NoDDC2
Option NoVBE
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was removed after glapi_x86.S last changed,
which is a good sign).
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a windowing system without it, at least one
based on keyboard+mouse, or even a stylus.
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Florian Lindner wrote:
Hello,
when do you guess will 4.3 be released? What are your estimates?
My guess:
When the show-stopping bugs are fixed.
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screens, and I'd put the delay down to the large
amounts of logging I'm doing. Therefore I'd assumed it was my problem,
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cards only have one
hardware cursor.
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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.
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and compiler, so the compile-time size
might not be big enough when the module is run on a different system.
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have very few drawing primitives,
or reading back the Sun Ray frame-buffer is slow.
Not part of XFree86 (for licencing reasons I think) there
is an X video driver which renders to a VNC viewer instead of
local hardware. I believe it has a home page on sourceforge.
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get multi-heads working on the console, then run X on top of that.
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:55:21 +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
xc/config/cf/Imakefile now refers to date.def, and xfree86.cf includes
it, but I can't find it in the latest CVS, nor can I find a rule which
builds it on the fly.
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote:
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X -configure comments these values out because many apps used to
get confused by having precise dpi values and displayed silly
fonts. I think that at one time a 85x90 dpi screen would make
Netscape
numbers of the mice into the X server config,
and would I want to ?
No doubt 2.6 has good answers to all these questions.
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resolutions for different depths ?
I don't know if it makes sense from a code point of view, but from
the config file side, I'd suggest allowing a Display subsection
to have multiple Depth qualifiers (possiby FbBpp and Visual too).
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:31:18PM +, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
I don't really agree here, modes are for the outgoing resolution, not
the input viewport. it would be far simpler to keep this simple
.
I believe that most (all?) TV input is done via video4linux.
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/v4l/README
might be the place to start reading.
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build (
#define DoLoadableServerNO
in xc/config/cf/host.def). Not useful for a production version, but it
might help to track the bug down if we knew whether to blame the module
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end has already
been opened.
Thus the O_RDONLY may be neccesary for the O_NONBLOCK to be effective.
Any idea why we ignore the O_RDONLY flag ?
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It isn't that we don't want to anser, just that we don't have
answers to your questions.
I personally feel that XFree86 has benefited from your contributions
and such a close comparison/interaction with your product.
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
The setjmp changes on 2003/03/12 break build on Red Hat 6.2.
It built fine the day
is wrong or not made available.
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On the other hand, which desktop apps stretch buttons and similar
images when presented with non-square pixels ?
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(II) I810(1): initializing int10
(EE) I810(1): Cannot read V_BIOS
(II) I810(1): this driver cannot do DDC without VBE
This looks like a driver problem - does the DDC work if you
driver this card as a single head ?
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for Xinerama, since that deliberately hides
the display distinction.
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ended in endless loop on certain systems (Egbert Eich).
On a good day an endless loop would be aborted.
It would be worth trying v4.2
Other than that, I think you will have to go to the i810 driver
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What is the correct way to do that? That is, I need to run
the probe twice, once on each bus.
xf86I2CBusInit() ?
I don't see it doing the probe itself- that happens in xf86DoEDID_DDC2().
I guess you might want two calls to xf86CreateI2CBusRec
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since 4.2.
I really think you should upgrade to 4.3 before going further.
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found someone who is.
I gave Egbert a hand with it, but I suspect that you are as familar
with it as I am.
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-A cable instead
of the DVI-D cable you are probably using) ?
It is sad, but analog signals may outlast DVI-D :-(
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 07:16:08AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
Patch 3.62 to xc/programs/xterm/screen.c breaks xterm resizing
.
Anyone who anyone desires a different root window visual should use
the Visual keyword, or the -cc command line option.
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a virtual reality
living-room and whenever the camera falls on the TV it would be
showing live pictures from a video feed.
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with slow memory (say an ISA VGA card from the days when
256 color VGA was a big deal), displaying at say 60Hz refresh,
you would find that using a shadow framebuffer was faster than writing
directly to the card.
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On 19 Jun 2003, Andreakis, Dean (MED) wrote:
How do I do an XFree86 v4.3.0 build with debug symbols enabled?
makeg World in the top directory xc
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to allow reconfiguration
of a running server.
Can I take it that we can just remove it ?
If not, we need some documentation, so that we can turn it into a
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LC_MONETARY=en_GB
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB
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% uname -a
Linux ard 2.2.19-6.2.7 #6 Wed Jan 9 21:36:45 GMT 2002 i686 unknown
This is a Red Hat Linux 6.3 machine.
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RCS file: /home/CVS/XFree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Egbert Eich wrote:
Dr Andrew C Aitchison writes:
260. Disabled mode writeback to client program from MGA driver (Egbert
Eich).
This doesn't compile on RedHat 6.2 / egcs-2.91.66
Hi Andrew,
Yes, thanks!
Mattieu already told me.
It builds with gcc
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been taught how to do clean-room development,
and don't have any guidelines, I'd rather not go reading the matroxfb
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that suggestion
that anyone still using them should move *into* the 1980s is a little
unfair - they need to move *out of* the 1980s).
Still .sfn is too close to .snf; I vote for .sfnt.
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. The net result is a SEGV in the server. I am using
'xmag' to grab the
I'm not having this problem with a Matrox G550 in overlay mode.
Can I see your xdpyinfo ?
