Re: [Xpert]XFree86 Bugzilla

2002-10-21 Thread kwall
. In a prior post to this mailing list, Kurt Wall has already offered to set up a BTS for XFree86: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-May/017211.html I suggest that someone in authority should contact Kurt (kwall at kurtwerks dot com) and ask him if he is still up to the task. A Bugzilla

Re: [Xpert]But *why* no vblank?

2002-11-04 Thread kwall
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:39:10AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:41:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one knew the time until vblank, one could simply wait that time, and then do a xsync. It could really be that simple. You can't sleep

Re: [Xpert]Re: What is the most powerful, best supported video card?

2002-11-04 Thread kwall
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:06:05AM -0700, Harold Martin wrote: I would prefer OS drivers for reasons other than whether or not I plan to hack on them. What I would really like a pointer to is a data base of recent cards supported natively by X. http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Status.html Kurt

Re: [Xpert]Separate Build Tree

2002-11-04 Thread kwall
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:46:35AM -0800, Ian Romanick wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:29:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I confess I haven't researched this much (no googling), but a quick search of the docs didn't reveal the answer, so I'll ask. Is there a way to build XFree86

Re: [Xpert]Separate Build Tree

2002-11-05 Thread kwall
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Die, 2002-11-05 at 03:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [~/sources]$ mkdir build [~/sources]$ cd build [~/sources/build]$ lndir -silent -ignorelinks ../xc [~/sources/build]$ make -C ../xc World Unless I'm missing

Re: [Xpert]256 megs board fails Validation,

2002-11-07 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:11:46PM -0700, Marc Aurele La France wrote: [relevant, cogent data snipped] I've committed a change that should be able to handle video memory sizes of up to 8GB. I've got to get me one of *these* cards! Woot! Kurt -- Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they

Re: [Xpert]Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-09 Thread kwall
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 07:22:28AM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Scott Lampert wrote: I'm having trouble getting DDC to work with my Dell P1110 and my Matrox G550. No matter what options I add or remove from my device section I get output similar to: Oddly

Re: [Xpert]Re: Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-10 Thread kwall
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:03:16AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: Some monitors support DDC1 but not DDC2 and vice-versa. For our mga driver there are actually three DDC implementations: DDC1, DDC2 and DDCvbe. Each can be turned off separately in the Monitor Section of the config file, with

Re: [Xpert]Re: Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-10 Thread kwall
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:16:39AM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On 10 Nov 2002, Greg Stark wrote: Incidentally I just tried noDDC2 and there was no change, it still loaded the I2C module and then failed to read any DDC info: I get the same result. Which Matrox card is this ? A

Re: [Xpert]Re: Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-10 Thread kwall
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:05:49PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From X -configure: (II) Loading sub module ddc (II) LoadModule: ddc (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor=The XFree86 Project

Re: [Xpert]Re: Matrox G550 and DDC problem

2002-11-18 Thread kwall
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 08:56:10AM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:05:49PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: That is a success; /root/XF86Config.new should have some info about the monitor. Some, but not

Re: [Xpert]Builtin font path fallback

2002-11-21 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:54:56PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: Kdrive uses a special font path 'built-ins' to handle the problem of bringing up the X server when the regular font path is hosed. This special font path element has four fonts compiled right in, so it need never touch the disk.

[Xpert]Mailing List Archive?

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
Have the mailing list archives been removed or did they ever even exist? Googling shows lots of links to pipermail, for example, http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-September/020643.html, but these links no longer work and I don't (immediately, at least) find mailman's archives at the Web

[Xpert]Problems With CVS?

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
(and, it seems, with the mailing list?) When I try to update my CVS tree, the checkout seems to hang. I'm supposing there's more than that going on, though, as xpert doesn't seem to be delivering messages. I'd say the problem began sometime Friday afternoon here in Pennsylvania. K -- Hurewitz's

Re: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:58:02PM +, Francisco Castanheiro wrote: Hello, is there any good reason to this? Why is ati leaving owners of ati cards out? My card is build by gigabyte, but the only thing that gigabyte did was assemble the card... it IS an ATI! I don't get the point... I

Re: [Xpert]XFree86 ftp and anoncvs server unavailable

2002-11-23 Thread kwall
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:51:01PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:08:41PM -0500, David Dawes wrote: The system that hosts our public ftp and anoncvs servers died yesterday. There's currently no ETA for those services being restored, but hopefully they'll be available

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

2002-11-26 Thread kwall
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:00:16PM +, John Tapsell wrote: well, if it works - then good! Hopefully it will piss off the customers enough that they'll go to another isp, or the isp will sort it out. If a customer cares enough about his email, he'll use a more ethical isp. [veering

[Xpert]Matrox G400 and DDC Problem

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
Hello, List, There was a thread running for a couple of weeks during October and November about the Matroc G550 cards not doing DDC properly, or at least not returning really useful results. I've had the same problem with my G400. I've noodled around with it off and on and haven't gotten any joy.

Re: [Xpert]Re: 2D problems with Matrox G400 (Anti-aliased Fonts and cursors)

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:39:34AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Panagiotis Papadakos wrote: Also because I am using my Matrox dualheaded, sometimes the cursor is drawn on the second head despite the fact that the mouse cursor is on the first head. This probably

Re: [Xpert]turning on NumLk using Shift-ScrLk...

2002-12-01 Thread kwall
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:20:30PM -0800, Case Jones wrote: ...gives infinite beeps in cvs version of XFree86 from a few days ago on a Thinkpad a22p. Quitting XFree86 and going back to console mode is the only way to make the beeping stop. I get the same effect. LeftShift+NumLock gives me the

Re: [Xpert]XFIXES extension proposal

2002-12-01 Thread kwall
]: *** [clean] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kwall/X/cvs/build/lib' make[1]: *** [clean] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kwall/X/cvs/build' make: *** [World] Error 2 No joy. :-( Poking around in xc/lib/Imakefile, I saw a conditional with BuildXFixesLibrary, so I added #define

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

Re: [Xpert]3d accelleration support

2002-12-03 Thread kwall
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:13:54PM +0100, Alexander Stohr 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? Of course, publicly availabel documentation has significantly decreased over the last

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

2002-12-04 Thread kwall
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:37:54PM -0800, Nat Ersoz wrote: 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

Re: [Xpert]Where did the xpert archives go?

2002-12-06 Thread kwall
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:35:02PM +0100, Stefan Obenauer wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Alex Pavloff wrote: Where did the xpert archives go? The page on xfree86.org doesn't list them. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpertr=1w=2

Re: [Xpert]CVS Build Failing

2002-12-09 Thread kwall
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:10:44PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the error I get: make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kwall/X/cvs/build/programs/Xserver/XTrap' cleaning in programs/Xserver/xfixes... make: Entering an unknown

Re: [Xpert]Configuration problems

2002-12-10 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: % FreeBSD 4.7 Release % % I have tried to configure xFree86 several times, both via the GUI % configurator and the script configrator, but unsuccessfully. % Paradoxically, using the GUI configurator, X launches, but I am unable % to set any of the

Re: [Xpert]CVS Build Failing

2002-12-10 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Marc Aurele La France wrote: % On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snippage] % Yes. In fact, I deleted the old build directory and recreated it % before sending my cry for help (lnddir -ignorelinks ../xc .), just % in case I hadn't. % % Did you use -d when you

Re: [Xpert]Re: Re: CVS Build Failing

2002-12-12 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Mike A. Harris wrote: % On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snippage] % Hmm. I wonder how that happened? A fresh checkout was next on my list, % but I was trying to save bandwidth and avoid that. In any event, a % fresh checkout seemed to solve the problem. Thanks,

Re: [Xpert]IIYAMA 17' TFT damaged screen, geforce4 Ti4200 and linux

2002-12-12 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Dr E B Bettler wrote: % Hi all !! % i've a technical question: % i've bought a 17'' TFT IIYAMA screen (AS4314UT) with a geforce4ti 4200 (athlon % XP2400). After the installation of RedHat8 (with the native NVIDIA drivers), % i've discovered a pixel in the right-upper corner

Re: [Xpert]Linux 8.0 - Replacing Gnome with XDM

2002-12-12 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Herman Buel wrote: % % What is the standard way to disable GNOME and only come up with XDM ? I presume that Linux 8.0 means Red Hat Linux 8.0 (or perhaps SuSE or Mandrake) -- there being no such monster as Linux 8.0 that I'm aware of. If you are talking about Red Hat Linux

Re: [Xpert]Most Frequently Asked Question (MFAQ)

2002-12-13 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % I'm sure this is the most frequently asked question in this list, but % I couldn't find an archive or FAQ list... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xfree-xpertr=1w=2 % I'm trying to run xf86config on a new Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 % laptop. Where

Re: [Xpert]TFT Problem

2002-12-17 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Hyrum Mills wrote: % See inline comments. % % From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Feigning erudition, Hyrum Mills wrote: % % Feigning? I simply seek to be a pretender! lol. Nothing personal. A stock attribution line. % Not as a rule. If you are running Linux, have a look at %

Re: [Xpert]ATI radeon mobility m6|7 at 1400x1050 on Thinkpad T30

2002-12-22 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Rob Torop wrote: % I have one of these (T30 2366-92U) on order, and based one what I've been reading, I anticipate some trouble getting X working smoothly. I'm wondering what the latest status is, in particular whether the screen blanking problem has been fixed in 4.3. If

Re: [Xpert]grey stipple background

2002-12-30 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Dave Airlie wrote: % I'm working on using Xfree in an embedded application and I want to not % have the grey stippled background show up on boot.. I want the screen to % stay black until I draw something to it ... % % I know this is probably blasphemy ;-).. but googling hasn't