On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
MH If the test is just to determine wether or not a 64bit
MH architecture is being built for, then __arch64__ is a better
MH test.
What is a 64 bit architecture?
Is it about address bus size? (The MC68020 is a 34-bit architecture?)
About data bus
as time goes on. __arch64__ would fix
that also.
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to not use the
traditional MIT/X11 license which is more shareable.
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and to log a warning to the log file
instead, so that the X server doesn't cause the system to hang if
the keyboard repeat rate ioctl fails for any reason.
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there as well, or
alternatively to set both of them to nomail perhaps.
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together in pointing out such cases of human error in a friendly
way, so that everyone involved has proper credit given to them.
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of these websites which need to be
fixed, in order to not mislead people into beleiving XFree86 is
MIT/X11 licensed.
Of course, others should visit both websites and draw their own
conclusions also, which will help to cut down on the FUD going
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and distributions which XFree86
supports which may not already ship minichinput, such as
commercial proprietary OSs however.
Hope this feedback is useful.
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priority item however, so
it'll take a week or two probably for a test build to get out
there and get some feedback from people seeing this problem.
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/DRI parts.
Whoops, that was what I was talking about. I thought this thread was on
the DRI list until I just now looked.
Do we have at least 2d support for r300 cards in XFree86?
For over a year now, yes.
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mind and after mixing that in
my brain mixmaster with some Adams, I came up with the above.
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newer than what is in XFree86 CVS currently.
There's a separate development list on freedesktop.org for
discussion of 'kdrive' X server development also, which you might
find to be useful, as it is more specific to kdrive.
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to them) or not, but perhaps
someone else here knows of such a web page. If not, you might
want to search google though. I know you'll find the 3dfx docs
out there for the above mentioned cards.
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Microsoft's VGASAVE driver used in Windows' safe-mode.
Just a thought.
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, but it's going to be a fun time with
bug reports. ;o)
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drivers by using startx
with commandline options.
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switches such as -version,
--version, -v, -V, --help or similar. Check the documentation
for a given command to see if it has a method to display it's
version number. Most applications do, however there is no one
method that works with all software.
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static
libs in an incompatible way to encourage people to not override
XFree86's defaults for shared libraries. ;o)
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to the files here.
It's possible your particular video card model is not supported,
however I'll need the above info first in order to
determine/advise.
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, so I moved on to other
things.
If there is anything else that I have any priveledged access to
with the master XFree86 password, please immediately revoke my
access to it, and notify me of the change if you'd be so kind.
I would much prefer that over surprises like this.
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something changed recently with how cvsup access to the
repository is handled? Any help appreciated.
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issues.
If someone from Intel could forward this to the proper person,
or anyone else reading this who knows whom I should contact, and
could provide me with an Intel email address contact, I'd greatly
appreciate it.
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and pray that none of the existing maintainers gets hit by a bus,
or we're screwed. ;o)
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on coding
practice, and move on without further discussion.
Thanks.
Respectfully yours,
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something
works in the codebase that they don't understand, or asks for
clarification on something, they can't get a straight or clear
answer.
It's really no wonder volunteers get put off from contributing to
the XFree86 project.
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forgotten my wording.
My apologies for the flame.
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fontconfigs for quite a while now, so it shouldn't be too hard to
find prebuilt packages for many OS's also.
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, and then obfuscation scripts ran over them prior to
committing to the XFree86 tree?
Would cleanups that remove this obfuscation and make the driver
more readable be considered useful, and potentially accepted? Or
is there some other reason I'm missing as to why the driver is so
obfuscated?
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provide
information on how to handle the hardware, so that would help me
also. I have to take a look at these.
Look at the driver source in XFree86 for foo_dga.c files for
example stuff.
Hope this helps. Good luck with your work!
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kernel
framebuffer driver, or BSD et al. Since no docs are available
for this hardware though, you may have a tough time doing
anything with it without the aide of someone familiar with the
hardware. Wish you the best of luck nonetheless.
