Hans Mittendorf wrote (in a message from Monday 13)
Hello,
Installing X11 on a Mac under OS 10.2.3 gave a problem related to typing
inside xterm from a french keyboard. For typing m¹ I have ;¹.
Changing keyboard to US via software, does not change anything. Therefore,
my question:
Mike A. Harris wrote (in a message from Monday 13)
I'd be interested also in hearing feedback and comments from
Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Caldera, and other Linux and BSD distribution XFree86
package maintainers, and other developers also. I've talked
Wayne Gowcher wrote (in a message from Wednesday 15)
Can anyone tell me why dlopen is trying to resolve the
sysmbols LgProbe and AlpProbe when module
cirrus_drv.so is loaded ?
Is it a problem with my compile ?
With dlopen ?
Any hints greatly appreciated.
Please note if I
Keith Packard wrote (in a message from Wednesday 19)
Around 15 o'clock on Feb 19, Stuart Anderson wrote:
This approach strikes me as being inherently non-portable wrt the module ABI.
setjmp/longjmp are too system specific to be used in modules.
Yes, they are rather system specific,
Daniel Albuschat wrote (in a message from Monday 24)
Could someone tell me how I can recompile
the the radeon_drv.o from my xfree source tree after
I made my changes (what i have actually done already)?
Start by reading http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/BUILD.html which
contains some
host.defs :-) .
Could you submit this report to the XFre86 bugzilla, so that we don't
forget
to look at this and hopefully fix it ? Parallel builds have beed mostly
tested
using GNU make on linux. Having them work with BSD make is a good thing.
Matthieu Herrb
Frank Liu wrote (in a message from Monday 31)
I am trying to enable building shared lib for libXau, but got
an error:
...
gcc -o ./libXau.so.6.0~ -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
-Wl,-soname,libXau.so.6 AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o
AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o
Matthieu Herrb wrote (in a message from Thursday 3)
CVSROOT: /home/x-cvs
Module name: xc
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/03 13:48:25
Log message:
Document that mode switching functions are asynchronous and that
XSetErrorHandler() and XSync() need to be used to get
DaemonSerj wrote (in a message from Saturday 5)
Hi!
I have a special pointer-type device and need to implement
functionality like mouse.
Its work through COM port ,but it have own internal
protocol and specific hardware.
How to start?
Write a new input driver for your device.
Hi,
I've attached a proposed patch to Bugzilla #306. Please review and
comment. I may have missed something important...
Matthieu
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Alexander Stohr wrote (in a message from Saturday 12)
i am seeing constructs like this at
several locations of the XFree86 sources:
*.h:
extern char *Xpermalloc(
#if NeedFunctionPrototypes
unsingend int /* size */
#endif
);
*.c:
char *Xpermalloc(unsigned
Robert wrote (in a message from Sunday 15)
Brad Hards schrieb:
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Hash: SHA1
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:57 pm, Jason Kim wrote:
Has anyone developed keyboard driver for X ? Or does anyone know current
situation?
XFree86 4.x has
Hi,
Currently fonttosfnt doesn't compile on NetBSD, OpenBSD or Mac OS
X (and probably others) because it depends on byteswap.h which is a
linuxism.
I've created Bugzilla #433 with a proposed patch.
Matthieu
mnicolet wrote (in a message from Tuesday 8)
May be this question is not strictly suited to this list, but I see lots of
people contributing from lots of different platforms.
The question regards to stack space management under different platforms, or
execution models.
Under my preferred
Alexander Pohoyda wrote (in a message from Monday 7)
Does not really deserves a Bugzilla report (1K):
http://www.alexander-pohoyda.privat.t-online.de/patches/twm.Imakefile.diff
Can you elaborate on why is it useful to switch from single quote
quoting to backslashes?
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote (in a message from Monday 21)
This is with RedHat 6.2.
The latest IPv6 fixes allow X to compile, but remote connections
no longer work on a machione without IPv6 configured.
