Re: [Xpert]G450 2d acceleration at 24bit problems

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Sep, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Sep, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote: Sadness. And here was me thinking that 32MB was a lot of video RAM

Re: [Xpert]New Nvidia drivers have just been posted!

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Rene Tschirley wrote: From: Ivica Bukvic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drivers state that most of the G2Go stuff has been resolved... :-) Well, there is no problem with restarting the Xserver anymore. Thanks to the nvidia team! But, on my i8k the Xserver crashes when switching

Re: [Xpert]Recommendations for DVI-D card with open drivers?

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 5 Sep 2001, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: WW == Wayne Whitney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WW I'm looking for a good mid-range (under $150) AGP video card with DVI-D WW output. I'm interested in maximizing performance (2D and 3D, although WW mostly 2D) under XFree 4.1.0 at 1280x1024 with

Re: [Xpert]XF 4.1.0 / Solaris 8 - Console darkens

2001-09-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, deadice wrote: Each time an X server is started/restarted, the console becomes darker until text/background is completely black. Current setup: XFree86 4.1.0 NVIDIA Geforce 2 GTS DDR 64mb AGP Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) What could be causing this? How can this be

[Xpert]Re: shadowfb derivative extension and xaa

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Vojkovich
getimage and computes the diffs by hand. This takes a whole lot of time ( and cpu cycles). Mark Vojkovich suggested that I start with the shadowfb extension, since it has the correct hooks to detect when the screen changes. questions: Does these GC functions and operations

RE: [Xpert] hw acceleration and opengl indirect rendering -- ??

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Brett Bolen wrote: Do you know which video chipsets supports hardware accelerations when opengl is in indirect rendering? The chips supported by NVIDIA's binary Linux drivers when using those drivers. As far as I can tell nobody else accelerates indirect rendering

Re: [Xpert]RedHat7.1 nVIDIA Quadro2 Problem

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I encountered the problem when using RedHat 7.1 and nVidea Quadro2 chip card. I investigate a lot of documents myselft but only to fail to find answer... Could you held me...? [ Symptoms ] This issue occurs when I set line

Re: [Xpert]Dual-head GeForce2 MX problems with 4.1.0.1

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote: See http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xinerama/xinerama/xc/doc/XineramaSpec.txt?rev=1.1content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Sidik Isani wrote: Hello - With 8 bpp pseudocolor, I'm finding that simply starting the X-Server allocates almost all the color cells in the default colormap. There are only about 12 free cells, and most programs either fail or install a private colormap. Is

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Sidik Isani wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: |On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Sidik Isani wrote: | | Hello - | | With 8 bpp pseudocolor, I'm finding that simply starting the | X-Server allocates almost all the color cells in the default | colormap. There are only about 12

Re: [Xpert]xgamma w/Xinerama bug in 4.1.99.1

2001-09-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, hadron wrote: I worte: Mark Vojkovich[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gamma can be changed separately. This is necessary because different monitors may need a different correction. While there is only one logical screen, xgamma's screen argument will reflect

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:52:16PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I'd like to propose a change to Xv standard, to add a function XvGetImage, which could be used to transfer data from videoram to system memory. 2 possible situations it can

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob wrote: I was under the impression that the Matrox G100 that I'm struggling with also supports Xv? If not, that will save me the continued anguish of trying to get it to work :) The driver doesn't support it. Back when I wrote the Xv support for the mga driver, I

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:39:06PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Sorry, I meant XvPutStill. aha. There will need to be an option for a shm completion event on XvShmGetImage so the client isn't blocked while the server fetches the data. I

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: XvPutImage pushes the data through the socket. With XvShmPutImage (only available for local clients) data is stored in shared memory so that the server just copies it from

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: Just out of curiosity, did the older millennium I (2064w) and millennium II's (2164w) have Xv hardware on them as well, or did that not get added till later? Only G200 and newer. Mark.

