Re: [Xpert]Trident and XVideo

2002-01-04 Thread Alan Hourihane
You've got the options now to adjust yourself. Option XvHsync value Option XvVsync value where value is an integer for displacement in that direction. Alan. On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:49:04PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have noticed a small but annoying

Re: [Xpert]Trident and XVideo

2002-01-04 Thread henrikj
Hello Alan, This is the results i get from changing the sync values: With Hsync 0 Vsync 0 i get a green line i the bottom of the window, and some flickering to the right in the window. The bottom green line is not all green there are som junk in it too. If i increment XvVsync i get rid of the

Re: [Xpert]Best 2D-only card for X11

2002-01-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 08:49, Ross Vandegrift wrote: What is the best pure 2D card in X11 with non-binary-only (read nvidia) drivers? Does a Matrox G450/550 compare to GeForce Radeon in 2D? Matrox is the only company I've ever heard make noise about their 2D performance. The box from my

[Xpert]XF86 CVS stability? / savage with XV

2002-01-04 Thread forrest whitcher
I'd like to be using XV with my savage IXC, which looks to be built in the current CVS ... While I don't want to overwrite a working 4.1 install, CVS looks like the only way to get this. any reason to think this will / won't work? forrest ___ Xpert

Re: [Xpert]Radeon VE getting faulty EDID from digital flatpanel

2002-01-04 Thread Ed Hudson
for radeon/ve's, and radeon/all-in-wonder's with dvi-d connections what i find works best is to let XFree86 -configure build an XF86Config, then add Modes 1024x768 (specifically, the exact size of the flat-pannel) to the

Re: [Xpert]Best 2D-only card for X11

2002-01-04 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Matrox is the only company I've ever heard make noise about their 2D performance. The box from my G400 DualHead billed it as the fastest 2D accelerator ever created. Don't know if it's true, but the 2D performs quite well for me! The mga driver has a very good reputation for 2D

[Xpert]Release of CyberBlade driver information

2002-01-04 Thread David L. Gehrt
I hope that this somehow wends its way to the correct people. I recently purchased a Toshiba 1805-274 laptop with a Trident CyberBlade-T (Maybe CyberBlade-XP Ai1) graphics chip in part because I relied on the representations on the Trident Web page that the graphics controller was supported by

Re: [Xpert]Best 2D-only card for X11

2002-01-04 Thread Owen Taylor
Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matrox is the only company I've ever heard make noise about their 2D performance. The box from my G400 DualHead billed it as the fastest 2D accelerator ever created. Don't know if it's true, but the 2D performs quite well for me! The

[Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-04 Thread Tom Manning
I've been reading everything I can find on this card, and there's so much conflicting and outdated info out there I'm getting confused. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 on an older Pentium II, with a BX chipset. **I know some of these questions are newbie type questions, but if I fully understood

[Xpert]Evaluating Memory Usage

2002-01-04 Thread Christopher Browne
Is there some reasonable way of actually evaluating what memory is being used by X these days? % ps aux | grep X | grep deferglyph root 412 5.8 10.0 231512 64540 ? S 13:12 4:23 /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth This suggests that

[Xpert]Xv without the nvidia binary driver

2002-01-04 Thread ephemeron
With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary drivers is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem for those who aren't using an RPM-based system. Are there any plans for Xv support to be included in the xfree86 source?

Re: [Xpert]Xv without the nvidia binary driver

2002-01-04 Thread Andy Ritger
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote: With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary drivers is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem for those who aren't using an RPM-based system. There are also tarballs available on NVIDIA's website. - Andy Ritger

[Xpert]ati mobility LY

2002-01-04 Thread mel kravitz
hi, Just built xfree86-4.1.99(cvs source) on my new Sony GR290 laptop, running NetBSD-1.5ZA(current), xf86config builds an /etc/X11/XF86Config -which works well! Congratulations to all those involved. -Mel ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xpert]Xv without the nvidia binary driver

2002-01-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Andy Ritger wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote: With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary drivers is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem for those who aren't using an RPM-based system. There are also tarballs

Re: [Xpert]Xv without the nvidia binary driver

2002-01-04 Thread ephemeron
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:28:15 -0800 (PST) Andy Ritger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote: With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary drivers is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem for those who aren't using an RPM-based

Re: [Xpert]Evaluating Memory Usage

2002-01-04 Thread Jim Gettys
ps on many/most systems is completely useless for determining X's memory usage. X maps the display into its address space: sometimes the address space required to do this is large/very large (it isn't just the VRAM on the board, but also its register area, which can be arbitrarily large). On an

[Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Ewald Snel
Hi, Could I use MMX assembly for improving the mga video driver? I wrote a vertical chrominance filter (*) for the XVideo module using inline MMX assembly. This allows me to improve output quality without any speed penalty. Of course, I'm using #ifdef USE_MMX_ASM and the original C code as an

Re: [Xpert]A couple Radeon 7500 questions...

