Re: (no subject)

2003-06-26 Thread Roger
Hi, What does the error message say? Roger On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 21:09, ricarte m. lapuz wrote: sir the content of the /var/log/xfree8.0.0 sir we have been encounter that our x windows sometimes error when to connect to LTSP server, sir what should be the solution to lessen this problem

Reading a file.

2003-06-26 Thread Cheshire Cat Fish
How do I go about reading a file from within my X driver. I want to read in a table of gamma correction values. If I use fopen() I get an unresolved symbol error. Do I need to link to libc somehow? Or use something other than fopen()? Thanks, Noel. -- A precariously balanced mixture of

Re: Reading a file.

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: How do I go about reading a file from within my X driver. I want to read in a table of gamma correction values. If I use fopen() I get an unresolved symbol error. Do I need to link to libc somehow? Or use something other than fopen()?

Re: XInput: device name in XListInputDevices

2003-06-26 Thread Egbert Eich
Peter \Firefly\ Lund writes: On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Owen Taylor wrote: local-atom = MakeAtom(local-type_name, strlen(local-name), strlen(local-type_name) ? Yes, sorry... Egbert. ___ Devel

Re: SiS news

2003-06-26 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alex Deucher wrote: I just saw this on extremetech today: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1101038,00.asp Looks like SiS is spinning off it's graphics chip division. perhaps this could mean better access to databooks! We'll see. I'd better be not too optimistic, since SiS intends to

Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Woerle
Andrew C Aitchison schrieb: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: How do I go about reading a file from within my X driver. I want to read in a table of gamma correction values. If I use fopen() I get an unresolved symbol error. Do I need to link to libc somehow? Or use something

Re : aid for TODO tasks offered

2003-06-26 Thread E. ALLAUD
On 2003.06.25 23:40, Lucas Correia Villa Real wrote: Hi, I have been reading the XFree86 X server draft found in http://www.xfree86.org/current/design.html. Firstly, I would like to thanks for the excellent quality of the documentation seen there. Secondly, I would like to know if is

Dell C400 fix applied to 855GM?

2003-06-26 Thread Oliver Wong
Hello all, I recently purchased a Dell D400, which suffers from a BIOS only allocating 1MB of legacy video memory (stolen memory) to the integrated graphics... I believe the Dell 500m and other 855GM laptops suffer from this as well. The BIOS also does not provide the appropriate mechanisms for

Re: Dell C400 fix applied to 855GM?

2003-06-26 Thread Oliver Wong
David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:35:52AM -0500, Oliver Wong wrote: Hello all, I recently purchased a Dell D400, which suffers from a BIOS only allocating 1MB of legacy video memory (stolen memory) to the integrated graphics... I believe the Dell 500m and other 855GM laptops

Re: radeon 7000

2003-06-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:41, Lucio wrote: I have a sapphire m275 with radeon 7000, 32Mb, integrated. I can't make XFree86 work with it. With radeon or ati driver, system crashes when I launch X server, the screen gets black, keyboard leds light on and i have to physically shut down the pc.

Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:35:21PM +0200, Robert Woerle wrote: Andrew C Aitchison schrieb: On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: How do I go about reading a file from within my X driver. I want to read in a table of gamma correction values. If I use fopen() I get an unresolved

Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Dawes wrote: The sis driver goes one better and allows you to tell it which file to to overwrite :-( This has no real function other than debugging. It's to make it easy for people to send me their video BIOS images. Can be removed any time. On second thought, I will remove this *now*.

restarting drm modules

2003-06-26 Thread Doug Buxton
I'm a new to the XFree86 sources, so I was hoping someone could give some suggestions as to where to start looking. Is there an existing mechanism for changing drm drivers, or restarting drm without restarting X entirely? I'm trying to find a way to make X gracefully handle changing the drm

Re: module aware gdb

2003-06-26 Thread Ricardo Baratto
At some point in the past you (Egbert Eich [EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: The version of the module aware gdb on ftp.xfree86.org is ancient and cannot deal with the debug informations of more recent versions of gcc. Is there a newer version around that is accessible thru ftp? Could we please

Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:46:15PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: David Dawes wrote: The sis driver goes one better and allows you to tell it which file to to overwrite :-( This has no real function other than debugging. It's to make it easy for people to send me their video BIOS images.

/tmp/mgaDriverIn - was Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, David Dawes wrote: Grepping through the driver source, I do see that one or two video drivers do use this approach too. The mga driver even writes to a (fixed) temporary file name in a publicly-writable location, which looks like an open invitation for any user to

Re: radeon 7000

2003-06-26 Thread Chris Burghart
In the XFree86 distributed with RedHat Linux (up to and including RedHat 9.0), I have had to disable acceleration for Radeon: Section Device ... ... Option NoAccel EndSection With acceleration enabled, my machine locked up and

Re: Reading a file. works for me !

2003-06-26 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Dawes wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:46:15PM +0200, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: David Dawes wrote: The sis driver goes one better and allows you to tell it which file to to overwrite :-( This has no real function other than debugging. It's to make it easy for people to send me their

Re: XFree86 to ship in Mac OS X

2003-06-26 Thread Nicholas Wourms
David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:16:16PM -0700, Torrey Lyons wrote: As some of you may have heard Apple has announced that XFree86 will be included in its next major Mac OS X release, code named Panther. http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/ This is a major milestone following

Re: restarting drm modules

2003-06-26 Thread Ian Romanick
Doug Buxton wrote: I'm a new to the XFree86 sources, so I was hoping someone could give some suggestions as to where to start looking. Is there an existing mechanism for changing drm drivers, or restarting drm without restarting X entirely? I'm trying to find a way to make X gracefully handle

Re: Re : aid for TODO tasks offered

2003-06-26 Thread Lucas Correia Villa Real
On Thursday 26 June 2003 10:21, E. ALLAUD wrote: You can have a look at the Janitor page there is a small TODO list, it is quite general, not precise as you mean but still you can find something there. http://xwin.org:9673/xwin/XJANITOR Thanks, it looks good. Lucas