Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alan Hourihane wrote: I prefer option 2 because of its fewer levels of SubSections. What's the replacement for the metamodes option/concept? Will this survive? No. Hm. In that case, I don't think this is a real step forward. It requires more configuration data instead of less: Only for

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Alan Hourihane wrote: I mentioned in a reply to Alex, that maybe the ScreenLayout section should use Monitor's rather than Screens. I think that should fix the orientation issues, as the ScreenLayout is really describing the monitor positions. I didn't spot this the first

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Thomas Winischhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Hourihane wrote: I prefer option 2 because of its fewer levels of SubSections. What's the replacement for the metamodes option/concept? Will this survive? No. Hm. In that case, I don't think this is a real step forward.

RE: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 18:58 -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Will there be open discussion of what makes up Xaa? I know you have already have a working design but rather than accept major changes wholesale can we discuss the finer points before

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Alex Deucher wrote: I agree. I think metamodes are kind of klunky, but I don't know what a better solution would be off hand. Another thing about the proposed solution is that in many drivers certain configurations are assumed, which can be confusing in the screen setup. For instance in the

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:56:01AM -0800, Alex Deucher wrote: As regards pseudo-xinerama, I think the SiS driver is the only one currently (unsure if Alex took that over, too). The Matrox driver has no such feature. I don't think the OSX implementation is similar enough to make use

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:10:40PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: I'm looking to enhance the parser in XFree86 so that a lot of redundant code in the current drivers that implement the 'mergedfb' mode can be eliminated such that they don't have to do all the monitor munging in the driver. So here's

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Knut J Bjuland
Is the Nvidia closed source driver based on a early version off Xaa2? Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Will there be open discussion of what makes up Xaa? I know you have already have a working design but rather than accept major changes wholesale can we

RE: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Will there be open discussion of what makes up Xaa? I know you have already have a working design but rather than accept major changes wholesale can we discuss the finer points before they become defacto-accepted. -Matt It depends what you'd like to discuss. I already have a working

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:09:23PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:57:50PM -0800, Alex Deucher wrote: --- Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to enhance the parser in XFree86 so that a lot of redundant code in the current drivers that implement the

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:11:02PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Alan Hourihane wrote: I'm looking to enhance the parser in XFree86 so that a lot of redundant code in the current drivers that implement the 'mergedfb' mode can be eliminated such that they don't have to do all

RE: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Sottek, Matthew J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will there be open discussion of what makes up Xaa? I know you have already have a working design but rather than accept major changes wholesale can we discuss the finer points before they become defacto-accepted. -Matt It depends

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:18:20AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: I like Option 1. but either is ok with me. Also, FWIW, a lot of the other mergedfb code could/should be moved into a general mergedfb lib. Stuff like pseudo-xinerama could be folded into the real

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:32:08PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Alan Hourihane wrote: I mentioned in a reply to Alex, that maybe the ScreenLayout section should use Monitor's rather than Screens. I think that should fix the orientation issues, as the ScreenLayout is

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:59:52PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Monitor0 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes1024x768 800x600

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Gießler wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: We don't care what the filenames are except for the header files. The only reason why we care about header files is that a driver might include support for both and may need both include paths. There's only

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Knut J Bjuland wrote: Is the Nvidia closed source driver based on a early version off Xaa2? The NVIDIA binary driver has a stripped-down and slightly hacked up version of XAA2 in it. Mark. ___ Devel

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Gießler wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: We don't care what the filenames are except for the header files. The only reason why we care about header files is that a driver might include

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:18:37PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:59:52PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Monitor0 SubSection Display Depth

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Gießler wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: We don't care what the filenames are except for the header files. The only reason why we care about

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:18:20AM +0100, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: I like Option 1. but either is ok with me. Also, FWIW, a lot of the other mergedfb code could/should be moved into a general mergedfb lib. Stuff like pseudo-xinerama could be folded

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:06, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, David Dawes wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:57:04AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Well, then I guess I could call the header file xaa2.h Not to be too picky, but won't this be the third version of XAA, not

RE: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: It's currently global because the hardware I work on doesn't have to fall back to software very often. Bookkeeping on a per- surface basis is a simple modification and one I will add. This precludes using XAA2 with hardware that doesn't

how to get correct image after switch to other terminal

2004-03-02 Thread wjd
Hi All, I wrote a X11 application to get image of some window by XGetImage(),but after i switch to other terminal by Ctrl+Alt+F2,my application can't get correct image of windows.Are there any idea to fix this problem? or how can X11 application to know if desktop has been switch to

RE: XAA2 namespace?

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Also, I would like to make sure that the new design has a much improved syncing mechanism. Syncing should be, at a minimum, on a per-surface basis. Perhaps even a bounded region of a surface is justified. As GUI's become more media rich the

Re: how to get correct image after switch to other terminal

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, wjd wrote: Hi All, I wrote a X11 application to get image of some window by XGetImage(),but after i switch to other terminal by Ctrl+Alt+F2,my application can't get correct image of windows.Are there any idea to fix this problem? or how can X11 application to