[Xpert]how Can I get GC from GContext

2002-10-11 Thread Martin Ding
well, Get GContext from GC is very easy. But I only got GContext and need GC information to do something, such as get a line's width from GC. How Can I get GC information only in client side? I meannot searching in Server side

[Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-11 Thread Kacper Wysocki
Hi, after following this list for a couple of weeks I have gotten nowhere trying to acheive decent acceleration for my ATI Radeon QL (8500 128mb), and it doesn't seem many others have, either. This is Status Quo: * The resident XF86 'ati' driver works, gives a display etc (I have a perfectly

AW: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-11 Thread Johannes Rath
Title: AW: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86 Kacper, your board has to be 'build by ATI', for the firegl drivers to work. Johannes -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Kacper Wysocki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 11:00 An: [EMAIL

Re: [Xpert]Xv with G200: Size limits after upgrade to 4.2

2002-10-11 Thread Andreas Trottmann
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:58:24AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: And do you happen to remember at which revision you changed the radeon driver, so I could have something as a template so I can see what I have to change? Not off the top of my head; I could look it up, but it might be

[Xpert]Problem with elotouch screen (XFree 4.1.0)

2002-10-11 Thread Frédéric MAZUR
Hello, I've recently installed an elotouch screen on debian linux woody with X server 4.1.0 and it work properly but when I calibrate eloscreen (with java EloVa or java CPL) , It doesn't save the configuration into XFree86Config-4 so when I boot the system, I must recalibrate eloscreen ...

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fre, 2002-10-11 at 04:31, Geoffrey wrote: snip (--) PCI: (0:11:0) ATI Mach64 GP rev 92, Mem @ 0xd500/24, 0xd300/12, I/O @ 0xa800/8, BIOS @ 0xd4fe/17 snip It's a Mach64... Section Device Identifier device2 VendorName ATI BoardName

[Xpert]MGA 450 worse than ATi Rage Pro

2002-10-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hi there. I'm running Xfree86-4.2.0 on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE. My monitor is Sun GDM-20E20. I had ATi RagePro in this box, today I plugged in a Matrox G450 F. The picture is much worse than what I could get from the ATi card. Bright text on dark background is quite fine, but dark text on bright

RE: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors Option DPMS BusID PCI:0:11:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName ATI BoardName ATI Radeon Driver radeon Option DPMS Option AGPMode 2 BusID AGP:1:0:0 ^ Not sure this works either, but it

Re: [Xpert]List of potential XFree things

2002-10-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Alexander Stohr wrote: I understand your point. I would like to have the administrator to have a set of known good resolutions and setups between the user can select its desires. It's already possible to put

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: I've been trying to get my dual head radeon ve working, gave up and stuck another card in this box, rage pro (16mb). It appears from the log that both are recognized, but then I get: Symbol fbdevHWGetLineLength from module

Re: [Xpert]Wrong DPI Value and strange looking fonts.

2002-10-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Patrick Mau wrote: Hallo List, this is my first post, so if you need further information let me know. I compiled X from CVS and everything is working well, but the fonts look condensed; the characters are too tall. I usually use the -dpi 100 option when starting X.

Re: [Xpert]MGA 450 worse than ATi Rage Pro

2002-10-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-11 17:21:09 +0200: Hi there. I'm running Xfree86-4.2.0 on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE. My monitor is Sun GDM-20E20. I had ATi RagePro in this box, today I plugged in a Matrox G450 F. The picture is much worse than what I could get from the ATi card. Bright text on

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: I've been trying to get my dual head radeon ve working, gave up and stuck another card in this box, rage pro (16mb). It appears from the log that both are recognized, but then I get: Symbol fbdevHWGetLineLength from

RE: [Xpert]problem with LCD display flickering

2002-10-11 Thread Jeff Chua
On 10 Oct 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: If it's a Mach64 card, Option CompositeSync off might help. This fixes the problem. No more flickers! -) Thanks you, Jeff. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Xpert]Drivers for Compaq

2002-10-11 Thread Xavier Fustero
Dear Sirs, we bought a compaq EVO 510 which has an integrated video card FW82845G. I try to setup a Linux RedHat 7.1 on it but we still have problems on the X Configuration. I couldn't find information about the linux driver to use. Could you help us to fix this? Thanks in advance, Xavi --

[Xpert]Starting session manager for the third X window screen

2002-10-11 Thread Kai Yue
Hi, I have problem in running three screens in X window with separate session managers. Your advices will be greatly appreciated. I am able to run two screens with Matrox G550 with separate session managers without any problems. I can also run the three screen configuration in xinerama mode,

Re: [Xpert]MGA 450 worse than ATi Rage Pro

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:46:46 +0200 # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-11 17:21:09 +0200: Hi there. I'm running Xfree86-4.2.0 on FreeBSD-4.7-STABLE. My monitor is Sun GDM-20E20. I had ATi RagePro in this box, today I

RE: [Xpert]Drivers for Compaq

2002-10-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]Drivers for Compaq You are most likely using a laptop that has an intel 845G integrated grafics and hostbridge chipset. I must assume that this chipset was not at all supported by XFree86 when RedHat 7.1 was burnt to Gold-Release. Meanwhile there was a RH 7.2, 7.3 and

Re: [Xpert]S3 Trio 64V+ support

2002-10-11 Thread Ritchard Nash
Branden Robinson wrote: Sending redundant messages to the list is not the best way to get your questions answered. Ok I'll take to mind in future. Sorry for this. Your question also was not terribly germane to the charter of the Xpert list. Why? I've only asked if someone knows if the

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: I've been trying to get my dual head radeon ve working, gave up and stuck another card in this box, rage pro (16mb). It appears from the log that both are recognized, but then I get: Symbol fbdevHWGetLineLength from

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: I've been trying to get my dual head radeon ve working, gave up and stuck another card in this box, rage pro (16mb). It appears from the log that both are recognized, but then I get: Symbol fbdevHWGetLineLength from

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: Try removing the BusID from the Rage Pro's device section. Well, I stuck the rage card into another box, used XFree86 -configure and the card works fine. the BusID entry was added to the config as well, inspite of the fact it's a single card in the

Re: [Xpert]How to debug extension?

