[XFree86] Re: [Xpert] Re: [Xpert]XFree86 mailing list consolidation

2003-01-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
this list. Michael asked about [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin replied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] While http://marc.theaimsgroup.com shows many @xfree86.org lists, like Michael I don't see [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] Unsubscribe?

2003-01-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
are clever enough to parse this and present it to you in a convenient way, but if yours is not you should be able to follow those instructions. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Linux Graphics Display on VMWare

2003-01-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
apart from the X Windows. I'd try using the vmware driver instead of the ati driver. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [xfree86] it's been nice

2003-01-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, in such a way that every developer only gets a few calls, and every call gets to someone who can assist with that problem ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] Incorrect DPI calculation

2003-01-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, but there is no way for the server to tell the app the new value (unless the RENDER extension make s it possible this). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] KDrive/TinyX font server problem

2003-01-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Boris wrote: Xvesa -fp tcp/192.168.0.1:7100 Could not init font path element tcp/192.168.0.1:7100, removing from list! Some font servers list on :-1, others on :7100 :7100 was the standard, but :-1 is more secure (other machines can't access it). -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: [XFree86] Intel 845 Support

2003-01-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
to help Xconfigurator know about the i845. In the latest XFree86 the i810 driver knowns about the i845. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o The i810 DRI module doesn't know about the i845 - i810_dri.so is no help; i830_dri.o might help, but I don't know. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] Have you dropped radeon 7200 support?

2003-01-20 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
in saying anything until we have worked out a solution, or until we need to contact you for more information. I'm afraid the sad truth is that we cannot assign an engineer to every bug report we recieve, and contact you to say that we are dealing with your problem. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] Hooking on drawing operations

2003-01-21 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
is finished when the driver has finished its action and returns to the server. shadowfb does software rendering and then updates rectangles that change. The shadowfb and other code in miext handle clip boxes; you might get some hints there. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer

Re: [XFree86] overlay support on matrix G400

2003-01-21 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the available visuals :-( -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] Matrox G550 + DVI

2003-01-21 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, but I've found that the version shipped with Red Hat 8.0 does not use this module even if it is available. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] linux-drm-4.2.0-kernelsource.tar.gz alanh

2003-01-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
of coffee. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] multihead with multiple mice and keyboards?

2003-01-24 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
it should run on whichever console you wish. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [XFree86] DPMS not working with DVI

2003-01-24 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
go in some other sections (flags ?). If it still isn't working, your driver has a bug or a misfeature. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] DPMS not working with DVI

2003-01-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] DPMS not working with DVI

2003-01-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
:) Moving the mouse or pressing a key immediately retores the display. This is with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE with XFree86 4.2.1 compiled from source via the ports tree and with the Matrox drivers compiled from source. I'm using latest CVS, if that makes a difference. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] Simultaneously active X servers

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
at http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ stops the X server from switching VTs. However you might be better off just running a dual head server (without xinerama if you wish) as that is likely to have been better tested. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS

Re: [XFree86] Bug: mga_hal and latest X

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
for 4.2.99.4 and someone added some code to detect and check whether the mga_hal module exists. I'm probably doing this wrong, but it does seem to me, naively, that I have the mga_hal module, loading it, yet it isn't being detected. Which item in the changelog is this ? -- Dr. Andrew C

man pages - was Re: [XFree86] Rules for an Autoreply bot

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Don wrote: The MGA(4) man page mentions nothing about HAL and does not even mention the G450 and G550 graphics cards. The CVS version of the man page fixes this. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] Volunteering

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
: as a volounteer they can't easily say Don do this, Andrew do that, so there is little point in keeping a list of who might do something. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Bug: mga_hal and latest X

2003-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga_driver.c?rev=1.231content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Beyond that I think we have a may have a political problem as much as a technical one. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] DDC problem with g550

2003-02-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
methods of DDC detection fail on normal operation, X now attempts the method used by X -configure, which seems to work on most of the problem systems. If this breaks your setup, then Option NoDDC will make the server behave the way it did before. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer

Re: [XFree86] Re: DDC problem with g550

2003-02-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
it. If the log file reports XFree86 Version 4.2.99.4 it probably doesn't include this patch. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] [BUG] The /*-+ keys on the numeric keypad won't repeatin current CVS

2003-02-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
keyboard with us map, and others as well, so it seems to be something generic. I'm getting it on a GB (102? key) keyboard. NumLock and Scroll Lock keys are disabled too. It might also be worth checking that the magic-sysreq stuff is OK ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] 4.2.99.4 and mga dualhead -crash

2003-02-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
a look at a proper fix, but does this workaround work: if you add: Option NoDDC to each Device section, and put back libvbe.a does it work ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

DDC on dual head - was Re: [XFree86] 4.2.99.4 and mga dualhead

2003-02-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
testing, I've noticed that the mga driver always reports DDC info for the first head. Are there any drivers which give correct DDC info for the second head, or does anyone else have suggestions as to how to fix this ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] Pseudo 8bit over 24bit display

2003-02-08 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
of time to work on it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] Matrox Millenium and SyncOnGreen

2003-02-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
to the composite-video in on a SCART socket, and enabling sync-on-green. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86

Re: [XFree86] Cannot open mylinux:0.0

2003-02-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
cookie management transparent and use it all the time instead of telnet. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86

Re: [XFree86] Does XFree86-4.2.1 support GB18030.2000?

