Fwd: 69030 driver

2003-09-11 Thread Rishabh Kumar Goel
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: 69030 driver Date: Thursday 11 Sep 2003 4:21 pm From: Rishabh Kumar Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i m trying to write a MDA driver for CT's 69030 chip. The PCI card is memory mapped. starting from 0x080 with the memory size

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, John Dennis wrote: JD alignment requirement right how do we specify the alignment requirement JD to the compiler in a portable way such that it will build on a variety JD of systems and compilers? Juliusz typedef union {int i[1024]; long long l;} jmp_buf; Yes, I thought of

Re: [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Vblank support in kernel and X server]

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 23:21, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 19:00, Jim Gettys wrote: Here's Alan Cox's mail about it. In 2.4.20-ac1. Won't this conflict with the DRM vblank interrupt handling? (I've also seen framebuffer device patches for this...) Thats a matter for the X

Re: Audio in X11

2003-09-11 Thread Jim Gettys
An audio server need not be designed to add latency (beyond that of the network itself, of course). With current networks, this is very small, down to a few samples. Existence proof is the AF audio server we did 10 years ago, in which the server design itself did not enforce any latency: if data

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:11, David Dawes wrote: John wrapper. So as long as we've already lost module John independence by virtue of linking the system function why John not go all the way and use the system definition of the John system function's argument? It seems like

Re: Fwd: 69030 driver

2003-09-11 Thread Rishabh Kumar Goel
Hi! Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that but nothing worked out. i am working on NetBSD. So i mapped the memory from 0xA to 0xB. From this memory mapped I tried to read a single byte from the device and also the word but of no use. I get only 0xFF. My first aim is to get the Green

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:18:44AM -0400, John Dennis wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:11, David Dawes wrote: John wrapper. So as long as we've already lost module John independence by virtue of linking the system function why John not go all the way and use the system definition of

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:35, David Dawes wrote: What's the difference between this in the core executable: xf86A(pointer data) { return A(data); } SYMFUNC(xf86A) and this: SYMFUNCALIAS(xf86A, A) The difference is that xf86A may massage data in some system specific

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:24:40PM -0400, John Dennis wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:35, David Dawes wrote: What's the difference between this in the core executable: xf86A(pointer data) { return A(data); } SYMFUNC(xf86A) and this: SYMFUNCALIAS(xf86A, A) The

[XFree86] Problem : No Screen Found !

2003-09-11 Thread Syed Adnan-ur- Rahman
Hi, I am the new user for Red Hat Linux 8 and i dont know how it happened , but my xwindows is not working. I visited the official web site but i didnt get any aid. Problem description: When I started the xfree86config command, i started configuring all the steps that occured but later when

[XFree86] Problem with FireGL 8800 (Linux Red Hat 7.3)

2003-09-11 Thread
Their own messages and files to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86.0.log Description: Binary data

[XFree86] X crashes while running vncviewer

2003-09-11 Thread John Zheng
Environment: gentoo linux 1.4 vncviewer 1.2.8 kde 3.1.3 XFree86 4.3.0 Screen resolution 1024x768 When I run vncviewer and resize the vncviewer window so it no longer has scroll bars, and move the window so the title bar is no longer on the visible screen (off the top of the screen), X

Re: [XFree86] LCD - screen shifting problem with CyberBladeXP chipset

2003-09-11 Thread William Gallafent
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Petri Jokinen wrote: have you members any tips how the screen shifting problem could passed? Shifting prblem mean that the pixel lines from left are shift to right side about 3 mm (it's few but it make me crazy). I had a similar problem some time ago with a Toshiba

[XFree86] No signal to external VGA port

2003-09-11 Thread Wolle
Hi, I have a Medion MD6100 notebook running SuSE Linux 8.2 XFree 4.3.0 (V 11.0) NVidia GeForce4 388 Go graphic chip. The notebook has an external VGA port. I can switch internal / external / both by keyboard (FN-F3). This works on console, but not in X. In X, there is a signal on the VGA

[XFree86] Problem with the XFree86 X-Server

2003-09-11 Thread Mehmet Sener
Hi, on my System the X-Server don´t execute now. Since a long time, i have no problems with it, but after i stop the boot-procedure without the shutdown commando the X-Server is not working now. If i try the startx-command the System out is: xauth: error in locking authority file

[XFree86] Display works but strange

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kincaid
Help! I am a total newbie, and I have been beating my head against the wall on this... When I startx, the window manager only used like 60-70% of the screen. What I see looks fine, but it doesn't fill about 1-2 inches around the left/right/top/bottom borders. I have an nvidia GeForce 256 card

