Re: RENDER question

2003-08-27 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:50:46 +0200 Thomas Winischhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Since I recently found out that SiS hardware _does_ support per-pixel alpha-blended bitblits, I could finish the (yet disabled) render acceleration. The only problem I encountered: The

Re: *** xf86BiosREAD, IA64, Multi-card Init ***

2003-08-27 Thread Egbert Eich
Hi John, thanks on following up on this. John Dennis writes: Anytime in the XServer when MMIO was specified as a mapping flag the ia64 code would have requested non-cached, this is done for all register mappings and the VGA framebuffer (because write combining was avoided on banked

Re: *** xf86BiosREAD, IA64, Multi-card Init ***

2003-08-27 Thread Egbert Eich
John Dennis writes: I will confess my understanding is weak when it comes to low level bus interactions, but I'm learning more eveytime I have to tackle these issues ;-) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought things like caching and write-combining are not properties of the PCI

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

2003-08-27 Thread Claus Matthiesen
- Original Message - From: Bryan W. Headley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again... Cut a bit of code The problem is, there's a type field and a name field. They're not

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

2003-08-27 Thread Egbert Eich
Bryan W. Headley writes: Egbert Eich wrote: That is correct. However Claus was talking about the future - once that is fixed. Appearantly toolkits like gnome already do make use of the name field. Sure, albeit dangerously. They had best not be making decisions based on what's

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

2003-08-27 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Claus Matthiesen wrote: - Original Message - From: Bryan W. Headley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:43 PM Subject: Re: XInput: The device type in XListInputDevices comes up again... Cut a bit of code The problem is, there's a type field and a name

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

2003-08-27 Thread Claus Matthiesen
Weee! Device interface designing is fun! As a side note - isn't it rater a failure of the extended input thingy in X when neither the application programmer nor the device driver programmer think it's good enough? On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 17:03, Bryan W. Headley wrote: Claus Matthiesen wrote:

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

2003-08-27 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Claus Matthiesen wrote: Weee! Device interface designing is fun! As a side note - isn't it rater a failure of the extended input thingy in X when neither the application programmer nor the device driver programmer think it's good enough? La la la la. I can't read you :-) --

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

2003-08-27 Thread Claus Matthiesen
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 19:52, Bryan W. Headley wrote: Claus Matthiesen wrote: Weee! Device interface designing is fun! As a side note - isn't it rater a failure of the extended input thingy in X when neither the application programmer nor the device driver programmer think it's good

Re: RENDER question

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: please please please PLEASE! accelerate everythig you can :) http://www.rasterman.com/files/render_bench.tar.gz Is it correct to assume, that the image I see over a rainbow-like background is the result of RENDER, and over a grey-shaded background from

Re: *** xf86BiosREAD, IA64, Multi-card Init ***

2003-08-27 Thread John Dennis
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:15, Egbert Eich wrote: Appearantly there are still issues with VGA framebuffer and emulated PIO register writes when saving and restoring fonts. These problems only affect certain cards (so far I've only heared of Nvidia cards). Mark Vojkovich is sure that these are

[XFree86] XFree86 Segmentation Fault (extract problem?)

2003-08-27 Thread L e a n d r o S a l e s
Hi! I'm using Debian woody(unstable version) and I'm trying to install XFree86 4.3. I downloaded Xinstall.sh and run: # sh Xinstall sh -check Checking which OS you're running... uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.18', architecture 'i686' Object format is 'ELF'. libc version is '6.3.2' (6.3).

Re: *** xf86BiosREAD, IA64, Multi-card Init ***

2003-08-27 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 27 Aug 2003, John Dennis wrote: Mark, is there a hardware engineer at nvidia that would be familar with the VGA timing? Is it possible your VGA is running near or beyond the limits of the PCI timing requirements? My understanding is the ZX1 is a very aggressive chipset tuned for high