the KVM, so perhaps it's much more sensitive than I believed. For completeness, here's a diff of two logs: one where DDC worked and another where it didn't: --- b Wed Apr 10 17:22:27 2002 +++ c Wed Apr 10 17:22:44 2002 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Module Loader present -(==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 10 17:22:16 2002 +(==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 10 17:22:36 2002 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, @@ -321,58 +321,6 @@ (II) NV(0): I2C bus DDC initialized. (II) NV(0): I2C device DDC:ddc2 registered. (II) NV(0): I2C device DDC:ddc2 removed. -(II) NV(0): I2C device DDC:ddc2 registered. -(II) NV(0): I2C device DDC:ddc2 removed. -(II) NV(0): DDC Monitor info: 0x84d1328 -(II) NV(0): Manufacturer: SNY Model: 290 Serial#: 8045784 [...] (DDC stuff elided for brevity) -(II) NV(0): Ranges: V min: 48 V max: 120 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 107 kHz, PixClock max 350 MHz -(II) NV(0): Monitor name: SONY CPD-G400 -(II) NV(0): Serial No: 8045784 -(II) NV(0): end of DDC Monitor info - (==) NV(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) NV(0): SONY CPD-G40: Using hsync range of 30.00-107.00 kHz (II) NV(0): SONY CPD-G40: Using vrefresh range of 48.00-120.00 Hz @@ -382,8 +330,7 @@ (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1280x1024 (pitch 1280) (**) NV(0): Default mode 1280x1024: 157.5 MHz, 91.1 kHz, 85.0 Hz (II) NV(0): Modeline 1280x1024 157.50 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +hsync +vsync -(--) NV(0): Display dimensions: (37, 27) cm -(--) NV(0): DPI set to (87, 96) +(==) NV(0): DPI set to (75, 75) (II) Loading sub module fb (II) LoadModule: fb (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Reliability of DDC?
I was under the impression that most KVMs broke the DDC signal. Mark. On 10 Apr 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: How sensitive is DDC to things like the video cable or the presence of KVM switches? I just encountered a situation where DDC worked randomly when run through a KVM but worked fine when directly connected to the monitor. I've never seen any problem like this with 30 previous identical machines plugged into the same KVM. (I can tell it doesn't work because without it, the DPI defaults to 75 which makes the fonts come out too small.) OS is stock Red Hat 7.2 with updates, XFree 4.1.0 plus whatever Red Hat does to it. Hardware is an Nvidia GF2Ultra. I'm running the nv driver, not the binary Nvidia one. I thought that DDC was just a low speed serial connexion and thus should be pretty robust. I notice no loss of video clarity and no noise through the KVM, so perhaps it's much more sensitive than I believed. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]X server problems
Thank you very much for advice. Could you please further advise which NVIDIA binary drivers should I use, as there is a bunch of them. My understanding is that two packages are needed, one for NVIDIA_kernel and another for NVIDIA_GLX. I probably have (how to check it?) RedHat 7.2 SMP kernel i686 configuration. So, which drivers to choose? For the kernel, it seems obvious to choose NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.rh72smp.i686.rpm, but what to choose for GLX as there is no version for i686. Should I choose NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880.i386.rpm ? After installation of the two NVIDIA drivers, should I configure XFree86? How? Can I use Xconfigurator for that? It seems as Xconfigurator won't still know anything about NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card and about Toshiba's 15 UXGA TFT (1600x1200) display. How to configure then? Any advice is very much appreciated. Thank you. Paul
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon VE dual head support?
Try to add BusID PCI:1:0:0 in both of your device sections. I do believe my ServerLayout section is correct as well. I've attached a log file as well as my entire XF86Config. I will feely muchly indebted if someone can help me with this! I am, BTW running a genuine ATI card. Came in an ATI retail box, even. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]X server problems
NVchooser does not work! It gives a few errors. During RedHat installation, I was not asked weather to install smp kernel or something else. Still I believe I have an smp one. By the way, why smp is not good for the laptop? What's the difference? I read the pages that you advised on XFree86 configuration. Still, it's not clear if I could use Xconfigurator or not, or any other tool. I am asking because I did everything what was advised in NVIDIA installation guide for editing XF86Config file, in particular, I replaced driver nv with driver nvidia and removed the lines with load dri and load GLcore. Still X server did not load. There is probably something else that I'm missing. Sorry for many question, but it seems to be a really tough problem. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Paul ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Time to downgrade?
Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I had from a SuSE Linux distribution did not work). Unfortunately, the Microtouch hardware now *doesn't* work - I get an error: Unable to query/initialize MicroTouch hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device Touch0 (See my post of 2002/04/08). My question - should I get an older, easier to drive video card and downgrade XFree86 to a version which I know works with my hardware? Possibly a case of better the devil you know ;-? Cheers M -- Matthew Smith | _ ASCII Ribbon Campaign IT Consultant | ( ) - No HTML/RTF in e-mail Kadina, South Australia | X - No Microsoft docs in e-mail http://www.kbc.net.au | / \ - No vCards Ph: +61 888 212 395 | ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]NVIdia Twinview question
Hi there, I have a Dell laptop which features the NVidia GeForce2 GO graphics card. I have TwinView functioning just fine, but I am wondering whether it's possible to have the second monitor running with a separate X server. The problem is that my second monitor is just a 15 LCD, which only supports 1024x768. So pairing that with the 1400x1050 LCD of the laptop makes for a fairly awkward virtual desktop. The panning feature is cool, but I would prefer a separate screen altogether. Anyone have some suggestions? Regards, Luke. -- He's an uncontrollable amnesiac cat burglar on a mission from God. She's a foxy kleptomaniac mercenary from out of town. They fight crime! (http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions
Leon Brooks wrote: Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a portable X application level) set about distinguishing between events from each? In particular, I want to write simultaneous multiplayer games (both co-operative and competitive, mostly educational) for X (-: and would like to run an X server that supports this as it makes testing a good deal easier :-). You can always install additional mice as extension devices. The application has to then open the extension device and draw it's own pointer. It takes more effort to open extension devices. Look at the contributed program xinput as an example. Having two core mice would cause a lot of design issues, and is probably not going to happen any time soon. Joe Krahn ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Time to downgrade?
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I had from a SuSE Linux distribution did not work). Unfortunately, the Microtouch hardware now *doesn't* work - I get an error: Unable to query/initialize MicroTouch hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device Touch0 (See my post of 2002/04/08). My question - should I get an older, easier to drive video card and downgrade XFree86 to a version which I know works with my hardware? I assume you mean the TNT2. The TNT hasn't been made for years. Even the TNT2 is a couple years old. The TNT2 should work fine in XFree86 servers as old as 1999. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]XFree86 version 4.2.0 and SiS 6326 compatibility
On Tuesday, April 9, Neal Leathers raised two points: 1. While libglide2x.so wasn't present on my system, that in itself was likely not a problem; 2. That I could be using an obsolete X configuration file. In an earlier message, I had singled out the missing libglide2x.so file because of this excerpt from my previous X -configure log, a portion of which follows: File X-configure.log / 4-8-02 Created as follows: X -configure 2 X-configure.log | | Could not load the shared library file for Glide: libglide2x.so! You need to have Glide installed to run the glide driver for XFree86. Also, you need to tell XFree86 where the libglide2x.so file is placed by making a soft link in the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules directory that points to the libglide2x.so file. For example (if your libglide2x.so file is in /usr/lib): # ln -s /usr/lib/libglide2x.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules I have since downloaded Glide_VG-2.46-5.i386.rpm and, from it, installed the absent libglide module. I also created a symbolic link to it as specified above. When I subsequently invoked X -configure, the previous could not load message went away. So far so good. As to the second point, here's another excerpt from the X -configure log: (++) Using config file: /root/XF86Config.new And this is selfsame file that X -configure generated, not a relic of X 3.3.6. But something(s) is(are) still amiss. Running XFree86 -xf86config /root/XF86Config.new generated a graphic screen with a textured background but no information of any kind. I don't know what should have happened; all I know is that nothing did. After a ctrl-alt-backspace, I found this message: XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 18 January 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Apr 10 15:51:11 2002 (++) Using config file: /root/XF86Config.new (EE) SIS(0): unknown reason for exception (EE) SIS(0): cannot continue modprobe: Can't locate module sis [drm] failed to load kernel module sis (EE) SIS(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. What's puzzling are the first two error SIS(0) messages, not to mention the alleged failure of modprobe to locate module sis -- despite the following lines from XFree86.0.log: (II) LoadModule: sis (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o (II) Module sis: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 0.6.0 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 For it's worth, here is my complete, uncut XF86Config file: # This is XF86Config.new; created by X -configure / 4-10-02 Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load speedo Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol PS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option HWcursor # [bool] #Option PciRetry # [bool] #Option rgbbits # i #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option TurboQueue# [bool] #Option SetMClk # freq
Re: [Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions
On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:45 am, Joe Krahn wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a portable X application level) set about distinguishing between events from each? In particular, I want to write simultaneous multiplayer games (both co-operative and competitive, mostly educational) for X (-: and would like to run an X server that supports this as it makes testing a good deal easier :-). You can always install additional mice as extension devices. The application has to then open the extension device and draw it's own pointer. It takes more effort to open extension devices. Look at the contributed program xinput as an example. Thanks, I'll look into that. Is this xinput in the contrib stuff, or is it related to the xinput device manager? Having two core mice would cause a lot of design issues, and is probably not going to happen any time soon. I haven't looked yet (call me lazy) but does the basic X protocol have simple ways of coping with multiple meece? Such as a field in the event? Multiple and potentially completely independent mice and keyboards and whatevers would be handy for an awful lot of fringe stuff, and might also make adding new wonder-gadgets easier as they arrive. And the earlier this is fixed, the less trauma arises when something needs to use the feature. I'm working at freeing up enough time to do this kind of stuff myself, but it looks like being months away. Cheers; Leon ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