2002-01-04 Thread Adam K Kirchhoff
On 29 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 05:11, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: 1) The XFree86 Radeon 7500 driver treats the monitor connected to the DVI port as the primary head. To me, this makes perfect sense (if you're going to buy a digital flat panel,

Re: [Xpert]ati mobility LY

2002-01-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I did the same: XFree86 Version 4.1.99.4 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 28 December 2001 And works fine (Debian Woody, Linux Kernel 2.4.17) But if I change from text mode to graphic mode it hangs the XFree86 And you? I will test

Re: [Xpert]Xfree 4.1, Matrox G-450 Dualhead questions

2002-01-04 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I have this card, with two monitors at the same resolution with FreeBSD and Linux (XFree 4.0 and 4.1) With Solaris you can use XFree or you can patch Solaris 8 and then works. I have two icewm, one in first monitor and the other one in the other monitor, without problems. I don't test

Re: [Xpert]Xv without the nvidia binary driver

2002-01-04 Thread Yuri van Oers
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:28:15 -0800 (PST) Andy Ritger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, ephemeron wrote: With XFree86 4.1. it appears that downloading the nVidia binary drivers is the only way to get Xv working. Which can be a problem

Re: [Xpert]*Severe* time lossage with XF86 4.1.0 and S3Virge MX LCD

2002-01-04 Thread Kevin Brosius
Alan Hourihane wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:33:16PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Yuri van Oers wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Kenneth Crudup wrote: Looking thru a couple of months of list archives turned up nothing, so: When running 4.1.0 on my laptop

Re: [Xpert]Laptop backlight question

2002-01-04 Thread Kevin Brosius
Kenneth Crudup wrote: The main reason I went with the 4.X series is 'cause I'd read on the 'net that it has the ability to use APM (DPMS?) to darken laptop backlights, but I haven't seen the ability to do this anywhere. I've got a ProStar (AKA Sager/Kapok/Clevo/...) laptop with a

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Ewald Snel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Of course, I'm using #ifdef USE_MMX_ASM and the original C code as an alternative for other CPU architectures. Runtime detection of MMX support is not included yet, but will be added if MMX is allowed. I've also been playing with some mmx-ification of the

[Xpert]Softbooting video card on PPC with OF ROMs

2002-01-04 Thread Derrik Pates
Has there been any development in this department? I was wondering if the Mac-On-Linux OpenFirmware/OpenPROM implementation (minimal, but maybe enough) would be a potential basis to make something like this work, as part of an int10-like module. Any thoughts? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin,

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread greg wright
I've also been playing with some mmx-ification of the XVideo routines, for example I also did an SSE-4:2:0-to-4:2:2 function. I just did this too, MMX only though. How many cycles/pixel did you end up with? What percentage of pairing did you achieve? There was some discussion on #xfree86

[Xpert]Fixing XF86VidMode extension

2002-01-04 Thread Billy Biggs
Over the holidays I fixed XF86VidModeAddModeLine and XF86VidModeSwitchToMode in my local copy of 4_1-branch. My patch though is very strange and not entirely correct. I don't believe the current CVS code ever worked for anyone: I felt I was completing the code rather than bugfixing it.

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Walthinsen
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, greg wright wrote: I just did this too, MMX only though. How many cycles/pixel did you end up with? What percentage of pairing did you achieve? Note that only P5-core chips care about pairing, per-se. There are much nastier issues involved in modern P6 cores. I haven't

[Xpert]Re: Xfree4.1on a CyberBlade XP

2002-01-04 Thread Luis Miguel Tavora
Many thanks for all the replies I got from my previous post. I finally managed to get Xfree4.1 working on my CyberBladeXP following the guidelines presented in http://www.deater.net/john/PavilionN5430.html Cheers, Luis Hi there. Has anyboby managed to get Xfree4.1.0-3 (which comes

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Billy Biggs
I've also been playing with some mmx-ification of the XVideo routines, for example I also did an SSE-4:2:0-to-4:2:2 function. I just did this too, MMX only though. How many cycles/pixel did you end up with? What percentage of pairing did you achieve? I'll get some numbers in a sec.

Re: [Xpert]*Severe* time lossage with XF86 4.1.0 and S3Virge MX LCD

2002-01-04 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote: This is the first time I've heard anything like this recently. How do you notice the clock shift? After the machine's been running for a few minutes, and before I start X, date ; rdate time.nist.gov shows at most a second's difference. 30 mins after X

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Ewald Snel
Hi, I wrote a vertical chrominance filter (*) for the XVideo module using inline MMX assembly. This allows me to improve output quality without any speed penalty. Do you mean for upsampling to 4:2:2 ? How do you filter? Do you average to create the new chroma line? Something like

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Erik Walthinsen
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Billy Biggs wrote: Please, please correct me if I'm wrong here. In MPEG sampling, the chrominance sample is halfway between the two luminance samples on the same vertical scanline (by is138182): o o where o == luma sample x x == chroma

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Ewald Snel
Hi, [...] Something like that, the filter uses 0.75x nearest chrominance sample and 0.25x second nearest chrominance sample. This is more accurate as it doesn't shift the chrominance signal by 1 pixel. Please, please correct me if I'm wrong here. In MPEG sampling, the chrominance

Re: [Xpert]Laptop backlight question

2002-01-04 Thread Kenneth Crudup
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote: Does 'xset dpms force off' turn off the backlight on that machine? First thing I tried. -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C. Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914

Re: [Xpert]Using MMX assembly (for video card drivers)

2002-01-04 Thread Billy Biggs
To reply to my own mail :) Billy Biggs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's actually 0.5 pixel (my mistake :)) using the following filter : o o (c=c1) c1 o o (c=.5*c1 + .5*c2) o o (c=c2) c2 o o (c=.5*c2 + .5*c3) I don't think this is right for MPEG2. I sent

RE: [Xpert]Fixing XF86VidMode extension

2002-01-04 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Let me summarize the options you've discussed and comment on each. Assume 59.94 video. Option 1: Run the display at 59.94. This is what you were attempting to do by inserting modelines I presume? Using this method you don't introduce any more judder than already existed in the video sequence.