Take care,
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or not RedHat wants to continue supporting it.
I guess that's as good a way as any to determine wether it is
useful.
Any Linux or BSD vendors or distributions out there use/ship
mkxauth? If so, please speak up. ;o)
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, and I'm in
complete concurrence with you, is read the source Luke. ;o)
For the benefit of the original poster, the source of the drivers
is in:
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
The source of the Nvidia proprietary drivers is in:
/dev/null
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really uses it anymore,
it might be best to just drop it from our distribution. I
haven't used it in many years myself now, and kindof assumed most
people use other mechanisms nowadays too, but didn't want to
remove it and face the wrath. ;o)
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the latter with google. The
documentation blows goats but the tool works awesome once you
mess with it for hours and hours wasting time until you figure
out the right magic. ;o)
It's a godsend.
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+ on the other machine. But if the program is already running, is it
possible to do the equivalent? If this isn't possible currently, it
would be a really great thing to have in the future.
Search google for the applications xmove and x2x, also vnc might
be useful.
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, both reporting bugs, supplying patches, helping
track down various issues, and committing fixes to CVS, etc.,
etc.
Good work to everyone who has contributed!
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to a
permission inconsistency.
make World WORLDOPTS=
will cause the build to fail immediately in all versions of
XFree86. I believe this has been made the default in CVS head.
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due to non-PIC code being used. I'll have
to have a look at this soon and port forward to HEAD if need be,
and send a patch in.
Not 100% sure that our problem is identical to this one though.
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a success so far, even
if it doesn't even exist to some developers. ;o)
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that they prefer some other format of diff other than unified
diff.
I'm not particularly interested in your opinion nor your banter
in any case.
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, I'd be more than happy if you'd do the
same to me, if for no other reason than I'd see both less of your
postings *and* your generally useless responses.
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it easily
enough and get your $0.0001 worth of memory wastage back. ;o)
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, as that makes upgrades a PITA. ;o)
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it is, what other solutions there might be,
etc. etc. etc.
All of this lets stuff things in the kernel, because kernel code
is automatically 2 times faster right? stuff gets boring
fast.
Show me the code.
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also by default),
and those who don't actually want to use it or need it, can
disable it themselves as an end user configuration customization.
I feel this makes life the easiest for the largest amount of
users out there, and that's one of our goals. ;o)
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of advocacy for X, at least for that person isn't going to meet
their needs, even if you can get 1FPS in glxgears.
That's the way I see it anyway.
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it from the command prompt.
If it does not start, look in /var/log/messages and you will find
out why it is not starting.
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full. I seem to recall xfs was updated to do this anyway, but
I'd have to do a test setup to confirm it. Not a priority...
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are very likely to always outperform the OSS drivers,
simply because more resources are spent on the proprietary
drivers, and more engineers with more deeper knowledge of the
hardware are working on them.
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to be a useable workaround
for now.
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mind - the true answer, is You need to go backwards in time, and
remove your last comment from the bug report so that when time
moves forward again, I have never seen it. Then you need to send
me $1. ;o)
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this.
Thanks Keith,
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be nice IMHO for the future, is a
unified tool which can use either GTK+ or Qt, and is distribution
neutral. That would allow every distro to contribute to one
tool, rather that the current mess of everyone shipping their own
custom made GTK/Qt tool.
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it a bug.
Marc.
Ok, thanks Marc, this is a case in point of what I'm wanting to
do.
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also, however you can't
easily fix things that are widely deployed on tens of thousands
of systems. You can fix things for the future only.
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specifications, nobody can easily answer your
question without reverse engineering it themselves, because
every piece of hardware will work differently. If all
touchscreens output the same data, then there would only need to
be one driver, and you wouldn't need to write one. ;o)
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XFree86) to
OS vendor to video hardware vendor.
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cause more work for me overall due to support
problems and bug reports received.
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and I'll be sure to
submit the end result for possible inclusion in 4.4.0.
