[Xpert]Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2002-12-10 Thread Branden Robinson
changes to XKB post-4.2? -- G. Branden Robinson| The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | msg11534/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

[OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine)

2002-11-26 Thread Branden Robinson
. Those same people will probably not see my message for the same reason. -- G. Branden Robinson| Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. http

Re: [OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine)

2002-11-26 Thread Branden Robinson
in a place where there is such a thing as vigorous competition among ISPs? Must be nice. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If existence exists, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | why create a creator? http://people.debian.org

Re: [Xpert]S3 Trio64 V2 and XFree 4.x (documentation != reality)

2002-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
submitted a few patches to the Status document over the months. If it was, I apologize. -- G. Branden Robinson| Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He [EMAIL PROTECTED] | makes us suffer

Re: [Xpert]S3 Trio 64V+ support

2002-10-08 Thread Branden Robinson
and difficult to develop drivers for hardware that one doesn't have physical access to. Should you elect to make such an offer, this list *would* be the correct forum, to the best of my knowledge. -- G. Branden Robinson| Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Xpert]Help testing a patch to add double-buffering to tdfx's XVideo support

2002-10-07 Thread Branden Robinson
the code seems to work fine. I'd be interested in people with this and other tdfx-driven cards to try out this change. I package XFree86 for Debian and have a Voodoo3 3000. I'd be interested in testing this. -- G. Branden Robinson| Intellectual property is neither Debian GNU

Re: [Xpert]Intercepting keyboard events from within video driver?

2002-09-30 Thread Branden Robinson
not trapped by the server by default. You can be forgiven for not knowing this, though, as it's not documented everywhere it should be. ;-) I either already submitted the following patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or will be doing so in my next batch: This patch by Branden Robinson. --- xc/programs

[Xpert]MIME attachment handler in hypermail subtly corrupts attachments

2002-09-27 Thread Branden Robinson
the == to a =. I don't know how the process of patch merging works, but this sort of corruption of attachments could really waste some time and introduce some subtle bugs. -- G. Branden Robinson| Exercise your freedom of religion. Debian GNU/Linux | Set fire

[Xpert]freely-licensed DRI documentation wanted

2002-09-02 Thread Branden Robinson
the existing documents relicensed. So, is anyone up to the task? [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | kernel panic -- causal failure [EMAIL PROTECTED] | universe will now reboot http

[Xpert]Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2002-08-18 Thread Branden Robinson
-Glide.PTR)) = dlsym(libHandle, NAME); \ instead of *((void **)tmesa-Glide.PTR = dlsym(libHandle, NAME); \ -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xpert]Fatal Server Error: Lockup / space: 64000 wanted 65288

2002-07-09 Thread Branden Robinson
- to be precise, since I disabled all acceleration in the video driver. No, I haven't tinkered with selectively disabling some accelerations. Yup. Also see Debian bugs #78908, #82836, #88102, #103294, #122375, #124391, and #147666. (e.g., http://bugs.debian.org/78908 ) -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: [Xpert]words of the menus appear as if they were bar codes

2002-06-09 Thread Branden Robinson
chipset is not supported in XFree86 4.1. I would therefore use the xserver-svga or xserver-s3 packages (whichever works better for you). -- G. Branden Robinson| Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux | I met a man who wasn't there. [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Xpert]Re: Bug#147898: xserver-xfree86: freeze when using TrueType with Xinerama

2002-05-24 Thread Branden Robinson
with the packaging scripts for xfs, and the guys at the Xpert list don't care anything about it; just FYI. The font server config file is /etc/X11/fs/config. -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob pounding

Re: [Xpert]Laptop foobars external monitor resolution

2002-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
that the monitor manufacturer wishes were standardized by VESA. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the Debian GNU/Linux | long road from capitalism to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | capitalism. http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: [Xpert]debian

2002-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:28:12PM +0200, Martin Voelkle wrote: Hello, I don't really know where to post this, so I post it here. I'm just a debian and xfree86 user and I'm asking if you could do something to help Branden Robinson with his ports. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

[Xpert]Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
xf86DrvMsg()s could be added to help diagnose this apparent decision by the module to bail out?? -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob pounding on a greasy [EMAIL PROTECTED] |spot

[Xpert]Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:09:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: The part that is frustrating is this: (**) R128(0): Using framebuffer device (II) Loading sub module fbdevhw (II) LoadModule: fbdevhw (II) Loading /live/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor=The XFree86

[Xpert]canonical answer to the complaints about root-window sized cached pixmaps?

