CVS Update: www (branch: trunk)

2003-03-01 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:www Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/01 19:40:15 Log message: fix typo Modified files: ./: rel430.html Revision ChangesPath 1.2 +1 -1 www/rel430.html

Re: Monitor section in config file?

2003-03-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X -configure comments these values out because many apps used to get confused by having precise dpi values and displayed silly fonts. I think that at one time a 85x90 dpi screen would make Netscape

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-03-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: Note that CONFIG_INPUT (the new input layer) exists in 2.4.x kernels as well... so you can test right now. It's just that 2.5.x (and 2.6.0 when released) has made the new input layer the default. I'm not really up to speed on the 2.4 stuff, never

Re: Multiple video consoles

2003-03-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:19:37PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: Are you speaking about the current 4.3.0 or the stuff you are working on ? What I was working on. Ok, ... I take it, there will be a 4.4.0 before 5.0 ? Well, i am not sure i follow you completely here, but my interrest in

Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-03-01 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MV but XAA is an all or nothing thing. Could you please explain that? Do you mean that if you use XAA, you can no longer wrap at the GCOps level? Juliusz ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xf86cfg: ERROR SIGSEGV caught!

2003-03-01 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
SD some fonts can't be displayed any more which worked with freetype1 SD based freetype module Yes. The FreeType 1 library had been fine-tuned to include workarounds for a number of common font bugs (much against David Turner's preferences). These hacks are only now getting into FreeType 2.

Re: Multiple video consoles

2003-03-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:19:37PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:04:06PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Are you speaking about the current 4.3.0 or the stuff you are working on ? What I was working on. BTW, is the stuff you were working on accessible on a CVS branch or

Re: NVidia driver (open source) on Apple Powerbook G4 12

2003-03-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 03:18, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Hmmm. I've never tried it on a PowerBook. I guess I will have to see if I can borrow one from around here to play with. Unfortunately, that means it's unlikely to be fixed in 4.3 (I recall having a difficult time with Linux PPC

Multiple video consoles. What happened to multi-user?

2003-03-01 Thread Yitzhak Bar Geva
The discussion thread has focused on multi-head for a single user. What about plans for multi-user? Matrox and Nvidia have four port cards. Why couldnt a single system (maybe multi-processor) support eight simultaneous users if it had two of those cards and USB input devices? What would be

Re: Stepping outside the box with XAA drivers?

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 1 Mar 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: MV but XAA is an all or nothing thing. Could you please explain that? Do you mean that if you use XAA, you can no longer wrap at the GCOps level? You can wrap them, but if you are above XAA you MUST call down. XAA expects to see every rendering

Re: Multiple video consoles

2003-03-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote: That said, another thing that would be nice, would be the possibility to specify one display section for every depth, instead of just copying it for each supported depth. Do many people in these times of 64+Mo of onboard memory specify different

Re: NVidia driver (open source) on Apple Powerbook G4 12

2003-03-01 Thread Christoph Pittracher
On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:18, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Can you VT switch back to the X-server OK, and startx again after quitting? Yes, I can. If so, it's probably just a matter of not enough stuff being saved and restored in the UnLoad/LoadStateExt functions in riva_hw.c. Hmm, how can

Re: NVidia driver (open source) on Apple Powerbook G4 12

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Christoph Pittracher wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:18, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Can you VT switch back to the X-server OK, and startx again after quitting? Yes, I can. If so, it's probably just a matter of not enough stuff being saved and restored in the

Server doesn't build for me (setjmp)

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
setjmp is a *macro* (for __sigsetjmp) defined in /usr/include/setjmp.h. This is libc 2.2. so it doesn't set HAS_GLIBC_SIGSETJMP. SYMCFUNCALIAS chokes on this. This is gcc 2.95.3. I think the HAS_GLIBC_SIGSETJMP set logic is wrong. Mark.

