[Xpert]what's exact meaning of request length

2002-09-04 Thread Martin Ding
I recently study request but meet more problem. Now the meaning of request length puzzled me. For example, the request of X_ImageText8 typedef struct { CARD8 reqType; BYTE nChars; CARD16 length B16; Drawable drawable B32; GContext gc B32; INT16 x B16, y B16;} xImageTextReq;

Re: [Xpert]i830 dual head support

2002-09-04 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Ludovic! Does the dual head support for the Intel 830MG chipset exist? And if not will it be supported in a near future? Unfortunately its a no to both your questions. -- Regards Abraham Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.

[Xpert]How to write a Xinput driver and where can i find the documents?

2002-09-04 Thread Roy
I wanna to be a driver designer for XFree86.Ihave decided to try to write a new Xinput driver for mouse first.But I need more documents and help.Does anyone wanna to help me?

Re: [Xpert]Running X @ 1400x1050 in vmware...

2002-09-04 Thread Mikko Rantalainen
Torrey Jones wrote: I have recently purchase a Inspiron 8200 (1.6Ghz, 384mg RAM, 30GB HD, 32 MB Geforce2Go, 15 sxga+ upto 1400x1050). It currently is running WinXP pro as it's host OS. I have Redhat 7.1 running as a Guest OS via VMware. Everything so far works great except one thing, I

Re: [Xpert]display problems on Sony Vaio PCG FX-705 notepad

2002-09-04 Thread Joshua D. Knowles
Dear Mike, You are my saviour! Yes, this works perfectly - I have a full resolution 24 bit display under X now. Do you know anything about power managment by any chance? Just kidding... I shall put a line or two on a website for others who may experience the same problem. Thanks a lot for

Re: [Xpert]Re: 845 driver (again)

2002-09-04 Thread Biswapesh Chattopadhyay
On 3 Sep 2002, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote: Date: 03 Sep 2002 17:16:18 +0530 From: Biswapesh Chattopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: XPert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Subject: 845 driver (again) Hi all I compiled the XFree86 SRPM from RH

Re: [Xpert]Re: Redhat 7.3 X problem

2002-09-04 Thread shiljo san
Hi, I changed my driver to "vesa" and solved the problem. Mike, Thank you very much. Regds, Shiljosan "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, shiljo san wrote:Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 21:20:32 -0700 (PDT)From: shiljo san <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: [EMAIL

[Xpert]no 1024x768 mode with 16 and 24 bit depth with CT65555 under XF86 4.1?

2002-09-04 Thread Martin Federspiel
Dear Xperts, after having upgraded my Laptop from Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (XFree86 3.3.6) to 3.0 (XFree86 4.1) X doesn't find a mode for displaying 1024x768 pixels (the physical TFT size) in either 16 or 24 bit colour depth (800x600 modes are found, for 8 bit 1024x768 works fine). The video chip is

Re: [Xpert]Running X @ 1400x1050 in vmware...

2002-09-04 Thread Robin Rosenberg
Inside VMWare I don't think it matters what your actual hardware spec says since the monitor is not a real one. It is possible that the svga driver supplied by VMWare does not handle 1400x1050 at all. The best place to look is wmware's suport site or the newsgroups at news.vmware.com, e.g. the

[Xpert]Q: Why would DNS problems prevent restarting X?

2002-09-04 Thread Boehne, Robert
Title: Q: Why would DNS problems prevent restarting X? Hello, We have replaced NIS with DNS for querying hostnames and since we have, when one DNS server is down, X cannot be started. The problem seems to effect XFree86 4.1 as well as the Solaris 67 X servers. It appears that if the

Re: [Xpert]Q: Why would DNS problems prevent restarting X?