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
. And it required that alot of data be passed to the hardware. My impression was that on a modern computer it would be a video decellerator. Maybe Matrox knows some tricks, but I gave up on it when I was looking into it a few years ago. Mark. Alex --- Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL

Re: [Xpert]X11R6.3/6.4 'Xweb' and XFree86

2001-09-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Hello, Is the Internet solution 'Xweb' browser plugin implemented in XFree86 - if not, why not? http://www.opengroup.org/press/31mar98.htm

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and vsync

2001-09-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Matthias Dahl wrote: Now what confuses me is that I thought it isn't possible to get the retrace information in user space - just in kernel space. I guess this is only true if you want to make use of the hardware interrupt that is being issued (and naturally that

Re: [Xpert]Dual-head GeForce2 MX problems with 4.1.0.1

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Please find attached a first-draft of Xinerama support for TwinView. The parameters are hacked for my particular setup at the moment. I

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama on 2 out of 3 displays

2001-10-03 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I have a machine running XFree86 Version 4.1.0 with three displays -- a Matrox G400 (dual head card) and an ATI Rage IIC. I want to bind the first display of the G400 and the ATI together with Xinerama and leave the second display of the G400 as a

Re: [Xpert]Fw: video rendering using HW scaling

2001-10-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Michael Zayats wrote: I know that it is a newbie question, but everybody should start at some point :) I have video frames captured 25fps in 24bpp RGB. I want to draw them in X11 window. I can't just overlay from framegrabber(bt848) to the framebuffer (because of

Re: [Xpert]Trident Chipsets Xv support

2001-10-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Egbert Eich wrote: Alan Hourihane writes: Egbert - I hope we really don't have to kludge around like this, but if we do, you can check the current video output mode in the BlockHandler and I just did. Had a brown paper bag ready - just in case. use a

Re: [Xpert]gamma correction problems

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: You can't touch XF86VidModeGetGamma(). It's written in stone already. xgamma -gamma 0 Gamma values must be between 0.100 and 10.000 Is there enough room on the stone to use a value like

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can add a XvMC function to get you an XImage from the XvMC surface so that you can use XvMC instead of Xv. Then you can get rid of the delay between the XvShmPut() and the actual flip. But could this

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be nice to have a software fallback so that you could do as many Xv's as you wanted (slowly) but that isn't the way Xv was designed. You'll have to convert the YUV data into RGB and do a regular

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine when I was using the TNT2 on

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm sure most video cards can trigger an interrupt on the vertical refresh, that would be pretty accurate. Even if I could just query Handling the interrupt requires kernel support. The X-server

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and interlaced input

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Hi Mark (and list), apologies for keeping traffic so high, but I have another question about XVideo and it's just too useful. :) Say I'm attemping to play 525/59.94 video (identical problem exists for 625/50 systems). Ideally, I want to do

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and interlaced input

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It seems to me that the Xv API could have benefited from a pixel stride parameter for blits. Is this fixable? It's possible for the driver to offer a port attribute with top/bottom. Maybe it's best

Re: [Xpert]Problems with multiple NV cards

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Robert Hough wrote: I've been having problems getting xinerama working with my new system, was hoping someone could offer some suggestions. Here's the layout: FreeBSD 4.3 XFree86 4.1.0 $ dmesg | grep TNT pci1: NVidia Riva Ultra Vanta TNT2 graphics accelerator at

Re: [Xpert]Re: [linux-dell-laptops] Nvidia kernel module

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, James Hirschorn wrote: Are there any plans to add Geforce 2GO support to the (free) nv driver? I've read reports that people have been able to use Toshiba notebooks with the 2Go and the nv driver by setting certain options. But when I tried this on my Dell I8000, the

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and interlaced input

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's just something silly, I guess, but important for preserving the spacial position of the fields. Say you're scaling from 720x480 to 1024x768. 768/480 = 1.6, so, you want to scale up each field from

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and interlaced input

2001-10-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It doesn't work that way. There's no such thing as subpixel destinations so you have to stop thinking about it that way. You have integer rectangles on the screen but you can align how the source scales

Re: [Xpert]riva 128 PCI Gamma correction broken

2001-10-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote: when using gamma correction Xserver forgots to do gamma when scrolling and few other ops making pictures broken.. The Riva128 doesn't support gamma correction except in 8bpp. I'll look into making it ignore the requests for the other depths.

