Re: __AMD64__ or __amd64__ ?

2004-03-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >MH> If the test is just to determine wether or not a 64bit >MH> architecture is being built for, then __arch64__ is a better >MH> test. > >What is a 64 bit architecture? > >Is it about address bus size? (The MC68020 is a 34-bit architecture?) >About d

Re: Halted progress on XFree86 ffb driver for Solaris/SPARC

2004-03-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Matt Prazak wrote: >driver to themselves. This is fair enough, but custom kernel drivers are a bit >over my head at this point in time (it would require porting a Linux-based ffb >driver to the Solaris kernel driver architecture) Which would also violate the GPL unless you go

Re: __AMD64__ or __amd64__ ?

2004-02-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
ossible 64bit architecture, and which need to have any new 64bit arches added as time goes on. __arch64__ would fix that also. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: help new driver

2004-02-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
roperly legally indicate they are GPL licensed should you decide to not use the traditional MIT/X11 license which is more shareable. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

full space, this user is limit quota (fwd)

2004-02-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
from there as well, or alternatively to set both of them to "nomail" perhaps. TIA -- Mike A. Harris -- Forwarded message -- Date: 22 Feb 2004 19:22:32 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: full space, this user is limit quota full spac

atkbd.c: unknown key released - XFree86 shouldn't access hardware directly

2004-02-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
de was left in place for the time being? Just curious. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: kbdrate problem [johnw@zacglen.com.au: (fixes seq: A.525) Bogus switch to VT6]

2004-02-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
re using rare/strange (broken?) hardware ? > >Much greater chance that I am using broken software >that doesn't work with all hardware! Agreed. Not for long though, I should have a patch that fixes this soon enough. I'm going to change the code also to remove the ioport based acces

Re: [XFree86] XFree86 4.3.x: ValueUnion and loaded variable names

2004-02-20 Thread Mike A. Harris
l. Which define is broken in gcc exactly? -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

2004-02-19 Thread Mike A. Harris
7;s best interest to work together in pointing out such cases of human error in a friendly way, so that everyone involved has proper credit given to them. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

2004-02-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
by the Open Source Initiative, however there are a few inaccuracies present on both of these websites which need to be fixed, in order to not mislead people into beleiving XFree86 is MIT/X11 licensed. Of course, others should visit both websites and draw their own conclusions al

Re: do XFree86 accept XIM projects?

2004-02-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
o everyone out there for this to be included directly in XFree86. It may however benefit other OSs and distributions which XFree86 supports which may not already ship minichinput, such as commercial proprietary OSs however. Hope this feedback is useful. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris __

Re: 4.4.0 RC2 and linux 2.6.3-rc1

2004-02-08 Thread Mike A. Harris
but haven't gotten it into test builds yet. Not an uber-high priority item however, so it'll take a week or two probably for a test build to get out there and get some feedback from people seeing this problem. -- Mike A. Harris ___ D

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
:) Funny you mention Raiders... I just watched it about 3 weeks ago, and the spiderwebs stuck in my mind and after mixing that in my brain mixmaster with some Adams, I came up with the above. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
gt;> >> And in any way, i guess this doesn't include the 3D/DRI parts. > >Whoops, that was what I was talking about. I thought this thread was on >the DRI list until I just now looked. > >Do we have at least 2d support

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
ers, perhaps swinging it from a crane to break a window or something. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: About Xwrapper

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
a way the Xwrapper to connect to kdm and not xdm. Any ideas? The Xwrapper source code. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
first glance. While the driver is fairly cryptic to many eyes, it is none the less there, and maintained by Mark at Nvidia. Of course that's not 3D code, and your statements above mostly concerned 3D related things, but I wanted to at least clarify this point for those who otherwise mig

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
ywhere, with a sign on the door which reads: "Beware of the leopard" -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Fall back drivers?