2002-09-04 Thread Jason Straight
Make sure your hostname is in /etc/hosts? On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:17 am, Boehne, Robert wrote: Hello, We have replaced NIS with DNS for querying hostnames and since we have, when one DNS server is down, X cannot be started. The problem seems to effect XFree86 4.1 as well as the

Re: [Xpert]Re: 845 driver (again)

2002-09-04 Thread Jens Owen
Biswapesh Chattopadhyay wrote: OK - I updated hwdata from RawHide (which contains /usr/X11/lib/X11/Cards) and ran Xconfigurator again. This time the card and chipset got identified correctly, but still no luck :-( I'm attaching the log - any ideas ? Looks like you're running out of memory

[Xpert]Fast screen dumps?

2002-09-04 Thread Peter Rundberg
Hi, Is there any way to grab a screenshot really fast. I mean like a 1280x1024 32bbp screenshot in a couple of milliseconds? I am using XShmGetImage() right now, but a screenshot of the size mentioned above takes about 110 to 120 milliseconds. Doing the math this gives me a bandwidth of about 40

[Xpert]trident CyberBlade XP, Toshiba Sat Pro 4600, glitches

2002-09-04 Thread William Gallafent
Hi, First, great thanks to Alan Hourihane et al for the trident_drv driver, which works well on this Laptop (Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, PIII 750, Trident CyberBlade XP rev 99). I had to use Option FpDelay 2 to remove the four pixel wide gap at the left edge of the screen... Anyway, ... I've

Re: [Xpert]trident CyberBlade XP, Toshiba Sat Pro 4600, glitches

2002-09-04 Thread William Gallafent
Furthermore, I've just discovered that this noisiness is enormously reduced in 16-bit colour mode (was previously using, and would like to be using, 24-bit colour!). It's still there, but is barely noticable. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xpert]duplicate mails

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im not one to say what or how many mails to send a day or tell people how troublesome to be, but this has to be said: Please please please please please actually let your mail be on one list for a resonable amount of time before sending that

Re: [Xpert]what's exact meaning of request length

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Martin Ding wrote: I recently study request but meet more problem. Now the meaning of request length puzzled me. For example, the request of X_ImageText8 typedef struct { CARD8 reqType; BYTE nChars; CARD16 length B16; Drawable drawable B32;

Re: [Xpert]Fast screen dumps?

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Peter Rundberg wrote: Hi, Is there any way to grab a screenshot really fast. I mean like a 1280x1024 32bbp screenshot in a couple of milliseconds? I am using XShmGetImage() right now, but a screenshot of the size mentioned above takes about 110 to 120 milliseconds.

Re: [Xpert]what's exact meaning of request length

2002-09-04 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Sep 4, Mark Vojkovich wrote: The size of the structure is implied by the reqType. Length is the number of 4-byte chunks beyond the structure that belong to this request. Length includes the basic request structure in requests as they are variable length, but the

Re: [Xpert]dual-head failure.

2002-09-04 Thread Paul Pikowsky
The files you posted are impossible to read because there are no carriage returns. Try just cutting and pasting them in your Email after opening them in Kedit or Kate or something. Original Message Follows From: Sheldon Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Xpert]Q: Why would DNS problems prevent restarting X?

2002-09-04 Thread Boehne, Robert
The hostname is in /etc/hosts as well as loopback, but nothing else. The two nameservers are in /etc/resolv.conf. The point is, everything else works, NFS server, remote display (using Cygwin XF86 or Exceed), only the local display won't start. The log file is always empty, the server attempts

[Xpert]xf86execl problems

2002-09-04 Thread Rich Richardson
I'm having a lot of trouble launching processes from a server-side dynamic module using xf86execl/execvp/etc -- I consistently get Resource not available errors. In general, is one allowed to do this sort of thing? If so, what might I be doing wrong (I'm pretty confident that I'm using exec

[Xpert]Re: Trident CyberBladeXP / AbiWord Font Issue

2002-09-04 Thread Robert C. Dowdy
I've noticed the following problem across several distros and with several minor versions of AbiWord. As far as I can tell, *only* AbiWord is affected, no other GTK apps exhibit the behaviour. When using AbiWord with either the default X 4.2.0 trident_drv OR the updated driver provided by