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm talking about planning how many refreshes to show each frame. I'd be really surprised if you could say to the ATI card 'show this 2 refreshes from now'. The card won't do that, but the driver can. In this case what you do is submit a

Re: [Xpert]is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, trasatti wrote: I work under X11R6 server with XFree86 4.1.0, using XLib and XToolkit graphic libraries. My program must capture-process-display every frame captured from a video source, at the maximum frame rate. All done without palette transformations.

Re: [Xpert] i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The highest framerate I will ever be pumping video at the board is 59.94fps from 720x480, don't know if that matters. In this case though I'm only outputting at 24fps. Try 10x7@16bpp at 85hz. That

Re: [Xpert]Re: is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, trasatti wrote: Thank you to all that answer to me. Otherwise, how to blit the captured mmap buffer (after processing it) onto the display, even without any XImage or with other functions than XShmPutImage. OpenGL provides an alternative method with

[Xpert]RE: Xv hit list

2001-10-24 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Mark, Billy, I was just about to implement this but after giving it some thought I'm not sure what it is that you want. 2) For interlacing, I like the idea of an XV_FRAME_TYPE attribute: 0 == frame, 1 == top field, 2 == bottom field.

Re: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Note that this introduces some slight uncertainty in the display since the overlay might not correspond to the window location when it comes time to actually display. But that's not going to be a big deal since the times are short and you get a

RE: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Ok, I slightly modified the idea to take care of this too. I must say, I really really like this one. #define XV_TOP_FIELD 0x01 #define XV_BOTTOM_FIELD 0x02 #define XV_FRAME (XV_TOP_FIELD | XV_BOTTOM_FIELD) #define XV_HOLD

Re: [Xpert]TV Out with nv

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: Hi Does the built-in nv in 4.0.3 server support TV Out with GeForce 2MX ? I don't want to use the nVidia 3D drivers etc. If so, is there a FAQ somewhere that explains the settings required? TV out is not supported in the nv driver.

Re: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Greg Wright wrote: Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Here is the proposal again, if there are on complaints I'll implement it this way. #define XV_HOLD 0x0 #define XV_TOP_FIELD0x1 #define XV_BOTTOM_FIELD 0x2 #define

RE: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Sottek, Matthew J wrote: Here is the proposal again, if there are on complaints I'll implement it this way. #define XV_HOLD 0x0 #define XV_TOP_FIELD0x1 #define XV_BOTTOM_FIELD 0x2 #define XV_FRAME(XV_TOP_FIELD

Re: [Xpert](no subject)

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Donald Tournier wrote: Hi! I need to run various apps which require different bit depths. In particular, one application only runs at 8 or 24 bpp, and the other only runs on an 8 plane pseudocolor visual. I am happy setting the display at 24 bpp, but setting it to

RE: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: If I blt a frame with the XV_FRAME_TYPE atom set to XV_FRAME|XV_HOLD, and then, sometime later, I set the atom to XV_FRAME, what kind of latency would I be looking at before that held buffer would show up? Is setting atoms a synchronous call?

Re: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Greg Wright wrote: Sottek, Matthew J wrote: XV_FRAME_TYPE = XV_HOLD XvShmPutImage() ... XvShmPutImage() ... XvShmPutImage() XV_FRAME_TYPE = XV_FRAME The target of the XvShmPutImage will only change when XV_HOLD is set. (Or if XvShmPutImage is called

RE: [Xpert] Xv hit list

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote: I wasn't expecting clients to call XV_HOLD then Put and not display it afterwards. There seem to be two feasible implemenations: 1) XV_HOLD stays into effect until it is displayed. If a second Put comes along before the display the

[Xpert]Draft seven of the XvMC spec.

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Attached. It adds a XVMC_INTRA_UNSIGNED field. Appearently it's common for drivers to expect the decoder to convert the intra data to unsigned. The header files in XFree86 CVS already reflect the specification change. Mark. mocomp.gz

[Xpert]Mpeg2play modified for XvMC support

2001-10-26 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Attached. It's not expected to be fast, just functional. Mark. mpeg2play_accel.tar.gz

[Xpert]Re: Mpeg2play modified for XvMC support

2001-10-27 Thread Mark Vojkovich
There is a bug in the mpeg2play XvMC modification that I posted on this list. The loop (-l) option is broken. Attached is a patch that fixes that. Mark. *** display.c.old Sat Oct 27 12:58:28 2001 --- display.c Sat Oct 27 12:59:26 2001 ***

