I'm not sure if I should report this here, but I experience some problems with
KDM. I don't know if this is the right place to go, but it was mentioned in
the xdm.log file to report it here.
Lately I very often have the problem, that KDM dies when I log out after a
session. The only things I
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:18:55 +, M Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To the best of my knowledge XFree86 4.3.0 supports all Radeon cards.
Yes, but not 3D.
XFree86 only provides 2D, for 3D acceleration (which is OpenGL not
X11) you need to get the ATI binary drivers from ATI's website. Because
I have a Asus Radeon 9800XT and everything I tried so far, to get 3D
acceleration working, failed. Now I wonder if
there is the chance that XFree will support this card with 3D natiively any
time soon. All the success stories I
found were with 9800PRO and the only guy, I found with the XT model,
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:16:01 +0100, wim delvaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 11 December 2003 00:48, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:39:57 +0100, wim delvaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The closed source drivers on the ATI website
I tried them, but no success. But I
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:47:27 +0100, wim delvaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't seen this posting. ???
There is no general OEM barrier anymore.
It only was it was in early days where no one was sure
if drivers would work well on those boards.
It would be kind if you can you retry this
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:39:57 +0100, wim delvaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The closed source drivers on the ATI website
I tried them, but no success. But I think the problem is with KDE/OpenGL
because I managed to get at least the Desktop with Mesa working. Only when I
try to activate the ATI
I noticed that wine can crash the entire linux box. So what has that got to do
with X? :)
When I activate DGA and start wine the machine immediately crashes.
Kernel: 2.4.22 (from kernel.org unpatched)
CPU: Pentium4
XFree86: 4.3.0
Card: ATI Radeon 9800XT
Driver: fglrx 3.2.8
It could be that this
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:16:11 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
depends on distor and setup, sometimes there are standalone
Mesa packages and other times it is all merged into the XF86
libGL packages as the non-optional sofware renderer fallback.
I just found a posting in
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:14:10 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3D accel on r300 cards (9500 and up) is only supported by ati's binary
drivers.
Oh, well. So I wonder what I should do now. :( It's now a full week that I try
to find some info on how to enable that.
The ABI error
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:49:05 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like I said before: If you MB is 8x you will need to patch your 2.4
kernel with 8x support (or if you can set your BIOS to 4x only mode) or
use a 2.6 kernel. once you have that done you can just use the DRI
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:57:10 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how about a totally pure and simple XFree86?
this will launch an X-Server without any window manager.
shut it down with CTRL-ALT-Backspace if the mouse moves.
OK. Never thought of that.
On the other hand my desktop
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 18:57:10 +0100, Alexander Stohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how about a totally pure and simple XFree86?
this will launch an X-Server without any window manager.
shut it down with CTRL-ALT-Backspace if the mouse moves.
other attempt, try fvwm2, twm or GNOME window manager.
it
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:35:57 -0800 (PST), Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
run ldd on your glxgears or glxinfo executables and see which libGL it
is using.
It is using the ones from the driver. It uses libGL which points to a link
which is the drvier lib. I made a diff on the file which is
On ATIs website I was reading that as a developer for XFree (and probably
other graphics related stuff) you can sign an NDA and you will get all the
information you need. Now I wonder how this will fit in with Open Source.
When I sign this NDA then I wont be allowed to tell certain things to the
Thanks!
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Two days ago I got my Radeon 9800 XT and so I was forced to upgrade from Suse
8.0 Pro to 8.2.
Now my configuration is the following:
Kernel: 2.4.22 (from kernel.org not from Suse)
XFree86: 4.3.0
glibc: 2.3
I downloaded the drivers from ATI and I can insmod agpgart and fglrx, but when
I try to
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:37:18 -0500 (EST), Mike A. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are 2 completely different Nvidia video drivers:
Thanks. Now that is clear to me. There was some confusion on my part about the
relation between the two.
