[Xpert]Radeon 8500

2002-04-22 Thread Pranay Kumar
Hi all, My setup.. Linux 2.4.18 (built) with X 4.2.0 (built). ATI.2 drivers on a Radeon 8500 card. The card has a vga and a DVI output. Both the heads by default are in a clone configuration (right from boot time I see the same things on both heads). I have a few questions: 1) When I run

Re: [Xpert]joystick woes

2002-04-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 10:35, Sam Halliday wrote: this should not be being compiled in the make install file!!! It was already compiled during make World and already failed then. make World doesn't abort on errors by default, it's a good idea to redirect its output into a file and check

Re: [Xpert]joystick woes

2002-04-22 Thread Sam Halliday
this should not be being compiled in the make install file!!! It was already compiled during make World and already failed then. make World doesn't abort on errors by default, it's a good idea to redirect its output into a file and check it for errors, or just run make afterwards, ...

Re: [Xpert]Clipped stippled polygon and pixmap cache bug on ATIRadeon VE w/ 4.2.0

2002-04-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 21:34, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On 21 Apr 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 20:26, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On 20 Apr 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 02:23, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: Okay, after tracking this, it turns out to

[Xpert]Monitor problems

2002-04-22 Thread kfitts
Title: Monitor problems Hi. I just recently upgraded our Xfree86 from 4.0.3 to 4.2.0. I am running on SCO Unixware 2.1.3. After upgrading, some of the older monitors we have go blank when xdm is brought up. I am using the same information for HorizSync and VertRefresh in /etc/X11/XF86Config

Re: [Xpert]Window ID

2002-04-22 Thread Jens Owen
Bharathi S wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: How find the window id by using the following structures Display, Drawable, Graphics Context ? AFAIK, Window id is the same thing as the drawable, provided the drawable points to the window. I.e. where the man

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia 2GO Suspend problem

2002-04-22 Thread Jim Gettys
There are bugs in suspend in general with Linux (having nothing to do with X per' se'). Keith Packard has sent Linus a patch; not a great one, (loop after a pause for a long time), but one that works. Basically, if the system is busy at the instant that the suspend request is made, it fails.

[Xpert]SAVESET extension proposal

2002-04-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Here's a proposal for a tiny protocol extension (one request other than QueryVersion) that would help a lot in making inter-client embedding robust. I'm willing to do the work in implementing this for XFree86, though I might need help in checking the protocol for sanity and figuring out how to

[Xpert]Using Radeon with two heads?

2002-04-22 Thread Leonard Sitongia
Hello, I'm running XFree86 4.2 on Linux RH 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with a 1400x1050 LCD display and an external monitor. This has the ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP) hardware. I'm trying to find documentation specific to the radeon driver, because the document for the ati driver in XF 4.2

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia 2GO Suspend problem

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jim Gettys wrote: There are bugs in suspend in general with Linux (having nothing to do with X per' se'). Keith Packard has sent Linus a patch; not a great one, (loop after a pause for a long time), but one that works. Actually, in the case of GeForce2 Go there is

[Xpert]What causes LCDs to burn at wrong res?

2002-04-22 Thread Leonard Sitongia
I'm trying to get my laptop to display on both the LCD and an external CRT. Often the setting will cause the LCD to start rapidly brightening, with it appearing to burn in. I don't know what to call this. It looks bad, so I immediately power it off (ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't kill it, so X

[Xpert]Re: SAVESET extension proposal

2002-04-22 Thread Keith Packard
ChangeSaveSetValues I think all you need is the ability to reparent to the root. As the embedded window isn't override-redirect, the remapping will be redirected giving the window manager a chance to peer at the window. A suitable WM convention could be developed to get the embedded

Re: [Xpert]What causes LCDs to burn at wrong res?

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Leonard Sitongia wrote: I'm trying to get my laptop to display on both the LCD and an external CRT. Often the setting will cause the LCD to start rapidly brightening, with it appearing to burn in. I don't know what to call this. It looks bad, so I blooming

[Xpert]New mpeg2play hacked for XvMC

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
In this new version I fixed a few things: 1) Problems with interleaved video 2) Problems with DualPrime motion 3) Added support for HD program streams 4) Removed some of the fast paths in the macroblock code because they were broken and keeping HD from working. Unfortunately, this

Re: [Xpert]XFree86 4.2, Powermac ADC connector, Nvidia

2002-04-22 Thread Ani Joshi
Use the version in cvs right now, or use the attatched patch against 4.2.0 nv driver. ani On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Richard Chan wrote: Folks, Using XFree86 4.2 with nv driver on G4 PowerMAC with Nvidia GeForce2/MX card (VGA and ADC) Debian Linux Woody, 2.4.18-newpmac kernel Everything

[Xpert]GeForce4-400-Go and the nv driver

2002-04-22 Thread Roger W.Brown
Hi, Mark Vojkovich, in a most helpful reply to my posting XFree86 and the nvidia driver, (see http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-April/016928.html), confirmed that: The nvidia driver requires that the server have Xinerama support. He also suggests that GeForce4 400 Go

Re: [Xpert]Window ID

2002-04-22 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Bharathi S wrote: On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: How find the window id by using the following structures Display, Drawable, Graphics Context ? AFAIK, Window id is the same thing as the drawable, provided the drawable points to the window.