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
messages on this list. -- G. Branden Robinson| If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot [EMAIL PROTECTED] | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous msg05422

Re: [Xpert]canonical answer to the complaints about root-window sized cached pixmaps?

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
people to comprehend that. If they were stored on the client side instead, people would be complaining about KDE memory usage. Thanks a lot, Mark. Hopefully I can help to cut down on the number of complaints, at least from Debian users. This will go into my FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: [Xpert]Bug in polygon clipping code in XFree86 4.2.0

2002-04-09 Thread Branden Robinson
-exposed. Do they exhibit the correct behavior? The window dumps accurately replicate what I see on the screen. In case they are broken for me as well on my Voodoo3 2000, my XFree86 log file is attached. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do

Re: [Xpert]Re: XFree 4.1-6 crashes on Notebook with ati Grafik card

2002-02-06 Thread Branden Robinson
- the tdfx driver had problems with it too. Avoid like the plague. Yup. I've gotten reports of this from mga and nv driver users as well. Whoever tracks this one down should get a prize. -- G. Branden Robinson| Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Xpert]problem with ati and mandrake 8.1

2002-02-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:58:25AM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: AFAIK, you can try using 3.3.6 server and use libraries from 4.2.0.. This from the guy who wants people to keep their Linux kernel, X server, and Mesa library in absolute lockstep for DRI support? :) -- G. Branden Robinson

[Xpert]SEGV in xftcache (or freetype2) when given path with trailing /

2002-01-12 Thread Branden Robinson
() from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) -- G. Branden Robinson| The only way to get rid of a Debian GNU/Linux | temptation is to yield to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Oscar Wilde http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | msg03172/pgp0.pgp

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 GX

2002-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
you on this list first. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Kissing girls is a goodness. It is Debian GNU/Linux |a growing closer. It beats the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |hell out of card games. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |-- Robert

Re: [Xpert]SiS630 LCD - again (success)

2001-12-13 Thread Branden Robinson
-4_1-branch, and feature a lot of Debian-specific patches (many of which have been submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). However, I don't very often accept patches to driver code that doesn't already exist in XFree86 CVS. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are Debian GNU

Re: [Xpert]Packed Pixels

2001-11-16 Thread Branden Robinson
, you'd think there'd start to be some pressure on video manufacturers to support this kind of depth in video memory. -- G. Branden Robinson| The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux | Baptist: It ain't a sin if you [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xpert]Packed Pixels

2001-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
is, in my limited experience, high-quality RAMDACs. Now, one of the guys who actually writes video drivers for XFree86 can come along and point out how everything I've just told you is incorrect. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Xpert]Packed Pixels

2001-11-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:40:57AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: is accustomed to transferring 32 bits (4 bytes) at a time. Also, you have to a little more bit-banging in the video driver software because your pixels are aligned on word boundaries (with pixels that are 8, 16

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
on this point. -- G. Branden Robinson|America is at that awkward stage. Debian GNU/Linux |It's too late to work within the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |system, but too early to shoot the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |bastards

[Xpert]shared and static extension libraries re(^6)-visited

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
that will meet the same needs. Also, if I've gotten any facts wrong in the above analysis, please correct me. -- G. Branden Robinson|I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux |confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
the current developers of XvMC, but I urge them to correct me if I'm wrong. -- G. Branden Robinson| Why do we have to hide from the Debian GNU/Linux | police, Daddy? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Because we use vi, son. They use http

Re: [Xpert]Patch for wheel emulation mode

2001-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
must use the XInput extension. -- G. Branden Robinson|It's like I have a shotgun in my Debian GNU/Linux |mouth, I've got my finger on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |trigger, and I like the taste of http://people.debian.org/~branden

Re: [Xpert]Patch for wheel emulation mode

2001-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
these options supposed to be used for buttons number 4,5,6 and 7? If 6 and 7 shouldn't be used, why are those options there at first place taking 4 different numbers? Don't know that one. Maybe for Macintosh mice with two wheels? :) -- G. Branden Robinson| What