Re: Server doesn't build for me (setjmp)

2003-03-01 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: setjmp is a *macro* (for __sigsetjmp) defined in /usr/include/setjmp.h. This is libc 2.2. so it doesn't set HAS_GLIBC_SIGSETJMP. SYMCFUNCALIAS chokes on this. This is gcc 2.95.3. I think the HAS_GLIBC_SIGSETJMP set logic is wrong. You've got

KeyBoard BUG on sparc/sparc64 in 4.3.0 too.

2003-03-01 Thread Balint Cristian
Regard to that one BUG with the mention that it persist in 4.3.0 too and any CVS too: By Rene: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86m=104526841725691w=2 By mysef: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86m=104385693307371w=2 I send more deBug:

[Fonts] Re: [Fontconfig] May these patches go into next release?

2003-03-01 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Feb 28, Yun-Ta Tsai wrote: I found some patches that will fix several truetype fonts problems with asian characters both on printing to printer and showing on screen, also support asian font name. Unfortunatelly, I can't patch by myself because qt keep releasing , so I

Re: [XFree86] does 4.3 have better matrox g550 support?

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, B. Levin wrote: I have a dual dvi (special version, sort of) matrox g550. many times when I startx it seems to hang for a minute and then you eventually get video. (not sure if its related or random but when I startx as root I -think- it starts faster, but I might be

Re: [XFree86] driver for ATI Xpert98 AGP under Xfree86 4.3?

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Reid Vail wrote: I have this older ATI card (Xpert 98 AGP) and am wondering if theATI driver that runs under Xfree86 4.3 supports the AGP functionality? The Xfree86 site which references this seems pretty ambigious to me. It says it supports the Rage classd. But the

[XFree86] Xserver freeze with mga mystique

2003-03-01 Thread Lars Andersson
Hi, I'm having problems with XFree86 4.2.1 and a Matrox Mystique card. I'm trying to use the card in a P2 box with an onboard ATI Mach64. When running with the mga driver things seem to work fine at first, but when I start moving windows or opening fvwm2 menus a bit too fast everything just

[XFree86] XF86Config problem on Toshiba 2410 404

2003-03-01 Thread Marwede Dirk
Hi, I installed Suse 7.2 on a Toshiba 2410 404 and have a persisting problem with the XF86Config File (XFree4.0.3): During the installation process I skipped X11 configuration and starting up the first time I ran sax2 and here my problem starts: it came up with a 800x600 resolution with 8 bit

[XFree86] ONE QUESTION

2003-03-01 Thread Giraldo Alonso Suarez
Hello colleagues: Please, i have a doubt. I need make a investigation about graphic servers in Unix, but I don't know anything about this. I need to somebody help me... i don't know that graphic server use Linux, Suse and the others distribution... or all distribution use xfree86 like graphic

Re: [XFree86] Top 10 list of Most Linux Friendly Video Card Vendors?

2003-03-01 Thread Gideon Go
Thanks for your help! I'll just look at what old cards are still available in the stores and check them out on the Driver Status page *before* I will buy one. (It's a pity that no such list as I looked for exists, however, since it would clearly be a good advertisement for those vendors

[XFree86] SuSE 8.1 + Radeon 7000

2003-03-01 Thread Tom Wesley
hi all has anyone tried installing the 4.3 rpm's from the suse ftp? Mine went ok, however my 3d accel for some reason sometimes freezes the computer. Has anyone else seen this with a Radeon 7000? I'm using to most recent 2.4.20 kernel... Tom pgp0.pgp Description: signature

RE: [XFree86] provide me a solution for GUI

2003-03-01 Thread Josh Liechty
The problem you are having concerns the X Font Server (XFS, not to be confused with SGI's filesystem for IRIX and Linux that goes by the same acronym), and an inability of XFree86 to locate it's fixed font file. But first, I see you are running a pre-release version of the XFree86. Although this

RE: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION

2003-03-01 Thread Josh Liechty
Every Linux distribution that I know of uses XFree86 for its implementation of the X Window System. You can also buy commercial versions of the X Window System, but they tend to be pricey, and what's the point, anyway, when XFree86 works just fine? Other UNIX-like operating systems that use

RE: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION

2003-03-01 Thread Giraldo Alonso Suarez
Then, UNIX only use xfree86 like grafic server? -Original Message- From: Josh Liechty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION Every Linux distribution that I know of uses XFree86 for its implementation

[XFree86] Error - how to fix it?

2003-03-01 Thread soomal
Hello. I have compiled 2.4.20-ac1 kernel and installed NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX packages. When i types: # startx server is not starting and i giving that message: XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002

Re: [XFree86] Radeon Mobility m7 problem

2003-03-01 Thread Warren Sypteras
Does anyone have any suggestions? Warren Warren Sypteras wrote: Folks; I've loaded Linux Mandrake 9.0 onto my Compaq Evo N610c which uses the ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW video. X -version = 4.2.1 Release date 3 September 2002 The display gets unstable under various conditions

Re: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION

2003-03-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Almost all Unix systems include a version of the X Window System - generally based off the original MIT/X Consortium/X.org sources. XFree86 is a branch off those sources which is used by most open source releases. You can find more information at http://www.x.org/ (Technically, in order to claim

Re: [XFree86] Toshiba Satellite

2003-03-01 Thread Lionel Lecoq
You may want to try X 3.3.6 --- Scott Elgram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I am trying to set up this old Toshiba Satellite T2105CS that I found in my server room at work. Its an old machine (486dx, I think, 350mb HD, 12mb RAM). I put slackware 8.0 on it an it runs fine, but, I am

Re: [XFree86] Xserver freeze with mga mystique

2003-03-01 Thread Lionel Lecoq
Usually you can disable it in the BIOS setup... Lionel --- Lars Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with XFree86 4.2.1 and a Matrox Mystique card. I'm trying to use the card in a P2 box with an onboard ATI Mach64. When running with the mga driver things seem to work

[XFree86] ATi RADEON 9000: ait or radeon driver?

2003-03-01 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, I'm trying to set up my ATi RADEON 9000 PRO, and I'm a little confused: should I use the ati or radeon driver for dual-head + xinerama? Best regards, Carlos. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more

Re: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 series on a Red Hat 8.0 workstation

2003-03-01 Thread Estevan Cedillo
Didn't you use the phobe option it usally get the video card you have now. Is the white box the Professional Edition of Red Hat 8.0 From: Oisin C. Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 series on a Red Hat 8.0

Re: [XFree86] ATi RADEON 9000: ait or radeon driver?

2003-03-01 Thread Estevan Cedillo
Radeon From: Carlos Carnero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [XFree86] ATi RADEON 9000: ait or radeon driver? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:56:55 -0800 (PST) Hi, I'm trying to set up my ATi RADEON 9000 PRO, and I'm a little confused: should I use the ati

Re: [XFree86] Xserver freeze with mga mystique

2003-03-01 Thread Lars Andersson
Not really... For Video adapter something in the BIOS I have the options Onboard and Auto. Choosing Auto makes the Mystique card active but the ATI card is still found during the pci scans as you can see in the log files. There is no option for completely disabling the onboard card. Besides,

Re: [XFree86] SuSE 8.1 + Radeon 7000

2003-03-01 Thread ahaning
I've seen this on my Radeon VE/7000, as well. If you kill the offending app (I can get it to occur with the endgame screenhack from xscreensavers most easily) by logging in remotely, you can get X back. Not sure what can be done about this, except for a 4.3.1. I got my source tree from CVS,

[XFree86] DPMS no longer functions correctly for nv TNT2 M64 in 4.3.0

2003-03-01 Thread William Kucharski
Manual DPMS commands (e.g. xset dpms force off) worked correctly in XFree86 4.2.0 but no longer work in 4.3.0; instead the screen blanks but the monitor does NOT enter DPMS poweroff mode. The monitor in question is a Sony GDM-500PS. Here is the log: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27

[XFree86] Problem with xfree / ATI M7 / grsec: Can't mmap BIOS

2003-03-01 Thread Klaus Kusche
Today, I installed Gentoo's latest stable kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 which includes the GR security patches. I have enabled the kmem protection of the GR security patches, which prohibits writing to /dev/kmem and /dev/mem (and also mmapping them for write) and opening /dev/port, but - according

[XFree86] -configure crash

2003-03-01 Thread Wayne
Dear XFree86, This happened on a new Dell 2350 with 1.7 MHz Celeron. Fatal server error: XFree86 has found a valid card configuration. Unfortunately the appropriate data has not been added to xf86PciInfo.h. Please forward 'scanpci -v' output to XFree86 support team. When reporting a

[XFree86] Dual-head video card recommendations sought

2003-03-01 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi, Can someone recommend any video cards that fit the following criteria: * Has dual-head support * Can run each head at different resolutions / depths (1 head at 1600x1200, 1 head at 1280x1024) * Supports mixed analogue / DVI output (1 head analogue, 1 head DVI) * Works with

Re: [XFree86] Radeon Mobility m7 problem

2003-03-01 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Warren Sypteras wrote: Folks; I've loaded Linux Mandrake 9.0 onto my Compaq Evo N610c which uses the ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW video. I had a couple of similar problems to yours. Check the list archives (look for my name and/or Radeon) and/or visit: http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi/linux.html

[XFree86] RE: Dual-head video card recommendations sought

2003-03-01 Thread B. Levin
I've been pretty happy, overall, with the matrox g550. its somewhat cheap (compared to what dualhead cards used to cost), it DOES have dual vga and dvi (if you find the SPECIAL version that explicitly says 'dual dvi'; its not very common to find this). its fast, its pretty well supported and

[XFree86] migrating from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0

2003-03-01 Thread Dimitris Mandalidis
Greetings, Today I patched my original 4.2.0 tree with those I found in the main ftp site, following the instructions. When installing, I followed the very same procedure as I did with 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, I also used the same /etc/X11/XF86Config. But I have the following problem; when I 'm writing in

Re: [XFree86] Xserver freeze with mga mystique

2003-03-01 Thread Neal Murphy
On Saturday 01 March 2003 05:05 am, you wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with XFree86 4.2.1 and a Matrox Mystique card. I'm trying to use the card in a P2 box with an onboard ATI Mach64. When running with the mga driver things seem to work fine at first, but when I start moving windows or

Re: [XFree86] SuSE 8.1 + Radeon 7000

2003-03-01 Thread ahaning
Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 12:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this on my Radeon VE/7000, as well. If you kill the offending app (I can get it to occur with the endgame screenhack from xscreensavers most easily) by logging in remotely, you can get X back. Not sure what can

Re: [XFree86] SuSE 8.1 + Radeon 7000

2003-03-01 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 01 March 2003 15:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2003 12:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this on my Radeon VE/7000, as well. If you kill the offending app (I can get it to occur with the endgame screenhack from xscreensavers most easily)

RE: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION

2003-03-01 Thread Giraldo Alonso Suarez
Ok, thanks... then actually the only system based in Unix that not use XFree86 is MacOS? -Original Message- From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] ONE QUESTION Almost all Unix systems

Re: [XFree86] external monitor with nv-driver

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
The driver knows nothing about the hotkey switch. It doesn't even have a way to know that a switch occurred. It's all done by the bios which is the only reason the switch even partially works. Maybe the Font key might change things a little, but the core of the matter is that hot key

Re: [XFree86] Dual-head video card recommendations sought

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Nik Clayton wrote: Can someone recommend any video cards that fit the following criteria: * Has dual-head support * Can run each head at different resolutions / depths (1 head at 1600x1200, 1 head at 1280x1024) * Supports mixed analogue / DVI output (1 head

Re: [XFree86] DPMS no longer functions correctly for nv TNT2 M64 in4.3.0

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, William Kucharski wrote: Manual DPMS commands (e.g. xset dpms force off) worked correctly in XFree86 4.2.0 but no longer work in 4.3.0; instead the screen blanks but the monitor does NOT enter DPMS poweroff mode. The nv

[XFree86] (no subject)

2003-03-01 Thread Sammy Chaboya
I cant find the extract.exe or extract file. Can you help? _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ XFree86

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] xcursorgen: No such file or directory

2003-03-01 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:01:12PM -0800, Charles Curley scrawled: Regarding: xcursorgen: No such file or directory Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Version: 4.3.0 OS: Linux Red Hat 8.0, 2.4.18-14 Area: Compilation/Installation

[XFree86] ANNOUNCE: new Radeon dri_resume binary drivers available

2003-03-01 Thread Charl P. Botha
Dear lists, I've made new binary versions of my Radeon suspend/resume-capable DRI drivers available at http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html There are XFree86 4.3.0 and XFree86 DRI CVS versions of these drivers available. Thanks, Charl -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/

[XFree86] Error

2003-03-01 Thread Khaled Al-Jeeran
hi there ,,, i have problem with the xf86config ,, my vga card isNVIDIA GeForce2 . and i have FreeBSD Version 5.0 .. when i do the config then i try to start the X .. i have errno 61 .. errno 3 ,, bad display name "My.localHost:0" what i should do to config the X ? .. thanx alot bye

[XFree86] openbsd 3.2 / hp ze1210 notebook / var/log/XFree86.8.log

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Mendoza
try to configure X after a default of install of openbsd 3.2. I have search on google for a fix with no success. sunmobile# scanpci -v pci bus 0x cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1106 device 0x0305VIA Device unknownCardVendor 0x103c card 0x0022 (HP, Card unknown) STATUS 0xa210

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] xcursorgen: No such file ordirectory

2003-03-01 Thread Per Bjornsson
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: You only need the updated kernel if you want direct rendering support. If this is worthless to you, don't bother with the updated kernel. Unfortunately this might not be true. Or rather, it's probably not just the kernel that is the problem, rather it's

[XFree86] Re: KeyBoard BUG on sparc/sparc64 in 4.3.0 too.

2003-03-01 Thread David S. Miller
From: Balint Cristian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:11:34 +0200 Unable to handle kernel paging request \|/ \|/ @'/ .. \`@ /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ setserial(104): Oops The program setserial is

[XFree86] XFree86-4.3.0 problem installing/mesa/etc

2003-03-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
During make install: make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/war/4.3.0/source/xc/lib/GL/GL' installing in lib/GL/mesa/src/OSmesa... make[4]: Entering directory `/home/war/4.3.0/source/xc/lib/GL/mesa/src/OSmesa' gcc-c -o ../../../../../lib/GL/mesa/src/X86/common_x86_asm.o

[XFree86] KeyBoard BUG on sparc/sparc64 in 4.3.0 too.

2003-03-01 Thread Balint Cristian
Regard to that one BUG with the mention that it persist in 4.3.0 too and any CVS too: By Rene: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86m=104526841725691w=2 By mysef: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree86m=104385693307371w=2 I send more deBug:

[XFree86] OS/2 4.3

2003-03-01 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I had OS/2 4.2.99.1 running (ok - except everything was red). Unzipped the following 4.3 files: bin.zip, lib.zip, x11.zip Using setup from 4.2.99.1, 4.3 xfree86.exe does not succeed: (Full contents of /usr/adm/XFree86.0.log) _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener

[XFree86] Option CursorShadow in 4.3 with nVidia GF2 on PPC (YDL 2.3)

2003-03-01 Thread r.sesser
I've successfully built and installed 4.3 on my Quicksilver (2001) and everything is working...except the cursor shadow. I've tried enabling it in the Device section but the log file tells me that option is not used. I've had this working with 4.2.99.3 without even having specified. Did something