Re: [Xpert]no 1024x768 mode with 16 and 24 bit depth with CT65555

2002-09-04 Thread Martin Federspiel
David Bateman: However all of the inbuilt modes are rejected since your maximum pixel clock is 64.59MHz, and the minimum clock for a 1024x768 mode is 65MHz. A simple solution is to use the DacSpeed option to allow the 65MHz clock to be allowed, or at a pinch increase the memory clock

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI's New Radeon 8500 Drivers for Xfree86

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Lane
At 08:39 PM 8/23/02, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:59:02 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: ATI's New Radeon 8500 Drivers for Xfree86

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 9000

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Lane
At 07:20 AM 8/29/02, you wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Dirk Seidel wrote: Hi, I have one of the new ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and I need help to configure it under XFree86 4.0. As already mentioned in this list there is no support for this card by the radeon driver. So my question: are

[Xpert]xf86execl problems

2002-09-04 Thread Rich Richardson
I'm having a lot of trouble launching processes from a server-side dynamic module using xf86execl/execvp/etc -- I consistently get Resource not available errors. In general, is one allowed to do this sort of thing? If so, what might I be doing wrong (I'm pretty confident that I'm using exec

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI's New Radeon 8500 Drivers for Xfree86

2002-09-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2002-09-04 at 23:10, Mark Lane wrote: At 08:39 PM 8/23/02, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:59:02 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: [Xpert]dual-head failure. (apology)

2002-09-04 Thread Sheldon Reynolds
To the list: I would like to apologize to the list for my post, I was not aware the editor I was using stripped all of the returns upon paste(and for the dual-post). I will post a fixed message to the newbie-list. Again I apologize for the waste of time I caused anyone, and will not make this

Re: [Xpert]xf86execl problems

2002-09-04 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:12:35PM -0700, Rich Richardson wrote: I'm having a lot of trouble launching processes from a server-side dynamic module using xf86execl/execvp/etc -- I consistently get Resource not available errors. In general, is one allowed to do this sort of thing? If so, what

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI's New Radeon 8500 Drivers for Xfree86

2002-09-04 Thread Mark Lane
At 04:32 PM 9/4/02, you wrote: On Mit, 2002-09-04 at 23:10, Mark Lane wrote: At 08:39 PM 8/23/02, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:59:02 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI's New Radeon 8500 Drivers for Xfree86

2002-09-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2002-09-05 at 01:11, Mark Lane wrote: http://dri.sf.net/download.phtml I installed these drivers but they only have 2D support still. At least it disabled DRI as X started whether I had it turned in XF86Config-4 or not. Did you try the r200 snapshot? Yes, I that's

[Xpert]XFree86 4.2.1 update release and Xlib security problem

2002-09-04 Thread David Dawes
XFree86 4.2.1 is now available. This is an update release, intended primarily to address some security issues. Release notes can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/RELNOTES.html, and other information can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/README.html and

Re: [Xpert]Q: Why would DNS problems prevent restarting X?

2002-09-04 Thread David D. Hagood
Do you have any hosts listed in your /etc/X0.hosts file (i.e. are you explictly allowing other hosts access to your display)? When X starts, it looks up the hosts listed in /etc/Xdisplay number.hosts to get the IP addresses it should allow. If DNS is down, then it will have to time out for

[Xpert]bug (?) in xf86pciBus.c

2002-09-04 Thread Andy Isaacson
I have a Vaio r505te laptop, with the i810 chipset. I'm running FreeBSD 4.5. dmesg, XFree86.0.log, and XF86Config are at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/freebsd/ XFree86 (head of CVS as of September 3) was locking up after printing Setting vga for screen 0.. I fixed it by adding this

Re: [Xpert]bug (?) in xf86pciBus.c

2002-09-04 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Andy Isaacson wrote: I have a Vaio r505te laptop, with the i810 chipset. I'm running FreeBSD 4.5. dmesg, XFree86.0.log, and XF86Config are at http://web.hexapodia.org/~adi/sart/freebsd/ XFree86 (head of CVS as of September 3) was locking up after printing Setting vga