Re: XFree86 driver

2007-06-11 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Pankaj S wrote: Thanks, Marc. Is there no way in which socket() system call and other socket related API be implemented in a XFree86 input driver? When I try to implement the same, while loading the driver module the XFree86 module loader gives Unresolved symbol for each of

xc/programs/mkcfm/cidchar.c doesn't compile

2006-12-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
`CIDsize' cidchar.c:348: structure has no member named `CIDsize' cidchar.c:360: structure has no member named `CIDsize' make: *** [cidchar.o] Error 1 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: make World failure? on distclean in tinyx dirs

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:22:33AM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I've been forgetting to report this for a while. It started happening around the 2nd September. I run make WORLDOPTS=-k World and all (I think) the tinyx directories report

make World failure? on distclean in tinyx dirs

2006-10-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
I've been forgetting to report this for a while. It started happening around the 2nd September. I run make WORLDOPTS=-k World and all (I think) the tinyx directories report problems with make target distclean. This is RedHat Linux. I'm not expliciting building TinyX. make[4]: Entering

Re: disable probing I/O devices

2006-09-13 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, dmitry pervushin wrote: Hello all , For a project I'm working on, I need to turn off probing for input devices in Xfbdev (because it interferes with other software that uses serial port, I/O devices such as IrDA/modems). After looking to maillist archives, I found no

CVS - Re: Third 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-04-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, David Dawes wrote: The third release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available. The source tarball can be found at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.903.tar.bz2 Please report problems/success, etc here. Could you push an early update of

[XFree86] CVS - Re: Third 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-04-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, David Dawes wrote: The third release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available. The source tarball can be found at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.903.tar.bz2 Please report problems/success, etc here. Could you push an early update of

Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-03-28 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:22:51AM +0100, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: While looking into this, I did find a bug in fontconfig where memory could get freed twice. I don't see the same symptoms, but this problem

make install fails

2006-03-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/XFree86/4.2/std/xc/programs/xterm' install -c `if [ \`grep ^utmp: /etc/group\` ]; then echo ' -m 2755 -g utmp'; else echo ' -m 4711'; fi` xterm /usr/X11R6-v4/bin/xterm install: installing multiple files, but last argument, `/usr/X11R6-v4/bin/xterm' is not a

Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-03-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: While looking into this, I did find a bug in fontconfig where memory could get freed twice. I don't see the same symptoms, but this problem does happen in code paths that get used when slanting a font. I'm committing the patch now. Let me know if it

Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-03-22 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available. The source tarball can be found at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2 This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this

[XFree86] Re: Second 4.6.0 release candidate

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, David Dawes wrote: The second release candidate for XFree86 4.6.0 is now available. The source tarball can be found at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/develsnaps/XFree86-4.5.99.902.tar.bz2 This version marks the beginning of the intensive testing phase for this

Re: HOW run the gtk application on Xserver ?

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, [gb2312] �� wrote: hi, I have builded the x86 and the server binary file is Xfbdev, when I run it , the screen is only a x in the midle, I wonder how the gtk application can run? Does the X move when you move the mouse ? Sounds like you are running the X

Re: Fwd: Re: how to attach windows' ids?

2005-12-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, chinlu chinawa wrote: Forgot to say I was looking at the on-line docs @ http://www.xfree86.org/current before yesterday, and found many of the html docs are not redeable, you cannot see carriage returns at the beginning in some of them. Sorry, my mistake, it was

Re: Fwd: Re: how to attach windows' ids?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, chinlu chinawa wrote: Forgot to say I was looking at the on-line docs @ http://www.xfree86.org/current before yesterday, and found many of the html docs are not redeable, you cannot see carriage returns at the beginning in some of them. The pages I've tried look fine to

Re: How to turn off the hardware mouse rendering?

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, [gb2312] Daniel(��) wrote: I want to snap a desktop include the mouse pointer. However, the common tools and functions can not capture a windows image include mouse. I think it's because the mouse is not draw by Graphic Card and is not put to the color buffer. So how

Re: Multiple Xv overlays cause blue flashing

2005-11-17 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Smoof . wrote: I should have mentioned earlier that for this project I can specify any video card I want. So if someone has a suggestion of what would be the best video card for this type of application please let me know. My Matrox G550 reports: # xvinfo X-Video

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2005-10-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Stefan Strobl wrote: There are some more messages which I'm not able to capture. Logging to a file didn't work. After restarting the file's empty... How hard is the restart - power button, or just ctrl-alt-delete (or ctrl-alt-f1, ctrl-alt-delete) ? When working with

