[RFC] Re: Freetype on cygwin link...

2003-07-15 Thread Daniel Blueman
An alternative would be to update the freetype support in XFree86 mainline, to the current version. This would benefit would yield much higher benefit, I think What caveats would that bring about? What about the development costs? Daniel schrieb: Any takers? This sounds like a bit

RE: Savage Driver Replacement?

2003-07-15 Thread Egbert Eich
Alan Messer writes: Tim Roberts wrote: I've recently been made aware of the XFree86 Savage driver that VIA released and is now available on Alan Hourihane's web site. This driver is so much superior to the one I've been maintaining that I should be embarrassed. My

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 1:32 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: [...] I feel that the fact SharedLibObjCompile() is unused in our _current_ tree is insufficient reason to remove it. It provides nothing over and above NormalSharedLibObjCompile which is used. Maybe I'm wrong... Nick

Re: linux 2.6 atkbd == xkb

2003-07-15 Thread Ivan Pascal
Hello, As per xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/atKeynames.h: /* * Fake 'scancodes' in the following ranges are generated for 2-byte * codes not handled elsewhere. These correspond to most extended keys * on so-called Internet keyboards: * * 0x79-0x93 * 0x96-0xa1

RE: Savage Driver Replacement?

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
VIA/S3 released fully featured driver that it developed in house. they were based on 4.2.0. VIA had previously released a 2D only driver for the CLE266, which was integrated into xfree86 CVS. The released drivers are available on Alan Cox's website: http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:11, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 01:19 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:52, Simon Urbanek wrote: Summary: 1) CRT + TMDS dual head configuration doesn't work 2)

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
latest CVS build (by myself) as of yesterday (4.3.99...) When did you try exactly ? I've seen more fixes for TMDS getting in the CVS recently. I'm not sure what's up here, definitely not something the doc explains. I suspect it's the path of pixel data from the framebuffer to the TMDS

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:17, Michel Dänzer wrote: [ citation without new stuff ] Sorry about that, fun time with Evolution. :\ -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 4:00 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: [...] The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's contrib/. Ok. Thanks for explaining. Am I on a road to nowhere in attempting to

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nick Hudson wrote: The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's contrib/. Ok. Thanks for explaining. Am I on a road to nowhere in attempting to change the build

Re: CL266 TV-out bug?

2003-07-15 Thread Tim Roberts
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT), Alan Messer wrote: I've been using the 4.3.99 CLE266 (ProSavage) driver on my Via EPIA M1 board. The CLE266 is a Castlerock, not a ProSavage. To the best of my knowledge, the two chips are unrelated. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [forum] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
As far as I know, Microsoft doesn't use bitmap-only sfnts -- they use scalable fonts throughout, nowadays, only keeping the legacy .FON format for backwards compatibility. TR Windows XP still has Terminal, Courier, MS Serif and MS Sans TR Serif, all of which are bitmapped and in common use.

Re: X.Org's IPv6 changes (was: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

2003-07-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MLF I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. Shall we remove libdps from the tree? Juliusz ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: X.Org's IPv6 changes (was: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 15 Jul 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: MLF I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. Shall we remove libdps from the tree? Why? Is DPS dead? It's just a matter of time before I find the time to convert it. And that doesn't preclude someone else beating me to

Re: [RFC] Re: Freetype on cygwin link...

2003-07-15 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:49:42AM +0200, Daniel Blueman wrote: An alternative would be to update the freetype support in XFree86 mainline, to the current version. I don't know anything about the context of this discussion, but the XFree86 CVS trunk has FreeType 2.1.4, which appears to be the

User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? everything from revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding a new Xfree86 3D

Re: [Dri-devel] User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
This sounds like a great idea indeed. There are many questions, I'm sure. One that comes to mind is: *Who* would be able to vote? Luis On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? It is very difficult to convert money into code. It's

Re: [Pfaedit-devel] Re: [forum] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-15 Thread George Williams
That was the initial plan, but I found out that having FreeType grok such fonts required more changes than David Turner was wililng to make in the 2.1.* series. So I'm generating a zero-length glyf and a one-entry loca. (No EBSC indeed.) Ok, I'm currently posting a new build of PfaEdit which