CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 09:29:06 Log message: Formatting cleanup. Replace the variety of formatting styles used in this code with the preferred XFree86 formatting style. No functional changes. Modified files:

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 09:58:36 Log message: Change traditional function definitions to prototype style definitions. Modified files: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/: aoutloader.c coffloader.c

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 10:30:22 Log message: warning fixes when ELFDEBUG is defined Modified files: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/: elfloader.c Revision ChangesPath 1.60 +35

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 10:46:01 Log message: build and warning fixes when AOUTDEBUG is defined Modified files: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/loader/: aoutloader.c Revision ChangesPath 1.20

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread Matthieu Herrb
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 14:18:51 Log message: Add missing symbol definition files for libraries (Matthieu Herrb). Added files: xc/lib/FS/: FS-def.cpp xc/lib/xkbfile/: xkbfile-def.cpp

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread Matthieu Herrb
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 14:23:42 Log message: Build most libraries as shared by default. Modified files: xc/config/cf/: X11.tmpl OpenBSDLib.tmpl xc/lib/xkbfile/: Imakefile xc/lib/xkbui/:

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread Matthieu Herrb
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 15:47:48 Log message: declare cross-libraries dependencies for new shared libs Modified files: xc/config/cf/: bsdLib.tmpl darwinLib.tmpl lnxLib.tmpl xc/lib/xkbfile/:

CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs Module name:xc Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/15 15:51:48 Log message: remove tag Modified files: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/: xf86Config.c Revision ChangesPath 3.277 +1 -3

xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Marcel . Stegehuis
I have installed the minimal set of packages with RedHat 9.0 and have installed XFree86 xfs later using rpm. XFS is not running after reboot while it is in init.d and rc.d[12345]. Anyone know what causes this behaviour. Regards, Marcel Stegehuis ___

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Måns Rullgård
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to find specs for implementing hardware RENDER support for my graphics card. I have the specs for the card. The problem is that nobody seems to know what the various RENDER functions in a driver are supposed to do, or what the structs

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Alexander Shopov wrote: Quite frankly... random uninformed people making claims that X is slow, without any shred of a clue or properly deduced scientifically measured and reproduceable instrumented data, will always be out there. We can't stop people from spreading

Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:10:01 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: xfs install on RedHat machine I have installed the minimal set of packages with

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Alexander Shopov
The _only_ answer that matters is the technical/scientific one. End users opinions about how things Technically and scientifically you are right and I agree with you, but not everyone has the patience for the scientific side. I as sorry as you are about this thing, but some magic some times

Re: Problem with ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LW

2003-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 10:33, Dimitris S. Economou wrote: Hi all, I have recently bought a Compaq evo N610C laptop and I'm encountering a problem with the graphics card adapter. The display is flickering producing a distortion in the displayed image. While the display is in this destorted

Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Burghart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the minimal set of packages with RedHat 9.0 and have installed XFree86 xfs later using rpm. XFS is not running after reboot while it is in init.d and rc.d[12345]. Anyone know what causes this behaviour. Regards, Marcel Stegehuis I saw a similar problem

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread Grant Wallace
--- Kieran O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would it be used? I wonder if you are not making life more difficult than it needs to be. Actually the more I think about the more I really want to know the answer to thoes

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread david mattatall
On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:03, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote: Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would it be used? 1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the

Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris Burghart wrote: I saw a similar problem recently; essentially, the init.d/xfs script was being run, but no xfs got started and there was no clue in the logs about what was failing. Then I realized that my root filesystem was full. After I cleaned up some space and

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, david mattatall wrote: Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would it be used? 1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the cursors should

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Craig Ringer
What is funny however, is that any alternative to X, is more or less functionally useless until someone writes an X server for it for most general purpose computing. Well, it would really only /require/ an xlib-compatable interface, but everybody seems to port XFree86 to run as a client to

VIA's Savage Drivers

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Roberts
Some months ago, VIA released an XFree86 Savage driver in source form that included, among other things, a DRI driver and XvMC support. Has that code been integrated into the XFree86 source tree? Will it make XFree86 4.4? Or is it still waiting in limbo for someone to do the integration? -- -

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
CR Benchmarking is a bit like academic tests. It proves that you're good CR at the benchmark, not at the task. You can't cheat at a benchmark. (To be a little bit less cryptical: benchmarks are all we've got to make sure we're making sense in our design and implementation. In the right hands,

Re: Export symbol lists on Linux (was Re: RFC Marking private symbols in XFree86 shared libraries as private)

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: I'd say it would be better to reuse *-def.cpp files (didn't know something like that existed). I've preprocessed all *-def.cpp files included in XFree86/xc/lib, gathered all symbols currently exported from XFree86 shared libraries,

Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
Oh my! Judging from the large number of *flames* I got for suggesting it, I guess a kernel module for X is not such a good idea after all. Oh well, I hope it was at least worth brainstorming. XFree86 *might* wish to consider a modulette to cover things that userland CAN'T do, like AGP, DMA,

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-15 Thread Tim Roberts
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:38:44 +, Raymond Jennings wrote: Oh well, I hope it was at least worth brainstorming. Brainstorming is (almost) never a bad idea. XFree86 *might* wish to consider a modulette to cover things that userland CAN'T do, like AGP, DMA, IRQ, and so on. AGP stuff can be

Re: VIA's Savage Drivers

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:50:40AM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: Some months ago, VIA released an XFree86 Savage driver in source form that included, among other things, a DRI driver and XvMC support. Has that code been integrated into the XFree86 source tree? Will it make XFree86 4.4? Or is

RE: Kernel Module? On second thought... plus OT: Flame fest

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Chemko
Does the notion of a kernel module have ANY merit at all? Or was the idea complete garbage? Obviously your idea isn't complete rubbish, but you are preaching to a very particular crowd, so you need to make sure you're ideas aren't contrary to their personal biases, sad isn't it? Ok, now that

Re: More details about a kernel module (by GPfault)

2003-10-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
Hmm... An IOCTL shouldn't have any more overhead than reading or writing to a file... I'd think that the kernel is lightning fast at *dispatching* the IOCTL. Handling it is something else entirely and depends on how long the device driver decides to take. It's device specific. I don't

Re: Forgiviness! I repent!

2003-10-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Raymond Jennings wrote: Oh great XFree86 spirits! Please forgive my transgressions! I have sinned in ignorance! I repent! (:D) It was I who suggested the kernel module. It has since been considered heresy. My apologies. There's nothing wrong with kernel modules,

Re: More details about a kernel module (by GPfault)

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On the scale of the speed of graphics operations, IOCTLs are very expensive. Compare how many IOCTLs a second you can do compared to things like triangle rates of modern graphics hardware (which are over a 100 Million a second). Mark. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Raymond

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: VIA's Savage Drivers

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2003-10-15 at 21:07, Alex Deucher wrote: the 3D drvier needs to be updated to mesa 5.x. Not much work has been done on it and I think there are some issues with the 2D driver. There's no way it will make it into 4.4.0. the current code is on a branch in DRI cvs. If you are

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: VIA's Savage Drivers

2003-10-15 Thread Alex Deucher
Alan, that's the CLE266/via driver, right? the savage driver is still barely touched as far as I know. there was some talk of shelving the old savage_1-0-0 branch and starting a new one on savage_1-0-1 since the old one needed so many changes to get synced up to the trunk. Alex --- Alan Cox

[Fonts] Humor... management...

2003-10-15 Thread iamatul
Tricks about Management... Define for yourself who is a GOOD Manager and who is a BAD Manager... A so called bad manager... 1. Gives you tasks which you cannot complete... a.k.a. wild goose chase... 2. Takes insult on the smallest issues. Yells, screams and expresses authority.

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Re: Re: [XFree86] SOLUTION: ATI: no screens available RedHat 9.00 (an d other problems)

2003-10-15 Thread Chris Torske
From what I have found from my own experience with a model close to yours, Radeon 7200. To get it so you get a screen, you need to disable hard acceleration. I have yet to see if it is truely supported for this series. As I had the exact same problem for a while. A easy way so you can disable

Re: [XFree86] SOLUTION: ATI: no screens available RedHat 9.00 (and other problems)

2003-10-15 Thread tukaram raghmod
hi sir/madam, i had successfully installed mandrake linux 9.0(dolphin) on my system.when i say stratx itis giving the problem, when i givestartx command it is giving the error that isscreens found but none have usable configurations . i had tried to setup XFree86 file by the command XF86Config

Re: [XFree86] two monitors/kbds/mice

2003-10-15 Thread Aivils Stoss
I want to allow my brother to use the computer from his room. I was thinking of adding a second graphics card but would this solve the problem? You can read docs here: http://startx.times.lv http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/ Remember, monitor and usb cables has very

[XFree86] Colon and underscore on Dvorak

2003-10-15 Thread Magnus Engström
Hi, I'm using the dvorak layout on XFree86 4.3 (setxkbmap dvorak), and when I have capslock on, I can't produce underscores or colons. I just get the regular keys. It's the same if I bind any other key than the QWERTY , . and -. Is there something fundamentally wrong with the keyboard driver or

[XFree86] No screens found.