2003-02-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
that encoding made it into current CVS, in which case it will be available in XFree86 v4.3. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [XFree86] xrx and libxrx

2003-02-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
allow a web browser to replace an X server such as Exceed. Without windows support for it, it was clear that Exceed or VNC would be much simpler solutions. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Ctrl+alt+backspace

2003-02-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
name was changed, or what, so that I can figure out where the problem comes from. Thanks. The new keyboard stuff has broken this once or twice in recent CVS; it would be worth trying a newer CVS download. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [XFree86] No Screen Found Error with Intel845 video card

2003-02-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
should be available next month. If you are desparate, you could try using the vesa driver instead of the i810 driver. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86

RE: [XFree86] xlib: howto detect x killed

2003-02-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Nick Shrake wrote: Type: ps -ef View the process then if you're root you can kill it if it's running (I doubt it!) If you started it you can kill -HUP the Xserver even if you aren't root. (Not actually killing it, just asking it to die, but it obeys). -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: [XFree86] Minimal build source required?

2003-02-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the whole of the xc tree. I get the cvs packages: cvs-base cvs-src xc-all from cvsup.xfree86.org but xc-all is probably sufficient -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Solution please

2003-02-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
understand it and think why the X server binary lost the suid root bit. There are good arguments saying that it shouldn't be necessary to fix it this way. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

RE: [XFree86] Sis 650GL

2003-02-20 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
will that help Hanro ? His chip is from SIS, not Intel ? Or have I missed something about a collaboration between SIS and Intel ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Attempting to multihead with Matrox G550 + 2xG450PCI

2003-02-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
with just two cards; it might be worth trying without one of the clashing cards. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [XFree86] DisplaySize ignored

2003-02-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] where is /usr/bin/cc being set?

2003-02-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
! Possibly xc/config/cf/Makefile unless it is being overridden by one of the other xc/config/cf/* files. Look for definitions of CC. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] vgaHWLock(), vgaHWUnlock()

2003-02-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
? There could be bugs that didn't get a chance to do anything because the hardware was locked. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] Linux drivers for SGI 1600SW flat panel

2003-02-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
--- -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] Mouse repeater annoyance

2003-02-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
into some other state; eg most wheel mice can speak either PS/2 or IMPS/2. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] Mouse repeater annoyance

2003-02-27 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Log file available at http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/free86-devel/log.debug.mouse.delay Sorry, http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/xfree86-devel/log.debug.mouse.delay ^ -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] Top 10 list of Most Linux Friendly Video Card Vendors?

2003-02-28 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
releases come out. This means that it for a hassle free life, it is probably not a good idea to buy the latest card. IIRC, the nv driver in 4.3 attempts to solve this problem by supporting chips that haven't been released yet. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge

Re: [XFree86] does 4.3 have better matrox g550 support?

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the data. With 4.2 or 4.3 try putting the following into *both* Device sections of your config file: Option noDDC1 Option noDDC2 In my experience these two don't provide info from DVI monitors, so disabling them should speed things up without losing you anything. -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: [XFree86] driver for ATI Xpert98 AGP under Xfree86 4.3?

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
and 4.3 - I'm reasonable certain that 4.3 supports the Xpert98 AGP as well. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] Dual-head video card recommendations sought

2003-03-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, and two of them needed the binary mga_hal_drv.o (available on the CD that comes with the G550). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] Re: [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] xcursorgen: No such fileor directory

2003-03-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
to these files because the ownership has changed. In summary, you should *not* need to build as root, but you do need to be root to install. IIRC root does need write access on the build tree while doing make install, which is not ideal. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS

Re: [XFree86] Font server question

2003-03-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, that would make a big difference for some fonts. If you have large fonts (think unicode) then your font mechnism will be slow to start; xfs allows this startup delay to be separated from the X server startup. Beyond that I don't think there is aperformance difference. -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: [XFree86] Dual-head video card recommendations sought

