Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-09-05 Thread Egbert Eich
Bryan W. Headley writes: Egbert Eich wrote: A lot of error conditions can only be fixed by the administrator. Can you come up with a really good real life example? I suppose 'Battery Low' would be one. That's the easiest one for everyone to grasp. Let's see: problems with the

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-09-05 Thread Egbert Eich
Bryan W. Headley writes: True, and that's a whole other set of problems. At least, in your example, everything is in the XI layer, if not in the individual driver. I'm more worried about an XI layer that talks to its drivers, but there's also a layer in Misc that does the same thing,

Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-05 Thread Cheshire Cat Fish
Just so. Unless otherwise specified, cat_fish's code would be considered a work for hire, and copyright would belong to the employer. :-) Thank you all for your concern in this matter, but it is clearly covered in my proposal that the work will remain open source and be re-submitted to XFree

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: OT for a second... I've read somewhere that the Xv layer has problems with the VIA CLE266 driver, and that you were working on it. 1) True? (Did you know you were working on it, or is this someone's mistaken impression?) 2) How is it going? 3) I notice that Via also has L4V

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: Bryan W. Headley writes: True, and that's a whole other set of problems. At least, in your example, everything is in the XI layer, if not in the individual driver. I'm more worried about an XI layer that talks to its drivers, but there's also a layer in Misc that

i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Alessandro Temil
Hi everybody I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of getting that resolution under XFree86, due to the fact that the current i810

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Egbert Eich wrote: Bryan W. Headley writes: Egbert Eich wrote: A lot of error conditions can only be fixed by the administrator. Can you come up with a really good real life example? I suppose 'Battery Low' would be one. That's the easiest one for everyone to grasp. Let's see:

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Christian Zietz
Hi, Alessandro Temil schrieb: I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of getting that resolution under XFree86, due to the fact

XF86Config handler

2003-09-05 Thread fe-listas
Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and I don't know if this was already discussed. I updated from 4.3.99.9 to 4.3.99.11 and got the following problem: (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (EE) Cannot locate a core pointer device. (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout (EE) Error from

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Alessandro Temil
Christian Zietz wrote: Hi, Alessandro Temil schrieb: I'm a linux Xfree86 user, and my laptop has an LCD screen with 1400x1050 native resolution. the internal video chipset is an intel 855GM. After some hours of trying i figured out there's no way of getting that resolution under XFree86,

Re: XF86Config handler

2003-09-05 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:03:18PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and I don't know if this was already discussed. I updated from 4.3.99.9 to 4.3.99.11 and got the following problem: (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (EE) Cannot locate a core pointer

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread Tim Roberts
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: Christian Zietz wrote: The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available resolutions from the BIOS but also uses the BIOS to set the video mode. So if the BIOS doesn't know of 1400x1050, it won't set it. I

Re: i855 and 1400x1050

2003-09-05 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:25:35AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:04:19 +0200, Alessandro Temil wrote: Christian Zietz wrote: The problem is: The current i810 driver does not only read the available resolutions from the BIOS but also uses the BIOS to set the video mode. So

synaptics driver.

2003-09-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
(in reponse to the thread 'synaptics lockups', formerly 'radeon lockups') I am the original author of 'tpconfig', from which the synaptics driver was derived. Bruce Kall later took over tpconfig development from me. Warren Turkal got in touch with us on 2 sept and asked about relicensing. Bruce

Shared library inter-dependencies

2003-09-05 Thread Kean Johnston
Hi, I asked this once before but unfortunately I lost the reply when I moved to Mozilla for my mail reader, so I'd like to ask the question again, or open up the debate. I would very VERY much like to see the XFree86 build correctly set up its dependencies for shared libraries. For example,

setjmp wrappers

2003-09-05 Thread John Dennis
Remember last Feburary and March there was a big discussion about xf86setjmp? Part of that discussion involved a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS in the freetype2 code when a font was not found. Well, I'm seeing the same thing (on ia64). At the time it was pointed out that one can never wrap setjmp because