Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach 64 (Winturbo 2mb, PCI) with more than 256 colors?

2002-01-16 Thread Pontus Lidman
Hello Harald, i have the above card together with a voodoo 3 AGP card in my computer using x-free 4.1.0. Unfortunately i can't use xinerama because x-module ati does not support more than 8 bits color depth with this board. Is there any beta driver or any other module which supports

Re: [Xpert]could not locate kernel tree

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 06:53, Daniel Vasiliu wrote: I tried to install the drm for a 2.4.17 kernel with make -f Makefile.linux and it gives me the error 'could not locate kernel tree in /lib/modules/2.4.17-1/build/include /usr/src/linux-2.4.17-1/include /usr/src/linux/include /usr/include'

[Xpert]stdout a pipe?

2002-01-16 Thread sjb
Hi guys, I had a big problem with my laptop earlier in the week and had to re-install Linux .. I also re-installed XF 4.1.99. When I log in as an ordinary user and type startx I get Stdout and/or stderr is a pipe and X refuses to start becuase of unsafe environment However, if I type xinit,

[Xpert]Mode selection

2002-01-16 Thread Teemu Rinta-aho
Hi, I use Toshiba Portege 4000 which has a Trident CyberBlade XP/Ai (or something like that) graphics chip that works only with the vesa driver in XFree86 4.1.0. It works fine with the internal TFT display. However, when I define my external monitor in the XF86Config with the correct refresh

[Xpert]XVideo fails with new siliconmotion driver

2002-01-16 Thread Ivo Hofacker
Dear Experts, Since the performance of the siliconmotion driver in XFree86 4.1.0 is so poor (e.g. for playing videos), I've installed the 4.1.99.5 version (with v1.3.1 siliconmotion driver) from CVS. The new server seems to work fine, except that xvinfo now yields: X-Video Extension version 2.2

[Xpert]Source Code Download

2002-01-16 Thread John Strader
I am BRAND NEW to Linux this week!! Will this code work for the ATI 64MB DDR video cards if it is edited correctly? I need a way to get Linux to work with this card. I have Slackware, SuSe, Red Hat, and Mandrake. None of them work. HELP!!! Thank you, John Strader

[Xpert]Accelerated Video Driver

2002-01-16 Thread jerome . rebourgm
Hello, I'm developping a video driver and I'd like to know if I can use both XAA layer and DGA. Does the flag DGA_CONCURRENT_ACCESS allow this? Thanks, Jerome ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]DRI problem. No answer from DRI m-l!

2002-01-16 Thread Vincenzo Di Massa
I'm running mandrake linux 8.1, kernel 2.4.17 (with sisfb and sis-drm patched), XFree86-4.1.0 (with a new sis driver). I found these drivers here. http://webit.com/tw/linuxsis630.shtml Many people report success in running games with this drivers on the sis 630:Quake, Descent, Tuxracer... I

Re: [Xpert]stdout a pipe?

2002-01-16 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 11:28:14AM -, sjb wrote: Hi guys, I had a big problem with my laptop earlier in the week and had to re-install Linux .. I also re-installed XF 4.1.99. When I log in as an ordinary user and type startx I get Stdout and/or stderr is a pipe and X refuses to start

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 or Radeon VE

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 20:50, Nelson Bartley wrote: Does the 7500 work properly w/ 3d acceleration at this point? Does the dual head for either of the cards work properly? Yes to all questions for current CVS and the upcoming 4.2.0. Would you guys consider the drivers stable enough for a

[Xpert]virtual 3200x200 @x 32bpp--what cards?

2002-01-16 Thread Carlie Coats
I've got an opportunity to buy a 22 1920x1440 monitor at a very good price, and I want to know: What video card will support virtual 3200x200 @x 32bpp under XFree86 (presumably 4.1)? I _really_ like running XFree86 with large virtual screens -- as I write, I'm running virtual 2048x1536

[Xpert]NVIDIA : GLX pb

2002-01-16 Thread Stephane Requena
Hi I have installed the new nvidia driver 2313 on RH 7.2, now when i try to run an OpenGL based application remotly from a SUN or SGI computer on my Linux box (using rlogin) i have the following errors : X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request:

[Xpert]Information regarding Trident Cyber Blade 9525DVD

2002-01-16 Thread Paulo Pinto
Hello, I would like to enter in contact with the developers that created the driver for the 6525 chipset. As far as I know, the XFree86's driver only has 2D hardware acceleration. But this chip also supports 3D acceleration. So something like Mesa could make some use out of it. If someone

Re: [Xpert]virtual 3200x200 @x 32bpp--what cards?

