Re: [Xpert]XFree86 with an ATI Radeon 7500

2002-04-26 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Hmm.. Try using DefaultDepth 16 in your Screen section. Vladimir Dergachev On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently bought an ATI Radeon 7500, and upgraded XFree to 4.2. After running X -configure (as opposed to xf86config), I can finally get

Re: [Xpert]830mg config

2002-04-26 Thread zoggian spattersby
hi manuel, i checked out your web page and the instructions which you outline are exactly what i did on my own - only over the space of a painful week of trial and error. i wish i'd happened across your page first! my machine _is_ affected. if i choose 8mb [instead of 16mb] in combination with

Re: [Xpert]AGP failes to initialaize

2002-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with AGP initialaizing. I did modprobe -r agpgart, depmod -a, and modprobe agpgart to reload the module. That didn't fix the problem. The agpgart module needs to be loaded before the r128 kernel module or the

[Xpert]Question about ATI Rage

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Robertson
We use ATI Rage 128 and Rage XL cards in a system where we make heavy use of Xv to render images in YUV colour space. I have been asked the question Does the graphics card support master mode DMA for video overlay? Can someone answer it for me? Thanks, -- Paul Robertson

[Xpert]Segmentation fault XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-26 Thread Natascha . Karfich
Segmentation fault XFree86 4.2.0 Hello Xperts, we often get X Segmentation Faults when starting a certain application on a RedHat-XTerminal. (starting with X -query host +bs tty7 using backing store) In this case the user had opened the application but was not even in the room when X crashed.

[Xpert]Clarification on XFree86 10th anniversary...

2002-04-26 Thread David Wexelblat
I actually tried to post a real announcement on slashdot, but they rejected it. The posting that is on slashdot came from someone reading our website. Whatever... Way back in days of yore in late 1991/early 1992 there was this thing called X11R5 which came with a somewhat-broken-and-very-slow X

Re: [Xpert]Happy Birthday XFree86!

2002-04-26 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 01:00 pm, you wrote: I swear by Linux , rather than at it The real beauty of Xfree is that it runs on more then 1 platform ;-) That, and the fact that it can both cooperate with old technology and still be up with the latest technological niftities - like hardware

Re: [Xpert]Question about ATI Rage

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Surda
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Paul Robertson wrote: We use ATI Rage 128 and Rage XL cards in a system where we make heavy use of Xv to render images in YUV colour space. I have been asked the question Does the graphics card support master mode DMA for video overlay? Can someone

Re: Re: [Xpert]AGP failes to initialaize

2002-04-26 Thread MarkLapier
In a message dated Fri, 26 Apr 2002 8:46:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with AGP initialaizing. I did modprobe -r agpgart, depmod -a, and modprobe agpgart to reload the

Re: Re: [Xpert]AGP failes to initialaize

2002-04-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated Fri, 26 Apr 2002 8:46:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with AGP initialaizing. I did modprobe -r

Re: [Xpert]Segmentation fault XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Segmentation fault XFree86 4.2.0 Hello Xperts, we often get X Segmentation Faults when starting a certain application on a RedHat-XTerminal. (starting with X -query host +bs tty7 using backing store) In this case the user had opened the

[Xpert]NV driver clock calculation problem

2002-04-26 Thread Jarno Paananen
Hi, a recent change in riva_hw.c, namely version 1.30 broke clock calculation for my GeForce 3 (Elsa Gladiac 920). The change was: @@ -1982,8 +1982,8 @@ chip-RamBandwidthKBytesPerSec = 100; break; } -chip-CrystalFreqKHz = (chip-PEXTDEV[0x/4] (1

Re: [Xpert]Re: Philips monitors with LightFrame

2002-04-26 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:48:58PM -0300, =?iso-8859-1?b?Ikpvc+k=?[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This is an email copy of a Usenet post to comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x] Uh, I don't know how this is happening, but I'm certainly not posting. On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:56:27 -0300, Dances With

Re: [Xpert]NV driver clock calculation problem

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 26 Apr 2002, Jarno Paananen wrote: Hi, a recent change in riva_hw.c, namely version 1.30 broke clock calculation for my GeForce 3 (Elsa Gladiac 920). The change was: @@ -1982,8 +1982,8 @@ chip-RamBandwidthKBytesPerSec = 100; break; } -

[Xpert]Build problems on FreeBSD 4.5

2002-04-26 Thread Mike Pumford
With CVS head updated a few moments ago make World fails as follows: cc -c -O -I../../include -I../../imports/x11/include/X11 `./ccimake` imake.c imake.c: In function `get_binary_format': imake.c:1134: `MAX_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function) imake.c:1134: (Each undeclared identifier

Re: [Xpert]pseudo color cell allocation from 4.0.2 to 4.2.0

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stonie R. Cooper wrote: I have a legacy application that is tied directly to pseudo color (8bit) mode. In using 4.0.2, the pseudo color mode worked well in that most window managers could be made to leave enough color cells free for this legacy application to run; it

Re: [Xpert]RE:RE:RE:AGP failes to initialaize

2002-04-26 Thread MarkLapier
Ya, I have an idea. You need to load the agpgart module before you load the r128 module. Like Michel Dänzer said, The agpgart module needs to be loaded before the r128 kernel module or the latter can't use it. Do it like this: Shut down X modprobe -r apgart modprobe -r r128 modprobe agpgart

[Xpert]Fatalities in the vidmode extension

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
It looks to me like maybe the vid mode extension allows switching modes while switched away? I had a bug report that VT switching while playing a certain game (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) that uses the vidmode extension causes the server to SIGV. This is with the nv driver. Should

[Xpert]System Lockup During Screensaver

2002-04-26 Thread Mark Allen
From: D. Harley Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running RH7.2 w/ XFree86 4.1 on a Dell Precision 610 (Diamond 8MB Permedia2 AGP card, Dell D1626HT monitor). X freezes up (won't respond) after the screen saver kicks in. The screen simply holds a constant image and there's no response from the

Re: [Xpert]830mg config

2002-04-26 Thread Eric Brunet
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:21:28PM +1000, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote: You may be another victim of Intel refusing to publish the programmer's reference for the i830 graphics controller. For your information, I have a toshiba S3000-X11 with an i830MG board. Using the official binaries for

[Xpert]X 4.1, ATI Radeon

2002-04-26 Thread Jim McCloskey
Hello. I suspect that I may be asking a very frequently asked question, but please bear with me. I have a laptop with an ATI Mobile Radeon graphics card (16MB, AGP). The laptop runs Debian GNU/Linux woody/testing with X 4.1 and a 2.4.18 kernel. At present X is working, with the fbdev driver. I

[Xpert]Matrox G550 dual head on FreeBSD 4.5

2002-04-26 Thread tony
Is it possible to configure a Matrox G550 to run in dual-head mode on FreeBSD 4.5 and the most current editon of XFree86? tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert