On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
MH If the test is just to determine wether or not a 64bit
MH architecture is being built for, then __arch64__ is a better
MH test.
What is a 64 bit architecture?
Is it about address bus size? (The MC68020 is a 34-bit architecture?)
About data bus
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was trying to help find a solution, so I am not
motivated to go out of my way to submit a patch either. Two way
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compile it.
You mean there is a distribution that actually plans on shipping
4.4.0? ;o)
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autodetection in the radeon driver for
good in our latest bits. You might wish to upgrade to the new
release once it is available, as you'll likely find the system
runs much smoother.
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as time goes on. __arch64__ would fix
that also.
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Haywood Parker wrote:
When I run StartX I get errors.
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Fedora Core 1: 4.5.0-42)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-2.ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 24 October 2003
Build Host:
to not use the
traditional MIT/X11 license which is more shareable.
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and to log a warning to the log file
instead, so that the X server doesn't cause the system to hang if
the keyboard repeat rate ioctl fails for any reason.
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there as well, or
alternatively to set both of them to nomail perhaps.
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, and get user feedback as well, and report
back wether it fixes the problem or not.
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' undeclared (first use in this function)
lnx_io.c:216: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
lnx_io.c:216: for each function it appears in.)
I'm currently investigating this issue now as well. Will post
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together in pointing out such cases of human error in a friendly
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of these websites which need to be
fixed, in order to not mislead people into beleiving XFree86 is
MIT/X11 licensed.
Of course, others should visit both websites and draw their own
conclusions also, which will help to cut down on the FUD going
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after OS installation and
upgrading to the latest security updates is always a good idea
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and distributions which XFree86
supports which may not already ship minichinput, such as
commercial proprietary OSs however.
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Hat doesn't support this
driver on PPC of course however.
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priority item however, so
it'll take a week or two probably for a test build to get out
there and get some feedback from people seeing this problem.
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accepted, they'll go into the CVS head in future
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a window or something.
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/DRI parts.
Whoops, that was what I was talking about. I thought this thread was on
the DRI list until I just now looked.
Do we have at least 2d support for r300 cards in XFree86?
For over a year now, yes.
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mind and after mixing that in
my brain mixmaster with some Adams, I came up with the above.
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newer than what is in XFree86 CVS currently.
There's a separate development list on freedesktop.org for
discussion of 'kdrive' X server development also, which you might
find to be useful, as it is more specific to kdrive.
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to them) or not, but perhaps
someone else here knows of such a web page. If not, you might
want to search google though. I know you'll find the 3dfx docs
out there for the above mentioned cards.
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Microsoft's VGASAVE driver used in Windows' safe-mode.
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drivers by using startx
with commandline options.
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switches such as -version,
--version, -v, -V, --help or similar. Check the documentation
for a given command to see if it has a method to display it's
version number. Most applications do, however there is no one
method that works with all software.
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static
libs in an incompatible way to encourage people to not override
XFree86's defaults for shared libraries. ;o)
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, and having the required dependancies precompiled and
upgraded as need be. If it is a RHL 7.x or other release, all
bets are off, good luck, caveat emptor. ;o)
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, and install each dep. Eventually you'll get all of the
3-5 deps figured out, and can build the XFree86 rpm for RHL 8.0.
Others on xfree86-list have followed this and gotten it working
as well, so there are many there who can offer advice if you need
a hand.
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for, but the drivers may be buggy,
thus preventing the user from using X from the start, a new
driver is required, which can provide minimal unaccelerated 2D
video using VESA VBE and other fallbacks. Without that, it's
just a pipe dream.
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that users don't experience them to begin
with, that the focus should be on making things just work, to
avoid complex configuration, and any rocket science.
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to the files here.
It's possible your particular video card model is not supported,
however I'll need the above info first in order to
determine/advise.
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to be able to troubleshoot their problem, and more
likely to need help from someone else.
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, so I moved on to other
things.
If there is anything else that I have any priveledged access to
with the master XFree86 password, please immediately revoke my
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something changed recently with how cvsup access to the
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If someone from Intel could forward this to the proper person,
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could provide me with an Intel email address contact, I'd greatly
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the specifications, or reverse engineering.
Feel free to single step the video BIOS, and provide patches to
implement the desired functionality.
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try to pinpoint the problems on their systems. You need to
enable ForcePCIMode for it to work at all.
Be sure you are running the latest updates that have just been
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mode will be used assuming it is valid in the
current configuration, and specified.
You can use various tools to calculate your own video modes,
including the gtf tool which comes with 4.3.0.
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install 4.3.0
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of XFree86 4.3.0-2.90.43
which is a build of 4.3.0-43 rebuilt for RHL 9 which is almost
identical, and also has the Radeon IGP support. This should be
available either today or Monday I believe.
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practice, and move on without further discussion.
Thanks.
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something
works in the codebase that they don't understand, or asks for
clarification on something, they can't get a straight or clear
answer.
It's really no wonder volunteers get put off from contributing to
the XFree86 project.
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forgotten my wording.
My apologies for the flame.
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fontconfigs for quite a while now, so it shouldn't be too hard to
find prebuilt packages for many OS's also.
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, and then obfuscation scripts ran over them prior to
committing to the XFree86 tree?