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
S should provide a mechanism for detecting the cases where the X server dies immediately, such as a SEGV, and then tries to start a minimal preconfigured "safe mode" of sorts. This could be done using a driver based-upon the vesa driver. Something akin to Microsoft's "VGASAVE" driver used in Windows' safe-mode. Just a thought. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Manufacturers who fully disclosed specifications for agp cards?

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
. I dunno if anyone has put together a web page with copies of legally obtained and redistributable video hardware specifications (or hyperlinks to them) or not, but perhaps someone else here knows of such a web page. If not, you might want to search google thoug

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
straighten such matters out in a polite and rational fashion. It's just common courtesy to everyone involved in the particular code, wether that is kernel code, XFree86 code, or code from elsewhere. Just some personal thoughts... TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: how to build static XFree86/TinyX and Xlibs

2004-02-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
ns the latest kdrive source code, which you may wish to use instead if you're doing new development, as the source is much newer than what is in XFree86 CVS currently. There's a separate development list on freedesktop.org for discussion of 'kdrive' X server devel

Re: libXinerama

2004-01-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
at have 4.3.0 installed. A necessary pain of course that can't really be avoided however, but it's going to be a fun time with bug reports. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: libXinerama

2004-01-26 Thread Mike A. Harris
tic-only default libs are affected. Hopefully 4.4.0 changes all static libs in an incompatible way to encourage people to not override XFree86's defaults for shared libraries. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [GATOS]how to check if hardware mpeg2 decoder is working

2004-01-26 Thread Mike A. Harris
funky. Other commands may use commandline switches such as -version, --version, -v, -V, --help or similar. Check the documentation for a given command to see if it has a method to display it's version number. Most applications do, however there is no one method that works with all software.

Re: [GATOS]how to check if hardware mpeg2 decoder is working

2004-01-26 Thread Mike A. Harris
odules first. Using multiple config files (or a single well crafted file), you can switch between drivers by using startx with commandline options. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Xv MOX extensions multiple client overlays

2004-01-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
e interesting to discuss any suggestions for improvement, etc. on the xserver mailing list on fd.o also, as things are in development and not locked in stone currently, and feedback is always appreciated by developers. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris _

Re: redhat-config-xfree86

2004-01-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
g "startx" and if it fails, please put your X server log and config file somewhere viewable via http or ftp, and post URLs to the files here. It's possible your particular video card model is not supported, however I'll need the above info first in order to determine/ad

Re: XFree86 master cvsup server refuses authentication

2003-12-20 Thread Mike A. Harris
ately revoke my access to it, and notify me of the change if you'd be so kind. I would much prefer that over surprises like this. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: XFree86 master cvsup server refuses authentication

2003-12-20 Thread Mike A. Harris
ter cvsup server refuses authentication > >Mike A. Harris wrote: >> >> It worked up until November first according to my cvsup cronjob >> logs, at which point it just stopped. However, now that you >> mention it, I don't remember ever seeing any public announceme

Re: XFree86 master cvsup server refuses authentication

2003-12-20 Thread Mike A. Harris
cvs/cvsup login cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cvsup co xc If anyone notices any problems accessing the cvs repository mirror, or detects it being out of date, etc., please email myself or one of the other freedesktop.org admins, and we'll fix things up ASAP. There have been a few glitches, but I think I've got them ironed out now. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

XFree86 master cvsup server refuses authentication

2003-12-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
Has something changed recently with how cvsup access to the repository is handled? Any help appreciated. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ATTN: video hardware/driver contact at Intel

2003-12-16 Thread Mike A. Harris
Intel video related issues. If someone from Intel could forward this to the proper person, or anyone else reading this who knows whom I should contact, and could provide me with an Intel email address contact, I'd greatly appreciate it. TIA -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mh

Re: "nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
ot useful as far as development is concerned. Let's just respectfully agree to disagree with each other on coding practice, and move on without further discussion. Thanks. Respectfully yours, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
ctive existing driver maintainers. Let's hope and pray that none of the existing maintainers gets hit by a bus, or we're screwed. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
ymbolic names is like surfing the web with IP addresses only, the obvious difference to this analogy being that domain names don't always remain pointing to the same IP address. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
y response didn't take my original mail into account either, of which I had forgotten my wording. My apologies for the flame. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: "nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
and worked on other projects? Seems every time someone asks for information on how something works in the codebase that they don't understand, or asks for clarification on something, they can't get a straight or clear answer. It's really no wonder volunt

"nv" driver obscurities...