Re: [XFree86] No signal to external VGA port

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Mergens
It's my understanding that you must start X and have your XF86Config configured for your external monitor PRIOR to running X. You cannot switch between the two after X is running. If someone knows different, I'd love to hear how they do it. I have a shell script that copies the proper

Re: [XFree86] No signal to external VGA port

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
The nv driver that comes with XFree86 does not (and cannot for techical reasons) support hotkey switching (it requires kernel support). The server can be made to start up on an external CRT by playing with some config file options, probably the following: Option CrtcNumber 0 Option

Re: [XFree86] (no subject)

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Mergens
You should check the instructions that come with your video driver (from the manufacterer). I believe I had to remove that line for my nvidia driver. Orlando Luis Goulart Peres - professor wrote: Hi I am getting many errors on the XFree86.0.log file as glEnable(GL_STENCIL_TEST) but no

Re: [XFree86] Display works but strange

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Mergens
I would start by downloading the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.com. Follow their instructions. That may solve your problems. Jason Kincaid wrote: Help! I am a total newbie, and I have been beating my head against the wall on this... When I startx, the window manager only used like 60-70% of

Re: [XFree86] Problem with the XFree86 X-Server

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
There's nothing wrong in the server log file. Does just running XFree86 start? Note that doesn't start a window manager so you have to use ctrlaltbackspace to quit. It looks like you are running as root? Does it work when you are not root? Mark. On Thu,

Re: [XFree86] Display works but strange

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Kincaid wrote: Help! I am a total newbie, and I have been beating my head against the wall on this... When I startx, the window manager only used like 60-70% of the screen. What I see looks fine, but it doesn't fill about 1-2 inches around the

Re: [XFree86] Display works but strange

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Dan Mergens wrote: I would start by downloading the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.com. Follow their instructions. That may solve your problems. I doubt it would look any different. A modeline is a modeline. Mark. Jason Kincaid wrote:

[XFree86] (no subject)

2003-09-11 Thread arun kumar
Sir, I've a PC with configuration; AMD Athlon XP 1700+,ASUS motherboard with built in GeForce 2 MX display card etc. While installing Redhat 9.0 I faced the following problems... After booting with the Redhat 9.0 cd, in the GUI environment it seems small square in the place of mouse pointer.

Re: [XFree86] Problem with the XFree86 X-Server

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Kincaid
Yea, I can startup xfree86. Also, I can startup kde gnome just fine as root or user. Only problem is that it is shrunken in the middle. Your other comment about not stretching to fill the display sounds on target. I'll try that when I get home. Jason --- Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[XFree86] Your Electronic Job Newspaper - 09-11

2003-09-11 Thread JobNews
Electronic Job Newspaper 09/11/03 Dear Carnie, Here is the job news you subscribed on 09/11/03. Please DO NOT reply to this email since it's an unattended mailbox. Please scroll down this page to read your job leads. To unsubscribe, simply click on: http://mygeoweb.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] You

[XFree86] Lacking organization

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Mergens
I recently read a comment by a contributor who is tired of hearing the same questions over and over regarding configuration and I understand his complaint after responding to several posts. I believe this could be helped a great deal if there was better organization of the website. I've used

[XFree86] Fw: Black Screen and Mouse Pointer - May Be Permission's

2003-09-11 Thread dsavard
Help with running; I have a DELL 1600 Server with an ATI RADEON XL onboard video controler and an older IBM Monitor. When letting the system do its thing on bootup, I get a blue background and mouse cursor - no login promt. If I login as a user and run startx from a terminal screen - I only

Re: [XFree86] Lacking organization

2003-09-11 Thread Bob Avery-Babel
I'd be willing to help as well. I'm just a newbie, but I could help organize some of the docs or write new ones. Is there a way to submit docs to be published on the site? I'll be posting later tonight about a problem that I am having, and once I get it figured out I'll finish up a web page

Re: [XFree86] Fw: Black Screen and Mouse Pointer - May Be Permission's

2003-09-11 Thread rjh
On 11 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help with running; I have a DELL 1600 Server with an ATI RADEON XL onboard video controler and an older IBM Monitor. When letting the system do its thing on bootup, I get a blue background and mouse cursor - no login promt. If I login as a user

Re: [XFree86] Problem with the XFree86 X-Server

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Kincaid wrote: Yea, I can startup xfree86. Also, I can startup kde gnome just fine as root or user. Hopefully someone else has a clue about that authentication problem. That's an area I don't know much about. Mark. Only problem is

Re: [XFree86] (no subject)

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, arun kumar wrote: Sir, I've a PC with configuration; AMD Athlon XP 1700+,ASUS motherboard with built in GeForce 2 MX display card etc. While installing Redhat 9.0 I faced the following problems... After booting with the Redhat 9.0 cd, in the GUI