Would cleanups that remove this obfuscation and make the driver
more readable be considered useful, and potentially accepted? Or
is there some other reason I'm missing as to why the driver is so
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provide
information on how to handle the hardware, so that would help me
also. I have to take a look at these.
Look at the driver source in XFree86 for foo_dga.c files for
example stuff.
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kernel
framebuffer driver, or BSD et al. Since no docs are available
for this hardware though, you may have a tough time doing
anything with it without the aide of someone familiar with the
hardware. Wish you the best of luck nonetheless.
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or not RedHat wants to continue supporting it.
I guess that's as good a way as any to determine wether it is
useful.
Any Linux or BSD vendors or distributions out there use/ship
mkxauth? If so, please speak up. ;o)
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, and I'm in
complete concurrence with you, is read the source Luke. ;o)
For the benefit of the original poster, the source of the drivers
is in:
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers
The source of the Nvidia proprietary drivers is in:
/dev/null
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really uses it anymore,
it might be best to just drop it from our distribution. I
haven't used it in many years myself now, and kindof assumed most
people use other mechanisms nowadays too, but didn't want to
remove it and face the wrath. ;o)
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out whatever configuration settings the CMOS was
set to, requiring you to reconfigure it manually first, but if
that isn't the problem, I'd consider this a newly introduced BIOS
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making
industries.
Hopefully this text file clarifies any confusion you might have
had concerning 24 vs. 32 bits with respect ot colour depth
between XFree86 and Windows.
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the latter with google. The
documentation blows goats but the tool works awesome once you
mess with it for hours and hours wasting time until you figure
out the right magic. ;o)
It's a godsend.
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+ on the other machine. But if the program is already running, is it
possible to do the equivalent? If this isn't possible currently, it
would be a really great thing to have in the future.
Search google for the applications xmove and x2x, also vnc might
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this chipset.
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, both reporting bugs, supplying patches, helping
track down various issues, and committing fixes to CVS, etc.,
etc.
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and got it running nicely. I'm
also on the list and will help if I see the post and have time.
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freetype has
installed the pkg-config metadata properly, pkg-config will give
you the information you need.
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to another, the 2nd head will shutdown. That bug is fixed
in the XFree86 4.3 (xf-4_3-branch) stable branch, CVS head, and
most Linux distribution's 4.3.0 builds.
Another option which is generally useful for dualhead is:
Monitorlayout CRT CRT
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to a
permission inconsistency.
make World WORLDOPTS=
will cause the build to fail immediately in all versions of
XFree86. I believe this has been made the default in CVS head.
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due to non-PIC code being used. I'll have
to have a look at this soon and port forward to HEAD if need be,
and send a patch in.
Not 100% sure that our problem is identical to this one though.
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of course mouse is crazy.
What kind of mouse are you using? Serial/USB/PS2, and what
brand/model? Sounds like you're having a problem with the mouse
driver trying to autodetect or probe your mouse.
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1024x768 800x600 640x480
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There is no quotation mark here.
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a rather old server and should upgrade to the latest
version. The current version of XFree86 X server is 4.3.0, which
should support that card ok.
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got a card that is not yet
officially supported, the variety of options I've presented above
should give you something useable in less than an hour, and give
hope for the future at least. ;o)
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, and will consume a lot of
memory in your system - some of that via the X server.
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that they prefer some other format of diff other than unified
diff.
I'm not particularly interested in your opinion nor your banter
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obsolete but they'll be around with us for years to come yet.
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a custom kernel, and _are_ using an official Red Hat
kernel, then please post your X server config file, log file, and
the output of /var/log/messages, as you are definitely
experiencing a unique problem.
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. It's actually agp_try_unsupported=1,
I made a typo above. Or for nonmodular agpgart kernels, it's a kernel
commandline option agp=try_unsupported
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set up what you want by reading the xhost manpage, and paying
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nothing to do
with what video modelines you use, although it does restrict
what modes are available to within the safe limits of the
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, I'd be more than happy if you'd do the
same to me, if for no other reason than I'd see both less of your
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a different name probably, and numerous other things.
All of the time that numerous people would spend on doing all of
that, would most likely be better spent on fixing bugs in the
code, and adding new features and improvements.
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enough and get your $0.0001 worth of memory wastage back. ;o)
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in the physical framebuffer memory,
they're overlaid visually in hardware.
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to .png later with one of a few methods. The Bluecurve cursors
were created all in one huge image, and then cut up into
individual icon files using Owen Taylor's icon-slicer app.
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it is, what other solutions there might be,
etc. etc. etc.
All of this lets stuff things in the kernel, because kernel code
is automatically 2 times faster right? stuff gets boring
fast.
Show me the code.
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also by default),
and those who don't actually want to use it or need it, can
disable it themselves as an end user configuration customization.
I feel this makes life the easiest for the largest amount of
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of advocacy for X, at least for that person isn't going to meet
their needs, even if you can get 1FPS in glxgears.
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it from the command prompt.
If it does not start, look in /var/log/messages and you will find
out why it is not starting.
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full. I seem to recall xfs was updated to do this anyway, but
I'd have to do a test setup to confirm it. Not a priority...
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