Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-06 Thread Alexander Stohr
- Original Message - From: netpython [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards? [...] (reverse engineering) Are

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-03 Thread Alexander Stohr
Subject: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed It is possible to gain the specs for a chip by discetion for i.e R300 chip or NV 30 chips with the right tools like a electon microscope? full specifications as the headline does say is more than just the register

Re: radeon 9700 question - need working config

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander Stohr
tryout the closed source drivers from ATIĀ“s website. if you find out about any problem then call either ATI or SuSE support on them. they must have a solution. -Alex. - Original Message - From: William W. Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 11:47

RE: State of radeon driver

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Stohr
the _ is the mailmain default but can be canged. only the fglrx closed source drivers from ATI for the i386/Linux platform do have 3D. Databooks are no longer state of the art in the information technologies age. On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:48, wim delvaux wrote: Any idea

RE: State of radeon driver

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Stohr
I have tried these drivers but refuse to work. They think I have an (unsupported) OEM card (=powered by ATI) while according to the identity check programs run under XP it 'should' be an ATI one (=Built by ATI) There is no general OEM barrier anymore. It only was it

RE: (Warning long!) Re: X11 CVS with linux 2.6.0-test9?

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
I suppose I could have a hardware problem, since my PC is a couple years old now. However, I can leave the same computer just running a 2.4.x kernel for days with no problems. Would the redesigned kernel 2.6.x bang the hardware so much more; going beyond that of kernel 2.4.x? It can be

RE: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
I always get these errormessage when I load agpgart and fglrx and then startx. The weird thing is that X starts up with this gray screen and the mouse working. It only crashes the instant when the KDE dialog should be coming up. (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (WW)

RE: [XFree86] Radeon 920, hardware 3D

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
run ldd on your glxgears or glxinfo executables and see which libGL it is using. It is using the ones from the driver. It uses libGL which points to a link which is the drvier lib. I made a diff on the file which is in the driver directory and the installed libGL.so.1.2 and they are

RE: (Warning long!) Re: X11 CVS with linux 2.6.0-test9?

2003-12-03 Thread Alexander Stohr
I tried just leaving the display running without doing anything interactive with the interface and X ran for several hours before freezing. All that was running was Xscreensaver. I then tried again using X normally but with a different window manager (XFCE 4) and it worked for about an

SPLIT_WC_REGIONS - anyone out there?

2003-11-06 Thread Alexander Stohr
Hello, i stumbled across the above mentioned define and related code in the XFree86 sources (lnx_video.c). comparing X4.1.0 and X4.3.0 i found that the condtitnal coding of if (base % size) has vanished at some point in time and the handling is now hardcoded at this code location. to my best

RE: ansifying xwininfo.c

2003-09-10 Thread Alexander Stohr
This is the minimum work to get this program into ansi shape. This patch is ready for inclusion. If their are no objections to the patch, it would be very nice to get this in ASAP. It will make some other projects I am working on go smoother. Thanks, Warren Turkal i have no reason to

RE: 2 questions about radeon driver

2003-08-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
CP mode means using an engine on the chip that gets the command data from main memory by itselves, some sort of busmaster DMA stream. MMIO means that the driver does program the chipset directly via its memory mapped registers. DRI means direct rendering and is the most common socket for current

RE: [XFree86] Driver problem for RADEON 9100

2003-08-17 Thread Alexander Stohr
(WW) RADEON(0): monitor1: Using default hsync range of 28.00-33.00kHz (WW) RADEON(0): monitor1: using default vrefresh range of 43.00-72.00Hz (II) RADEON(0): Clock range: 20.00 to 350.00 MHz (II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode 800x600 (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(0): Not using mode

RE: radeonfb in 2.6.0-test2 and radeon 320m

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
I have laptop with 320m radeon. radeonfb didn't seem to work for it on 2.4.21. Has this changed in 2.6.0-test2? this is the XF86 development mailing list for the XF86 windowing system infrastructure. there are other people around that do work on the framebuffer device support. you might

RE: Seeking MergedFB - Xinerama development advice

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Stohr
just a short comment on the illustrations... Mode 1: (fixed width font required for viewing) +--+ |++ +-+| ||| | || ||| | || ||

RE: via driver and mtrr problem

2003-08-01 Thread Alexander Stohr
I'm running XFree 4.3.99.8 with kernel 2.6.0.test2 on a via M1 motherboard. I loaded the modules for mtrr, i2c and agpgart for via. Into XF86Config I choose via driver When I start X there's always this warning: (WW) via(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0x I tried

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: patch procedure ..