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2005-10-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Stefan Strobl wrote: Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Stefan Strobl wrote: There are some more messages which I'm not able to capture. Logging to a file didn't work. After restarting the file's empty... How hard is the restart - power

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2005-10-25 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. I've no binary called XFree86. When executing XF86_SVGA, that's the server I want to use, Is this XFree86 v3 or v4 ? I think XF86_SVGA went out with v3, which was about 6 years ago (and more like 8 for developers). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL

Re: Wire protocol for X

2005-10-13 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Eddy Hahn wrote: I'm in the process to design a system that will traclate wire level protocol from X Windows to RDP. So, you an hook up a PC or a dumb (brick) terminal using RDP to a Linux/Unix system. For that, I need the wire protocol. Can someone help me to find it

Re: scripts that run when we type startx

2005-09-02 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Karthik Ramamoorthy wrote: I need to execute my program when Xserver is loaded( ie when we type startx from text mode). So can anybody specify the shell script into which i can incorporate my executable, so that whenever Xserver is loaded my application also runs during

Re: Newbie wants to volunteer for XFree86 Development

2005-08-26 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Redefined Horizons wrote: I would like to offer my assistance with the development of XFree86. I am fairly new to Linux, but I have experience programming in Java and LISP. I am currently learning C, C++, Assembly Language Programming and digital electronics. I would

Re: Query mouse events from other Windows/Screens

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, George Liu wrote: I would like to write an application that would collect mouse events (Button Press/Release) among all windows/screens in the same desktop, and display the event info on a dedicated window. I used the following two methods but none worked. Your help is

Re: xrandr not working in Dual Monitor

2005-06-29 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Karthik Ramamoorthy wrote: Hi, xrandr is not working in my Dual Mnitor setup. In my /etc/X11XF86Config file. it i disable Xinerama then xrandr is working properly. But my Dual Configuration is not working properly. And if i enable Xinerama then xrandr is not

Re: can we change desktop size

2005-06-29 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Karthik Ramamoorthy wrote: I used some API(XF86VidSwitchMode) to change the resolution of the Monitor, but its nto changing the size of the Desktop. So know i am in serach of some API to change the Desktop size. So if anybody has some idea or know API to

Re: magictouch touch screen driver

2005-05-28 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
a way to get the equivalent information from within the server. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Tablet PC support

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hardware is a rugged Tablet Pc which I use for navigation, communication control and other functions at sea and as a mobile computer when in port. I would like to be able to run an **ix OS on this hardware. This Tablet is manufactured by Itronix

Problems with xf86Globals.c

2005-03-05 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Apple cinema display 20 / 1680x1050

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, vng2k wrote: Hi I am trying to config my apple cinema display on Fedora Core 3. I tried to config the xorg.conf file and add the below line to the monitor section: ModeLine 1600x1024 108.0 1600 1616 1656 1704 1024 1027 1030 1056 -hsync -vsync -csync The screen

Re: DRM kernel source broken/incomplete

2005-02-08 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
hope that the DRM could have a static binary interface to either the kernel or the X server ? (I guess that a moving kernel puts the former outside the control of the DRM project ?) -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

drm uses revpath before we had built it

2005-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
]: *** [includes] Error 1 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: DRI on i810

2005-01-31 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
the i810 DRM module ? makefile.linux seems to have disappeared. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http://XFree86.Org

Re: dixsym.c:353: `LogTypeToTxt' undeclared

2005-01-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
an announcement like that before I see it in my overnight CVS update. Would it add significantly to the load on anoncvs.xfree86.org if it were synced two, three or four times a day ? Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list Devel@XFree86.Org http

Re: undefined reference to `pciWriteWprd'

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
]: *** [scanpci] Error 1 make[6]: Leaving directory `/v6/src2/xfree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc' make[5]: *** [all] Error 2 Patch attached. Still building, so this may not be a complete fix. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL

GLX/DRI changes break make World

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
The recent GLX/DRI changes break make World. The first error is making all in lib/GL/mesa/drivers/dri/gamma... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/XFree86/4.2/std/xc/lib/GL/mesa/drivers/dri/gamma' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../../../../../../lib/GL/dri/dri_util.o', needed by

Re: mga and DVI

2004-12-17 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Huver wrote: This is a question about the mga driver (for Matrox cards), parties not interested in this topic, please kindly skip... :-) There have been many folks (myself included) finding problems with the mga HAL, in particular, when using DVI. My case: G550, and a

Re: finding all windows belonging to an application

2004-11-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Grant Wallace wrote: Hi, I'm working on modifications to VNC server to share individual applications. One thing I'm wondering about is how do I find all windows which belong to the same application. Are there any clues in the xlsclients code ?