I've recompiled with XTRANSDEBUG set high (5 I think):
% xbiff -display localhost:0
---BeginMessage---
(todd and matthieu, if this does not go through please forward it)
I wasn't suggesting to use it on Linux. My suggestion was to revert to
using a single socket on all platforms and use the above code to enable
accepting IPv4 connections on *BSD.
there is
Here's a patch to allow multiple '-nolisten' options on the command
line. To disable both IPv4 and IPv6 transports, one needs to say:
X -nolisten tcp -nolisten inet6
I'll add a documentation patch too later.
Index: xc/programs/Xserver/include/os.h
Keith Packard wrote (in a message from Wednesday 23)
While supporting multiple -nolisten arguments is good, I suggest that the
current '-nolisten tcp' should include both inet4 and inet6 tcp options;
most people use '-nolisten tcp' to avoid exposing an open port to the X
server to the
I wrote (in a message from Sunday 27)
Keith Packard wrote (in a message from Wednesday 23)
While supporting multiple -nolisten arguments is good, I suggest that the
current '-nolisten tcp' should include both inet4 and inet6 tcp options;
most people use '-nolisten tcp' to avoid
On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 08:58 Europe/Paris, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
Ar an 4ú lá de mí 8, scríobh George Georgalis :
It works great, even if I kill X it comes back up, but it still
listens
on 6000. I find this odd, maybe I need to invoke it with Xfree86,
not X?
Hmm, that shouldn't make a
Hi,
when building the latest XFree86 on Mac OS 10.2.4, I get link errors. A
first one is easily fixed by the attached patch, but XDarwinApp also
fails to link with the following error for which I can't find the
missing code...
making all in programs/Xserver/miext/rootless...
make[4]: Nothing to
I wrote (in a message from Friday 5)
inter-dependencies are both good and bad.
It's a good thing to list them at build time, It helps finding some
kind of conflicts.
OTOH, one should not rely on them to prune the list of libraries used
to link an executable. First, this will break on
David Dawes wrote (in a message from Monday 8)
When building on FreeBSD 4.4 I'm getting the following warnings:
The sa_len and sin_len fields are defined on this platform as u_char,
while SOCKLEN_TYPE is defined as unsigned int. This looks like a
potential problem given that the (u_char
Warren Turkal wrote (in a message from Tuesday 9)
When ansifying from KR code, which order should the arguments come in?
KR code:
int
blah(x, y)
float y;
int x;
{ ... }
Does the KR code go to (1) or (2)?
(1)
int
blah(int x, float y)
{ ... }
(2)
int
Thomas Dickey wrote (in a message from Tuesday 9)
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Warren Turkal wrote:
-#if NeedFunctionPrototypes
-extern void scale_init(void);
-extern char *nscale(int, int, int, char *);
while I'm perfectly aware that extern is redundant, there are two things
to be said
Kean Johnston wrote (in a message from Wednesday 10)
All,
With the relaxing of US export restrictions is there any reason why
Wraphelp.c isn't provided by default?
Last time I checked, I was told DES is still restricted for
exportation from the US to a list of countries like North
Alex Constantine wrote (in a message from Sunday 14)
I would like to participate
Well there are many ways to participate, depending on your level of
knowledge about X in general, the XFree86 server and other related
topics.
You can contribute by developing code, testing existing code and
Hi,
It seems to me that the C langage version of ucs2any.pl developped by
Ben Collver and other NetBSD developpers is now stable enough to be
included in XFree86.
I've put a patch against the current XFree86 CVS version at
http://www.xfree86.org/~herrb/ucs2any.diffs for those who'd like to
David Dawes wrote (in a message from Friday 19)
If it does need to be done in the includes phase, for example, because
a host version of ucs2any is needed to do the conversion when
cross-compliling, but a target version of ucs2any needs to get built
later for installation,
After
Chaitanya Chaitanya wrote (in a message from Sunday 21)
i want to be a XFree86 developer
But how ?