2003-11-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
er reason I'm missing as to why the driver is so obfuscated? -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Upgrade fontconfig in cvs.

2003-11-07 Thread Mike A. Harris
considered too late at this point though, but most Linux and other OS distributions I think ship the newer fontconfigs for quite a while now, so it shouldn't be too hard to find prebuilt packages for many OS's also. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Does anyone out there use mkxauth at all?

2003-11-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
gt;bugzilla (for inclusion post-4.4 timeframe). If not, base your decision >on whether or not RedHat wants to continue supporting it. I guess that's as good a way as any to determine wether it is useful. Any Linux or BSD vendors or distributions out t

Re: Nvidia driver relation to XFree

2003-11-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
kely the 2D XFree86 "nv" driver source code, and whatever might be in the Linux kernel framebuffer driver, or BSD et al. Since no docs are available for this hardware though, you may have a tough time doing anything with it without the aide of someone familiar with the hardware. Wish you the best of luck nonetheless. Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Nvidia driver relation to XFree

2003-11-06 Thread Mike A. Harris
is an >>application interface that gets called from user-mode. > >Even if I can't use DGA directly, the source should provide >information on how to handle the hardware, so that would help me >also. I have to take a look at these. Look at the driver source in XFree86 for foo_dga.c files for example stuff. Hope this helps. Good luck with your work! Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Does anyone out there use mkxauth at all?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
n the other hand, if it turns out nobody really uses it anymore, it might be best to just drop it from our distribution. I haven't used it in many years myself now, and kindof assumed most people use other mechanisms nowadays too, but didn't want to remove it and face the wrat

Re: Nvidia driver relation to XFree

2003-11-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
de. For many of the drivers, EnterVT and >LeaveVT looks the same; they just call into other functions within that >driver. Indeed. I think the key part of your message, and I'm in complete concurrence with you, is "read the source Luke". ;o) For the benefit of the original poster, the source of the drivers is in: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers The source of the Nvidia proprietary drivers is in: /dev/null ;o) Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Server regeneration no longer works

2003-10-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
missing something? Search cvs-commits list archives, and/or use the cvsps tool to generate patchsets. You can find the latter with google. The documentation blows goats but the tool works awesome once you mess with it for hours and hours wasting time until you figure out the right magic. ;o)

Re: Is it possible to move application displays between hosts?

2003-10-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
the DISPLAY variable and xhost >+ on the other machine. But if the program is already running, is it >possible to do the equivalent? If this isn't possible currently, it >would be a really great thing to have in the future. Search google for the applications xmove and x2x, a

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Bugs?

2003-10-26 Thread Mike A. Harris
la has worked as well as it has, and I'd like to thank everyone both at XFree86.org, and in the community for all the contributions people have made, both reporting bugs, supplying patches, helping track down various issues, and committing fixes to CVS, etc., etc. Good work to everyone who has co

Re: Shared libraries

2003-10-24 Thread Mike A. Harris
or libXau, and some other libs. We experienced a problem where shared libs trying to link to static libs caused application failures due to non-PIC code being used. I'll have to have a look at this soon and port forward to HEAD if need be, and

Re: FATAL ERROR 4.3.0: make install

2003-10-24 Thread Mike A. Harris
uring ``make all´´, I had this problem, and the very reason >was, that my /usr/bin/cpp could not have been found due to a >permission inconsistency. make World WORLDOPTS="" will cause the build to fail immediately in all versions of XFree86. I believe this has been made the default

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Bugs?