2003-03-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
on as a native resolution of 1600x1200, this would be a bit of a waste. I've got a G550 driving a flat panel at 1600x1200 via the DVI, and another machine with a G550 driving a flat panel at 1600x1024 via DVI and a flat panel at 1024x768 via the VGA output. All at 32bpp. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] Cannot open x-window afterthe installation of redhat 8.0 connection graphic

2003-03-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
using /etc/X11/XFree86-v4. In RH 8.0 XFree86 v4 uses /etc/X11/XFree86, which might well refer to XF86_S3 if the config hasn't been rebuilt (and it might well not be). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] Problem with XFree86configuration

2003-03-05 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
not a recognised section ServerLayout is a new feature in XFree86 4.0 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] RedHat-8.0/ViewSonic/Intel 815 problem

2003-03-06 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
else did hint at this solution this morning, sorry for not remembering it first time around. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [XFree86] RedHat-8.0/ViewSonic/Intel 815 problem

2003-03-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
/log/XFree86.0.log, but may be /var/log/xdm.log if you are using xdm with a v3.3 server) ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL

RE: [XFree86] RedHat-8.0/ViewSonic/Intel 815 problem

2003-03-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
that support VertRefresh up to 160, so I wouldn't worry about that. HorizSync 115kHz does sound high, I'd try reducing it. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Symbol xf86SetDDCproperties from module radeon_drv.o unresolved

2003-03-08 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
! xf86SetDDCproperties should bve defined in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a which should be loaded without anything in the config file to request it. Do you have that file ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Re: [XFree86] XFree86 PPC on a PC Matrox Millenium II

2003-03-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
card that *is* well supported? Dump the Starmax and get a real computer? Thoughts? Thanks, Fest3er ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer

Re: [XFree86] Overly long startup?

2003-03-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, but if there is nothing missing in the 90-120 second wait that is after DDC happens. (The two DVI monitors we have on G550 cards behave very differently, the iiyama AU4831D works with the XFree86 shipped with Red Hat 8.0, but my SGI 1600SW+MLA requires the matrox hal). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer

Re: [XFree86] ATI Radeon 7500 PCI : complete lock up when DRI is on

2003-03-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
for PCI cards. It may now be integrated with agpgart - if not I can imagine problems if you have both modules and both type of card. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Limit Xfree86 memory usage

2003-03-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
using more memory (not to cache something in ram like fonts pixmap etc..)? and not crushing with out of use of nfs_swap. I don't think there is anything you can do. It sounds as though the memory is used up by the windows and pictures created by mozilla. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] mga 1600x1200 DVI

2003-03-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/xfree86-devel/xf86config.iiyama19TFT is my config for exactly that hardware under Red hat 8.0. 1600x1200 works fine on the DVI port. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] mga 1600x1200 DVI

2003-03-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ken Marx wrote: Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/xfree86-devel/xf86config.iiyama19TFT is my config for exactly that hardware under Red hat 8.0. 1600x1200 works fine on the DVI port. Thanks. I've been playing around with this config

Re: [XFree86] Intel845 / SyncMaster 191T / RH8.0 / XFree86 /Configuration

2003-03-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
845G will work much better with XFree86 4.3. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [XFree86] mga 1600x1200 DVI [scanned]

2003-03-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, NoDDC1, NoDDC2. I'm prepared to believe that vbeddc doesn't honour NoDDC in 4.2. Option noVBE or Option noVBEDDC might turn it off, but I'd have to grovel in obsolete code to be sure. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [XFree86] mga 1600x1200 DVI [scanned]

2003-03-20 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, the DVI connection very probably will fail to be stable. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org

Re: [XFree86] mga 1600x1200 DVI [scanned]

2003-03-21 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Thanks for clarifying. On my other G550 I have a 1600x1024 monitor on what appears to be a single-link cable. If I switch from DVI-digital to DVI-analog *on the monitor* the picture goes away, so I was getting

Re: [XFree86] Your buglist for The XFree86 Project's Bugzilla needsattention.

2003-03-31 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
address rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] (are they hosting bugs.xfree86.org/ or just some [insult deleted] individual who things that hassling volounteers gets things fixed ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Re: [XFree86] How do I compile a single driver - and not all of X ?

2003-04-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the driver over. For driver modules the other machine doesn't even have to be running the same OS - anything that can compile XFree86 will do. For best results use the same version of XFree86 as on the libretto, the module/server interface does change from time to time. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [XFree86] Problems with G550,overlay,KDE

2003-04-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
me a sntax error; startx -depth 24 -fbbpp 32 -cc 4 gives me 8 and 24 bit visuals with a 24bit default visual. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86

Re: [XFree86] PROBLEM ABOUT STARTX - RH8.0

2003-04-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
--list xfs to confirm; I get: xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on3:on4:on5:on6:off -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list

Re: [XFree86] [Bug 84] MGA driver missing symbols in referencedsymbol list

2003-04-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, +drmCtlInstHandler, +drmCtlUninstHandler, drmFreeVersion, +drmGetInterruptFromBusID, drmGetLibVersion, drmGetVersion, drmMap, - -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [XFree86] linux kernel 2.5.x, XFree86 4.3.0, video card i845and DRI

2003-04-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
is outdated and won't work with XFree 4.3.0... Does the one that comes with XFree86 4.3.0 source compile on 2.5.x kernels ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: [XFree86] Problems with external connection

2003-04-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
in this circumstance. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Re: [XFree86] Problems while build XFree86 4.3.0 using GCC 3.2.

