[Xpert]2 mice - 2 pointer ?!?

2002-12-02 Thread Christoph Koulen
Hello, From: Dr Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...snip Where does the pointer come in ? I'm not saying that for a flight simulator it isn't useful to have more than one mouse or trackball; I'm all in favour of an X extension for that (I wouldn't be suprised to hear that there

[Xpert]Replacing gcc

2002-12-02 Thread Johannes Rath
Title: Replacing gcc I would like to replace gcc by another compiler (icc). Which configuration files will I have to change? TIA Johannes

[Xpert]ATI Radeon 7500 Driver?

2002-12-02 Thread Yuan Lu
Hi expert, I have a Dell Optiplex GX260D with 32 MB ATI Radeon 7500 graphics adpater. I can't get XFree86 to work. After I start X, I got error message that No Devices detected. Here is the last part of the log file: (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP), ATI

RE: [Xpert]ATI Radeon 7500 Driver?

2002-12-02 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]ATI Radeon 7500 Driver? Hi expert, I have a Dell Optiplex GX260D with 32 MB ATI Radeon 7500 graphics adpater. I can't get XFree86 to work. After I start X, I got error message that No Devices detected. Here is the last part of the log file: (II) RADEON: Driver for

[Xpert]font ghosting with geforce4mx

2002-12-02 Thread mk
We are seeing a strange problem with a bunch of new GeForce4 MX420-based cards on Linux/x86, both with the XFree86 driver and with NVIDIA's binary-only driver. While the overall display appearance is fine, text characters in xterms or the xdm/kdm login window have a distinct shadow to their

Re: [Xpert]XFIXES extension proposal

2002-12-02 Thread kwall
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:04:40PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: Around 21 o'clock on Dec 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No joy. :-( Poking around in xc/lib/Imakefile, I saw a conditional with BuildXFixesLibrary, so I added #define BuildXFixesLibrary No to config/cf/host.def and tried make

[Xpert]Gigabyte ati radeon 9000 pro won't do dual head

2002-12-02 Thread Johan
I have been trying alot but i can't get my card doing dual heading. When i specify no options to the fglrx driver i get 2 monitors with the same content. But when i add some options like DesktopSetup 0x0201 the first screen gives the rigt view (half desktop) but the second goes blank. Has

[Xpert]3d accelleration support

2002-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I'll admit that I don't pay super close attention, but it seems to me that there's a growing trend among the top 3d chipset makers to provide their own proprietary accellerated drivers for XFree86. ATI and NVidia are the two examples I can think of, and it seems like they're the best 3d chipset

[Xpert]Trident Blade3D

2002-12-02 Thread Boris V. Bogachov
Hello, Are there any known problems with the Trident Blade3D chipset? I have a workstation running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and XFree86 4.2.0. The graphic card is an AGP Trident Blade3D based card. The system sporadically freezes when I try to work under XFree86 making it almost impossible to run

[Xpert]*****SPAM***** Linux 8.0 and Chips Technology 69030 Video Chip

2002-12-02 Thread Herman Buel
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Re: [Xpert]Re: CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE broken

2002-12-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Mark Vojkovich wrote: Are we the only ones seeing this? No, I've got the same problem. Was introduced between Nov 3 and Nov 28. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL

[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

[Xpert]server time

2002-12-02 Thread David Fries
Is there any way to get the server timestamp without waiting for an event or using the last event? I was looking through the xlib documentation and didn't see anyway. I found a way to do without it for my current project, I was curious for in the future. -- David Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Xpert]ATI driver that supports Powered by ATI cards is out!

2002-12-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
For those who don't read /., here is a message from ATI on the problems with the ATI driver on Powered by ATI cards: Terry Makedon (Senior Product Manager, Software for ATI Technologies) writes Last week we posted a set of unified Linux drivers. These drivers were only loading up on 'Built by ATI'

[Xpert]Re: 3d accelleration support

2002-12-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:40:09 -0500 From: Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature; boundary=EmDgyYu839ff8lqi List-Id: An all-purpose XFree86

Thank you ATI! - was [Xpert]ATI driver that supports Powered byATI cards is out!

2002-12-02 Thread Nat Ersoz
Thank you ATI. I recently ordered a Dell Inspiron Laptop and upgraded the video card from the default nVidia card to the ATI Radeon 9000 - a US$130 upgrade. The sole reason for the upgrade was that ATI has been such a faithful supporter of the XFree86 project. I was very pleased that after

Re: [Xpert]server time

2002-12-02 Thread Keith Packard
Around 17 o'clock on Dec 2, David Fries wrote: Is there any way to get the server timestamp without waiting for an event or using the last event? Change a property and wait for the PropertyNotify event. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab

Re: [Xpert]3d accelleration support

2002-12-02 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: If I were to replace this card with another 3d card, what would be a safe chipset to select if I want to stick with open source drivers? Matrox cards. They're so well supported it makes me laugh everytime a friend buys

[Xpert]Dual-Head on ATI Mobility 7500?