2002-01-16 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Carlie Coats wrote: I've got an opportunity to buy a 22 1920x1440 monitor at a very good price, and I want to know: What video card will support virtual 3200x200 @x 32bpp under XFree86 (presumably 4.1)? I've run at 4000x2048@8 virtual on an 8MB ATI Rage Pro

Re: [Xpert]Accelerated Video Driver

2002-01-16 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm developping a video driver and I'd like to know if I can use both XAA layer and DGA. Does the flag DGA_CONCURRENT_ACCESS allow this? Even without DGA_CONCURRENT_ACCESS both can be used if the client is careful about

[Xpert]Best card for dual screen?

2002-01-16 Thread Sandy Harris
I'm about to do an upgrade on my desktop machine and need to pick a video card. What would people recommend for a dual screen (one CRT, one flat TFT now, perhaps two TFTs later) under Linux? Additional info: There will be plenty of CPU and RAM in the machine. For my eyes, on screens I can

RE: [Xpert]Source Code Download

2002-01-16 Thread Ted Roden
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Mestnik Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:52 PM To: John Strader; xpert xfree86.org Subject: Re: [Xpert]Source Code Download You might need to get the latesed CVS source tree and make XFree86

[Xpert]i815 overlay output revisited

2002-01-16 Thread Christer Palm
Hi! I'm using an i815 chipset with a Chrontel 7007 TV-out chip, and I'm seeing the same blue bar at the right hand video overlay centering problems as previously described in the following posts: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-November/013424.html

[Xpert]Re: XVideo fails with new siliconmotion driver

2002-01-16 Thread Corvin Zahn
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ivo Hofacker wrote: Dear Experts, Since the performance of the siliconmotion driver in XFree86 4.1.0 is so poor (e.g. for playing videos), I've installed the 4.1.99.5 version (with v1.3.1 siliconmotion driver) from CVS. The new server seems to work fine, except that

Re: [Xpert]Direct fb access

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 07:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the list for a while, and im not sure if this is the place to ask. but, how does one go about obtaining access to video memory within X? i know of some api calls through X, but that is far too slow. I'm aiming for

Re: [Xpert]xfree-4.1.0 compilation trouble

2002-01-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 21:35, Francisco José Lazur wrote: I use Mandrake Linux 8.1 with XFree-4.1.0 and they work fine. But I like to get the greater performance compiling applications with athlon optimizations. Recently I downloaded XFree86-4.1.0 souces in order to compile it with a

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia Linux PowerMac G4 driver

2002-01-16 Thread F. Heitkamp
Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, F. Heitkamp wrote: I saw in some followup message implying that the problem I have been having could be caused by bonobo. I tried using just ICEWM, instead of Gnome and it (Xsever) stayed up and working for 3-4 hours before I logged out.

Re: [Xpert]i815 overlay output revisited

2002-01-16 Thread Christer Palm
Sottek, Matthew J wrote: I just verified that the -32 is the correct algorithm that is used on all supported Operating Systems. Are you using an XFree86 built-in Modeline or one that you (or your distribution) created? Please send me your Modeline so I can see if it happens on other

[Xpert]compiling accessx on cygwin

2002-01-16 Thread mgpl1
Has anyone tried to compile accessx on the cygwin port of XFree86 4.1.0 ? I tried to compile it but it failed with: $ make Compiling accessx... g++ -O ax.C Access.o -o ax -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -I/usr/X11R6/include Access.o(.text+0x725):Access.C: undefined reference to `XkbOpenDisplay'

Re: [Xpert]stdout a pipe?

2002-01-16 Thread sjb
- Original Message - From: David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could you send me the output of sh -x `which startx` ? Strangely which startx returns nothing for both root and an ordinary user .. however ... which xinit returns ottaky@linux:~ which xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit -rwxr-xr-x

[Xpert]Xfree 4.1.0 on Dell Latitude C600 with Solaris 8 for Intel

2002-01-16 Thread Warren Zeeman
I have a Dell C600 with a ATI Rage 128 M3 Mobility. I am running Solaris 8 for Intel, and have tried numerous settings in my XF86Config file, but have been unable to get my X server to start. Any hints or tips would be appreciated. My log file is as follows: XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window

Re: [Xpert]stdout a pipe?

2002-01-16 Thread sjb
- Original Message - From: sjb [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux:/home/ottaky # find / -name 'startx' /root/xc/xc/programs/xinit/startx /usr/X11R6/bin/startx Trying the blindingly obvious cd /usrX11R6/bin ./startx Works BTW. D'oh .. I guess I should have done that from the start ;-) sjb