You should start by checking the mailing list archives... This
question was asked exactly one week ago.
Egbert Eich answered:
Please check out this:
Ian Romanick wrote (in a message from Monday 22)
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
Can we export to the drivers some function that yields the CPU?
Currently alot of drivers burn the CPU waiting for fifos, etc...
usleep(0) is not good for this because it's jiffy based and usually
never
OK ?
Index: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga_driver.c
===
RCS file: /home/x-cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga_driver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.237
diff -u -r1.237 mga_driver.c
---
jassi brar wrote (in a message from 26)
Dear all,
I m working on porting the X11 onto an embedded environment.
The regular XFree86 is obviously MUCH MORE than needed. I need
some trimmed version of XFree86 for embedded linux(mizi), that
too under GPL(i can't buy any comercial
Index: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h
===
RCS file: /cvs/xf86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h,v
retrieving revision 1.152
diff -u -r1.152 xf86PciInfo.h
---
Matthieu Herrb wrote (in a message from Tuesday April 1)
Frank Liu wrote (in a message from Monday 31)
I am trying to enable building shared lib for libXau, but got
an error:
...
gcc -o ./libXau.so.6.0~ -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib
-Wl,-soname,libXau.so.6 AuDispose.o
Frank Liu wrote (in a message from Tuesday Apr 1)
more errors while final linking of XFree86, Xprt, Xnest, etc.
eg:
...
os/libos.a(auth.o): In function `LoadAuthorization':
auth.o(.text+0x126): undefined reference to `XauDisposeAuth'
auth.o(.text+0x135): undefined reference to
Matthias Scheler wrote (in a message from Friday 24)
Hello,
even after the recent changes to XFree86-current libGLw, libXau and
libXdmcp are still not built shared. I've got a report that this
causes problem with certain 3rd party applications which try to build
shared objects
Torrey Lyons wrote (in a message from Monday 27)
The following revision to
xc/extras/freetype2/builds/unix/freetype-config.in is XFree86
specific and not in the Freetype tree:
revision 1.2
date: 2003/05/05 16:12:27; author: dawes; state: Exp; lines: +29 -15
159. Make
Torrey Lyons wrote (in a message from Saturday 25)
The issue on Mac OS X is that most shared libraries want to be built
as two-level namespace images. Two-level namespace images have
significant advantages in loading speed, but they require that they
have no unresolved symbols when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in a message from Tuesday 28)
What are the state of implementation of kerberos support in X?
I try to compile X with flag
HasKrb5 YES
I'd say that it's basically unsupported. I don't think any X
developper is currently using kerberos.
The kerberos IV
Matthieu Herrb wrote (in a message from Tuesday 28)
Unfortunately, -R is not a recognized option to ld on Darwin and
perhaps other platforms as well. This should be conditionalized in
some way. My configure-foo is fairly weak, but it appears
Hi,
while building -current XFree86 on Panther I get the following error:
/usr/bin/gcc-3.3 -o glxinfo -Os -Wall -Wpointer-arith -no-cpp-precomp
-L../../exports/lib glxinfo.o -lGLU -lGL -lXext -lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
ld: warning can't open dynamic library:
Hi,
in order to fix the core dump described in bugzilla #902
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902, I need help to
understand the ICE auth specification.
My understanding is that at least 3 fields (protocol name, netid and
auth_name) cannot be of 0 length in an entry stored in a valid
David Dawes wrote (in a message from Thursday 27)
Incidentally related to this is another problem I've run in to. Old
FreeBSD X apps, that use a version of libc without IPv6 support, crash
when run on a recent system when trying to connect to a remote display
when using our newly built
A related problem is that I was not able to connect to a v4 only X
server running on a machine which happens to have a DNS record,
from a NetBSD or OpenBSD host with IPv6 configured.
