Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-17 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
RJ Judging from the large number of *flames* I got for suggesting it, These weren't flames. They were fairly kind explanations. A flame is something completely different -- you'll see if you hang around some more ;-) Juliusz

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-17 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
TR You really need some way to identify the XFree86 server as TR trusted. In Linux today, the only mechanism for doing that is TR suid root. I'm sorry to repeat what I've already said, but it isn't. It could very well be setgid xfree86, setgid hwaccess. Old SunOS had setgid kmem for ps and

Re: More details about a kernel module (by GPfault)

2003-10-17 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
RJ An IOCTL shouldn't have any more overhead than reading or writing to a RJ file... Make this a hundred cycles (and you're probably flushing some caches somewhere). That's 0.1 us on a 1GHz CPU. The machine I'm typing this on can do 2 milllion short thin lines per second. That's 0.5 us per

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, David Fox wrote: I think that the wisest approach is, instead of suggesting a kernel module to the XFree86 folks, you do two things. First, suggest a kernel module to the Linux folks that implements a protocol for accessing the resource you are trying to use. Then you go

Re: how to get a window's name which contains compound text?

2003-10-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
wjd wrote: I works on redhat8,how can i get a window's name which contains a compound text in X11 program? I has tried: XGetWindowProperty(Display*,Window,XA_WM_NAME,0,(long)BUFSIZ, False,XA_STRING,actual_type,actual_format,

Re: Updating NVidia documentation

2003-10-17 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Alexander Shopov wrote: Hi guys, I am tryng to update the docs about nvidia chips in XFree86. I've checked out the sgml docs (module sgml) and the nv driver files (directory xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv) (HEAD branch) There is a man page in that directory.

Re: Betr: Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-17 Thread Eamon Walsh
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:24, Mike A. Harris wrote: Anyway, the check for /usr/X11R6/bin/X to determine wether or not to start xfs has been removed for quite a while now, as it makes it difficult for people to start xfs, who don't run an X server on the same machine and just want to use xfs

Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread Alexander Shopov
Hi guys, I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man Almost every driver implements the options: HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented differently. From an end user perspective I would like: 1. Them being the same throughout docs 2. Them being as explicit

Re: Re: how to get a window's name which contains compound text?

2003-10-17 Thread wjd
Thank for your reply,i has run xwininfo directly,it told me this window has no name.I just try xprop,i find it will export correct window name,could you tell where to get the newest code of xprop? Thanks wjd wrote: I works on redhat8,how can i get a window's name which contains a compound

Re: Updating NVidia documentation

2003-10-17 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Alexander Shopov wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Alexander Shopov wrote: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv.man is the NVIDIA driver documentation. That's what I edit. man page directly? Yes. It seems to me that this is

Re: Updating NVidia documentation

2003-10-17 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:35:12PM +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Alexander Shopov wrote: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/nv/nv.man is the NVIDIA driver documentation. That's what I edit. man page directly? It seems to me that this is

Re: Proposal for documentation patch - driver man pages, HWCursor, SWCursor

2003-10-17 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:15:20PM -0700, Tim Roberts wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:44:57 +0300, Alexander Shopov wrote: I checked driver man pages in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/*/*.man Almost every driver implements the options: HWCursor, SWCursor however they are documented

Re: [linux-usb-devel] USB keycodes Logitech Cordless Desktop Optical: (Was USB Multimedia Keyboards. Some keys do not produce keyevents)

2003-10-17 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Pardon my evilness in cross posting this, But I need to get a discussion going on how to resolve this problem. One lineak user went and tested his keyboard. Here is what he got. It does appear that for the keys that do not