Re: Added Pseudocolor Visuals for XFree86?

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
don't think anyone has asked for 12bit before. We do have 10bit support in the glint driver, but that is the width of the DAC, not the length of the palette. The Matrox Parhelia also has 10bit dacs; I don't know whether they have a closed driver that does what you need. -- Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: How do I debug modules/drivers symbolically in the X server?

2004-09-24 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules at the gdb prompt to indicate where to get the modules from. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL

Maven on G550 - was Re: Matrox G550 true dual-dvi problem

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Klaus Dittrich wrote: I put all noDDC options in the server flags and in both monitor options as well. But nothing helped, the hangs still happen. According to the log file (excerpt appended) the module DDC is loaded and I2C bus DDC P1 is initialized _before_ the

Re: Matrox G550 true dual-dvi problem

2004-09-22 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
Option noDDC1 Option noDDC2 -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: UseFBDev makes X-display in several wide bars, each 110 degree rotated, unusable

2004-09-16 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
of it, the XFree86 radeon driver only support hardware 3D/GL/DRI for older Radeon cards; maybe that is what Philipp Klaus Krause meant ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: Writing a Serial-Port-Graphics-Driver

2004-09-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Hagen Fritsch wrote: Hello, i just got an old 386 pc with a greyscale display. Since there is no hard-disk and floppy has a little to less space for linux with an x-server, it uses ms-dos. Terminal emulation over the serial console works fine, so i thought there must

Re: keymap submission

2004-08-29 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Zaeem Arshad wrote: Hi all, I have developed an urdu keymap for XFree86 that allows urdu typing. WE have been testing it for 4 months and are using it to localize many GPL software. Kindly tell me how can i submit this urdu keyboard patch so that it can be integrated

tinyx breaks build on RedHat 6.2

2004-07-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
more widely throughout tinyx Any ideas how more modern compilers/libcs avoid this problem ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: How the screen to be Rotate 90deg

2004-07-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, so it might do rotation there). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: cvs compile failed

2004-06-28 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Jeff Chua wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, David Dawes wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:24:54AM +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I'll fix xfree86.cf to turn XItsyServer off by default. I expect that the tinyx/itsy ought to be removed. Davids wrote that, not me. CVS

Re: cvs compile failed

2004-06-28 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: CVS compile works for me since this change revision 3.479 date: 2004/06/23 16:58:39; author: dawes; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Turn XItsyServer off by default (it doesn't build). in xc/config/cf/xfree86.cf You probably need

Re: Adding DMX to XFree86

2004-06-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
GLX from remote machines independent of DMX ? If so GLX Proxy seems desireable on its own account. (I have nothing against DMX, just remote GLX is something I've wished for for nearly a decade). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: cvs compile failed

2004-06-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Matrox I2C patch

2004-06-12 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Ryan Underwood wrote: I have two bugs open on the mga driver that I'd like some feedback on: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098 bugs.xfree86.org seems to be down right now, but I've dug out my G400DH and will try this outr when it comes back online. This is

Re: Reengineering X applications

2004-05-31 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
Suresh asked: Has anyone come across X applications re-engineered for low bandwidth networks, This in the context of thin clients. On Mon, 31 May 2004, Suresh clarified: Latency is not an issue, I am looking at a deployment where I have a 1MBPS upstream and 6MBPS downstream bandwidth,

Re: radeon driver breaking LCD brightness control?

2004-05-14 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 13 May 2004, John Belmonte wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: It probably is the radeon driver. Unfortunately, xfree86 and it's drivers have no knowledge of acpi at the moment. probably some acpi related regs do not get properly saved by the server. Can you suggest how I might get to

Re: i2c bus and/or DDC control

2004-04-29 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
to put into a control API. (Google shows no hits for SoftDDC). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org

Re: Traffic Shaping between 2 devices

2004-04-28 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
instinct is that X will not react very well to that. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: XServer and TV

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Henry Berg =?iso-8859-1?q? wrote: (I posted this first to XFree86 list, but I got no answer. I think this is the right forum.) I have made a little

Re: XServer and TV

2004-04-22 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
used by the XVideo extension only does *up*scaling). This would give you more lines, but the detail would be lost (that is the price of losing the flicker). It is also possible that the blits would tear with the interlacing, causing flicker when the image changed. -- Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: [idea] bluetooth-enabled phone device keyboard/mouse driver

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i have an XDA-2 phone and have just recently managed to get the touchscreen driver working (sort-of) and also managed to get a basic framebuffer running. xtiny-fbdev works absolutely fine. anyway, i would like to be able to make

Re: XAA2 namespace?