Also, whenever one does load kernel modules by hand,
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:50:57 -0500 (EST), Mike A. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong. Video mode switching is completely done within XFree86
itself, and does not involve the kernel at all. The video driver
directly programs the CRTC on the video card in some drivers, and
in other drivers,
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:48:47 -0400, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your statement confuses me. Maybe I miss your point, open source *does*
mean you can read the source code. (Maybe you meant to say it does not mean
that you can *only* read the source code?)
Well, there are two
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:49:28 +0100, Rafa? Rzepecki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why won't you check the open sourced XFree86 driver called 'nv'?
The only functionality it lacks is AFAIK OpenGL and XV acceleration,
and I don't think you would use these in a debugger.
That's what i do. Thanks.
Also
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:14:03 +0100, Rafa³ Rzepecki
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope that clears it up.
Yes. Thanks. I hoped that the XFree part would have been open source, but of
course that is a small hope. :)
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:36:52 -, Rob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
one way to do what you want (from kernel space) is to use the kernel
framebuffer driver for writing graphics, and use up one of the VT's for your
debugger, switching to that vt when doing, umm, whatever your doing
I know,
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:31:41 -0800, Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
nvidia.o is not a kernel module. It is just a dynamically loaded object
file that gets loaded by the XFree86 dynamic loader and called entirely in
user mode. It could have been done as an ordinary .so DLL, but the design
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:48:01 -0500 (EST), Mike A. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed. I think he is of the belief perhaps that an X driver
module is perhaps like an SVGAlib API you can use in arbitrary
programs perhaps including kernelspace, which of course isn't
true.
NO, I was not
I'm working on a kernel debugger which is similar to SoftICE on WIndows. I
would like to take advantage of the graphics mode when a user activates the
debugger under X and so I was investigating how to solve this. When I use
normal VGA mode it doesn't work on my card when I have X running while a
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:58:10 +, Torgeir Veimo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You would probably need to use an XFree86 extension. Look at the DGA
extension.
I don't want to use X itself. I need to use this functionality from within a
kernel module, so I don't want to rely on a user space
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:08:37 -0800, Tim Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The video driver is part of XFree86.
I don't think that this is neccessarily true, or is it? I don'tknow how it is
for other cards but in case of NVidia you have this kernel module nvidia.o
which you need to load and in the
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:55:08 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the raise will raise ontop of everything - BUt something may raise itself above
your window immediately afterwards too...
Bad luck. :)
inputonly windows are invisible windows. you can map,unmap, move,
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:21:15 +, Raymond Jennings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could fudge it if you have to. Monitor your window for configure
notify events, and poll the root window. Whenever there is information
How can I poll the root window? X sends me an XEvent when something
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 21:24:46 +, Raymond Jennings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
windows are visible (i.e. the X server will tell you that they exist, where
they are, etc), but you can only receive events related to windows that YOU
own.
I tried now to use that VisibilityNotify event but the
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:52:44 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
no. the wm - or any app can go raising windows above yours... you cant clock
windows in place to be on top as such. (ok we can argue of some nasty hacks and
methods if you are the wm... but thats a world
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:20:52 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
basically you are competing with the wm. you need to basically hack/modify/patch
and work WITH the wm to do what you want. you cant do it on your own. now your
solution will be wm specific.
So it this
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:18:31 + (GMT), Dr Andrew C Aitchison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that the RECORD extension is what people use for that sort of
Recording is not really what I need for my app, because I will only see the
events and can not prevent them from getting through to
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:51:07 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you willonly then get events when the mouse passes over your thin window.
That's no problem as long as my window stays on top.
not as a widget - no. you'll have to jump down to gdk. i'm not sure if gdk
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:20:00 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
again - see my other reply. you've found a can of worms that basically x doesn't
do. ou COULD do this with mouse button presses (XGrabButton) and the dot he
XAllowEvent thing... but not just the mouse
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:17:30 +1100, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this has issues all of its own. first. other peoples windows need to get the
correct event at the correct location and time - which now won't be right as
windows may have been destroyed, created, shown
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:53:39 +0100, Robert Woerle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
it should work with XSendEvent shoudlnt it ??
I don't know. From what you told me I looked agina in the manuals and it
sounds like it should, but it doesn't.
Below is the code that I use in my small test programm. It
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