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,harrier,0)
_X11TransSocketSelectFamily(local)
_X11TransSocketOpen(4,1)
_X11TransSocketOpen: returning for local
_X11TransConnect(3,local/:0)
_X11TransParseAddress(local/:0)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect(3,harrier,0)
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(first use in this function)
../../lib/xtrans/Xtrans.c:1112: `TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [transport.o] Error 1
Should that be BOOL, TRUE (and FALSE) as defined I don't know where
(or Bool, True and False as defiend in ICElib.h) ?
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to our drivers ?
If anyone with a suitable machine is interested in testing for me,
and I can get chip-level details, I *might* be interested in writing
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/ as it is now) and tcp/machinename:display to work for
inet/ and inet6/
-nolisten tcp should block inet and inet6.
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previously supported it :-(.
If so who do I need to talk to in order to best assist in its
development?
Sorry I don't know. The people who were doing rotation seem to have
parted company with XFree86 since the above fiasco.
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cvsup.xfree86.org isn't providing a CVS service today.
anoncvs.xfree86.org is, so this isn't urgent.
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users to configure the server in such a way that they
don't get cmf between the two dephs.
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as well as cursors.
Actually, in practise it would probably be good enough.
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into the XFree86 driver.
Xv may or may not have made it into the mach64 driver too.
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layer's ScreenInit. Is this enough to communicate the rotated resolution?
If I heard correctly, one of the features of RandR is that it allows
this sort of notification.
Unfortunately this area suffered in the political fight which happened
around the time of the 4.3 release.
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occur if the window was allowed to
move between screens.
* Ignoring ctlalt+/- mode changes.
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, David Dawes wrote:
There is no DPI option in the XF86Config file, but one could be added.
(Separate question: does it make sense to have most/all command line
options available as XF86Config file options?)
K-drive/TinyX goes the other way; it has no XF86Config file, so
returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [Xvfb] Error 1
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with very stretchy
looking video.
http://vektor.ca/bugs/atidriver/xpdy2.log includes the lines
screen #0:
dimensions:2560x1024 pixels (867x347 millimeters)
resolution:75x75 dots per inch
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window property; usually XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA, which can be
printed out with:
xprop -display $DISPLAY -root 0x XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA
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, so the followinbg suggestion might
not be smart:
IIRC X will happy support many non-core pointer devices;
so write a window manager which listens to all the non-core pointers
and does with them what you want.
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I wont be able to look for a week or two, since the hard disk on the
laptop has died, and needs to be replaced.
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xc/doc/specs/Xext/recordlib.ms
Don't know whether it will help you at all.
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Feel free to use a different reordering;
I've only tested this on RedHat 6.2
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Index: xc/lib/GL/dri/dri_util.c
fbdevhw
Load glx
Load record
Load freetype
Load type1
#Load dri
EndSection
3D acceleration on the Mach64 isn't standard: I'm not sure that
anyone has tested that 2D and 3D accleration work well together.
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property names will represent
information about zero, one or more tablets - perhaps you need
properties like:
WACOM_TABLET_COUNT
WACOM_TABLET0_MODEL
...
WACOM_TABLET1_MODEL
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post that contains enough keywords to catch my attention.
Maybe if we publicize a decision to allow postings in any language
the number of non-English posts will grow to the point where I'll
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metrics. If you have one of these, the algorithm
you describe wont help :-(
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Alex Deucher wrote:
This patch adds two new XV attributes: XV_COLORSPACE and XV_GAMMA.
XV_GAMMA lets you adjust the gamma of the overlay to 8 presets:
0 - gamma 1.0, default
1 - 0.85
... ...
7 - 2.5
Please let me know if you have any suggestions
gamma, or one for each channel.
If we don't allow separate channels now, we will only need to add the
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yet) and I see that it doesn't call
xf86SetDDCproperties(...) which is normally how XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA
gets set.
If this is your problem, submit a bug, and I'll try to have a look,
but any patch I came up with would have too big an effect for me to
submit it for 4.4.
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for an Xserver not to use a VT).
I understand that 2.5.x kernels can support multiple text consoles,
and I understand that in this case two X head can be done.
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, but it averages
less than once a month, and if I can't fix it, someone else will in a
couple of days. Even then a build failure in a part of the tree I'm not
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, for one developer at least, the reason there has been no traffic
from fbdev to XFree86 is *directly* because of the licence issue.
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:10:22AM +, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
For several years the mga fb kernel driver has supported dual head and/or
dvi on cards which aren't supported by the XFree86 driver (unless you
use the mga_hal). I've wanted to use
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:10:22AM +, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
Yeah, that would be rather problematic, but anyway, most of the things
move from the XFree86 code to fbdev code, and most often, it is not code
that is copied, but the register
.
The kernel has extra support for some hardware, but in general it
doesn't use the graphics engine much, so is fairly slow.
I don't have direct experience, but I'd expect that the XFree86 drivers
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, if the BIOS allocates enough memory
to the graphics unit. Since you are on a custom platform
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#include strings.h
#endif
#include unistd.h
1.20
I'm not clear which version we wish to keep.
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Index: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h
testing since then,
so they may have suffered software rot.
Should I delete these from my installation and config file
instead? I haven't found anything about these modules
in the RELNOTES for either 4.3 or 4.4.
I would indeed delete these from your install and config.
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of them show warnings such as
(WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected!
Are there any reasons why these things are no longer configured
by -configure? Can they be put back?
I don't think they have been deliberately taken out.
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not keen on that. Some people will have two very different monitors,
and many of the Matrox cards support more modes (RAMdac bandwidth
limits) on one head than the other.
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by remote processes connected over
the network?
And what happens to remote applications displaying over an ssh tunnel ?
Do they all share the pid of the ssh client ?
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?
Are we missing something else, like a difference between direct and
indexed colours ?
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