2004-04-07 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
... Are these undesirable changes related to XFree86 or to X in general ? If they relate to X in general, what are they ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list

Re: function definition isn't a prototype

2004-04-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
. Thanks for offering to help. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: vesa probe is inadequate

2004-03-29 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
? Are we missing something else, like a difference between direct and indexed colours ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: how to convert a window ID to a linux process ID?

2004-03-24 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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 ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multiple Monitors

2004-03-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3 -configure problems

2004-02-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Andrew C. Aitchison

Re: Problems with RC3

2004-02-23 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Andrew C. Aitchison

broken xf86PciInfo.h and xf86cfg/config.h

2004-02-15 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
rindex #include strings.h #endif #include unistd.h 1.20 I'm not clear which version we wish to keep. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna Index: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86PciInfo.h

Re: Display Manager communication

2004-02-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
protocol for window manager - client communications, but I'd be suprised if it supported authentication. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: does XFree86 need kernel framebuffer support?

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
, if the BIOS allocates enough memory to the graphics unit. Since you are on a custom platform that may or may not help you. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing

Re: does XFree86 need kernel framebuffer support?

2004-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
. 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 are faster than kernel framebuffer support in most cases. -- Andrew C. Aitchison

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

2004-02-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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

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

2004-02-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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

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

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
, for one developer at least, the reason there has been no traffic from fbdev to XFree86 is *directly* because of the licence issue. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel

Re: libXinerama

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
, Xi, fd.o, or any other vendor's X libraries. -- Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Status?

2004-01-27 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
, 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 working on isn't a problem. -- Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Question regarding dual headed machines with two keyboards and two mice

2004-01-16 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: GLX Overlay Visuals

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: 4.3.99.902

2003-12-22 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Andrew C Aitchison

Re: [PATCH] Radeon Xv gamma support

2003-12-20 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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

Re: [PATCH] Radeon Xv gamma support

2003-12-20 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
gamma, or one for each channel. If we don't allow separate channels now, we will only need to add the option later. Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mozilla assumes unassigned chars in iso10646-1 FreeType fonts as assigned with XF4.4.0 trunk

2003-12-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
metrics. If you have one of these, the algorithm you describe wont help :-( -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Aiptek driver doesn't build on Red Hat 6.2

2003-12-11 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
enough). -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Mailing list structure

2003-12-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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 change my mind. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Cambridge

RE: Rappel pour les abonnements aux listes sur udius.com

2003-12-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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RE: FW: RE: [Bug 537] wacom usb tablet uses wrong screen borders

2003-11-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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 ... -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

[XFree86] Re: Matrox G550 with one DVI, 1 CRT

2003-11-26 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, then rerun redhat GUI to configure second monitor. 3. Plug in both monitors, cut n paste each monitor configs from individual files, and add the bits necessary for dual head to my xfree86config. does this sound like a good plan for a no-brainer like myself ? Seems worth a try. -- Dr. Andrew C

Re: 2D Acceleration not used using ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x

2003-11-17 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer

Fix for dri_util.o

2003-11-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
is defined in xc/extras/Mesa/include/GL/glxext.h Feel free to use a different reordering; I've only tested this on RedHat 6.2 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna Index: xc/lib/GL/dri/dri_util.c

Re: Alan H's new linear allocator and Neomagic Xv

2003-10-30 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
to look at. 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. -- Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Capturing events from the root window

2003-10-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
/doc/specs/Xext/record.ms xc/doc/specs/Xext/recordlib.ms Don't know whether it will help you at all. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel

Re: How to render multiple cursors?

2003-10-09 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
. -- Andrew C Aitchison ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Detecting Monitor mode from AutoConfig

2003-10-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
window property; usually XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA, which can be printed out with: xprop -display $DISPLAY -root 0x XFree86_DDC_EDID1_RAWDATA -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

Re: mulitple pointers

2003-10-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
, 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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debugging XFree86 on a single machine

2003-10-02 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
from a second machine is usually less hassle. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo

Re: pkg-config support for libs

2003-09-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
into /usr/lib/pkgconfig ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman

Linking Xprt, Xnest and Xvfb fails - undefined reference to `xf86Msg'

2003-09-07 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [Xvfb] Error 1 -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Dual-head without XINERAMA ?

2003-09-07 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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 is that any use ? -- Andrew C. Aitchison

Config options - was Re: DPI with multiple heads ...

2003-09-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
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

Re: DPI with multiple heads and virtual desktops

2003-08-20 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
occur if the window was allowed to move between screens. * Ignoring ctlalt+/- mode changes. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Devel mailing list

Re: SiliconMotion Rotation

2003-08-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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. -- Dr. Andrew C

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