Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-23 Thread Leif Delgass
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Owen Savill wrote: I couldn't agree more !!! I have an ATI Rage Mobility Pro chipset. This was 3D accelerated in 3.3.6 but not in 4.0. There seems to be so many ATI drivers / modules / kernel options / ATI's own stuff that the picture for me to try and resolve if

[Xpert]Fwd: Call for [More] Papers -- OT

2002-11-23 Thread Georgina O Economou
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:30:45 -0600 From: Ray Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Call for [More] Papers -- OT Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL

[Xpert]Event recording and replaying

2002-11-23 Thread Luciano Montanaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Xperts, I have the need to test some interactive application, and searching the Internet I found news on a couple of X extensions that could do what I need. The extensions I am referring to are the Xtrap extension and the Xtest/record

Re: [Xpert]xfree86 libint10 in non-x86 environments

2002-11-23 Thread John Dennis
John I'm trying to fix some bugs with XFree86 drivers in an Itanium John (ia64) environment. ... Egbert I don't think you need to do too much for ia64. It works Egbert on all ia64 systems I have tested so far. Unfortunately I have an example where it does not, see below.

[Xpert]Static linking X applications: a difficulty

2002-11-23 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi all Please CC me any replies since I don't currently subscribe to this list. I am trying to create a statically linked X application to simplify distribution. Up to and including Xfree86 4.1.0 everything worked fine by passing -static to gcc during the link stage. Starting with Xfree86

[Xpert][PATCH] let Xv work again with nv after a swsusp restore

2002-11-23 Thread Pierre Lombard
Hi, The attached patch lets Xv work again after restoring a swsusp-frozen system. Please Cc if necessary as I am not subscribed to Xpert mailing list. -- Best regards, Pierre Lombard [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/p-l-42/] This patch restoes the Xv acceleration when resuming

[Xpert]X11 problem on a sony vaio fx705 (fxa59)

2002-11-23 Thread Tod Russell
Apologies for posting a newbie question, but I am having problems starting X on a sony vaio fx705 laptop (european model identical to a fxa59) running Mandrake 8.2, and XFree86 4.2.0. When I run 'startx' I get a speckled grey screen with a red box in the upper left corner of the screen. I have

Re: [Xpert]X locks up the complete system

2002-11-23 Thread Mukhben Singh
Hi, It Locked up again. I made video memory 32MB ( I have only 128 MB RAM so could not afford 64MB in video ) and was using HW cursor. The machine locked up after being in X for not more than 20 Hours. Out of which it was idle for 12 hours. Basically it was used only for 3 or 4 hours

[Xpert]unresolved symbols

2002-11-23 Thread Max Z.
Hi, I am trying to get XFree running under RH8 with a GeForce 4 440 go. X would not work with the nv driver, so i am trying to get the nvidia driver to work. I compiled the nvidia drivers and it is running as a module perfectly fine, but X still goes down. with the following errors. (II)

Re: [Xpert]xfree86 libint10 in non-x86 environments

2002-11-23 Thread Egbert Eich
John Dennis writes: John Dennis writes: John I'm trying to fix some bugs with XFree86 drivers in an Itanium John (ia64) environment. ... Egbert I don't think you need to do too much for ia64. It works Egbert on all ia64 systems I have tested so far.

[Xpert]XFree86 ftp and anoncvs server unavailable

2002-11-23 Thread David Dawes
The system that hosts our public ftp and anoncvs servers died yesterday. There's currently no ETA for those services being restored, but hopefully they'll be available within the next week. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project

[Xpert]Mailing List Archive?

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
Have the mailing list archives been removed or did they ever even exist? Googling shows lots of links to pipermail, for example, http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020643.html, but these links no longer work and I don't (immediately, at least) find mailman's archives at the Web

[Xpert]after press CTRL+ATL+Fn, I got black screen. then I can't run startx anymore

2002-11-23 Thread Li, Baosheng (MED, CHN)
Title: after press CTRL+ATL+Fn, I got black screen. then I can't run startx anymore Hello, everyone: I can star xwindow perfectly. but whenever I press CTRL+ATL+Fn to switch screen. the consol running xwindow will get black. noting is on screen. after I press CTRL+ATL+F1, error message

[Xpert]Hint to get X working with FP/LCD type monitors

2002-11-23 Thread j
If you are trying to use X on such a display and X keeps quitting with a No valid mode type error try adding: Option CrtScreen to the monitor section of the config file. This will cause X to skip the _cranky_ monitor test code and might solve the problem. Good luck!

[Xpert]Re: Replacing X with a KDrive (P.R. Patil)

2002-11-23 Thread Herman Buel
Thanks for your help. I did the Following: 1. copied my KDRIVE "XChips" into /usr/X11R6/bin2. changed the symlink "X" to point to "XChips" instead of "XFree86"3. Rebooted Now I get the message:=According to /var/run GDM.id, GDM was already running (769) but seems to have been

Re: [Xpert]Help please: How to draw lines (and posible Arcs,too) to the place of instance of coreWidgetClass

2002-11-23 Thread pcpa
Quoting peter Fodrek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Xlib experts, Hi, I am to write program which may to draw Lines and Arcs on the place where instance of coreWidgetClass is displayed ... I am not to find what I am doing wrong... Can Anyone help me,please? thank you for any help...

Re: [Xpert]cirrus on powerpc

2002-11-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-11-08 at 16:08, Marc Dietrich wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:33, Marc Dietrich wrote: I have a cirrus gd5446 with 1 mb memory installed in a Motorola Powerstack 4400 (PCI PPC) running linux (kernel 2.4.17pre1, suse 7.3). I think the cirrus driver is not endian save,

[Xpert]Xinerama + OEM Radeom = Hard to Worky

2002-11-23 Thread Adam Luter
Hy0, I accidently deleted your address, so this email is mainly directed at you. I just wanted to say I got everything working -- but it wasn't my crooked installation of X that was giving problems. After a clean install of X (the current CVS, 4.2.99.2) I was still having the same problem

Re: [Xpert]i810 driver ( Your Post at xfree86.org )

2002-11-23 Thread Tushar
Hi Sebastien, I saw your post on http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020876.html I too have an i810 box every thing works fine on i810 with TVout in Pal mode but does not work on NTSE the video is blue. ( ie i the complete video is blue). Your problem is due to the analog.

[Xpert]Running X in portrait mode

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Cuss
Hello I was wondering if any of you folks had any information on running X in portrait mode (ie - rotating the contents of the display 90 degrees) for use on a tablet - style computer. I've noticed that the silicon motion driver has a rotate option, but I haven't found any others that do. I'm

[Xpert]resolution problems.

2002-11-23 Thread Narayan Desai
Hi. I running into resolution problems. I have a laptop that runs with a native lcd resolution of 1400x1050. The problem comes in when I try to hook it up to an external flat panel. The flat panel seems to think that I am running in 1280x1024, and truncates the bottom (or top) 26 lines of the

[Xpert]RE: [Dri-users] How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-23 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Dri-users] How are different ATI drivers related ? xfre86 is the windowing system. It contains the frameworks and the drivers for input output. XF86 policy was to take only pretty stable code for their CVS repository. dri is a spinoff that has all the new drivers for 2D and 3D

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 16:36, George Staikos wrote: On Friday November 22 2002 07:58, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2002-11-21 at 18:12, George Staikos wrote: Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 22 Nov 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2002-11-21 at 18:12, George Staikos wrote: Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other chipsets that need this or not as this is the only one I have, but

[Xpert]Weird ghosting problem in X

2002-11-23 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hello, I'm having a problem with X since I own this computer and Michel D\anzer of the debian-x mailinglist advised me to mail to the Xpert list to tell about my problem. So, here it is: Whenever there is 'movement'/'action' on the screen (e.g. an openGL demo from xscreensaver, an animation

Re: [Xpert]xdm background image

2002-11-23 Thread Sam Halliday
Catherine Luedecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure what horizontal line you speak of but I can help with the background image part its the line just below Welcome to $HOST. its not that annoying actually, i think i woudl probably turn it back on again if i seen xdm without it... so how to

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] let Xv work again with nv after a swsusp restore

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Pierre Lombard wrote: Hi, The attached patch lets Xv work again after restoring a swsusp-frozen system. Please Cc if necessary as I am not subscribed to Xpert mailing list. I'm not sure I understand the point of this patch. NVResetVideo doesn't really do

Re: [Xpert]nv driver crash on nForce

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Wheeler, Fred (Research) wrote: I was experiencing this same lock up with XFree86 4.2.1, as shipped on the FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE CDs. I'm also using an Asus A7N266-VM with an Athlon XP1800+. The problem was fixed by changing my nv_drv.o to the one on Mark's web page (link

Re: [Xpert]Option Rotate doesn't work

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Cuss
Hi Mark In your post below, you mention that the nv driver is a rotate capable driver. I'm interested in setting up a Linux / XFree system on a tablet computer, and was wondering if you knew which drivers are rotate capable? Most of the tablets I've been looking at just use the graphics adaptor

[Xpert]Portrait Mode in X

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Cuss
Hello I was wondering if any of you folks had any information on running X in portrait mode (ie - rotating the contents of the display 90 degrees) for use on a tablet - style computer. I've noticed that the silicon motion driver has a rotate option, but I haven't found any others that do. I'm

[Xpert]Xv non-functional after running mplayer -vo xvidix

2002-11-23 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
After viewing video using mplayer-0.90pre10's xvidix driver any attempt to use Xv (including mplayer -vo xv) results in a black display. Box has a Radeon 7500 M (pciid 1002:4c57), a suse-7.3 based dist and xf86 4.2.0 w/ suse's patches and the ft2 backend. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Or why

[Xpert]Sending messages back to Xfree86 module from user space

2002-11-23 Thread Ping Cheng
Title: Message I need to send configuration information back to the device driver located under /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input at runtime. Can anyone tell me how to do it by giving me asample code or pointing me to a website with examples? Thanks, Ping

[Xpert]XF86 4.2.0 and IBM T210

2002-11-23 Thread Robert H. Brown
Hi, After a few days of trying everything I can think of, I can't get XF86 to run my IBM T210 flat panel at it's full 2048x1536 resolution. The best I can accomplish is getting it to run at 1600x1200 at 85 Hz. That would be OK except that the monitor is interpolating pixels and in places the

[Xpert]Applications freeze on Remote X Terminal

2002-11-23 Thread spam
Dear all: I have a main server (p3 450) and a Diskless X terminal (p133 64mb). Im running X4.2.1 on both machines and XDM (xdm is the same version). The problem is that in the terminal, the running applications 'freeze' from time to time: this is, the gui is not updated (this happens specially

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-23 Thread George Staikos
On November 22, 2002 19:19, Michel Dänzer wrote: I agree, it is ugly. But do we know that all the different models will work this way? I have no docs so I was working blind. If we disable byte swapping, it doesn't matter if the byte swapping actually works or not (as seems to be the

[Xpert]Re: Linux input nightmare.

2002-11-23 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:26:23AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:15:27AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: In 2.5, /sbin/hotplug is called whenever a new device appears/disappears. It's a script. Add whatever you need to notify X about the device to that

[Xpert]ATI supplies Radeon drivers for Linux

2002-11-23 Thread PLO'Smith
ATI Radeon Owners Alert! For all those that have or were going to purchase a Radeon 8500 or greater model graphics card, there is an answer to your 2d 3d driver questions now! ATI has decided to more fully support Linux with drivers of their own that support these cards. Here is a quote from

[Xpert]r128 fails to compile.

