[Xpert]Nvidia X fails to start with mdk8.1 Linux

2001-11-19 Thread J Grant
Hello I have attatched 2 files, the configuations I am using to test my Nvidia card on my Tyan Tiger MP S2460 PC nv works, but when i change to nvidia it stops it corupts the log file sometimes, and other times it says there is a . If anyone has seen this error, or knows a solution I would

[Xpert]QT3 not recognising nVidia opengl drivers

2001-11-25 Thread J Grant
Hello I got an nVidia working with X now, I can run gears (2000 fps) and other programs ok. But QT3 does not recognise the card/libs so i can not use that has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution? Regards JG ___ Xpert mailing

[Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hello As pointed out by the .mil guy who had to leave, i too am now being questioned about this email list. I get reports of viruses emailed to me and the sysadmin regularly. Would it be possible to moderate this list? or a least filter the domains that spam tends to come from so that the

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread J Grant
Hi Miles O'Neal wrote: Are you running anti-virus software? My company mail server is, it has not let any virus through so far, its just the email to me and the CC: to my sys admin/boss that means I get people inquiring all the time about why I am on lists that get viruses regularly. I agree

[Xpert]Capturing video from X

2001-12-06 Thread J Grant
Hello I would like to record a demonstration of my program running in X 4.1.0, could someone tell me if this is possible? Is it possible to log X commands and then generate an MPEG or other video format from that data? or is it possible to capture video in real time? The other option I would

Re: [Xpert]Capturing video from X

2001-12-07 Thread J Grant
hello Miles, I checked the xfree site http://XFree86.Org/4.1.0/manindex1.html and some others I found on google.com but none of them mentioned xmon and xrecord, I could not find it on red hat.com either. i found doclib.org - /Linux/XFree86-Current/source/X333src-1 ... xc/lib/Xtst/Xtstos2.def

Re: [Xpert]Capturing video from X

2001-12-07 Thread J Grant
Hello, I have just checked and it seems this is not the right tool to make a video from X. Could you recomend a prgram that can generate a video output from X ? even in vector format as long as I can play it back. JG Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, J Grant wrote: hello

[Xpert]2 Mice one default - feature request

2002-01-29 Thread J. Grant
Hello I posted a message last week. I got a reply of a work around from John Tapsell. I had used that work around before. I would like to request that a default mouse feature be added. This would be fairly simple to add I think. I am sure that I am not the only one interested in a feature like

Re: [Xpert]2 Mice one default - feature request

2002-02-07 Thread J. Grant
Thomas Steffen wrote: So what exactly do you want to do that cannot reasonably be done with what is already there? Sorry I missed that one, I did not think of fixing the Mouse using a roundabout way like using a different server layout. But if it works, i see no reason to make a

[Xpert]How to stop a laptop going into standby when i close the lid?

2002-05-14 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Could someone tell me how can I stop a laptop going into standby when i close the lid? I checked apm but could not find this option that triggers the whole process, could someone point me to the file that contains this ON_LID_CLOSE=/usr/bin/apm suspend now or similar command please? I can

[Xpert]How to stop a laptop going into standby when i close the lid?

2002-05-15 Thread J. Grant
: J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: xpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Could someone tell me how can I stop a laptop going into standby when i close the lid? I checked apm but could not find this option that triggers the whole process, could someone point me to the file that contains this ON_LID_CLOSE=/usr

Re: [Xpert]Multiple mice

2002-05-17 Thread J. Grant
This is in the mailing list logs as well, i recieved this info from people on the list a while ago. a) type man XF86Config :P b) Yep, get rid of it! But if 90% of the time u only use the default mouse like me set the default layout then setup a different lilo linux or pass an option to go

[Xpert]screen shots from XVideo

2002-05-21 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I could not find a way to search the archives, so i expect someone has already said how to take a screen shot from an application like oogle, xine, tv etc If anyone knows how I would appreciate it. please cc me in any replys JG ___ Xpert

[Xpert]Recording a digital video from an X session

2002-06-04 Thread J. Grant
Hi, I have since found 2 applications that seem to automate this a little, but both are propreitry The first seems to capture the protol and then build up a display video from that. it captures mouse/kbd as well it says. This looks very interesting but its not free. If anyone knows any

[Xpert]Setting the DPI so that images display at the correct size on screen

2002-10-08 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction on this. I have a 45cm [17.7 inch] (diaganal), 36cm x 27.2cm CRT that I would like to configure with a screen mode that has the correct dpi. Currently displaying a 10cm x 10cm square at 72dpi ends up 7cm x 7.5cm. I could use the

Re: [Xpert]Setting the DPI so that images display at the correctsize on screen

2002-10-16 Thread J. Grant
Hi Mark, Thanks for the reply. From this i can conclude that the gimp does not choose the display size relative to the dpi of the display, i assumed 10cm at whatever dpi would always be scaled to 10cm on the particular display. So really unless i set the resolution to 1024x768 i'm not going