Re: [Xpert]VT switching has broken

2001-10-27 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: It looks like recent changes in XFree86 common code cause LeaveVT to be called twice. This undoubtedly causes problems for some drivers and layers that are wrapping LeaveVT. Never mind. It looks like a cut-and-paste error

Re: [Xpert]DGA and PseudoColor

2001-10-28 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 28 Oct 2001, Arne Caspari wrote: Hello, i want to change the colormap-entries of an 8-bpp PseudoColor mode. Unfortunately it does not work. I set up a collormap where every color is black and another one, where every color is yellow. After setting the video mode and clearing it

Re: [Xpert]About video4linux Xv driver

2001-10-29 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Hzeng wrote: Hi, I am very surprised that the Xv functions 'PutImage','QueryImageAttribute','GetVideo','GetStill' cannot be realized in the video4linux Xv driver. I am a new member of Xv and v4l, if it is that v4l cannot support these functions ? Can you explain for me?

Re: [Xpert]can't get xinerama to work, but 2 screens work

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Dan Grillo wrote: X List, I'm having trouble getting xinerama to work; the server when started with startx -- +xinerama just exits with Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This has come up many times before. There is a

Re: [Xpert]XvShmCreateImage

2001-10-31 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul Robertson wrote: Thanks Mark, OK, I'll have to live with that limit and undersample my YUV data as I copy it into the XvImage. If you are right about i810 then that could be a problem for me. We were

Re: [Xpert]Re: multi-head (not xinerama) aware window manager?

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:07:06 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: The latter. The third head is connected to a TV via a TV-Out supporting card. I don't really want the TV as part of my desktop real estate. (not likely to be ever

Re: [Xpert][nvidia NV15 64mb] startx -- :1 won't work

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: Hello Family, I'm encountering situations where we cannot use the command: startx -- :1 to start an additional X session and I was wondering if the 64mb Nvidia nv15 Quattro II had anything to do with it. The machine is running RedHat-7.1 It

Re: [Xpert]nvidia overlay support

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andrew Miller wrote: Hi, Does anyone know whether NVIDIA will support visuals with overlay planes in the near future? I have a GeForce2 Go card. Am I right in assuming that the hardware could support a 24+8 visual but their drivers just aren't capable yet?

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Keith Packard wrote: UpdateCurrentTimeIf can only modify the current time if there aren't any events queued. The assumption being that any events queued *after* the system time is fetched will have timestamps later than the current time, but any events still pending

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-02 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Keith Packard wrote: Around 23 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: So that means that it's not possible to just update the currentTime. You can get the current system time, but you can't update currentTime without processing events. OK. Right. Until R2

Re: [Xpert]mem leak in X4.1.0(debian sid)

2001-11-03 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Justin A wrote: X seems to be leaking memory in the past two days. I had a 6 day uptime and all was fine, but then X locked up(ran out of memory?). After rebooting I upgraded to 2.4.14-pre7 and rebooted again. Since then, X starts up using 10M of ram, and slowly climbs

Re: [Xpert]mem leak in X4.1.0(debian sid)

2001-11-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Justin A wrote: Hmm. It was better after I restarted X a few times. It was at 20M or so for a while, but by the end of the day around 60M. I was away from my computer for 2 hours or so and when I got back it was locked up(sysrq worked) I disabled dpms(caused

Re: [Xpert]xdga2.0 and openGL?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Chris Nuernberger wrote: Hey, I would like to mix xdga 2.0 (so I can write directly to the frame buffer myself) and openGL. Is this possible, if you say yes, please send code that does exactly this. I switch modes to whatever I want with XDGASetMode(...). Then I set

Re: [Xpert]X-Programming with Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ba la wrote: Hi All, I am new to this list and X-programming, I am interested in X-programming, pls point me some resources in the net like tutorials, examples etc,. specifically using xlib. See Kenton Lee's big X site.