2002-12-02 Thread Hugh Caley
I have a new Dell Latitude 640 laptop, and would like to run a second monitor from the SVGA output. This works fine from Win XP, but I can't figure out how to get it to work under RedHat 8.0/XFree86 4.2. Is it possible? The output, when it works, seems to be only mirrored. It evidently

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

2002-12-02 Thread Peter Surda
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:34:28PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: Hi! As a future ATI Radeon 8500 owner :-) I wonder about the different available drivers : - xfree86 Default opensource driver version targetted for basic use. - dri They concentrate on enhancing 3d funcionality. - gatos

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

2002-12-02 Thread Pierre Lombard
* 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 mailing list. I'm not sure I understand the point

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

2002-12-02 Thread Henrik Sandklef
xbut does this with button1-3. You have edit the source to mae it work with 4-5. I don't have time to spare to fix it right now (I am trying to release 1.0 of another program). In a few weeks or so. ;) http://www.sandklef.com/xbut/ Best regards, Henrik On Tue, 2002-11-19 at

[Xpert]i815 drawing glitches and broken xvideo

2002-12-02 Thread Leif Jensen
I have long had some problems with xf86 on my Acer Travelmate 610 with an i815em chipset. Recently I installed xf86 compiled from cvs in hope of resolving the problems. The two problems I experience are graphics glitches and broken xvideo. Fortunately, GL is now working fine. Graphics glitches

[Xpert]Help please: Can't get xawtv or /dev/video working

2002-12-02 Thread j
Hi, I have been trying to get /dev/video to show up to no avail: This is xawtv-3.79, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.19) dlopen: /usr/lib/xawtv/conv-mjpeg.so: undefined symbol: jpeg_resync_to_restart WARNING: Your X-Server has no DGA support. can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf

Re: [Xpert]TVP4010 + glint driver, RAMDAC problem and wont work

2002-12-02 Thread Alan Hourihane
Try with the current CVS. Alan. On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:16:53PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: I tried an old graphics card that was lying around and ran into a problem with the glint driver. This old message from January seems to indicate it's been noticed before but I guess the problem is

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 TVout Modeline

2002-12-02 Thread Sebastien Devaux
Dr Andrew C Aitchison a écrit : I'm not sure that that rule still applies - you could try adding or subtracting 4 to HFL. perhaps... So to get finest control to Horizontal Freq, I tried to adjust dot clock frequency. But, strangely, it seems to have no effect on horizontal freq, but

Re: [Xpert]Event recording and replaying

2002-12-02 Thread Henrik Sandklef
HI! I am actually right now trying to get the documents right for Xnee 1.0, which (I hope) will implement what you want to do (recording/replaying). You can download the latest version from sourceforge.net if you can't wait 1-2 days for the 1.0 version. Best regards, Henrik On Thu, 2002-11-21

[Xpert]Non functional DRI

2002-12-02 Thread Mukhben Singh
Hi, I have been struggling with it for almost a week now. I have compiled the kernel over and over again, changed the X Config file numerous times but still am not getting the expected results. To cut a long story short, the frame rate in tuxracer is pathetic. Actually in the log files,

[Xpert]Double characters with Toshiba Satellite Pro?

2002-12-02 Thread Mark Williams
If I type too fast (which is not that fast) with my Toshiba Satellite Pro, I get double characters. This is happening with a RH 8.0 install (XFree 4.2.0). Incidentally this happened under RH 7.3 too, though I don't know what XFree that is. Any ideas? I've tried loading the nVidia driver

Re: [Xpert]xdm background image

2002-12-02 Thread Sam Halliday
Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[Xpert]Trident CyberBlade/i1 MSI 6368

2002-12-02 Thread joost witteveen
I have 5 MSI 6368 Motherboards with onboard Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 106) chips. I can run XFree 3.3.6 on them without problems, but XFree 4.1, XFree 4.2, and XFree 4-CVS (from a few weeks ago) all fail. Tried Linux 2.4.18 and 2.5.46 (same results) When I start X, it seems to

[Xpert]Radeon 8500 + PowerPC = Yellowish tint

2002-12-02 Thread David Brown
Hi Everyone: I've managed to get XFree86 4.2.0 built and running on powerpc. Using the ati driver, 'UseFBDev', and the radeonfb kernel driver, the best display I can get is 640x480 with most of the display tinted yellow. Has this been reported yet? Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance,

[Xpert]sis ag315t

2002-12-02 Thread Berry Tijhof
I have problems with my sis 315t cant install the driver not included downloaded from internet but not accepted by my computer asks for an cd rom please help me find the wright driver that works.

