[Xpert]Xfree86 4.2.0 using 99% CPU on SiS?

2002-04-10 Thread Peter McNeil
G'day all, Has anyone seen a problem where XFree86 uses all available CPU when started from init. I'm just building a system from Red Hat 7.1 with 2.4.18 kernel, X4.2.0 on SiS730 chipset Duron processor... I used the binary dist. of X 4.2.0 I created a service to start xinit on boot to run a

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

2002-04-10 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:11:28PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: Problem: If a polygon which is being filled with a stipple intersects a clip region, the fill fails and paints the clipped region black. Here's a pair of X window dumps from

Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440

2002-04-10 Thread Yuri van Oers
IIRC XFree86 4.2.0's nv driver is able to do 1920x1440. You could also check out http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ That project is about getting the binary NVIDIA driver going on FreeBSD. I understand they've accomplished quite a bit already. Hth, Yuri On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, solomon Fulop wrote:

Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon VE dual head support?

2002-04-10 Thread Stephane Enten
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:07:33PM -0700, hy0 wrote: Have you put Screen 0 and Screen 1 in your SeverLayout section? If yes, post your log file. x420 supports VE dual-head setup. However if you are using some OEM version of VE card (like DELL's) you might be out of luck. Can you explain

[Xpert]!!HELP!! - I cannot get my card working! (HIS ATI Radeon 8500)

2002-04-10 Thread M. Meyer
Hello folks! I have got an HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card, which is not manufactured by ATI but by Hightech Information Systems (http://www.hightech.com.hk/html/index.html). Xfree does not detect my card at all. I think this is because my OEM card has a different device id than an original ATI

Re: [Xpert]!!HELP!! - I cannot get my card working! (HIS ATI Radeon8500)

2002-04-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, M. Meyer wrote: Hello folks! I have got an HIS ATI Radeon 8500 OEM card, which is not manufactured by ATI but by Hightech Information Systems (http://www.hightech.com.hk/html/index.html). Xfree does not detect my card at all. I think this is because my OEM card has a

[Xpert]TAKE2: Does this XFree86 3.3.6 fix for multi-scroll-wheel mice work for 4.2.*?

2002-04-10 Thread Leon Brooks
I bought myself an AOpen Optical OpenEye mouse (gotta love our northern neighbours with their faintly discordant understanding of English) which in addition to the basic two buttons has two scroll wheels, one of which also acts as a third button (maybe their next version will have the second

[Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions

2002-04-10 Thread Leon Brooks
Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a portable X application level) set about distinguishing between events from

Re: [Xpert]startx and two graphic cards

2002-04-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 20:37, Jing Xu wrote: I have two graphic cards in my box, one is ATI Rage XL(PCI) and one is ATI Radeon VE QY(AGP). I would like to control the AGP card from a kernel module we have written (which displays on a projector) and I would like to let X control the PCI card

Re: [Xpert]two radeon 8500 questions?

2002-04-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 23:32, Frank Van Damme wrote: I'll hopefully be receiving my brand new ati radeon 8500 shortly. My question was: I know Xfree86 can make most ati cards output composyte sync signals. Is this feature allready in the driver for the Radeon 8500? Probably not yet, but

Re: [Xpert]Radeon Mobility and Dual-Head Support?

2002-04-10 Thread David B. Ritch
The screens are running at different resolutions. The internal flat panel is running at its native resolution of 1400x1050, and the external monitor is running at 1024x768 (the highest resolution it supports with a reasonable refresh rate). I grabbed the screen (actually the window) while the

Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Piechota
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Yuri van Oers wrote: IIRC XFree86 4.2.0's nv driver is able to do 1920x1440. You could also check out http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/ That project is about getting the binary NVIDIA driver going on FreeBSD. I understand they've accomplished quite a bit already. It works

[Xpert]Radeon 7500 with 1600x1200 via DVI offset problem/bug

2002-04-10 Thread Achim Bohnet
Hello Xperts, we'll try to get an Radeon 7500 + 19'' 1600x1200 TFT via DVI working but fail so far (Redhat i386 Linux 7.2 + rawhide XFree 4.2.0 rpms from 1-Apr: *-4.2.0-6.52). VGA connectior works but TFT is hard/impossible to sync with the gfx card signal. Best DVI result is with

[Xpert]SiS 6326 Datasheet

2002-04-10 Thread epolinda
Hi, people! I need a copy of the SiS 6326 Datasheet for a new project. In the SiS web site, the link to the datasheet (http://www.sis.com/ftp/Databook/6326/6326ds10.exe) is dead, and so it is not possible to get it from there. Does anybody have a copy that could be sent to me? Thanks a lot!

Re: [Xpert]Need help getting X to run at 1920x1440

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, solomon Fulop wrote: I was just wondering if it would be possible to get X to run at 1920x1440 with an Nvidia Geforce 3 ultra and a 21 inch monitor (btw this is on a FreeBSD machine).any help would be greatly appreciated I just tried XFree86's built in

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

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:11:28PM -0700, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: Problem: If a polygon which is being filled with a stipple intersects a clip region, the fill fails and paints the clipped

Re: [Xpert]Radeon Mobility and Dual-Head Support?

2002-04-10 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On 10 Apr 2002, David B. Ritch wrote: The screens are running at different resolutions. The internal flat panel is running at its native resolution of 1400x1050, and the external monitor is running at 1024x768 (the highest resolution it supports with a reasonable refresh rate). I

[Xpert]twister k support

2002-04-10 Thread fullerrc
will there be any in the near future? ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]missing code in VESA DPMS

2002-04-10 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Randolph Bentson wrote: I'm trying to get DPMS screen blanking to work on a ViewSonic ViewPad 1000, but I'm concerned about the code which has appeared in 4.2.0. In 4.1.0, DPMSSet indirectly called VESADisplayPowerManagementSet, which called vgaHWDPMSSet, which called

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama

2002-04-10 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MV Xinerama is merely an extension that makes two X screens look like MV one. Merely? Juliusz ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]X server problems

2002-04-10 Thread pemo
I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 equiped with NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card and a Toshiba's 15 UXGA TFT (1600x1200) display. I'm trying to make RedHat 7.2 working on that system, but I have problems with making X server to work. My current version of X is 4.1.0. I wonder if anyone

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 10 Apr 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: MV Xinerama is merely an extension that makes two X screens look like MV one. Merely? OK, a very large intrusive extension with many thousands of lines of code that merely makes multiple X screens look like one. There do seem to be some

Re: [Xpert]X server problems

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, pemo wrote: I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 equiped with NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card and a Toshiba's 15 UXGA TFT (1600x1200) display. I'm trying to make RedHat 7.2 working on that system, but I have problems with making X server to work. My current version

[Xpert]Reliability of DDC?

2002-04-10 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
How sensitive is DDC to things like the video cable or the presence of KVM switches? I just encountered a situation where DDC worked randomly when run through a KVM but worked fine when directly connected to the monitor. I've never seen any problem like this with 30 previous identical machines

Re: [Xpert]Reliability of DDC?

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
I was under the impression that most KVMs broke the DDC signal. Mark. On 10 Apr 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: How sensitive is DDC to things like the video cable or the presence of KVM switches? I just encountered a situation where DDC worked randomly when

Re: [Xpert]X server problems

2002-04-10 Thread pemo
Thank you very much for advice. Could you please further advise which NVIDIA binary drivers should I use, as there is a bunch of them. My understanding is that two packages are needed, one for NVIDIA_kernel and another for NVIDIA_GLX. I probably have (how to check it?) RedHat 7.2 SMP kernel i686

Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon VE dual head support?

2002-04-10 Thread hy0
Try to add BusID PCI:1:0:0 in both of your device sections. I do believe my ServerLayout section is correct as well. I've attached a log file as well as my entire XF86Config. I will feely muchly indebted if someone can help me with this! I am, BTW running a genuine ATI card. Came in an

Re: [Xpert]X server problems

2002-04-10 Thread pemo
NVchooser does not work! It gives a few errors. During RedHat installation, I was not asked weather to install smp kernel or something else. Still I believe I have an smp one. By the way, why smp is not good for the laptop? What's the difference? I read the pages that you advised on XFree86

[Xpert]Time to downgrade?

2002-04-10 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to get the video card working (the version that I

[Xpert]NVIdia Twinview question

2002-04-10 Thread Luke Burton
Hi there, I have a Dell laptop which features the NVidia GeForce2 GO graphics card. I have TwinView functioning just fine, but I am wondering whether it's possible to have the second monitor running with a separate X server. The problem is that my second monitor is just a 15 LCD, which only

Re: [Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions

2002-04-10 Thread Joe Krahn
Leon Brooks wrote: Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a portable X application level) set about distinguishing

Re: [Xpert]Time to downgrade?

2002-04-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matthew Smith wrote: Hi I have used both XFree86 4.0 and 3.8 (I think) quite happily with my Microtouch touch screen harware. I have built a new machine and the video card supplied (I requested cheapest!) uses a NVidia TNT chip. I downloaded XF 4.2.0 in order to

Re: [Xpert]XFree86 version 4.2.0 and SiS 6326 compatibility

2002-04-10 Thread Dick Lewis
On Tuesday, April 9, Neal Leathers raised two points: 1. While libglide2x.so wasn't present on my system, that in itself was likely not a problem; 2. That I could be using an obsolete X configuration file. In an earlier message, I had singled out the missing libglide2x.so file

Re: [Xpert]TAKE2: A few pointered questions

2002-04-10 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:45 am, Joe Krahn wrote: Leon Brooks wrote: Here's another question I've not found answered in a fair bit of web trolling. Is it possible to have two (or more) independent mouse pointers at large on the one X display at the same time? If so, how does one (at a