Re: Rotating the desktop

2003-07-25 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Gareth wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is this feature planned for the next release (4.44)? Is it being worked on? Sore point. Several drivers supported rotated desktops either in 4.2 or before 4.3. A new extension (RandR - Rotate and Resize)

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-25 Thread emmanuel ALLAUD
--- Kendall Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, your own rants against XFree86 and some of its volunteers recently are no different than this. It sure left a bad taste in our mouths. There is a sickening propensity towards hostile and

Re: automatic / full test

2003-07-25 Thread Henrik Sandklef
Hi! Can this be of any help? http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/ Xnee can record, distribute and replay X (X11) protocol data. This is useful for automated tests of applications or benchmarking of applications. ...think of it as a robot. /hesa On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 20:15, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

Re: patch procedure ..

2003-07-25 Thread Egbert Eich
Sven Goethel writes: sorry for being lazy and not RTFM, but after i send a patch to the patch email addy, and i have received an acknowledge .. - how long does it takes to get an answer - usually - will it happen to get no answer at all ? Hm, how long ago did send the email? I

CVS service on cvsup.xfree86.org not available

2003-07-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
cvsup.xfree86.org isn't providing a CVS service today. anoncvs.xfree86.org is, so this isn't urgent. Is this a technical problem, or is cvsup.xfree86.org being phased out ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware overlays (8+24?) on Intel i830

2003-07-25 Thread Matthew Tippett
It is very useful when dealing with programs of a 5-10 year vintage that were originally developed under X-Windows when 8 bit displays were the best you could get. Since most 8 bit displays used PseudoColor (read Pallete based), they have particular hard-coded logic to deal with the color map.

RE: Hardware overlays (8+24?) on Intel i830

2003-07-25 Thread Alexander Stohr
mobile devices will always have more limitations, so you wont get rid of any sort of low bpp formats. in multi buffer environments, such as OGL with front, back, depth, stencil, overlay, whatever you will be in need to deal with any sort of pixel depth at the same time as well. for imaging

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-25 Thread Kendall Bennett
David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When exactly have I 'ranted' against XFree86 and some of it's volunteers? I felt personally attacked beyond what might be considered reasonable by you in some of the forum discussions in April this year. Because I stated my opinion that everyone

touch screen driver question

2003-07-25 Thread Bug Hunter
I apologize if this is the wrong list send me to the right one. I am a novice at XFree, and working to timelines on a captive product within a company. We are doing real time data acquisition, with a Linux box being the over-arching controller. I created a driver for a Microtouch touch

Re: CVS service on cvsup.xfree86.org not available

2003-07-25 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:58:28PM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: cvsup.xfree86.org isn't providing a CVS service today. anoncvs.xfree86.org is, so this isn't urgent. Is this a technical problem, or is cvsup.xfree86.org being phased out ? It was a technical problem (fixed now), however

RE: Hardware overlays (8+24?) on Intel i830

2003-07-25 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
I understand the need for 8bit displays to support legacy apps; however, RandR (or RENDER? or a combination of the two?) is (or will be) able to support 8bit visuals on a 24bpp display. I am wondering if giving up a guaranteed and constant amount of memory bandwidth on a platform that shares