[Xpert]setkxbmap

2002-12-02 Thread Mohammed Elzubeir
I'm having trouble getting setxkbmap to work. Here is what I'm doing: $ setxkbmap -v ar Warning! Multiple definitions of keyboard layout Using command line, ignoring X server Trying to build keymap using the following components: keycodes: xfree86 types: complete compat: complete

[Xpert]Re: [ltp] [Fwd: Debian Sarge, XFree86 4.2, Thinkpad 770ED, 2.4.19-686 (unpatched)]

2002-12-02 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 20:29:23 -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: I have exactly the same problem with my thinkpad 770ED - X worked fine at version 4.1.0 under debian woody, but when I upgraded to sarge with X 4.2.1 I have a similar hosing. On the starting screen with kdm running, the background

[Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine

2002-12-02 Thread Bruce M Beach
SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results -- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content

Re: [OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine)

2002-12-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: We might disable the RBL based rules in flagging spam; they do seem to have a rather high false-positive rate. Whether it's appropriate for the xpert list to partipcate in the social pressure aspect of DNSBLs (RBL is a trademark

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 8500 + PowerPC = Yellowish tint

2002-12-02 Thread David Brown
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 03:55:53PM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: | On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Brown wrote: | | Hello David, | I've managed to get XFree86 4.2.0 built and running on powerpc. Using | the ati driver, 'UseFBDev', and the radeonfb kernel driver, the best | display I can get is

[Xpert]i815 drawing glitches and broken xvideo

2002-12-02 Thread Leif Jensen
I have long had some problems with xf86 on my Acer Travelmate 610 with an i815em chipset. I installed xf86 compiled from cvs from 2002-11-26 in hope of resolving the problems, but there are still some issues. The two problems I experience are graphics glitches and broken xvideo. Fortunately, GL

Re: [Xpert]where did the archives go from the website?

2002-12-02 Thread David Balazic
Alexander Stohr wrote: try the appended link Mailing list archives after the four lists. it points to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com with some options. There is no mention of any web archives at http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo IMO it should be stated clearly where the archives are to

Re: [Xpert]cirix Media GX and Xserver.

2002-12-02 Thread P.R. Patil
If you are talking abt the CS5530 chipset then any of the accelerated X servers won't work. Either you have to use the frame buffer server or SVGA server. hello im using a JUMPTEC PC 104. MOPSlcdGX1, which has a media GX display im trying to run linux RH7.3, wich installs fully, but when i

[Xpert]Can You help me

2002-12-02 Thread Zarko Lazovic
Hello! The reason why I write to You is that I have a big problem with Xwindows. It cannot be restarted, and even when it is started it shows very poor resolution , something about 640x480. I think the problem is my graphic card INTEL(R) 82845G/GL which cannot be recognized because it is

[Xpert]Multiple instances of X.

2002-12-02 Thread Karl Janmar
Hi! I have patched two X servers one with custom usb keyboard driver(http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/) and no VT handling and one will vanilla keyboard driver. However when I start the second instance of X it muck with the first graphic card in the initialization by calling

Re: [Xpert]2 Mice - 2 Pointer ?!?

2002-12-02 Thread Dr R.S. Brooks
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Jens Ansorg wrote: Steffen Bischoff wrote: Hello Dr Andrew C Aitchison , I am a programmer of graphic surfaces. And I would like to serve 2 things at the same time with 2 different mice! That can happen in the same application. e.g.: to press two buttons down at the

Re: [OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extractinga KeySym from an action routine)

2002-12-02 Thread James Hawtin
Could it be setup so subscribed users never be counted as spam? Just in case the RBL is wrong. James ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]Trident chips misidentified?

2002-12-02 Thread Mark Hindley
I am trying to chase up a bug report I made a week ago: IBM Thinkpad 560E, X 4.2.1 X hangs on entering standby and box will not power up again. Laso happens on switching to CRT from LCD. I have just noticed that the log shows the Trident chip has been misidentified. Is this a possible cause?

[Xpert]Re: i815 drawing glitches and broken xvideo

2002-12-02 Thread Leif Jensen
I have been trying to debug some problems with xf86 on my i815-based laptop. After some searches I experimented with a patch to the i815_driver.c file concerning the OVRACT register. To test xvideo, a background consisting of the magic overlay blue color is displayed over the whole screen while

[Xpert]xserver running as root

2002-12-02 Thread Aurelio Turco
The xserver (or Xwrapper) is suid root. This is necessary to access certain privileged devices. Now I have heard that, in conformance with good security practices, the xserver quickly gives up its root privileges as soon as it has opened those devices, by changing the effective user back to the