2003-10-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
ze of the database. In that light, I'd consider bugzilla quite a success so far, even if it doesn't even exist to some developers. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
ody has done it yet other than in the Radeon driver where it has a real good use. I also think at least theoretically that Xv could benefit from using DRI on more hardware, but I also think that is only feasible for hardware in which there is existing and working DRI 3D acceleration. -- Mike A.

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
quite complete IIRC in 4.3.0 at least. If DRI is disabled, then the Radeon driver will use the older MMIO mechanism to do 2D acceleration. I don't know what if any of the other drivers will use DRI for 2D or Xvideo currently, however any hardware that supports using DMA/IRQ for 2D accelration or

Re: Logitech Elite Keyboard Layout

2003-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
re. Why >don't you spread your good cheer? I've yet to see a single developer of anything stand up and shout that they prefer some other format of diff other than unified diff. I'm not particularly interested in your opinion nor your banter in any case. -- Mike A. Harris ___

Re: Logitech Elite Keyboard Layout

2003-10-20 Thread Mike A. Harris
me to time for your opinion to matter much to me about pretty much anything anyway. I'm surprised that I haven't procmailed you to /dev/null yet. And to be quite honest, I'd be more than happy if you'd do the same to me, if for no other reason than I'd see both less of yo

Re: Logitech Elite Keyboard Layout

2003-10-19 Thread Mike A. Harris
86 source tree, and "xc" is a copy of the tree with your modifications. There are other methods of generating unified diffs which are faster and/or use less disk space, but this one is the easiest to explain. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris __

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

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
al if all other options in the X server followed suit, and thus remove all redundant options at once. There is a lot of redundancy in the config file syntax. That was purported as a feature way back when I presume, and it's debateable wether or not it was a good thing or a bad thing I guess. ;o) Hopefully it doesn't change majorly between non-major X server generations, as that makes upgrades a PITA. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Betr: Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
ts unconditionally and if you don't want/need it - you know that, and you have the technical skill most likely to disable it easily enough and get your $0.0001 worth of memory wastage back. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Kernel Module? On second thought...

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
leged problem, wether it even really is a problem at all, how important it is, what other solutions there might be, etc. etc. etc. All of this "lets stuff things in the kernel, because kernel code is automatically 20000 times faster right?" stuff gets boring fast. Show me the code. -

Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: xf-4_3-branch)

2003-10-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
stable branch, or at least committed in separate steps to make changes more apparent for review and backporting, etc. Just some feedback and a polite request for the future. TIA -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-16 Thread Mike A. Harris
hat it would indeed be useful for various niche users and power users, so might be worth having some kind of support for it. Seems scary though.. and would make it interesting to work out exactly how/what the swcursor/hwcursor options end up doing... ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___

Re: Betr: Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-16 Thread Mike A. Harris
tall xfs from now on, will have it enabled by default (and it has TCP disabled also by default), and those who don't actually want to use it or need it, can disable it themselves as an end user configuration customization. I feel this makes life the easiest for the largest amount

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
ve :) Feel free to implement it, and then fix all window managers and other affected applications out there, then propose it as an enhancement if you like. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
if the disk is full, the disk is full. I seem to recall xfs was updated to do this anyway, but I'd have to do a test setup to confirm it. Not a priority... -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
r skewing their testing. In short, benchmarks and similar tests are only one thing, and the information they provide is not 100% conclusive all around in a general sense. >Will you help me show the magic in XFree86? The jaw dropping >si

Re: xfs install on RedHat machine

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
tart at boot time. You can also use "service xfs start" to start it from the command prompt. If it does not start, look in /var/log/messages and you will find out why it is not starting. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
drivers, or doing some algorithmic and/or assembler optimizations here and there. IMHO, what is most important isn't chitter chatter rumours. What is important, is asking a particular person/user/admin/whatever what problem they are specifically experiencing which a perceived performance probl

Re: You suggest an upgrade, eh?

