[XFree86] Re: Xv doesn't work any more

2005-03-11 Thread Greg Stark
Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Greg Stark wrote: Once upon a time Xv worked well and mplayer was happy. Now I seem to have a problem. Xv works when I first start X up and I can play movies in mplayer full screen at full speed. But soon it stops working. I

[XFree86] Re: Xv doesn't work any more

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Stark
Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm assuming by not working, it looks like it's working from a client point of view, but the overlay just never shows. Well, I imagine that's the case. Or else mplayer is just failing to detect the failure. Is there a canonical test program that

[XFree86] Xv doesn't work any more

2005-03-06 Thread Greg Stark
Once upon a time Xv worked well and mplayer was happy. Now I seem to have a problem. Xv works when I first start X up and I can play movies in mplayer full screen at full speed. But soon it stops working. I just get a blank blue window. Once it stops working it never starts again. I run xvinfo

[XFree86] Re: Xv doesn't work any more

2005-03-06 Thread Greg Stark
Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That sounds like a driver issue. You might want to look through the cvs history for suspicious changes. This one looks suspicious:

Re: Patch to TWM to make NoGrabServer affect resize as well as move

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Stark
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it is doing it to guarantee it can undraw its rubber banded xored lines to display the outline where u are moving to or resizing to. if you disable this you will get display artifacts and garbage on your screen if a program redraws or

Patch to TWM to make NoGrabServer affect resize as well as move

2004-10-07 Thread Greg Stark
I got annoyed at twm grabbing the server whenever I resized windows. I mean seriously annoyed. It freezes videos playing in other windows, even other screens. This plays havoc with streaming network connections. So I looked at the code. It doesn't seem to me that there's anything more special

[XFree86] Re: dpms and multiple monitors

2004-10-07 Thread Greg Stark
Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not seeing this problem with XFree86 4.4. I have two NVIDIA GeForce4 MX cards runninng the nv driver that comes with XFree86. On Thu, 27 Aug 2004, Greg Stark wrote: I have multiple displays on this X server. The X server doesn't seem to turn

[XFree86] Re: SyncOnGreen for Sun 1662b fixed resolution monitor?

2004-05-27 Thread Greg Stark
Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's worse than that (, he's dead, Jim). ... But the card has to be designed for SoG, or you need to build an external 5-to-3 adapter, which isn't guaranteed to work well. Really? Browsing the source I see tons of mentions of SyncOnGreen including

[XFree86] SyncOnGreen for Sun 1662b fixed resolution monitor?

2004-05-25 Thread Greg Stark
Which drivers and cards are capable of sync on green and what do I need to achieve it? I've put the ``Option SyncOnGreen'' in the Monitor section. Do I need a separate csync option somewhere? Browsing the source it seems not every driver implements this. I have a choice of three graphics cards:

[XFree86] GLINT bug

2003-10-27 Thread Greg Stark
I have my third monitor working now with the GLINT driver but I've noticed a strange screen corruption bug. It seems often i end up with purple bits on the screen. It seems to be due to some specific optimization as it affects specific areas of specific windows repeatably. And it seems to be

[XFree86] Multiple monitors in cyclic layout?

2003-10-26 Thread Greg Stark
I have three monitors running now. Two are in 800x600 and one in 1600x1200. Ideally I want them configured something like: /--\/--\ | || | | || | \--/| | /--\| | | || | | || | \--/\--/ Making it possible to go from any screen to any other screen.

[XFree86] Re: XGetWindowProperty returning null prop_return but nonzero nitems_return

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Stark
Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, that doesn't explain your behavior above. It's either an Xserver or Xlib bug (unlikely, IMO, this stuff doesn't change much at all), or a bug in the application code outside of what you have quoted. I'm sorry, I should have included the full

Re: [XFree86] Re: XGetWindowProperty returning null prop_return but nonzero nitems_return

2003-10-10 Thread Greg Stark
Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a\0b\0 The second will crash that loop. I forget if the termiminating NUL is required for WM_CLASS or not, but in any case you have to be robust about it not being there. So, uh, I confess I'm a bit at a loss. This isn't my code and I've never seen

Re: [XFree86] Re: TVP4010 + glint driver, RAMDAC problem and wont work

2003-09-23 Thread Greg Stark
Self-followup: Everything works fine as long as the TI card is the first one listed in the ServerLayout. If it isn't then the X server seems to wedge hard. Just to be clear. I tested: glint+atiworks glint+mgaworks mga+glint+atifails glint+mga+atiworks I could test the

[XFree86] Re: AGP 1x ?

2003-09-22 Thread Greg Stark
Ryan Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:52:58AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: I have a matrox G400 and just moved it to a brand new P4P800 motherboard. I know the G400 supports at least AGP 4x and the motherboard supports up to 8x. So I'm wondering why I still see

[XFree86] Re: TVP4010 + glint driver, RAMDAC problem and wont work

2003-09-22 Thread Greg Stark
Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XFree86 Version 4.2.1.1 (Debian 4.2.1-9 20030630175526 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) / X Window System You could try my binary drivers at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh and download the new XFree86 binary and the glint_drv.o. Just move your Debian

Re: [XFree86] Re: TVP4010 + glint driver, RAMDAC problem and wont work

2003-09-22 Thread Greg Stark
Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: O.k. With it being a three headed system, your gonna have to do some digging yourself. I don't have the combination of cards you have to replicate the problem. Oh sure. But I don't really know where to start. What could possibly cause a black screen

[XFree86] AGP 1x ?

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Stark
I have a matrox G400 and just moved it to a brand new P4P800 motherboard. I know the G400 supports at least AGP 4x and the motherboard supports up to 8x. So I'm wondering why I still see this in my XFree86 logs: (==) MGA(0): Using AGP 1x mode Do I have to do something special to make use of the

[Xpert]Re: Mouse no longer working in Quake3?

2002-12-12 Thread Greg Stark
I see the exact same thing. starting with +set in_dgamouse 0 doesn't help either. As far as I know that mode doesn't use DGA at all so I can't even figure out how this could fail. Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just noticed that the mouse no longer works in Quake3. The only

[Xpert]TVP4010 + glint driver, RAMDAC problem and wont work

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Stark
I tried an old graphics card that was lying around and ran into a problem with the glint driver. This old message from January seems to indicate it's been noticed before but I guess the problem is still present in 4.2.1 I tried attachign the log file but that put the message over the limit for

[Xpert]Re: Bug with virtual screen panning and mouse positioning

2002-11-13 Thread Greg Stark
[I sent this message yesterday but it hasn't appeared on the mailing list and I haven't received any notice about it being held or anything. Sorry if the other eventually shows up and this is a duplicate] Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The log shows you are only using the

[Xpert]Re: Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-10 Thread Greg Stark
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which of these three is the default? Which is likely to work if the default isn't working? Given the excerpts from the log below it looks like like it's using DDC2? Should I try noDDC2 then? Incidentally I just tried noDDC2 and there was no change

[Xpert]Re: But *why* no vblank?

2002-11-01 Thread Greg Stark
Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Around 15 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: What? Did you just say you're going to delay flushing the data to the server until some time after the retrace happens (there's a significant latency there) and you think the X-server is actually

[Xpert]moderated posting by non-members?

2002-10-30 Thread Greg Stark
I posted a message before subscribing that was held for moderator approval. Should I resend it or will the moderators eventually approve it? -- greg ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert