Re: Lock bug in XRefreshKeyboardMapping

2003-03-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, yoel wrote: Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:52:51 +0200 From: yoel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Lock bug in XRefreshKeyboardMapping Hi In XRefreshKeyboardMapping there's a call to

Re: Hooking into mode setting: How to do it cleanly ?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The problem is that this IVAD cirtuit also controls the geometry and brightness of the screen, and should be configured properly after each mode setting. It has a EEPROM containing geometry settings for each of the supported modes,

DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread Kieran O'Sullivan
I am writing an Xlib based screen magnification program for X called BlindPenguin (http://www.blindpenguin.org). In great wisdon of great folly I have dicided to use DGA to write this program. I am looking for DGA code examples I have looked at the dga prog which changes your screen colour, but i

Re: Thank you for XFree 4.3.0!

2003-03-11 Thread Egbert Eich
Marc Giger writes: Hi All! I want to thank you ALL for the great work. I have a neomagic graphiccard and now it is possible to watch movies in fullscreen without interrupts. Also zooming is now possible with the Xvideo interface. Thanks! As last a short question: I've

RE: patch to make 4.3.0 build on FreeBSD 5.0-Current alpha

2003-03-11 Thread Alexander Stohr
[snipped the patch] Is there a better way to submit patches like this? I've just subscribed to the devel list in the last 10 minutes :). Fred Clift sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] queues your patch for integration. maybe unified diffs are the prefered style (diff -u src dst). it improves

Re: xf86open flags

2003-03-11 Thread Egbert Eich
jkjellman writes: I have been working an input routine that requires a pipe for interactive calibration. I need to open the pipe with O_NONBLOCK so as not to halt if a user process does not have the pipe open. In doing this I have found that the xf86open does not support O_NONBLOCK,

RE: patch to make 4.3.0 build on FreeBSD 5.0-Current alpha

2003-03-11 Thread fmcc
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Alexander Stohr wrote: sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] queues your patch for integration maybe unified diffs are the prefered style (diff -u src dst). it improves readability due to included lead-in/out context. Thanks -- I'll make up a quick unified diff and send it off.

Re: DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread Jens Owen
Kieran O'Sullivan wrote: I am writing an Xlib based screen magnification program for X called BlindPenguin (http://www.blindpenguin.org). In great wisdon of great folly I have dicided to use DGA to write this program. I am looking for DGA code examples I have looked at the dga prog which changes

Re: DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
DGA is for fullscreen games and such and takes over the screen making the rest of the server think it's switched away do another VT. DGA is mutually exclusive with normal server operation so it can't be used magnify normal server operation. Most hardware can display resolutions as low as

RE: DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
You could potentially do something with Video4Linux to cause a portion of the framebuffer to be displayed using a hardware overlay. This would require a driver that has Xv and Video4Linux support and a real hardware overlay with on-the-fly scaling (i.e doesn't require a temporary output) The

RE: DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread roger
BACKGROUND INFORMATION The issue is this any X magnification program that I have seen draws the magnified area on a window I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS. I want to write a program, which zooms in like a video camera on a particular part of the screen what will happen is that the magnified

RE: DGA Example Code for Screen Magnification Prog

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 11 Mar 2003, roger wrote: BACKGROUND INFORMATION The issue is this any X magnification program that I have seen draws the magnified area on a window I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS. I want to write a program, which zooms in like a video camera on a particular part of the screen what

RE: Keybaord handled differently under xdm - why?

2003-03-11 Thread Kean Johnston
This gets even weirder. If I use xdm I cant even use setxkbmap blah | xkbcomp blah - $DISPLAY ... even that doesn't work. There is something fundamentally funky about xdm and keyboard maps. Is no-one else experiencing this? I am sitting at a shell prompt, typing xdm, and logging in. Whether as