Re: [Xpert]Using Radeon with two heads?

2002-04-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 07:12, Leonard Sitongia wrote: I'm running XFree86 4.2 on Linux RH 7.2 on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with a 1400x1050 LCD display and an external monitor. This has the ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP) hardware. I'm trying to find documentation specific to the radeon driver,

Re: [Xpert]Clipped stippled polygon and pixmap cache bug on ATIRadeon VE w/ 4.2.0

2002-04-22 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
On 22 Apr 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: Well, I think I may look into fixing the clipping for the CP case but otherwise won't worry about performance until someone complains. Thanks for the insights. Well, the program which found this bug is a VLSI layout editor. I can assure you

[Xpert]xfree86 3.3.5 to 4.2.0

2002-04-22 Thread Faruk Grozdanic
Hello, I am trying to port the utah-glx s3savage drivers from xfree86 3.3.x to 4.2.0 . Old code calls xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryStart xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryEnd to get the memory range to use. In xf86 4.2.0 these do not exist. My understanding is to use

Re: [Xpert]xfree86 3.3.5 to 4.2.0

2002-04-22 Thread Will Newton
On Monday 22 Apr 2002 8:23 pm, Faruk Grozdanic wrote: I am trying to port the utah-glx s3savage drivers from xfree86 3.3.x to 4.2.0 . Old code calls xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryStart Look on the archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe someone has laready donw this.

Re: [Xpert]GeForce4-400-Go and the nv driver

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Roger W.Brown wrote: Hi, Mark Vojkovich, in a most helpful reply to my posting XFree86 and the nvidia driver, (see http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-April/016928.html), confirmed that: The nvidia driver requires that the server have

[Xpert]kernel module version incorrect

2002-04-22 Thread MarkLapier
Hello, My log file indicates a version mis-match with the r128.o kernel module. It claims I need version 2.2 or greater but /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/drivers/char/drm/r128.o is version is 2.1.6. Here's my question. Where can I get the appropriate r128.o version or the source

Re: [Xpert]xfree86 3.3.5 to 4.2.0

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Faruk Grozdanic wrote: Hello, I am trying to port the utah-glx s3savage drivers from xfree86 3.3.x to 4.2.0 . Old code calls xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryStart xf86AccelInfoRec.PixmapCacheMemoryEnd to get the memory range to use. In xf86 4.2.0 these do not

Re: [Xpert]Using Radeon with two heads?

2002-04-22 Thread Leonard Sitongia
On Monday 22 April 2002 01:02 pm, Michel Dänzer wrote: I'm trying to use crt_screen to drive just the external monitor, i.e., turn off the LCD. For example, I configure XF86Config-4 for 1280x1024, and put Option crt_screen into the Device and/or Screen section, boot the laptop with the

[Xpert]Re: SAVESET extension proposal

2002-04-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ChangeSaveSetValues I think all you need is the ability to reparent to the root. As the embedded window isn't override-redirect, the remapping will be redirected giving the window manager a chance to peer at the window. A suitable WM

[Xpert]ATI Rage 128 Mobility and DRI

2002-04-22 Thread Doug Alcorn
I thought I would post this mainly to populate google. I can't remember where I saw the user comment with the solution. Probably on the dri.sourceforge.net site. Anyway, my Rage 128 Mobility LF won't do DRI at resolutions higher than 1280x1024. I don't know if this is a limited by the chipset

Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage 128 Mobility and DRI

2002-04-22 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
Most likely you do not have enough video ram for this. One suggestion is to switch to 16bpp. Vladimir Dergachev On 21 Apr 2002, Doug Alcorn wrote: I thought I would post this mainly to populate google. I can't remember where I saw the user comment with the solution.

[Xpert]UPDATE kernel module version incorrect

2002-04-22 Thread MarkLapier
I downloaded and compiled the DRM drivers from xfee86.org as suggested by two very helpful people. I copied the r128.o file to /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/drivers/char/drm/r128.o and restarted X. I checked the permissions so don't tell me to fix that. This is the result from my log file:

Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage 128 Mobility and DRI

2002-04-22 Thread Doug Alcorn
Vladimir Dergachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most likely you do not have enough video ram for this. One suggestion is to switch to 16bpp. I've gotten several comments of this nature. I have 8MB of video ram. According to the DRI calculator, I should be able to do 1400x1050 in 16bpp. That

[Xpert]Larger than Largo - load testing X windows

2002-04-22 Thread Stuart Guthrie
There is a green field site in Australia that could be potentially larger than Largo. They wish to test more than 450 users running thin-client X on a server without having to have 450 client terminals. Is there a simple method to do this, I've thought of: 1) Recording X network packets then