[Xpert]Re:

2001-12-03 Thread Andy

[Xpert]use ProcVector in loadable module?

2001-10-22 Thread Andy Fong
is unresolved? Look like the ProcVector is not exported to the loadable module. I saw most of the extensions in Xext have a loadable version except paranamiX and security which also uses ProcVector. So, is this a known issue? Is there any way around it? Thanks for any advice, Andy Fong

Re: [Xpert]XDarwin fails to start on Mac OS 10.1

2001-10-23 Thread Andy Isaacson
! OsVendorFatalError AbortDDX Quitting XDarwin... I haven't had time to look into this. Does anyone have a solution? darwinKeyboard.c has been greatly modified since 4.1.0. Either compile a new CVS version or wait for 4.2.0... -andy

overriding library functions (was Re: [Xpert]Colormap problem in PseudoColor)

2001-11-15 Thread Andy Isaacson
to do the equivalent operation. HTH, -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]X cvs has a problem with the fixed font?

2001-11-26 Thread Andy Isaacson
values at 125 and 150 as well, since some systems are starting to come with higher-resolution LCDs. I think even the Apple iBook has a fairly high-res display? Then, there's also the IBM 200-dpi monstrosity. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xpert]damn, another one with BADTRANS...

2001-12-08 Thread Andy Sparrow
anybody knows why i am getting this mail for the last 5-6 days ( i a day some 25 mails) regards Yup. It's an email worm that exploits well-known security holes in Outlook and uses the address book directly to mail out it's payload. It appeared earlier this week. I'd guess you're in his

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

2002-01-03 Thread Andy Sparrow
Well, I use FreeBSD and I figure I'm not going to get great 3D performance no matter what with nvidia only producing linux binary drivers. So I may as well go for the absolute best 2D I can get. Cost really isn't an issue, other than not wanting to pay $400 for top-end 3D performance I'll

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

Re: [Xpert]DGA requires SUID/root access???

2002-01-10 Thread Andy Sparrow
In NT-based systems, you don't have to play games as the Administrator/root. Sure you do. Just try installing any software that does anything more complicated during the install process than plopping a few .EXE files in the filesystem as a regular user without Admin privs... AS

Re: [Xpert]Ati Rage Mobility and X 4.1 won't resume from suspend

2002-01-21 Thread Andy Sparrow
Hi, I just upgraded from XFree 3.3.6 to 4.1 on my laptop which has a Ati Rage Mobility chip. Which one? On 3.3.6, suspend and awake worked fine by making the apmd switching to a text console before suspending, using the chvt command in the apmd proxy. I'm working with SuSE which uses a

Re: [Xpert] XFree86 version

2002-01-23 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:24:11AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: int main() { Display *dpy; dpy = XOpenDisplay('\0'); /* $DISPLAY connection */ That can't be right. Make it XOpenDisplay(); instead. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Xpert]writing an XFree86 module device driver, need help!

2002-02-12 Thread Andy Isaacson
.) Look at the various drivers in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/* to see how ShadowFB is used. The MGA is sorta the original standard... -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Diabling Ctrl-Alt-F1 Keysequences Under X

2002-02-16 Thread Andy Sparrow
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Christopher W. Allermann wrote: I'm stuck with a little bit of a problem here and have been unable to find a suitable solution. You might have to hack the server to do this. There are already config file options to prevent Ctrl-Alt-backspace and Ctrl-Alt-+/-,

Re: [Xpert]Diabling Ctrl-Alt-F1 Keysequences Under X

2002-02-16 Thread Andy Sparrow
Maybe this could be an alternate solution, can i force X to run on tty1? So if a Ctrl-Alt-F1 occured nothing would happen since they are already on 1? Hmm, actually, I don't see why you couldn't disable all the gettys run [xwgk]dm as a display manager, which will take the first free VTY,

Re: [Xpert]Blanking and Unblanking screen

2002-02-19 Thread Andy Isaacson
might want to do xset s off; xset -dpms beforehand, to prevent the screen going black on you. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Changing resolution without having a virtual desktop

2002-02-19 Thread Andy Isaacson
yet. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]XFree86, FreeBSD, and Shared memory

2002-03-04 Thread Andy Ritger
). I'm a little confused how XFree86 could use shared memory with the current CVS code. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks, - Andy Ritger ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]XFree86, FreeBSD, and Shared memory

2002-03-04 Thread Andy Ritger
I was curious why the MIT-SHM extension works, even with these noop xf86shm*() entry points. The implementation of MIT-SHM: xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c Makes system calls directly, rather than going through the libc_wrapper. - Andy Ritger Hi all, I have a few questions about

Re: [Xpert]Building TinyX?

2002-03-12 Thread Andy Isaacson
, it didn't appear that any server got built. I have in my host.def #define BuildServersOnly YES #define KDriveXServer YES #define TinyXServer YES #define XvesaServer YES Looks like you're missing the last line? -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Xpert]using two X servers for a single session

2002-04-01 Thread Andy Isaacson
Virtual FB server, with another server running at :1 that talks to the local hardware. (Bad for performance, but fabulous for reducing the complexity of the Virtual FB server's setup.) -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman

Re: [Xpert]Unexplainable XFree86 freezes with antialiased fonts

2002-04-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
that userland is still running) or playing a CD? Very important distinction. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Re: Philips monitors with LightFrame

2002-04-26 Thread Andy Isaacson
is active? (Hot-swapping VGA monitors probably isn't the best idea I've ever had, but it tends to work OK.) -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]How to setup xinerama on a Xsun server

2002-05-13 Thread Andy Isaacson
mailing list for your question. I think you need to ask on one of the NetBSD mailing lists. Unfortunately, I don't think that Xsun supports Xinerama. But I could well be wrong. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman

Re: [Xpert]how to copy XF86Free.0.log to floppy

2002-05-19 Thread Andy Sparrow
The example quoted below appears to skip the put a filesystem on the floppy step. Use 'mkfs', 'newfs' or whatever your OS provides, depending on which filesystem type (e.g. *nix, DOS etc) you actually want to have on it. And then you have to mount it. Or, if simply taking the floppy to

Re: [Xpert]XFree86Config-4

2002-05-31 Thread Andy Sparrow
The problem I'm primarily having is with my mouse, I cannot seem to get it to work when I do XFree86 -configure. You've got to use moused to get the USB mouse to work with FreeBSD, right? Thus you're using the moused-SysMouse protocol, and you have to do the same thing you need to get X

Re: [Xpert]Setting up MTRR support

2002-07-18 Thread Andy Isaacson
=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 Those write-combining entries indicate that the framebuffer has been mapped. Additionally, you can look at the XFree86 log file, /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Search for MTRR. (Case insensitive, I suppose.) -andy

Re: [Xpert]synchronous X? (was: refresh problems)

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Isaacson
be able to test this by ssh'ing to localhost.) What if you turn on ShadowFB with 'Option ShadowFB on' (I think that's the right syntax)? -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]bug (?) in xf86pciBus.c

2002-09-04 Thread Andy Isaacson
could possibly happen. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-22 Thread Andy Isaacson
, overblown chrome that come with such ports. I *like* the minimalist feel of the Xt versions of these apps, and I haven't met a GTK or Qt port of such an app that didn't fill me with revulsion. (Apps written for GTK can look OK; the Gimp for example.) -andy

Re: [Xpert]Re: Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Andy Isaacson
PseudoColor visuals. Second, stick a hack into libX11 (or make a new hacked libX11) that allows users to run apps which assume the default visual is PseudoColor, by mucking with the list of visuals returned from the server. The behavior should be controlled by an environment variable. -andy

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Andy Isaacson
? Certainly it will be more expensive than a RAMDAC register write, but it seems like it should be quite reasonable on a modern machine. (I can imagine a bunch of optimizations that are possible to handle the colormap-animating client, but I don't even think they should be necessary at all.) -andy

[Xpert]fat finger keyboard freeze

2002-10-08 Thread Andy Jacobson
for your help. This problem has become very annoying recently because I have a new baby daughter and so I'm doing a lot of awkward one-handed typing these days! Regards, Andy -- Andy Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Re: [Xpert]Xterm raw input

2002-10-24 Thread Andy Isaacson
might talk to a user. pty is pseudo tty, a fake tty which is used by apps like xterm which want to fool other apps into thinking they're talking to a user.) HTH -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Xterm raw input

2002-10-27 Thread Andy Isaacson
are a fiction shared by XTerm and the tty-using application. Read the enormous man page for xterm. You can change the mappings by setting X resources. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

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

2002-11-25 Thread Andy Sparrow
Note that ATI 3D Rage Mobility is listed under _supported_ (there are two lists in that paragraph, the first are unsupported and the second are supported). I should make this more clear on the site, but there are cards called 3D Rage XXX, _without_ Pro in the name that have only very

[Xpert][OFFTOPIC] SA MIME-attachments

2002-12-02 Thread Andy Sparrow
Hi, (Apologies for top-posting, but the mail itself is only useful as an example) Instead of tagging all HTML-as-well email as probable spam, can't you filter this through something like MIME-defang before SA? This would not only avoid this particular tagging, it will also have the added

Re: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Build problems on LFS system?

2002-12-25 Thread Andy Isaacson
as much spam from them as I do from any of the major US ISPs). HTH -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]X problems

2002-12-29 Thread Andy Sparrow
Hi ! Hi Nikola, I have some problems with installing X server and making it work I can't solwe on my own, so plz help. (FreeBSD 4.7) After setting all the parameters in the Sysinstall's X configuration meny (graphical one) and saving it in the conf file, I get the msg that the

Re: sis620 X (was Re: [Xpert]*****SPAM*****)

2002-12-29 Thread Andy Isaacson
.x should be able to support the SiS 620. -andy ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert