Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Dawes wrote: Instead of Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, 6326 is provided by the sis driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also supported, but this code is new and there are some problems with it in this version. it should say Support (accelerated) for the SiS 6326, 530, 620,

Re: Centralize XXXCopyMungedData

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Björn Augustsson wrote: I agree with you that this code doesn't have to be replicated by each driver. There is a lot more code in the video drivers which could be cept in a centralized place. I certainly agree. Gotta start somewhere though... Just my $0.02: Watch out when centralizing the memory

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-25 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:05:17AM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:49:52AM +0100, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote: David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to

Re: EFI

2003-02-25 Thread Egbert Eich
Mark Vojkovich writes: The only current implementation that I know of is on IA64. Maybe Egbert or Marc have been keeping track of this. I'm not sure how we post secondary cards on IA64 with EFI BIOS cards. Aside from that issue I don't think it changes the drivers any. As it

Re: Centralize XXXCopyMungedData

2003-02-25 Thread Egbert Eich
Thomas Winischhofer writes: Just my $0.02: Watch out when centralizing the memory allocation routines, different hardware (ie drivers) use different granularities. Yes. Any functions provided by the core server will have the status of helper functions. Therefore it they don't meet your

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.902 (4.3.0 RC2) tagged

2003-02-25 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:56:11PM -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:11:48PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: Please reports bugs here, and send bugfixes and documentation updates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The updated 4.3 release schedule is: Code freeze (critical fixes and doc

List alive / help on input drivers

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Evans
I subscribed to this list about 24 hours ago and still nothing has come through. Is it working properly, or is it just a low volume list at the moment? Anyhow.. on with my question. I'm developing some input / output drivers for the SunRay (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/uni/work/sunray).

Re: what is a proximityevent

2003-02-25 Thread Jim.Gettys
As Owen says, Proximity is primarily a tablet thing. Many tablet technologies will tell you when the pen is near, but not yet touching the screen; these events are for that purpose (in the XInput extension). This hasn't been very common, but may become much more common, as Microsoft's tablet PC

Re: Accelerated DGA with i810 ?

2003-02-25 Thread Max Zaitsev
Hi List, me again. Just wondering is there anybody around who could point me in the right direction? I'm suffering from 82845G/GL chipset and suffering badly. I do will to make experiment, compile experimental drivers, participate in debugging, etc., but I need some guidance, at least at the

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.902 (4.3.0 RC2) tagged

2003-02-25 Thread Leandro Dardini
Uhm... nobody is working on supporting ATI A3 chipset? Leandro - Original Message - From: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:46 PM Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.99.902 (4.3.0 RC2) tagged On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:56:11PM -0500, Matt

Re: List alive / help on input drivers

2003-02-25 Thread Paul Evans
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:09:48 + Paul Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I subscribed to this list about 24 hours ago and still nothing has come through. Is it working properly, or is it just a low volume list at the moment? Oops. Bad mail settings. _Now_ I've subscribed to it... sorry. --

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-25 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:33:13PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Thanks to all who sent in items for the release notes. I've put updated versions of the docs for 4.3.0 at http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/4.3.0/. Further updates for the release

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.902 (4.3.0 RC2) tagged

2003-02-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Leandro Dardini wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:32:27 +0100 From: Leandro Dardini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2.99.902 (4.3.0 RC2) tagged Uhm... nobody is

Re: List alive / help on input drivers

2003-02-25 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Paul Evans wrote: Anyhow.. on with my question. I'm developing some input / output drivers for the SunRay (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pe208/uni/work/sunray). Somewhat like a hardware VNC terminal. I take it you have seen the replies Markus Kuhn got when he asked in one of

Re: Low-CPU overhead (DMA?) system to video memory transfers

2003-02-25 Thread Reinoud
Okay, here are the results so far of my quest for fast 2D (DMA) system to video memory transfers with X on linux. The options seem to be: - NVidia's closed source drivers in combination with fast GeForces. These drivers actually use AGP DMA transfers for the various PutImage calls. However, it

Re: xmag segv's

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Are there depth 32 windows or something? If not GetImageAndAttributes should call XGetImage on the root window. It looks like the checks in there are OK. Can you check the x,y,width,height to that first XGetImage in GetImageAndAttributes? Mark. On Tue, 25 Feb 2003,