2003-04-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
header files; your includes are out of step with your compiler. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org

Re: [XFree86] crash in XFree86 4.2.0

2003-04-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
); XCopyArea(dis,src,dst,gc, 32768, 32768, 32, 31, 0, 0); XFlush(dis); return 0; } -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ XFree86

[XFree86] Re: Matrox G550 with one DVI, 1 CRT

2003-11-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, then rerun redhat GUI to configure second monitor. 3. Plug in both monitors, cut n paste each monitor configs from individual files, and add the bits necessary for dual head to my xfree86config. does this sound like a good plan for a no-brainer like myself ? Seems worth a try. -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: s3virge bigendian

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
NoDDC2 Option NoVBE -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
was removed after glapi_x86.S last changed, which is a good sign). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integrationmanager...

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
a windowing system without it, at least one based on keyboard+mouse, or even a stylus. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Release date for 4.3

2003-02-15 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Florian Lindner wrote: Hello, when do you guess will 4.3 be released? What are your estimates? My guess: When the show-stopping bugs are fixed. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: FW: [Xpert]2 mice - 2 pointer ?!?

2003-02-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
cards only have one hardware cursor. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Software cursors - was RE: FW: [Xpert]2 mice - 2 pointer ?!?

2003-02-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Rob Taylor wrote: XFree86 still has framework for soft cursors, no? The framework yes, but drivers seem to have problems with DRI and XV and software cursurs, and seem to be trying to disable software cursors. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-20 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
and compiler, so the compile-time size might not be big enough when the module is run on a different system. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Multiple video consoles

2003-02-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
: get multi-heads working on the console, then run X on top of that. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86

date.def

2003-02-27 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the file to both branches ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: date.def

2003-02-27 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:55:21 +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: xc/config/cf/Imakefile now refers to date.def, and xfree86.cf includes it, but I can't find it in the latest CVS, nor can I find a rule which builds it on the fly. Without

Re: Multiple video consoles

2003-03-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:31:18PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote: I don't really agree here, modes are for the outgoing resolution, not the input viewport. it would be far simpler to keep this simple

Re: TV switch

2003-03-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. I believe that most (all?) TV input is done via video4linux. xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/v4l/README might be the place to start reading. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: DDC Atoms Xinerama

2003-03-13 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Build failure on RedHat 6.2 - setjmp again

2003-03-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:53:10 -0700 (MST) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Build failure on RedHat 6.2 - setjmp again On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: The setjmp changes on 2003/03/12 break build on Red Hat 6.2. It built fine the day

Re: DDC Atoms Xinerama

2003-03-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) I810(1): initializing int10 (EE) I810(1): Cannot read V_BIOS (II) I810(1): this driver cannot do DDC without VBE This looks like a driver problem - does the DDC work if you driver this card as a single head ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer

Re: DDC Atoms Xinerama

2003-03-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
for Xinerama, since that deliberately hides the display distinction. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org

Re: Colormap Problems in Matrox G450 under FreeBSD 4.8

2003-04-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
is available. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: IBM port replicator noise?

2003-05-28 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
-A cable instead of the DVI-D cable you are probably using) ? It is sad, but analog signals may outlast DVI-D :-( -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel

Re: xterm resize fails

2003-05-29 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:16:08AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Patch 3.62 to xc/programs/xterm/screen.c breaks xterm resizing

MGA fixes don't compile

2003-07-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
allowing the code to compile. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna Index: mga_driver.c === RCS file: /home/CVS/XFree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw

Re: MGA fixes don't compile

2003-07-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: Dr Andrew C Aitchison writes: 260. Disabled mode writeback to client program from MGA driver (Egbert Eich). This doesn't compile on RedHat 6.2 / egcs-2.91.66 Hi Andrew, Yes, thanks! Mattieu already told me. It builds with gcc

Re: mkfontscale strikes again

2003-07-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GetImage with 8 bit pseudocolor on a 24/32 bit display

2003-07-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. The net result is a SEGV in the server. I am using 'xmag' to grab the I'm not having this problem with a Matrox G550 in overlay mode. Can I see your xdpyinfo ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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