Re: [XFree86] Lacking organization

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
There was a group working on a FAQ, but I'm not sure what the status on that is. We could sure use some efforts to keep the level of redundant questions down. We get too many i845G doesn't work, too many fixed font questions, etc... Mark. On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Dan

[XFree86] Atri Radeon 7500 mobile lcd control problems

2003-09-11 Thread Håvard Husevåg Garnes
Hi. I have an Ati Mobile radeon 7500 card in my compaq evo n800c. My problem is that whenever I enable dri, the screen-control gets disabled. I can not turn the screen off with the lid-buttin, nor with xset. Nor can I use the fn-F7/F8-keycombination to dim/brighten the screen. Also the weird

[XFree86] Trident Cyberblade e4 and Xv bug?

2003-09-11 Thread xfree
Fellow XFree users, and developers! I am in need of a litte assistance, i am using a Toshiba 7200CT laptop with a Trident Cyberblade e4 (9540), and it all works great apart from one thing: When playing video with xine or mplayer, after a few times it stops working and only show me a static

[XFree86] 3D support for S3 prosavage DDR driver ????

2003-09-11 Thread Marcel Mourguiart Montt
Hi, ( excuse my english pls) I have a S3 prosavage DDR, with no 3D acceleration by now, my question is: In the new vertion of xfree (4.4 i think ) is going to be 3D support for this card ??? Is going to be 3D support for 4.3 ??? I had see some fixed in the driver from cvs snapshot but i`m not

Re: [XFree86] Trident Cyberblade e4 and Xv bug?

2003-09-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
Try the drivers provided here http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh Alan. On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:05:48PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow XFree users, and developers! I am in need of a litte assistance, i am using a Toshiba 7200CT laptop with a Trident Cyberblade e4 (9540), and it all

[XFree86] Descriptive Documentation about X

2003-09-11 Thread Peppe Cece
I need more info about X server...Specially i am interested to the descriptive documentation about the architecture design of X.I am glad to you if you can help me. Regards,Giuseppe Cece.

Re: [XFree86] Descriptive Documentation about X

2003-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
There is a bunch of documentation on X architecture in the server tree at xc/doc/. Mark. On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Peppe Cece wrote: I need more info about X server... Specially i am interested to the descriptive documentation about the architecture design of X. I am

Re: [XFree86] Cannot locate a core pointer device error

2003-09-11 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:18:33PM +0200, Lorenzo Iannuzzi wrote: I read of success compiling 4.3.99-11 and using CVS snapshot with Hui's patch from bug 314 (http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314), but i was unable to run it. I don't know if it's related to the patch or others problems, i

Re: [XFree86] Problem.

2003-09-11 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:58:31PM +0100, William Gallafent wrote: Case error. Run something like: perl -pi -e 's/Subsection/SubSection/g' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 No, the keywords (and most other things) are not case sensitive. The error message implies that a Monitor section contains a

Re: [XFree86] Lacking organization

2003-09-11 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:17:23PM -0700, Dan Mergens wrote: I recently read a comment by a contributor who is tired of hearing the same questions over and over regarding configuration and I understand his complaint after responding to several posts. I believe this could be helped a great deal

Re: [XFree86] Support / This List

2003-09-11 Thread Peter Kozberski
On Tue 09 Sep, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: This is simply an observation with absolutely no insinuation intended. I don't don't want a flame war or a lecture about the support aspects of free software. I'm well aware: I'd simply like to start a discussion on how to help improve this

Re: [XFree86] /var/log/XFree86.0.log

2003-09-11 Thread Dan Mergens
I would suggest you first configure X using 'XFree86 -configure' while logged in as root. That will generate a config file which you should move into /etc/X11/XF86Config. (I suggest you backup your current XF86Config if it works at all). Then run XFree86 (no command line options). You should

[XFree86] Basic X Server Help (plus S-Video)

2003-09-11 Thread Bob Avery-Babel
Hello everyone. I recently thought it would be good to learn the ins and outs of the XFree86 config file. I had purchased a NVIDIA 440MX AGP Graphics card with S-Video out. I installed the drivers successfully from the Nvidia site. This is a Mandrake-Linux 9.1 box, generic Install. Upon

Re: [XFree86] Keyboard configuration for Alt chars

2003-09-11 Thread Ph Legay
Frank Murphy wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 12:56, Ph Legay wrote: Well, the modifier that it sees is Alt_L. You want it to see Mode_shift. You can cause this to happen by putting this into your .Xmodmap file: keysym Alt_L = Mode_switch Then run `xmodmap .Xmodmap` and the left alt key