2002-10-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Martin Ding wrote: I met a problem about one extension, which contains server side and client side. I just doubt the extension has some problem. But reading source code make me sick and faid to find anything I need. So, Is there any way to debug the extension? For

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Geoffrey wrote: Try removing the BusID from the Rage Pro's device section. Well, I stuck the rage card into another box, used XFree86 -configure and the card works fine. the BusID entry was added to the config as well, inspite of the fact

[Xpert]dell c400 w/ i830m on freebsd w/ xfree86 4.2.1 using the vesa driver

2002-10-11 Thread Catherine Liao
Hi there, I've spent the last two days trying to get X to run on my new Dell C400 laptop w/ FreeBSD. I was successful in getting X to start in 1024x768x8, but not higher. I've read that others have been able to get 1024x768x24, and I hope someone on this list might be able to help me out. My

Re: [Xpert]how Can I get GC from GContext

2002-10-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Martin Ding wrote: How Can I get GC information only in client side? I mean not searching in Server side In theory the client GC is an opaque handle and you're not supposed to be able to get any info from it on the client side. However, Xlib does cache all of these

[Xpert]Mirrored display in X

2002-10-11 Thread Gabriel Ripoche
Hi, I have a R505 Vaio laptop with a i830 chipset and am trying to have X display on an external screen as well as on my LCD panel. Right now I managed to have the display on both if the external monitor is plugged when I boot (this is actually automatic) but my external display frequency is

RE: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: AW: [Xpert]Status of ATI Radeon support under XFree86 after doing some research on ATI.com, anandtech.com and others to make sure... ATI Radeon 8500 is built with a chip from the Radeon R200 chip family and should work with the available ATI FireGL drivers. But ATI Radeon VE

Re: [Xpert]Re: Using the chips XFree86 driver on a PowerBook3400 (almost there.)

2002-10-11 Thread Egbert Eich
Michael Stephen Hanni writes: G'day Egbert, The funny thing is that using either cursor I get this behavior. I'll look into this, maybe I did something that made the hardware cursor be used regardless of the option setting. Hmm, that's funny. It is possible that the cursor Image

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-10-11 at 04:31, Geoffrey wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2002-10-10 at 03:58, Geoffrey wrote: I've been trying to get my dual head radeon ve working, gave up and stuck another card in this box, rage pro (16mb). It appears from the log that both are recognized, but

Re: [Xpert]#DisplaySize 300 230 # mm ???

2002-10-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, In configuring a FreeBSD-4.6.2 box I ran X -configure and got a file that worked but the resolution was a bit too high for me and when I viewed the XF86Config file I saw in the Display line: #DisplaySize 300 230 # mm And the

[Xpert]expert's opinion wished.

2002-10-11 Thread Franco Bevilacqua
Yes, I have already thought to this solution But I need to display at least 30 frame per seconds in a image format of 640x512 without overloading the CPU. My idea consists to write the data in the video driver like V4L and then display the data in the overlay of the graphic card. I suppose that I

Re: [Xpert]How to debug extension?

2002-10-11 Thread Henrik Sandklef
Hi Martin! Have you find any problem with XTest? I haven't, allthough I have found some mysterious behaviour in RECORD extension*. The way I tried to track down that bug** was simply adding a few printout (to file) statements in the server part of RECORD extension to make sure that the struct I

Re: [Xpert]How to debug extension?

2002-10-11 Thread Henrik Sandklef
HI! Martin and I have been talking about a problem in RECORD. I don't know wether the refered problem is that problem or not, but I figure it is. ...However, there seems to be a problem with RECORD wether refered to by Martin or not. When using RECORD to record either some delivered event or

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-11 Thread Geoffrey
Marc Aurele La France wrote: That's a hang. The box is not responding to anything. I'd like to see what's left of /var/log/XFree86.0.log after the reboot that's needed to get it out of that state. Okay, you ready for this. No file, none, not even a null file. What do you make of that? I

[Xpert]fastest refresh rate card

2002-10-11 Thread Daniel Sheltraw
Hello Xpert list I realize this is not really a XF86 question but do you of any graphics cards with vertical refresh frequencies greater than 100/sec. Also what monitors or projectors exist to support high refresh rates. Thanks, Daniel ___ Xpert

[Xpert]ATI Radeon patch testing

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin E Martin
I've just checked in the latest patch from ATI. Here's the CHANGELOG entry: 390. Rewrite Radeon DDC/DFP mode detection and management (Kevin Martin). 389. Integrate ATI patch: - Add 2D support for Radeon 9000 (RV250), Mobility M9 (RV250 mobile) and Radeon 9700 (R300) -