slight bug with i810 driver (2)

2008-07-04 Thread loic . mahe
Further informations about this bug : I've found the guilty patch : 4.5.99.3-4.5.99.4.diff.bz2, which indeed has a big update of the i810. But I have no clue how to correct it. Some other points : - removing the vga=0x317 kernel option makes the symptom different : no portion of XFree

Radeon driver : changes to the radeon(4x) man page

2008-05-14 Thread loic . mahe
Hello again, To be consistent with the source code, I propose this update to the radeon(4x) man page, in order to cover all chipsets supported by the driver. I added RN50 (ES1000), RC410, RS480 and RS482. I didn't modified the order in which the chipsets are listed on the man page, but it would

Radeon driver : some comments about the source code

2008-05-14 Thread loic . mahe
Last mail for today, I checked ATI's fglrx source code and the pci.ids database and I found some discrepancies with XFree86's code (radeon_probe.c) for the identification of the chipsets. I would normally tell ATI is right, but ... PCI_CHIP_RV380_3152 ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M24) 3152

problem with patch 4.7.99.14-4.7.99.15.diff.bz2 in PCI detection

2008-05-13 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, I'am testing some Fujitsu-Siemens workstations which have the same video chip : 102b:0522 Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) FSC TX150-S6 FSC TX200-S4 FSC RX100-S5 The 3 computers have the same /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. I've noticed a problem with the

Re Re: missing ATI chips in radeon_probe.c ?

2008-04-30 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, Please note that I didn't test if these boards worked actually ! I'm only making suggestions and these reasonings may be wrong ! 1) I've reworked my list. I based this work on the radeon(4x) man page, whichs lists the supported chips : chipboard R100Radeon

missing ATI chips in radeon_probe.c ?

2008-04-29 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, In xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_probe.c, these ATI (0x1002) chips seem to be missing : 0x4157 Card:ATI FireGL T2 0x4964 Card:ATI Radeon 9000 0x4965 Card:ATI Radeon 9000 0x4a5a Card:ATI Radeon AIW X800 VE 0x4c65 Card:ATI Radeon Mobility M9 0x5149 Card:ATI Radeon 8500

Loic MAHE/8/STNA/DGAC est absent(e).

2007-12-28 Thread loic . mahe
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Re: another i810 crash when switching bewteen X and text console

2007-11-04 Thread loic . mahe
When you use 865patch, would you happen to be specifying its 'nocheck' parameter? No, I don't use it. Loïc

Re: another i810 crash when switching bewteen X and text console

2007-10-24 Thread loic . mahe
Sorry to be late, but I had to switch to another activity. I made some tests with the lastest build (4.7.99.3). The PC (Dell GX270) is cold-started between each test, since it seems that a simple reboot doesn't reset the BIOS. (Christian) A question to the person who started this thread:

Re Re: another i810 crash when switching bewteen X and text console

2007-09-27 Thread loic . mahe
Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] : The driver already does this for some chips. Can you produce a patch to the driver that extends this to other chip revisions? I have little experience with this driver and no hardware that I could use to test such a change. Oops, I'm not sure

another i810 crash when switching bewteen X and text console

2007-09-12 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, I've noticed this with the Intel 865G chipset (i810 driver) on XFree86 4.7.0 (Linux, 2.4.35 kernel). I've got two different machines with this chipset. In both cases, the BIOS is set-up for using 8MB of VRAM (this memory is taken from the RAM). 1) industrial PC : 8085:2572 with

Loic MAHE/8/STNA/DGAC est absent(e).

2007-07-13 Thread loic . mahe
Je serai absent(e) à partir du 13/07/2007 de retour le 06/08/2007. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

patch 4.6.99.26-4.6.99.27.diff.bz2 fails

2007-07-09 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, Following my previous messages on patching problems for sdk tarjets, Marc fixed this in the last patch. See changelog : 160. Fix various issues related to install.sdk targets when BuildModuleInSubdir is asserted during a build (Marc La France, problem reported by Loic Mahe

Re Re: problems with several patches

2007-07-03 Thread loic . mahe
Hummm. Please send me a copy of the host.def you're using. Here is is attached. This host.def is created during the RPM %setup phase (after applying patches). I'm using RedHat's XFree86 4.3.0 specfile with some minor local modifications. Maybe I should watch this file closely as XFree86 evolves

Re patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks i810 driver on Dell machines

2007-07-03 Thread loic . mahe
Thanks for the output. I'm almost certain I know what the problem is, but I'd like to confirm my hunch. Please send me a copy of this system's /proc/bus/pci/devices file. Hello, Here it is (I replaced tab by spaces). Loïc

Re Re: Re patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks i810 driver on Dell machines

2007-07-03 Thread loic . mahe
Thanks. This confirms my hunch. I've just committed a change to fix this. It'll show up tomorrow (CVSWeb, cvsup, etc.) and in 4.6.99.27. Okay, I'll try it as soon as possible. Thanks ! Loïc Mahé - ATOS ORIGIN INTEGRATION AMO DTI/ATM/VIG/LdBO-expertise calculateur Bureau M77 / [EMAIL

Re patch 4.6.99.17-4.6.99.18.diff.bz2 breaks i810 driver on Dell machines

2007-06-30 Thread loic . mahe
Okay, more investigation on this error. I noticed the same message (INVALID IO ALLOCATION) in the logfile for another chipset (ATI Technologies Inc RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G Series]) on a Nec VL350 computer. I noticed a beep when starting XFree86, which this time doesn't fail. This beep

i810 crashes when switching bewteen X and text console

2007-06-14 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, I've found a problem with XFree 4.6 on the Dell Optiplex GX110, which has an Intel i810E graphics chipset (i810 module). It worked well in XFree86 4.5. X startx normally, but when switching back to text console and again to X server, the screen becomes dark and the text consoles become

problems with several patches

2007-06-11 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, I'm building XFree86 4.6+patches on a RedHat 7.2 basis (yes, I know this is OLD). The following patches are causing errors : 1) 4.6.99.3-4.6.99.4.diff.bz2 : the xterm binary is not created There is no install:: line for xterm in the Makefile. 2) 4.6.99.23-4.6.99.24.diff.bz2 :

patch for mga driver to manage Matrox MGA G200 SE (ServerEngines)

2007-02-20 Thread loic . mahe
Hello, I've backported code from Xorg's mga driver in order to manage the Matrox MGA G200e SE (ServerEngines) video adapter, which you can find, for example, onboard in recent Fujitsu-Siemens servers (RX200-S3, TX200-S3, TX150-S5). This adapter doesn't support DRI, so backporting was quite