2002-11-23 Thread Cyrus Welgan
drm_agpsupport.h:321 structure has no member named `cant_use_aperture` ...:322 structure has no member named `page_mask` I have a 2.4.9 kernel, gcc 2.95.3, and XFree86 4.2.1 I've spent a day or so looking on usenet, fiddling, etc.. but the best I can get working is r128 2.1.6... which XFree86

[Xpert]Nvidia GEForce4 Mx440

2002-11-23 Thread George Gopie
I have installed Linux Red Hat Advanced Server 2.4.9-e.3 on my intel server with a 64MB nvidia #DGeForce4 Mx440 series video card. I am unable to get it to work with X. I have down loaded XFRee86 4.0.2 and installed it., but when I try to start the configuration with XFree86 -configure i

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-23 Thread Carl Worth
On Nov 21, Keith Packard wrote: Of course, this is just the fallback; it uses the synthetic 'dpi' as set by the Xft.dpi resource in preference Keith, Is the Xft.dpi resource intended to be the logical dpi as you described:

[Xpert]Problems With CVS?

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
(and, it seems, with the mailing list?) When I try to update my CVS tree, the checkout seems to hang. I'm supposing there's more than that going on, though, as xpert doesn't seem to be delivering messages. I'd say the problem began sometime Friday afternoon here in Pennsylvania. K -- Hurewitz's

Re: [Xpert]Portrait Mode in X

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the rotate drivers were broken in CVS since the resize and rotate extension went in - the nv driver is. But most of the drivers in 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 have support for rotate. Grepping CVS source code shows ROTATE options in the following drivers: chips and

[Xpert]Could a mouse wheel be emulated by holding Ctrl, Meta, Shift, or Alt?

2002-11-23 Thread Hip Hip Hooray
The answer to this question is probably no (but it should be yes), and this question is somewhat of a follow-on to my previous question. Is it possible to configure X so that the Control key does what it normally does but if you hold it down and then move the mouse up, you generate button 4 click

Re: [Xpert]artX Drivers required

2002-11-23 Thread John Clemens
I have one of these motherboards (Ali Aladdin7 chipset).. There is no specific ArtX driver to XFree, as there are no docs for it. The vesa driver should work just fine though. ArtX is now owned by ATI... i don't suppose the ATI folks would be willing to release the docs to this very old (1998?)

[Xpert]Dell Ati Mobility does not back-store

2002-11-23 Thread Mario Stipcevic
Hi ! I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 with ATI RAge 128 Mobility (XX - some version) card. I have been upgrading XFree86 since 4.00 till the newest 4.2.X and I always have the same problem. I have a specific software that does not redraw windows upon bein obscured so their contents gets erased

[Xpert]Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-23 Thread BWeaks
Not sure if this is the correct list, but I'll give it a try. We're trying to move from M$ to Linux, using Netraverse via X to diskless (or minimal - like a ThinkNic) workstations. We're in proof-of-concept mode here, and are trying to serve this up via the internet to a remote station. While

[Xpert]Problem with CRT display with GeForce4

2002-11-23 Thread Nicolas Guilbert
Hi, I'm having a problem turning on the CRT display using a Dell Latitude 840, Geforce 4 (NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3)), Debian/sid kernel 2.4.19, latest nvidia drivers, xfree86-4.2.1-3 It works fine when in text mode (e.g. on bootup), but stops working (black screen, not even glowing) when

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 TVout Modeline

2002-11-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Sebastien Devaux wrote: My best try to start X directly on TV is resumed here : my XF86Config [...] Section Monitor Identifier TV HorizSync 15-115 VertRefresh 50 Option CrtScreen # pal 768x576 50 Hz Modeline pTV 29

Re: [Xpert]xfree and onboard vga

2002-11-23 Thread PLO'Smith
Robby Russell wrote: xfree86 and 2 video cards My girlfriend is trying to get mandrake 9 working on her dell pc. It has an onboard video card (intel 810) and she has a 2nd video card (ati rage 128 pci) that she added after she got the machine. Should be simple enough to get her machine to work

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia GEForce4 Mx440

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, George Gopie wrote: I have installed Linux Red Hat Advanced Server 2.4.9-e.3 on my intel server with a 64MB nvidia #DGeForce4 Mx440 series video card. I am unable to get it to work with X. I have down loaded XFRee86 4.0.2 and installed it., but when I try to start the

[Xpert]Mapping a keyboard key to mouse button 4 or 5.