The following patch fixes that:
Index: xc/lib/xtrans/Xtranssock.c
xian xue wrote (in a message from Tuesday 2)
Dear,
I download xfree86-4.3.99-16 and compile it on a
Athlon XP pc with an alsa geforce4 mx440 video card.
System -- debian testing no X installed
Gcc -- Gcc3.3.2
commandline: $make World world.log
Error:
The world log say at
Marc Aurele La France wrote (in a message from Wednesday 3)
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Harald Nordgård-Hansen wrote:
Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Log message:
An improved implementation of ...
573. Rework REGION_* macros to eliminate NEED_SCREEN_REGIONS
Robert Millan wrote (in a message from Friday Nov 21)
--- xc/config/cf.old/Imake.cf2003-11-20 23:45:05.0 +0100
+++ xc/config/cf/Imake.cf2003-11-21 00:13:21.0 +0100
@@ -177,6 +177,11 @@
# endif /* __hppa__ */
#endif /* OpenBSD */
+/* Systems based on
I need the attached patch to build the latest via driver on platforms
without DRI. But this raises the question: shouldn't XFREE_44 be
defined for this driver ?
Index: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/via/via_memory.c
===
RCS
Warren Turkal wrote (in a message from Saturday 20)
The uint32_t in xc/programs/xdm/genauth.c doesn't compile on my computer. It
appears that stdint.h needs to be included somewhere (most likely Xos.h),
but it is not. It appears that uint32_t was changed from u_int32_t in some
SCO fixes. I
I wrote (in a message from Saturday 20)
Warren Turkal wrote (in a message from Saturday 20)
The uint32_t in xc/programs/xdm/genauth.c doesn't compile on my computer. It
appears that stdint.h needs to be included somewhere (most likely Xos.h),
but it is not. It appears that uint32_t
Kean Johnston wrote (in a message from Sunday 21)
I think you're right here. Since we can't assume that every platform
on which XFree86 is built has C99 types and that there's no previous
art of using uint32_t instead of the older u_int32_t in the XFree86
tree, the SCO diff should be
Kean Johnston wrote (in a message from Sunday 21)
We settled down for using CARD32 for now.
Mmmm ok. I just finished taking a closer look at where the variable was
being used and it is more appropriate to use unsigned int. The two
functions that it is calling above are both prototyped
Hi,
The process that builds XFree86 manual pages needs cpp -traditional
when GNU cpp is used.
I'd propose to apply the following patch do darwin.cf.
Index: darwin.cf
===
RCS file: /cvs/xf86/xc/config/cf/darwin.cf,v
retrieving
Ok?
Index: via_driver.c
===
RCS file: /home/x-cvs/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/via/via_driver.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 via_driver.c
--- via_driver.c24 Dec 2003 02:36:46 - 1.18
+++
Mario Klebsch wrote (in a message from Tuesday 30)
Hi!
I tried your fix of the call to XdmcpFlush() and it works for me. Thank
you.
Unfortunately, the -broadcast flag still does not work. The X server
sends the XDMCP queries to its own IP address instead of using the
networks
I removed the HasGetIfAddrs definition from darwin.cf again and tried a
different aproach to solve the XDMCP problem. I reordered the
connections in a way that connections of the same type as the XDMCP
manager connection are send first. And it worked. :-)
Thanks, I've commited this
Ross Boylan wrote (in a message from Thursday 1)
I'm interested in building xterm for debugging on a system that
already has a full install of XFree 4.2.1 (Debian GNU/Linux). I
realize most of you are probably thinking about newer versions of
XFree, but I'm hoping someone might have some
Pavel Troller wrote (in a message from Saturday 3)
Hello, dear XF86 developers,
first of all, happy New Year to all of You and to the XF86 project!
