Re: [XFree86] command history among xterms

2003-07-12 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 07:20:15PM +0200, Peter Firefly Lund wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, gabe f wrote: not sure if I should ask this here, but here goes: Not really. the command history among my xterms is common. How can I make each xterm No, the command history is shared by your

Re: [XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:22AM +0200, james amen atayi wrote: Hallo! Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a file as a screen shot? I have to capture for a long time the display. Doing it making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying

[XFree86] .xprofile file

2003-03-22 Thread Eric Christopherson
A while back, I discovered that you could put commands in a file called ~/.xprofile and they would be executed any time you started X, whether via a display manager or xinit or startx. However, a while back (some time before the 4.3 release), this stopped working. Could someone tell me what might

[XFree86] Ctrl+alt+backspace

2003-02-17 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:51:42PM -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote: On a related note: I just noticed that ctrl-alt-backspace no longer seems to get me out of X. The system isn't hung or anything, and DontZap isn't set. Did something change in recent CVS to affect it? I'm still having trouble

Re: [XFree86] Game Locks up in XWindows, how do I get out without restarting

2003-02-08 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:21:10PM -0800, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: If, as your first respondent suggested, you don't have DontZap, then the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp should kill the instance of the X server. If that isn't working then you could try Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n=2) to get another virtual console.

Re: [XFree86] Digest settings are broken!

2003-02-05 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:05:28AM -0800, Alex Pavloff wrote: The Xfree digest settings confuse me. Previously, on the xpert mailing list, I'd get 3 digests a day or so with a varying amount of messages. This wasn't too bad, albeit slightly confusing. Now with the xfree86 mailing list, I

Re: [XFree86] virtual resolution

2003-02-05 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:41:21PM +0100, Csarnai Tamás wrote: Hi there, Can I change virtual resolution on-the-fly? Not exactly. You can change your screen's physical resolution by holding down Ctrl and Alt and hitting the numeric keypad's + and - keys. However, your virtual resolution (the

Re: [XFree86] Two graphic cards and two screens on the same computer...

2003-01-19 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:09:52PM +0100, Olivier Ricordeau wrote: First question: Do you think it is possible to get two graphic cards working at the same time on my computer given with my hardware? Yes, somewhat. Second question: Do you have any help to provide me (websites, mailing

Re: [Render] multiple graphics cards

2002-12-16 Thread Eric Christopherson
Can anyone please let me know if its possible to have a PCI bus graphics card in addition to an AGP bus graphics card on one machine? I have been told that one could run two separate Xservers for each card. If anyone has any experience with this kind of thing, please kindly advice. Yes, you

[Render] Render API

2002-08-27 Thread Eric Christopherson
Where can I get documentation on the Render API? I've run across the site [ http://www.eax.com/render/ ], which looks very helpful, but I still don't see anything about the functions you use to interface to the extension (just the protocol itself). Thanks in advance. -- Furrfu! r a k k

[Render] PostScript-like rendering API

2002-08-21 Thread Eric Christopherson
Hi, Keith et al. I was just wondering if there's more information on the PostScript-like extensions; I wasn't able to find much on the web other than the fact that they're being worked on, and I joined this list to find out, but since I joined no one's discussed it. Specifically, I was wondering