2003-07-24 Thread Alexander Stohr
from 24 hours to 7 days depending on complexity and on people having time working on it. -Alex. -Original Message- From: Sven Goethel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 19:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: patch procedure .. sorry for being lazy and not

RE: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: For consumer desktop that's true. There is one potential business case in the professional desktop market. SGI's, HP's and Sun's old workstation customers have been moving over to Linux. Thats no market secret to anyone at all. You just

RE: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
From: William Suetholz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mr. Harris, yes I am one of Those people who want a device to work in my chosen operating system, /me wants Commodore 64 - BASIC BIOS 2.0 support, call it my favorite! Cool machine, boots in 2 seconds to a fully useable prompt. It must be an

RE: RH9 Display Settings Card List

2003-07-06 Thread Alexander Stohr
From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I plan on replacing the Cards database in Red Hat Linux with a new mechanism sometime in the future which will be much more flexible, allow per architecture overrides, allow the config tool to know what hardware supports DRI and on what specific

RE: Getting Dual Independent Heads to work on Debian(sid) on iBook

2003-06-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
I dont really know driver or chipset in detail, but its the way that it needs programming so that the timing for the LCD does match. black or striped or whatever effects do indcate wront timing for the flat pane display. If the device is capable of dual head in other OS condtions then it can do

portability of function prototypes?

2003-04-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
i am seeing constructs like this at several locations of the XFree86 sources: *.h: extern char *Xpermalloc( #if NeedFunctionPrototypes unsingend int /* size */ #endif ); *.c: char *Xpermalloc(unsigned int length) { ... } #if NeedFunctionPrototypes XrmQuark

RE: patch to make 4.3.0 build on FreeBSD 5.0-Current alpha

2003-03-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
[snipped the patch] Is there a better way to submit patches like this? I've just subscribed to the devel list in the last 10 minutes :). Fred Clift sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] queues your patch for integration. maybe unified diffs are the prefered style (diff -u src dst). it improves

RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
RandR integration with partial enable of features? -Original Message- From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RELNOTES for 4.3.0 Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has

RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
Gatos is focussing on video and TV playback, TV/video-in functionality and video capture. But they are _not_ focussed on 3D to my understanding. thanks for the link to the AIW Radeon 9700 comments. the text outlines that even gatos has not timeframe how their development will proceed. for my

RE: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-31 Thread Alexander Stohr
Alexander Stohr wrote: what about syncing to the vertical blank? some cards do provide you an interrupt handler for this. what is the vertical blank ? . do you know somewhere where I can get more information on this? www.opengl.org is of course some central place

glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py according to its headline glapi_x86.S was generated by the script glx86asm.py - its just that i cannot find that script in the XFree86 sources. Any hints? -Alex.

RE: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
You'd have to ask Brian to be sure, but I believe the intention is that if the interface ever changes, a new .S file be generated in the Mesa tree and imported to the XFree86 DRI trees. There should never be a case where the .S file would change in XFree86 and not change in Mesa.

RE: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
what about syncing to the vertical blank? some cards do provide you an interrupt handler for this. i mean if you want to do it with OpenGL in fullscreen anyways then you just have to use double buffered mode and call glSwap() anytimes you are done with rendering. if you want to do something more

RE: DRM module compile problem under FreeBSD 5.0

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
PCI-gart is a still developing component that is maintained in the XFree86 3D instable tree, which is better known as dri-devel project. you might have better chances when asking there. anyways, that far i do know about PCI-gart, it was under some rather vague development. there were more