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to be pedantic.. ;o) Just don't want people to
think our XFree tarball isn't pristine. ;o)
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, that's an unlikely scenario in modern
times, but I'm not sure relying on a PID being available or
relying on a POSIX type of OS being on the remote system is a
good idea.
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of that too, but long long isn't portable, right?
Plus it still leaves us guessing we've covered the requirements.
long long is ISO C99
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or not there is a concept
of double clicking the mouse. You need to consult the
documentation for the toolkit you're using, ie: GTK+/Qt/etc.
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driver for synaptics and license it as MIT, without looking at
the GPL driver's source code. It's possible to do a clean room
implementation, but I'm not sure if anyone would really want to
bother when there's a working driver already.
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
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, and also
the author(s) wishes.
That was kind of implicit.
To you perhaps, but not to everyone out there. Many people think
you can just relicense code on a whim if you're the author,
regardless of wether your work contains GPL'd bits from other
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the
device driver you want to talk to; you specify the Display and screen.
But it certainly can be generalized, so any device driver can
receive/reply to messages.
Ok, I see what's perceived as missing now. Yeah, that would be
useful functionality.
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Daniel Stone wrote:
This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether
or not it's tainted (providing it's a sufficiently recent kernel). Thanks
to Mike Harris for this patch (slightly altered to remove RH_CUSTOM, etc).
Please do
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
This patch puts the kernel version in the banner, on Linux, and also whether
or not it's tainted (providing it's a sufficiently recent kernel). Thanks
to Mike Harris for this patch (slightly altered to remove RH_CUSTOM, etc
generally send patches
upstream myself personally when I feel they are ready to be
included upstream. If I haven't, it is a good idea to ask me why
not first. I can save you some headaches.
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and slow things
down even more than the viruses spreading around already.
If we each do our part of adding more layers of autoresponders,
we can achieve the end goal of making the Internet completely
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, such as 3Dfx Voodoo 3, Banshee,
Cyrix MediaGX, some older Intel boards, etc.
Video hardware vendors generally speaking do not allow public
non-NDA access to video hardware documentation.
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to email it to
them. ;o)
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contact me for $60/hour on
the weekends and I'll help them, because just like all open
source development that occurs, it is either motivated by
volunteerism satisfaction or other personal motivations which are
a positive experience, or it is motivated by money.
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mainstream
desktop usage curve increases.
BTW, XFree86 has a module API ;o)
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will definitely vary.
Do experiment though, and find something that does work good for
you, preferably on loaner/trial if possible.
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0.01% of sales to
50%.
grin
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be enough. There just aren't enough of us.
Sigh... Once again you say more or less in about 10 sentences
what I am thinking and trying to relay in 300 sentences.
Are you for hire or what? ;o)
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project.
That backs up what I've been trying to say the last 3-4 messages
very well, only again with less verbiage than I, and with more
numerical information. ;o) I think I can just about shut the F
up soon now. Thanks. ;o)
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google for Dreamworks SKG stories involving Linux. You'll
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. To determine which binary files are needed,
simply take a 4.3.0 installation, and install your driver over
top of the supplied one. You may need other modules updated as
well.
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bugzilla so it is tracked,
but I wanted to ask about it here first.
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until someone has the time and inclination to
investigate and fix/apply.
Patches sent to mailing lists get lost if nobody is interested in
looking at them immediately.
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, or override specific entries, or allow multiple
drivers to be alternatives for a particular card.
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being quite
different for each.
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any portability issues to other
platforms as well if any issues pop up.
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Who (if anyone) is the current official maintainer of libXi?
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for video editing/production
could be done.
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find
me in IRC on freenode #xfree86 if you'd also like to ping me on
wether I've added it yet or not.
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aware of a project to allow a userland tool, such as a
front-end GUI, communicate with an X input driver?
Yes, you may wish to contact Havoc Pennington or Owen Taylor
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what I was alluding to. ;o)
Take care,
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safety... Which airport is this
being used at?
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