Re: [Xpert]Fast graphics card for X

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Alex Bustamante wrote: Hi, One question: When i run X (out of the box) i get the feeling that it is a little bit, just a little bit slower than m$ winblows at drawing graphics. For example when i move the xmms program around, i get trails. It feels like the server

Re: [Xpert]How can I understand the parameter of XvPutVideo?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: Hi, In the founctin of XvPutVideo, there are a set of parameter(vx,vy,vw,vh) .In the doc of xfree86, these is described as the following: Define the size and location of the source (video) region to be written. vx and vy define the upper-left pixel of

Re: [Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, tom schuetz wrote: I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks like 600 x 800. This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Config OR in running

Re: [Xpert]How work is going?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gniazdowski wrote: Hi. How are developers doing with work on next relesa of XFree86 ? Some problems? Big changes? :) It's delayed because VA Linux laid off a bunch the people who were working on it. Most of them have new jobs already and have started working on

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: For things like shaped windows you may get hundreds of Expose events for a single window movement. You mean I can have polygonal-shaped windows in X11? That would be pretty cool! :-) Yes, run xeyes. You undoubtedly have it on your

Re: [Xpert]background mode

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: In Win32 there is the following function: int SetBkMode( HDC hdc, // handle of device context int iBkMode // flag specifying background mode ); Parameters: hdc - Handle to the device context. iBkMode - Specifies the

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: How do I set in X11 the GC origin/extents and Window origin/extents, if at all possible? In Win32, the corespondent functions are: SetViewportOrgEx/SetViewportExtEx, for Win32 DC and SetWindowOrgEx/SetWindowExtEx for Win32 Window. I

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: [...] The most annoying, however, has got to be dealing with the colormap on the PseudoColor visual. XCreateColormap() is happy to claim to give me a 256 entry colormap, but, I'm assuming because of how the overlay works, entry 255 (the topmost) doesn't

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: For the orgin, that's about all that can be done. Clipping to the extents could be done with the clipmask in the GC. You mean with XSetClipRectangles(...)? Yes. A single rect could be used to confine rendering to the viewport. (the

Re: [Xpert]the problem of virtual screen

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: Hi, When I test a Xv driver, I found some question. I use a virtual screen ,the vitaul is 1024x768 and the visual area is 800x600.When I use PutImage, I found with the mouse moving the father window will move, but the dst coordination values send to the

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: Contrary to some opinion on this list, overlays are not intended to make legacy PseudoColor apps work. Overlays in the X-window system are for layers of windows that don't

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: OK. It looks like this there might be a bug in the mioverlay code. I'll look into fixing this for 4.2.0. OK, I've fixed this in CVS. Attached is the patch to xc/programs/Xserver/mi/mioverlay.c. Mark

Re: [Xpert]About FBAreaPtr FBLinearPtrf

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: Hi, When allocte the video memory, there are both area and linear. what's the different of them and how to decide which method should be used? I know that the whole video memory is cosider as a area that 'screenwidth x hight = videomemory total

Re: [Xpert](no subject)

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Thruput Ltd wrote: Dear Sirs, Has anybody written a X windows driver that converts 8 bit pseudocolor visuals into 24 trucolor? This is the problem what we need is having two different pseudo color 8 bits visuals, we will call standard and underlay. in both

Re: [Xpert]pointer/mouse

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: Is there any way in X11 to get the mouse coordinates relative to the current screen? Or XQueryPointer(...) is the only way of getting the mouse coordinates, relative to the root window' origin? Relative to the current screen and relative to

Re: [Xpert]pointer/mouse

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: Relative to the current screen and relative to the root window origin are equivalent statements. What if the root window is just another window? The root window isn't just another window. It's the root window - the desktop.

Re: [Xpert]Flushing CPU write cache

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Eugene M. Kim wrote: Greetings, Question: What would be the way for a driver to flush some data in the CPU write cache, preferably all the way down to physical memory through the memory controller, but at least to the memory controller? Background: I'm trying to add

Re: [Xpert]Flushing CPU write cache

2001-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Eugene M. Kim wrote: Any load or store on uncached memory (like the graphics accelerator's registers) will flush it. Any locked atomic RMW instruction (xchgl). Any port IO (write 0x3D0 or other unused port address. Expensive). Thank you for the

Re: [Xpert]pointer/mouse

2001-11-13 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: But what if I have an multi-windowed application, with dialog windows and stuff? The root of a dialog windows is going to be another window and not the desktop. The root window IS the desktop. That is the definition of the root window.

