don't know how to use the LD_PRELOAD hack to get the id of a process creating a window

2004-03-25 Thread dave giffin
I appreciate all the feedback from people so quickly on my previous message. I read Carsten Haitzler's message about creating a library and getting x apps to load it via the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. This sounds like the best option for me. But, I'm not sure how to actually do it. I

Re: how to convert a window ID to a linux process ID?

2004-03-25 Thread Marcus Schaefer
Hi, _NET_WM_PID is a VOLUNTARY property set by some apps if they want to. not all x apps will set this - so windows wont necessarily have this property. see my LD_PRELOAD hack for forcing a process id property to be set on ALL toplevel windows of apps run under the preload Yes now I

Re: how to convert a window ID to a linux process ID?

2004-03-25 Thread Rick Beldin
Perhaps some thought should be given to modify Xlib in a manner similar to the way Xt is modified with the XtDebug resource. It sets the _MIT_OBJ_CLASS property on the window with the widget instance name and the application class name.This is happening in Intrinsic.c in RealizeWidget().

Bug: mailing list woes

2004-03-25 Thread Kean Johnston
Hi, I am having a lot of trouble posting to this list. Only a subset of the messages I sent are making it back to me. I tried mailing postmaster, to no avail. Can someone look into what may be going wrong? Thank you. Kean ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Enabling mouse on X Server

2004-03-25 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Suresh wrote: I have ported X server on to my reference board based on Intel's Strong Arm, When I connected a USB optical wheel mouse to the USB port the mouse doesn't work: The mouse pointer appears on the screen, dmesg cmd also show that the system has identified the device (including details

Re: Bug: mailing list woes

2004-03-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:03:44PM -0800, Kean Johnston wrote: Hi, I am having a lot of trouble posting to this list. Only a subset of the messages I sent are making it back to me. I tried mailing postmaster, to no avail. Can someone look into what may be going wrong? Thank you. Do you know if

Re: make install and nfs

2004-03-25 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:36:13PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On a thin client, one without development tools, it's `Cannot find a rule to build /usr/include/stdio.h' and similar failures during the dependency checks. The only way I see to stop these is for `make install' to not do dependency

vesa and ati driver problems

2004-03-25 Thread Lee Olsen
Hello all; A couple of things I found while sorting out multihead isa systems: The vesa driver's probe looks like this: /* VGA has one more read/write attribute register than EGA */ (void) inb(GenericIOBase + VGA_IN_STAT_1_OFFSET); /* Reset flip-flop */ outb(VGA_ATTR_INDEX, 0x14 |

[XFree86] Asus Pundit and xv - what's your experience

2004-03-25 Thread Robert Rozman
Hi, I'm recently posting about my problems with Asus Pundit slow xv performance (Suse 9.0, P4 2.4G , xfree 4.4, sis 651 chipset - I get with xvtest around 200 FPS). Obviously I have no obvious options to tackle this problem (Thomas ran out of ideas), so would like to ask about your experiences,

[XFree86] .Xdefaults not taken

2004-03-25 Thread Edouard Debry
hello, I put in one .Xdefaults some defaults parameters for xterm such as reverseVideo (true) and so on ... then I run the cmdline : xrdb -merge .Xdefaults, to load these defaults but after this when for example typing xterm on cmd line, I realized that my defaults were not taken into account,

[XFree86] starting X from a script

2004-03-25 Thread Meghazi Fabien
Hi, I try to start X from a script, but I get this message : X: user not autorized to run the X server, aborting. Did I miss somthing ? Should i export an ENV variable or something ? -- Fabien Meghazi ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [XFree86] Asus Pundit and xv - what's your experience

2004-03-25 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Robert Rozman wrote: Hi, I'm recently posting about my problems with Asus Pundit slow xv performance (Suse 9.0, P4 2.4G , xfree 4.4, sis 651 chipset - I get with xvtest around 200 FPS). Obviously I have no obvious options to tackle this problem (Thomas ran out of ideas), so would like to ask

Re: [XFree86] No Cursor

2004-03-25 Thread Jean Krebs Fonseca
Thanks for the answers, it should not be difficult. But I'll try Mark's tip first, to use xsetroot, since I'm gonna write the application myself, so I won't render a cursor from there. On Wednesday 24 March 2004 17:44, Kelvin wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:24:42AM -0300, Jean Krebs Fonseca