2003-10-14 Thread Mike A. Harris
ly. Nothing that can't be overcome in the future. For video games and 3D however (to get back on specific topic), proprietary drivers that implement all of the hardware's special do-dads are very likely to always outperform the OSS drivers, simply because mor

Re: [Dri-devel] Deadlock with radeon DRI

2003-10-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
ther a patch to correct the behaviour? http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778 has John's patch that fixes this. Thanks Keith, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: SiliconMotion - unable to restore VGA screen on exit

2003-10-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
?" Of course I rarely respond, but the answer I'm thinking in my mind - the true answer, is "You need to go backwards in time, and remove your last comment from the bug report so that when time moves forward again, I have never s

Re: SiliconMotion - unable to restore VGA screen on exit

2003-10-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
tch onto that bug report, you might find my previous suggestion of using the 4.2.1 video driver in 4.3.0 to be a useable workaround for now. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-05 Thread Mike A. Harris
HO for the future, is a unified tool which can use either GTK+ or Qt, and is distribution neutral. That would allow every distro to contribute to one tool, rather that the current mess of everyone shipping their own custom made GTK/Qt tool. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
which I consider relevant and not just pedantic bickering and hypothetical situations, I'm very open minded about fixing problems in ways that benefit people, as long as it doesn't cause more work for me overall due to support problems and bug reports received. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: Starting XFree86 without an XF86Config file

2003-10-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
ay details too. >And everything else is left up to the Vendor to implement in their >own config program. That sounds perfectly fine. And "vendor" in this sense could mean anything from "open source project (including XFree86)" to "OS vendor" to "video hardware vendor". -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: help : Touch screen driver

2003-10-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
it yourself. Without the hardware specifications, nobody can easily answer your question without reverse engineering it themselves, because every piece of hardware will work differently. If all touchscreens output the same data, then there would only need to be one driver, and you wouldn't need

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
ware I know autodetects properly. Config tool bugs/misfeatures are a totally secondary issue, and that definitely needs to be addressed also, however you can't easily fix things that are widely deployed on tens of thousands of systems. You can fix things for the future only. -- Mike A.

Re: VideoRAM option

2003-10-03 Thread Mike A. Harris
e of ATI adapters at least, if the driver doesn't properly detect >> video memory size, I'd consider it a bug. > >Marc. Ok, thanks Marc, this is a case in point of what I'm wanting to do. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

VideoRAM option

2003-10-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
l thing to do in the upstream XFree86 as well, please let me know and I'll be sure to submit the end result for possible inclusion in 4.4.0. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat __

Re: using externally built libs (Xcursor, Xrender, Xft)

2003-09-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
ew, xclock, etc. which could be separated out, or in some cases just dropped completely IMHO. Again, sorry to be pedantic.. ;o) Just don't want people to think our XFree tarball isn't pristine. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: pkg-config support for libs

2003-09-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
s of our distribution however if that is considered more correct or clean though. I'm not sure how useful *.pc files installed in directories unused by all systems out there are either though. ;o) Should the /usr/X11R6 heirarchy be added to pkgconfig's default config? -- Mike

Re: pkg-config support for libs

2003-09-22 Thread Mike A. Harris
would be either making XFree86 install them into /usr/lib/pkg-config by default, or making the default configuration file for pkgconfig contain the X11 pkgconfig directory. Thoughts? -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Enum windows in order to get process id

2003-09-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
it PID, or perhaps 64bit PID even. It's also likely some OS's out there don't have a concept of a PID, such as running Desqview/X on an MSDOS system. Granted, that's an unlikely scenario in modern times, but I'm not sure relying on a PID being available or relying on a POS

Re: setjmp needs fixing again, here's the issues

2003-09-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
long l;} jmp_buf; > >Yes, I thought of that too, but "long long" isn't portable, right? >Plus it still leaves us guessing we've covered the requirements. long long is ISO C99 -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mosue double click interval

2003-09-04 Thread Mike A. Harris
ically. It's entirely up to an application or intermediate windowing toolkit wether or not there is a concept of double clicking the mouse. You need to consult the documentation for the toolkit you're using, ie: GTK+/Qt/etc. -- Mike A. Harris _

Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...)

