RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
RandR integration with partial enable of features? -Original Message- From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RELNOTES for 4.3.0 Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Thomas Zander
I'm wondering why my fonts have become so very beutiful since 4.2... :) On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:14:55AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm)

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Giessler
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Major OS/2 support updates. ??? Where do they come from? Frank. -- Frank Giessler

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:37:45 +0100, Frank Giessler wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Major OS/2 support

Re: server crash on linux-mips

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 10:02, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:46:39 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Die, 2003-02-18 at 20:10, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:49:58 -0800, Nolan Leake wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 16:36, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I don't

RE: FW: [Xpert]2 mice - 2 pointer ?!?

2003-02-19 Thread Rob Taylor
We have a product that can have up to 4 touch screens and has a track-ball controlled pointer. Iften people operate the product in a two-handed manner, and occasionally more than one operator will use the product at a given time. the upshot of this is that ideally there would be a

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 12:14, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. [...] * ATI Radeon 9x00 support for 2D and 3D excluding the 9500 and 9700 for 3D acceleration. It might be worth

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:28:12PM +0100, Holger Veit wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:49:07AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:37:45 +0100, Frank Giessler wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 11:14 AM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Frank Giessler
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/19/03 at 01:05 PM, Alan Hourihane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To be precise, considerable work has been done for this release by Frank Giessler. Honour to those who really deserve it. I'm puzzled why it was Frank who asked the question then... Sorry for the

[PATCH] Make Radeon and R128 DRI detect processor pagesize at runtime

2003-02-19 Thread Mike A. Harris
Here is the original patch comment, with my own comments below. Please apply patch to 4.2.99.x, with plans of a better long term solution for the future planned for later. === Patch by Chris Ahna: Fixes critical page size problems

Software cursors - was RE: FW: [Xpert]2 mice - 2 pointer ?!?

2003-02-19 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Rob Taylor wrote: XFree86 still has framework for soft cursors, no? The framework yes, but drivers seem to have problems with DRI and XV and software cursurs, and seem to be trying to disable software cursors. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS,

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Torrey Lyons
At 11:14 AM + 2/19/03, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Indirect GLX acceleration for the MacOS X Xserver. Some other Mac OS X Xserver improvements (summarize as you see fit): - Smaller

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. * Mesa 4.0.4 is included for OpenGL(tm) support. * AMD x86-64 support. * Support for OpenBSD/sparc64. *

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-19 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Keith Packard wrote: Yes, they are rather system specific, but FreeType2 uses setjmp and longjmp extensively for error recovery. Disallowing setjmp and longjmp would make using FreeType2 rather difficult. I believe the approach taken will at least work in the majority

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:53:14PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote: I've heard the same discussion on KDE lists. And as on KDE the point is that the whole system has to be utf-8 to work correctly. Close -- the way Red Hat 8 is set up, it seems like the whole world needs to be UTF8 :/ This is an

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-19 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Feb 19, Kurt J. Lidl wrote: You ought to make the xf86jmp_buf larger than 200 bytes. I have access to a machine where the jmp_buf storage takes 232 bytes already! I made it 400 bytes -- Linux x86 uses 156 bytes, and 256 seemed likely to be problematic on some machines.

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-19 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Feb 19, Stuart Anderson wrote: It seems like the wrapped versions could be extended so that they would work correctly. That's not possible. The fundemental problem is that setjmp captures the execution context (more or less the continuation) from its caller, including the

RE: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Alexander Stohr
Gatos is focussing on video and TV playback, TV/video-in functionality and video capture. But they are _not_ focussed on 3D to my understanding. thanks for the link to the AIW Radeon 9700 comments. the text outlines that even gatos has not timeframe how their development will proceed. for my

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-19 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Keith Packard wrote (in a message from Wednesday 19) Around 15 o'clock on Feb 19, Stuart Anderson wrote: This approach strikes me as being inherently non-portable wrt the module ABI. setjmp/longjmp are too system specific to be used in modules. Yes, they are rather system specific,

Re: RELNOTES for 4.3.0

2003-02-19 Thread Kevin Brosius
Alan Hourihane wrote: Here's a list of items for the RELNOTES for 4.3.0, if anyone has anything to add to this, please send it in. I'd suggest the following s3virge driver note: Doublescan modes (320x200) are supported and tested in depth 8 and 16 on DX, but disable XVideo. Doublescan

Re: [PATCH] DontVtSwitch X server config file option

2003-02-19 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:58:19AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: This patch by Branden Robinson adds the option DontVTSwitch to the X server serverflags section, which disables VT switching via CTRL-ALT-Fx at runtime. Tested in CVS for a few weeks, and comes from Debian prior to that. Patch has

Re: I'm stuck: font-related crash with current CVS

2003-02-19 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:20:04PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: Around 15 o'clock on Feb 19, Stuart Anderson wrote: This approach strikes me as being inherently non-portable wrt the module ABI. setjmp/longjmp are too system specific to be used in modules. Yes, they are rather system specific,

Re: xterm and UTF8

2003-02-19 Thread Thomas Zander
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:48:02PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:53:14PM +0100, Thomas Zander wrote: Its news to me that a locale can specify that its utf-8, since I always thought that locales don't define encodings. It's news, then :) You can specify en_US.UTF-8

Re: logging out an X session

2003-02-19 Thread Matthias Scheler
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:00:43AM -0600, Omon Edeki wrote: I am desperately trying to write a program to log out a user from a linux KDE/GNOME X window session.In trying to do this, I am killing all the users' processes using kill(pid_t pid, SIGKILL) to all the users processes. That's a bad