[Xpert]Eighth draft of XvMC spec

2001-11-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
In the 8th draft of the XvMC spec, IQ level acceleration has been dropped. There is only mocomp and IDCT level acceleration. Previously the IDCT level included the IQ step. The IQ stage has been removed for the following reasons: 1) There is no time to ensure that the interface is

Re: [Xpert]Colormap problem in PseudoColor

2001-11-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Gustaf Gunnarsson wrote: It sounds like a solution wich could work if you had access to the Xlib source. Problem here is that thoose applications run on a HPUX and it would be just a little too complicated process for me to fix that. I have one question though, what is

[Xpert]New mpeg2play hacked for XvMC

2001-11-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
This version is up to date with the 8th draft of the XvMC spec. It also adds IDCT level acceleration support instead of just motion compensation. It also fixes the loop bug in the previous version. Mark. mpeg2play_accel.tar.gz Description:

Re: [Xpert]Colormap problem in PseudoColor

2001-11-14 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Gustaf Gunnarsson wrote: I thank you for your information even though it was rather sad. :P I suppose this leaves me to solve the problem by either hacking up the Xlib (if you cannot compile eg a patched XFree86 Xlib on hpux and replace the existing one, I am not that

[Xpert]Re: siliconmotion driver, XVideo: retrieving video signal status?

2001-11-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Corvin Zahn wrote: Hi, another question: our customer wants to read out the status of the video signal, means they want to know whether there is a video signal at the inputs. In the docs I didn't find anything like a status query. One solution would be to implement

Re: [Xpert]Eighth draft of XvMC spec

2001-11-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: What, if any, drivers have any hardware support for XvMC? I seem to recall the i810, and possibly nvidia, but any others? At the moment the i810 driver support acceleration at the motion compensation level and has subpicture blending

Re: [Xpert]Eighth draft of XvMC spec

2001-11-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Casey Boone wrote: is there a website to read more about what XvMC is and does? No, there's just the spec I sent to this list yesterday. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xpert]X programming question

2001-11-16 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Richard R. Sivernell wrote: I am working on some new libraries for object orient programs using Xfree. I beleive that X XFree86 are very much alike. I want to add mouse scroll wheel /roller to my apps. Where do I find info on impleamenting this. I believe

Re: [Xpert]minmax events

2001-11-16 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: When changing the size you get a ConfigureNotify event. See the man page for XConfigureEvent. Ok, I have looked at XConfigureEvent and it seems that it contains much more events than I need (moving, resizing etc.). Basicly, I only need

Re: [Xpert]Trouble with DGA and MAME

2001-11-17 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, James Farwell wrote: Greetings, I have recently been trying to run MAME in fullscreen mode using XFree86 4.1.0 on a Matrox G550. MAME works great in a window, but when I try to fullscreen it DGA 2.0 starts up, it kicks in to 640x480x16 mode, but then instead of

Re: [Xpert]XVideo and frame grabbing

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Corvin Zahn wrote: How to grab a video picture with XVideo? I want to grab one image out of the video stream and store it to disk. In the documentation, I didn't find anything. Could someone give me a hint, where to look? Is

Re: [Xpert]?

2001-11-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Mark Elvers wrote: Configure your window to tell you when it gets mapped or unmapped. --mte Or you could call XGetWindowAttributes. That has the map_state in it. I don't know which one is more appropriate for your port. Sounds like XGetWindowAttributes from the

Re: [Xpert]The trouble when two Xv programe are running at the sametime

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: Hi, I'm writting a Xv driver. I meet a trouble and I don't know how to deal with it. When two app useing Xv are running at the same time, such as Xine, they all use the my PutImage founction, and they send the Xv driver with the same port index, so they

Re: [Xpert]activate

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: Ok, guys, here the thing with 'activate': 'activate' is when a window is activated, that is when it's the current active window (that has the focus). As you all now, you can only have one active window at a time; in Windows is the window

Re: [Xpert]The trouble when two Xv programe are running at the same time

2001-11-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Peter Surda wrote: Or am I missing something here (as usually g)? There is only one hardware overlay. You can't display in two windows simultaneously. For blitted/texture video you can and those adaptor do. Mark.

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