[XFree86] crash with 4.4.0

2004-03-25 Thread Bryan Gin-ge Chen
x server crashes after running glxinfo, but not if I run glxgears first... Another new issue is the warning: (WW) TRIDENT(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xfc00,0x200) In the kernel log, it displays: Mar 25 07:00:29 gin-ge kernel: mtrr: 0xfc00,0x200 overlaps existing

Re: [XFree86] Asus Pundit (sis 651) : High CPU usage in xv ? - solved

2004-03-25 Thread Robert Rozman
Hi, I've solved my problems. I've searched faqs and found this one: a.. Xv is terribly slow and takes 30% CPU time or more. What's wrong? b.. As of 06/05/2003, there is a confirmed bug in the SuSE 8.2 XFree 4.3 packages and probably in XFree 4.3 packages of some other distributions as well. I

[XFree86] end of block range 0xffb begin 0xfffffffc ???????

2004-03-25 Thread hAPPY-j
This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository

Re: [XFree86] end of block range 0xffb begin 0xfffffffc ???????

2004-03-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
There's not really enough info to go on there, but it looks like a motherboard BIOS bug. Can we see the output of /proc/pci ? Whatever is at 0xf800 (not the video card) seems to be overlapping another device. The server quit before enough info was printed out to determine which devices.

Re: [XFree86] Asus Pundit and xv - what's your experience

2004-03-25 Thread Robert Rozman
Thomas, I'd like to personally thank you for your effort. It seems like XvMemcpy setting was solution for me, althought it says in faq that this problem should be gone with newer versions of xfree (I have 4.4). I think that maybe stressing this setting little more would prevent someone else

[XFree86] Please Help

2004-03-25 Thread Darrel Irwin
Hello; I am new to Linux (Red Hat 8.0) and Have been trying to get this version to run on an Intel - 2.0 gZ HP Pavilion. I have researched and read loads of instructions on how to -installxfree86 4.3.0to get my graphics card to work (I have a 82845G/GL controler). I think I need help.I

[XFree86] X not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please forgive the brevity but this is my fifth try and so far none of my post have made it to the list. After kernel upgrade X windows won't work can anyone please give me a pointer. Here are some files if this posts I will elaborate Thanks Gary Fazenbaker XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux 9

[XFree86] dual dvi support

2004-03-25 Thread Daniel Fisher
Does the latest nv driver support the dual headed dvi connection on the GeForce FX 5200? Specifically I want to use two X screens or Xinerama. I'm using the 4.3 release and wondering if I should upgrade. (The nvidia driver doesn't work in this setup on FreeBSD.) Thanks. --Daniel Fisher

[XFree86] Please help with Eurocom 8500V

2004-03-25 Thread Andre Hassan
Dear XFree86, I hope you can help me without too much bother. I am attempting to install RH 9.0 on a Eurocom 8500V notebook (made by Clevo, also 8500V). The problem is as follows: CD boot crashes error 104 (X related) - I gave up on upgrade and went for full install, only linux text install

Re: [XFree86] X not working after kernel upgrade

2004-03-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive the brevity but this is my fifth try and so far none of my post have made it to the list. After kernel upgrade X windows won't work can anyone please give me a pointer. Looks to me like you have no mouse support in your new

Re: [XFree86] dual dvi support

2004-03-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
The nv driver doesn't support dual head operation. Mark. On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Daniel Fisher wrote: Does the latest nv driver support the dual headed dvi connection on the GeForce FX 5200? Specifically I want to use two X screens or Xinerama. I'm using the 4.3

[XFree86] X10: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer)

2004-03-25 Thread jamas sumeral
To whom it may concern, I'm having problems getting X to run. I have a PNY Technologies GeForce MMX 440 AGP / TwinView. I use the TV Out as my primary display. I get a Fatal server error: No Screens Found when I try to startx. Attached is a copy of my XF86Config file and my XFree86.0.log file.

[XFree86] Invalid email address

2004-03-25 Thread mail
Unfortunately the email you sent to Sense Internet has not been delivered. We are no longer using the sensei.co.uk domain for company email in our ongoing fight against spam. Please update your address book replacing @sensei.co.uk in the email address with @sense.co.uk, and resend your email.

[XFree86] startx from console

2004-03-25 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello All, I am a gentoo user, but got no response to this question on that list. I have an ati 9700pro graphics card, configured to give dri using fglrxconfig.This produces an ati section in XF86Config-4 using driver fglrx. X starts normally using xdm/kdm and direct rendering=yes. When I do