And now, the problem:
I cannot compile CVS from about 2.1.2004 up. Formerly it compiled perfectly
(about 20.12.). The problem
Sven Köhler wrote (in a message from Monday 5)
Hi,
i want to write a keyboard-layout or keymap that ignores any key. the
problem is, that i don't find any documentation on how to write such
files or which commands are available.
you may also have a better idea how to disbale the
David Dawes wrote (in a message from Thursday 8)
I need to make a correction to that. While I could have sworn that it was
the default on all platforms, it is only the default on a few platforms
(including Linux though).
I think it should be the default everywhere. Something like
Hi,
I'd like to focus attention of application developpers on one of the X
server feature that will become more used in the near future: the
XSecurity extension which create the possibility of using 'xauth
generate' to dynamically create xauth cookies.
By default clients connecting with these
Suresh Chandra Mannava wrote (in a message from Friday 23)
Dear Friends,
I am encountering the following error while Installing
the build of XFree86 TinyX.
I cross compiled X with Abacus compiler (India build
processor)
make[3]: Entering directory
David Dawes wrote (in a message from Saturday 24)
Does NetBSD have an ld.so cache/hints mechanism like Linux and
FreeBSD?
NetBSD has /etc/ld.so.conf. But it's default setup doesn't include
/usr/X11R6/lib.
Or is the search order different on NetBSD? What about OpenBSD?
OpenBSD adds
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote (in a message from Sunday 15)
The licence updates to xf86PciInfo.h haven't patched cleanly, and
are mis-commented, breaking the build. The attached patch fixes this.
--
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86cfg/config.h is also broken;
Both problems have
dave wrote:
Hi my driver need some system include files in it so I can use the flowing
functions
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include sys/ioctl.h
#include fcntl.h
#include unistd.h
open()
ioctl()
close()
but the X server design book says all modules (my driver is static) must NOT
Hi,
While working on OpenBSD/amd64 support for XFree86, I found out that the
C preprocessor symbol for AMD64 machines was changed from __x86_64__ to
__AMD64__. But looking at what gcc defines on different AMD63 systems
(*BSD, Linux), it looks __AMD64__ is never used. Generally __amd64__ is
Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
It seems that originally there were plans to have two distinct sockets that
were abandonned in the middle. Maybe that ought to be cleaned up (fairly
trivial mods in xdmcp.c, just excise chooserFd6).
Since Alan
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Hi,
has someone managed to get the 3dfx driver work on a Pegasos II under
Linux (or OpenBSD)?
Out of the box, it fails because apparently the PCI BIOS is not mapping
the PIO registers (or XFree86 can't find them):
(EE) TDFX(0): No valid PIO address in PCI config space.
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
I've recently upgraded my Red Hat 6.2 machine to Red Hat 9
(yes that is a bit long in the tooth too).
I now find that cvsup fails with the message
***
*** runtime error:
***Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL0
***
use option
Scott, Thomas wrote:
I know that you can press Ctrl-Alt-Plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus to
dynamically switch your configured screen resolutions at runtime.
Therefore, I assume there is some API call that accomplishes this task.
Does anyone know what it is? Please provide an example of use if you
Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
Just want to confirm something,
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Io.c,v 3.58 has had
GetTimeInMillis() removed from it, the commit message doesn't
say anything specific about it but is the copy of GetTimeInMillis()
from libos.a the one that linked into the XFree86
Hi,
several users have reported crashes with xterm on OpenBSD with
/etc/malloc.conf pointing to 'J' (fill allocated areas with junk).
After some debugging, it appears that the following patch is needed to
fix that.
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Index: button.c
Use bugzilla : http://bugzilla.xfree86.org/
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about this? On sparc64 this leads to firefox
occasionally crashing the Xserver and I'm pretty sure it would affect
other 64bit architectures as well.
have fun
Michael
FYI, this is the same problem as:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=3095
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Hello,
FYI, this is the same problem as:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=3095
Indeed. Is this considered the 'canonical' fix by the Xrender guys?
No. I'm still waiting on feedback on this.
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and libXt minor revision numbers should be incremented when
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