2003-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
istribution to provide the GPL driver, or will have to compile it themselves. The only other option would be for someone to write a brand new driver for synaptics and license it as MIT, without looking at the GPL driver's source code. It's possible to do a clean room implementat

Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...)

2003-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
people think you can just relicense code on a whim if you're the author, regardless of wether your work contains GPL'd bits from other things or not. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...)

2003-09-02 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: >Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:30:58 +1000 >From: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="a

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Mike A. Harris
o, but it is the beginning of one. Right now, you cannot specify the >device driver you want to talk to; you specify the Display and screen. >But it certainly can be generalized, so any device driver can >receive/reply to messages. Ok, I see what's perceived as missing now.

Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again...

2003-08-31 Thread Mike A. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/03 08:20:24 Log message: 35. Allow an arbitary message to be sent to the DDX by pressing a key which has the appropriate action definition (#5519, Joe Moss). -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: patch for ia64 page size

2003-08-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
o happen, at least from 4.3.0 codebase (not sure about current CVS head), but they need to be done in a clean manner. I intend to go through everywhere in the server and clean up anything I find at some point, and then send a proper patch in to fix it all, unless someone beats me to it. The mail

Re: patch for ia64 page size

2003-08-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
and are not suitable for XFree86.org. Don't waste their time please. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: patch for ia64 page size

2003-08-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
my patches upstream, please contact me first to find out what my own plans are. I generally send patches upstream myself personally when I feel they are ready to be included upstream. If I haven't, it is a good idea to ask me why not first. I can save you some headaches. -- Mike A. Harr

Re: patch to include some kernel info in banner

2003-08-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
nvention of using Red Hat specific patches not intended to be submitted upstream in the form XFree86-a.b.c-redhat-foo.patch I made comments in our spec file to explain this, so people are clearer that these patches are not intended for upstream, but they&#x

Re: patch to include some kernel info in banner

2003-08-25 Thread Mike A. Harris
ngs I can write up something I think might work best for the project itself, and then submit the patch which allows distro overrides to that text to bugzilla, and David or someone can review and modify to taste and commit it if they deem it a sensible addition.

Re: Undeliverable message returned to sender

2003-08-19 Thread Mike A. Harris
;http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel > I am on vacation currently, and will not be in the office for a while. If this matter is urgent. *cough* please try sending it again to waste even more bandwidth on the net and slow things down even more than the viruses spreading around al

Re: pls give me some docs

2003-08-17 Thread Mike A. Harris
video drivers, you'll basically have to select hardware to which the specs are publically available to everyone, such as 3Dfx Voodoo 3, Banshee, Cyrix MediaGX, some older Intel boards, etc. Video hardware vendors generally speaking do not allow public non-NDA access to video hardware docume

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
nting out that Linux not only thrives in the movie studio market, but that it is basically taking over that market entirely. Not overnight, but very increasingly every day. I provided Dreamworks as just a single example of a movie studio that uses L

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
cally possible at least, it isn't something that would be easy to solve due to the many complexities involved. And too many people are biased to one side or the other to care about the concerns of the other side, making it not even on the consideration radar. At least that's how I see it. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
via email. Anyone who is offended by that, can contact me for $60/hour on the weekends and I'll help them, because just like all open source development that occurs, it is either motivated by volunteerism satisfaction or other personal motivations which are a positive experience, or it is motivated by money. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
e wanted to know my response, I'll be glad to email it to them. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

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