Re: [XFree86] mga For Matrox 450

2003-07-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
Hi Hasseb, I can't do much more than share my experience but perhaps that will be enough. I am currently using a G550 with XFree86 v4.3.0. The hardware overlay works very well for me, i.e. I get 24 plane TrueColor visuals and an 8 plane PseudoColor visual. I have done 2 things beyond

Re: [XFree86] 8+24 overlay

2003-06-28 Thread Malcolm Stevens
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 10:07 PM, Andy Goth wrote: On Friday, June 27, 2003 7:45 am, Malcolm Stevens wrote: On the same topic of 8+24 overlay, my ibook, when running Apple's X11, provides 24 bit truecolor visuals and an 8 bit pseudocolor visual. Does anyone know how this is done? If I

Re: [XFree86] 8+24 overlay

2003-06-27 Thread Malcolm Stevens
I've tried a few different things to make this work specifically for Cadence tools. I've never gotten Xnest to do what I wanted but I have to admit I didn't try too hard. Vnc can sort of do some of what you need but it's slow and cumbersome. I've done the multiple X server thing too and

[XFree86] 4.3.0 Xserver segmentation fault crash

2003-06-19 Thread Malcolm Stevens
I believe I have run into a nasty interaction between XFree86 and one of the tools I'm using. The tool in question is simvision from Cadence (simulation waveform display tool) and something I do in one of its windows seems to cause an XServer crash. I'm not sure exactly what precipitates the

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
to support such high frequencies, leading to artifacts. My monitor claims to have 250 MHz bandwidth. It looks OK in both these modes. Mark. On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: Regarding: nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
. My monitor claims to have 250 MHz bandwidth. It looks OK in both these modes. Mark. On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: Regarding: nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ XFree86

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
not being able to support such high frequencies, leading to artifacts. My monitor claims to have 250 MHz bandwidth. It looks OK in both these modes. Mark. On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: Regarding: nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200 Email: [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 08:11 PM, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: Some more info... Hope it helps. 1920x1440 @ 75Hz is the one that has problems. 1920x1440 @ 60Hz looks good. I pulled the modeline info from the source code and specified the 60Hz one

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-24 Thread Malcolm Stevens
On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 08:17 PM, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Malcolm Stevens wrote: I know I run the risk of bugging you too much but this should be the last for now. I did some experimenting with the hardware acceleration setup and found that the ScreenToScreenCopy

[XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200

2003-03-22 Thread Malcolm Stevens
Regarding: nv driver misbehaves on geforce 2 MX @ greater than 1600x1200 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XFree86 Version: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 OS: Linux 2.4.18-27.8.0 (updated redhat 8.0) Area: Xserver Server: XFree86 (The XFree86 4.x