2003-10-15 Thread Balencourt , Michel
Hi, I have a problem with starting my graphic interface on my Linux station. I already tried to install a newer version of Xfree86, and updated my graphic driver (RadeOn 9100) that I found on the ATI website. Once I did the update, and tried to open with startx, it tries to

[XFree86] Re: Problem with XServer

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, sunil wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:19:59 +0530 From: sunil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: Multipart/related; type=multipart/alternative; boundary=Boundary-00=_B38S6RO0 Subject: Problem with XServer The problem reported

Re: [XFree86] nvidia quadro 280: cannot start x

2003-10-15 Thread praveen kallakuri
Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: hi i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision 360. i got the driver from nvidia's website and installed it. i really think its not a driver issue but something fundamental with X.

[XFree86] bug report, x server output told me to mail :)

2003-10-15 Thread Redeeman
i will include both server crash logs, first i used the nvidia driver with experimental 2d acceleration, then i disabled it, and rebooted (to avoid stuff that might happen else) and then it crashed again :-/ i have attached both log files, i hope it will help you guys -- Regards, Redeeman

[XFree86] About XForceScreenSaver

2003-10-15 Thread Selvarajan Balasubramanian
Hi, I have written a small program which uses XForceScreenSaver(). The program to reset the ScreenSaver settings in a desktop session. After the sucessful compilation it is not deactivating the ScreenSaver setting. I have tried the same program with different mode (ScreenSaverActive and

[XFree86] 2 destops 1 mouse

2003-10-15 Thread Ashendra Singh
hello, i have 2 desktops on 2 separate gfx cards. currently i am able to move between destops with my mouse, which is not what i want. how do i stop my single mouse from entering the second destop?? (using xfree864.3.99.9) thanks ___ XFree86 mailing

Re: [XFree86] 2 destops 1 mouse

2003-10-15 Thread Ashendra Singh
never mind, figured out how, just use the Relative option in ServerLayout hello, i have 2 desktops on 2 separate gfx cards. currently i am able to move between destops with my mouse, which is not what i want. how do i stop my single mouse from entering the second destop?? (using

[XFree86] x window radio button question

2003-10-15 Thread Anna Simbirtsev
I have a question, I have a menu and a submenu. Both use radio buttons. How can I make it so that a menu and a submenu act as one group of radio buttons? Example: if I select a button in a submenu, the previously selected button in a main menu should get unselected. The same if I select a button

[XFree86] Trouble in virtual machine

2003-10-15 Thread Martín Ríos
Hello:     Could you help me with this trouble. I cant start X console with the startx command in Red Hat Advanced Server running in virtual machine (VMware WorkStation 4.0.5) . I have installed VMware tools, but not start anyway. The message error is attach to this mail.

Re: [XFree86] How to Disable X Window ?

2003-10-15 Thread Solomon I. Shorser
try Ctrl-Alt-f1 to go to text mode. to get back into graphical mode try Ctrl-Alt-F7. to kill X, try Ctrl-Alt-backspace. I don't know if this works on every system, but it works on mine (redhat 9, kernel 2.4.20-20.9, X 4.3.0) ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] No screens found.

2003-10-15 Thread Risenhoover, Paul
You need to send the XFree86.0.log file (look in /var/log) and your /etc/X11/XF86Config file Balencourt , Michel wrote: Hi, I have a problem with starting my graphic interface on my Linux station. I already tried to install a newer version of Xfree86, and updated my graphic

Re: [XFree86] How to Disable X Window ?

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
I don't understand the question. Do you mean you are trying to install Linux and the graphical install doesn't work because the XFree86 version your Linux distro comes with doesn't support your video card? Most distros have non-graphical install modes. Mark. On

Re: [XFree86] After turn off eletrical my host can't start Xwindows.

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
You need to start your font server. This is an interesting data point you introduce. We frequently get reports of X stopping working with that error message on Red Hat systems. We never understand why the xfs (the font server) just stops working. It sounds like it may be related to not

Re: [XFree86] nvidia quadro 280: cannot start x

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, praveen kallakuri wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: hi i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision 360. i got the driver from nvidia's website and installed it. i really

Re: [XFree86] bug report, x server output told me to mail :)

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
If it's crashing when running something font intensive you are probably running into a known FreeType bug. In the XF86Config file try replacing: Load freetype with Load xtt Mark. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Redeeman wrote: i will include both server crash logs, first

[XFree86] Please Help

2003-10-15 Thread Trinanjan Sengupta
I have Windows XP Professional along with Red Hat Linux 7.2 . I configures X during installation,but it fails to run. On using XFree86 -configure its gives a fatal error message :Failed to mmap PciMemory. What do i do now ? Please Help. Yours sincerely -Trinanjan Sengupta [EMAIL

[XFree86] I need Technical help

2003-10-15 Thread viju
Sir, I am using red hat linux-8. But I can't start the graphical user. My vedio addaptor is S3 Trio 64V2. When enter startx the following message is present. (==) log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, time: wed oct 15 22: 30 21 2003 (==) using config file: /etc/X11/XF86config (EE) No devices

[XFree86] How to adjust gamma with SiS 740?

2003-10-15 Thread Markus Karg
I am using XF86 within SuSE 8.2, on a laptop with onboard SiS 740 graphics. The LCD of this machine is _very_ bright, and has a bad gamma curve: all dark grey is nearly black, all light greay is nearly white. I tried to adjust the gamma value of X, but the driver seems to ignore that (maybe not

[XFree86] Savage on biostart mother board can't start the X system

2003-10-15 Thread M Aquino
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No devices detected. is there some option to change for this type of mother board or depend of the XFree86 config file to fix this regards Marco _ Add MSN 8

Re: [XFree86] All annoying error in I830WaitLpRing() in some details

2003-10-15 Thread David Dawes
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:25:17AM +0300, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: bang! this is it: the bug still exist, at least on i830m (like in my case). setting NoAccel true is turning off Xaa functions for first. linux people did so. i did too, but with no success :( I've tried very hard and I'm

[XFree86] Mouse troubles

2003-10-15 Thread Ra alex
Hello, my name is al, i live in russia and i am using altlinux master 2.2 OS. The reason of my request is troubles with mouse, it moves randomly pushing buttons. I got logitech ps/2 mouse model M-S48a. Please give detailed instructions how to fix it. I tried to use mousedrake - no suitable

Re: [XFree86] nvidia quadro 280: cannot start x SOLVED

2003-10-15 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:58:58PM -0400, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, praveen kallakuri wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: hi i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision

[SOLUTION] Re: [XFree86] Setting up a Hercules 3D Prophet 7000 Dual-head]

2003-10-15 Thread Alon Weinstein
Problem solved. Adding MonitorLayout CRT,CRT to the first device solved the problem, and I have two monitors running. I'm now using CVS XFree86 (4.3.99.14). Thanks alot Alex everyone else. Alon. Alex Deucher wrote: Sorry, in the device section. you should only need it on screen 0, but you

Re: [XFree86] Cirrus 5446

2003-10-15 Thread Eduardo Huertas
El Lun 13 Oct 2003 23:59, Egbert Eich escribió: Eduardo Huertas writes: Hi, I've been having problems configuring a Cirrus Logic 5446 even though your site says it is supported. That's euphemism. It probably should be changed. The chipset is supported because the driver knows about

Re: [XFree86] How to Disable X Window ?

2003-10-15 Thread Andrea Santilli
Scott Yee ha scritto: Dear, How to disable X Window for upgrade XFree86 ver 4.3.0 Thank you. iSoS Software (M) Sdn.Bhd. Name : Scott Yee Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department : Technical Engineer (Customer Support Department) URL :

Re: [XFree86] Graah! Andrew...less angry.

2003-10-15 Thread jayjwa
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Andrew A. Gill wrote: OK. Two recompiles later and I'm running twm. So now I just need to go yell at the Gnome people. Hey, TWM rocks! I love simple. I have kde, fluxbox, blackbox, mwm, afterstep, fvwm2, fvwm95, windowmaker, xfce and that one gets the most. X- when it

Re: [XFree86] How to adjust gamma with SiS 740?

2003-10-15 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Markus Karg wrote: I am using XF86 within SuSE 8.2, on a laptop with onboard SiS 740 graphics. The LCD of this machine is _very_ bright, and has a bad gamma curve: all dark grey is nearly black, all light greay is nearly white. I tried to adjust the gamma value of X, but the driver seems to