2002-11-23 Thread Hip Hip Hooray
Hello Xperts, I have a 3-button trackball and like the EmulateWheel option, but if I do Option EmulateWheel true Option EmulateWheelButton 2 then the middle button can't be used for any purpose other than toggling the wheel emulation when it's held. If I hold shift and press num

[Xpert]XServer Debug ...

2002-11-23 Thread Sarma Kolluru
I assume this question to be asked lots of times in the past. Unfortunately I tried searching the database and couldn't find an answer. Can anyone Pl. let me know the steps involved in Debugging Xserver. Thanks Sarma. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards

2002-11-23 Thread Francisco Castanheiro
Hello, is there any good reason to this? Why is ati leaving owners of ati cards out? My card is build by gigabyte, but the only thing that gigabyte did was assemble the card... it IS an ATI! I don't get the point... I have a radeon9000 pro, and a just want to play ut2003... Shouldn't ati follow

[Xpert]Questions regarding cvs compile

2002-11-23 Thread Geoffrey
I've successfully built X from cvs but as I've noted in previous messages, execution of X causes a spontaneous reboot of my box. Not pretty. So, I figured I'd revisit the docs in a bit more detail and found references to identifying the distribution in linux.cf. Much to my dismay, there is

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] let Xv work again with nv after a swsusp restore

2002-11-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Pierre Lombard wrote: * Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-24 01:02]: On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Pierre Lombard wrote: The attached patch lets Xv work again after restoring a swsusp-frozen system. Please Cc if necessary as I am not subscribed to Xpert

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2002-11-22 at 21:03, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Michel, note that Keith fixed a BigEndian client bug with ARGB cursors the other day. SW cursor works now. Great. If your HW cursor support worked with the broken cursors it probably doesn't work anymore with the correct ones. Thanks

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 9000 support ?

2002-11-23 Thread Stefan Lange
David Balazic wrote: Hi! How is the Radeon 9000(/pro) support ( for linux/x86 ) ? 2D and 3D should work (there were some patches and some discussions about 9000-support on the mailing-list recently, check the ml-archives) That is the rv250 chip, right ? yes Is radeon 9000 much/any faster

Re: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:58:02PM +, Francisco Castanheiro wrote: Hello, is there any good reason to this? Why is ati leaving owners of ati cards out? My card is build by gigabyte, but the only thing that gigabyte did was assemble the card... it IS an ATI! I don't get the point... I

Re: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards

2002-11-23 Thread PLO'Smith
Francisco Castanheiro wrote: Hello, is there any good reason to this? Why is ati leaving owners of ati cards out? My card is build by gigabyte, but the only thing that gigabyte did was assemble the card... it IS an ATI! I don't get the point... I have a radeon9000 pro, and a just want to play

Re: [Xpert]XFree86 ftp and anoncvs server unavailable

2002-11-23 Thread David Dawes
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:08:41PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: The system that hosts our public ftp and anoncvs servers died yesterday. There's currently no ETA for those services being restored, but hopefully they'll be available within the next week. The public ftp and anoncvs server is back up

Re: [Xpert]XFree86 ftp and anoncvs server unavailable

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:51:01PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:08:41PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: The system that hosts our public ftp and anoncvs servers died yesterday. There's currently no ETA for those services being restored, but hopefully they'll be available

Re: [Xpert]r128 fails to compile.

2002-11-23 Thread Cyrus Welgan
I commented out the version compare #ifdef and forced it to use the other block... works fine now. Still seems a bit strange, because I've seen no mention of this problem anywhere else. Cyrus On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:31, Cyrus Welgan wrote: drm_agpsupport.h:321 structure has no