About Shadow frame buffer.

2010-07-22 Thread PRASANNA KUMAR
Can i know what is a shadow frame buffer, how it works. Is there any tutorial or docs for using that? I want to use floating point numbers in kernel mode (for compressing graphics data sent through USB). Is there any way to use those numbers in kernel mode (video driver code). Or is it

Re: About Shadow frame buffer.

2010-07-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
PRASANNA KUMAR wrote: Can i know what is a shadow frame buffer, how it works. Is there any tutorial or docs for using that? There is some (but not much) documentation of the shadow frame buffer code in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/dmx/doc/dmx.xml -- -Alan

Listing of Xorg exit codes?

2010-07-22 Thread Lowell Alleman
I'm in the process of trying to track down an Xorg crash, but when I attach gdb to the running X process, I discovered that it's actually exiting instead of crashing. I see the following message from gdb: Program exited with code 0364. I've ran gdb a few times now and I keep seeing the same

Re: Listing of Xorg exit codes?

2010-07-22 Thread Tormod Volden
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Lowell Alleman wrote: I'm in the process of trying to track down an Xorg crash, but when I attach gdb to the running X process, I discovered that it's actually exiting It sometimes work to set a breakpoint on exit or _exit and see in the backtrace where the

Re: Listing of Xorg exit codes?

2010-07-22 Thread Pat Kane
I would set a breakpoint at exit and then see what called it, there is some very good X debugging info at: http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging Pat --- On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Lowell Alleman low...@allemansonline.com wrote: I'm in the process of

Re: Listing of Xorg exit codes?

2010-07-22 Thread Lowell Alleman
Here is a gdb session with the crash. Does any of this help me? Tormod, you'r a Ubuntu guy, right? Any idea why I'm getting a message about the r300_dri.so symbols report a CRC mismatch? I have applied the latest radeon drivers from /ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/drivers-only/ubuntu, other

Re: EXA classic problem with Xv

2010-07-22 Thread Yves De Muyter
Hello, I have now ported the driver to exa_mixed (also because the exa_classic bugfix is not being backported to 1.7 and this way we bypass the issue). Driver seems to work fine, just like it did under exa_classic. But the same issue remains, mplayer and others still use the fullscreen pixmap

Advice to lose (or minimize) computer freezes with intel card

2010-07-22 Thread David
Hello, I suppose you are familiar with the topic, there are lots of bug reports ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=intel+freeze, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=629896) and forum threads. I have a computer with card Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML

Re: Advice to lose (or minimize) computer freezes with intel card

2010-07-22 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello, I suppose you are familiar with the topic, there are lots of bug reports ( [ 2 more citation lines. Click/Enter to toggle visibility. ] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=intel+freeze, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=629896) and forum threads. I