xrandr --panning usage

2008-12-10 Thread Keith Packard
It seems to me that the size of the panning area for each crtc should be used in the computation of screen size. This would make $ xrandr --output LVDS --panning 2048x900 just work, resizing the screen to 2048x900 and setting the panning area. The current code requires that the user set the

Re: intel card not working when booting on another VGA card

2008-12-10 Thread strawks
Hi, On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:18:17 -0800, Ian Romanick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I boot on the ATI card (select PEG card first in the bios), I can't get the intel driver in xorg to display anything. That's because when you install an external PCI-e card it physically disables the

RE: [PATCH 0/6] handle detailed timing operation

2008-12-10 Thread Ma, Ling
hi ajax Could you have some comments about the patch --handle detailed timing operation. Thanks Ma Ling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ma Ling Sent: 2008年11月27日 15:59 To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: [PATCH 0/6] handle

Re: intel card not working when booting on another VGA card

2008-12-10 Thread Matthieu Herrb
strawks wrote: Xorg doesn't really fail to start, it just seems to mess up with the BusID directive. If I set BusID either to one or the other card with the vesa driver it will use the card defined as the primary adapter in the bios. The problem is that in xserver 1.5 and later (since the

Dual screen configuration problem

2008-12-10 Thread Martin Rösch
Hi all. In an embedded system we have a MictroTouch touchscreen conntected to the LVDS port of a intel graphics chip (Mobile 915GM) using the mutouch driver. On the VGA port is a flatscreen connected. The system is running a X server v1.5 (R7.4) on a Ubuntu 8.10. The goal is to display one

Re: xrandr --panning usage

2008-12-10 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Dec 10, 08 00:05:12 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: It seems to me that the size of the panning area for each crtc should be used in the computation of screen size. This would make $ xrandr --output LVDS --panning 2048x900 just work, resizing the screen to 2048x900 and setting the panning

Re: Slow exaOffscreenAlloc ?

2008-12-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 15:23 -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: We've got a few ideas to improve things for UXA performance still, so it may get better. It's already a win over EXA, since EXA's stuck with only 50MB of aperture space. [...] UXA makes the pixmap offscreen space be unified with 3D and

Re: Multiseated madness

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Brooks
Hi Peter, Thanks for the tip, didn't notice it! I will give it a go next time I'm in the studio, I use Multi seating at our University Radio station. Cheers On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Peter Hutterer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 06:37:47PM +, Peter Brooks wrote:

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:15:26 -, Óscar Fuentes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In other words, is a bug that under this usage mode the memory asigned to X grows monotonically? No. Most long-lived applications have memory usage which grows monotonically,

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Charles Lindsey wrote: However, let us not dismiss this POV too soon. It is usually argued that an application that suffers from such memory fragmentation should be restarted occasionally (and, given that the Xserver runs in user space, unlike in Windoze, this is not impossible, though

Re: [PATCH] Remove #define NEED_EVENTS and NEED_REPLIES

2008-12-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 23:16 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: A grep on xorg/* revealed there's no consumer of this define. The consumer was in past versions of the headers now located in proto/x11proto - for instance, in X11R6.0's xc/include/Xproto.h, all the event

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
We could also investigate using a slab allocator approach for things like data structures that are a fixed size, to keep them from ending up between pixmaps, and hopefully reducing fragmentation that way, but that's also more glibc already does this and you can set a size theshold for mmap

2D antialiasing?

2008-12-10 Thread McDonald, Michael-p7438c
One of our customers thinks X has 2D antialiasing. In the old days, X had very specific pixelization rules which pretty much prohibited antialiasing for general graphics. Is there any supposrt for 2D antialiasing? The only thing I can find is using Xrender for antialiasing fonts. Anything else?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.5.99.3

2008-12-10 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
Hi , In point of view of packing (rpms), what is need to get DRI2 working on drv-intel ? what packages are require to upgrade to use xorg-server 1.5.99 ? And about drm gem kernel, is it require ? is it possible use stable vanilla kernels, with updated drm gem kernel ? if yes , how we do it ?

Re: Slow exaOffscreenAlloc ?

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Anholt
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:52 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 15:23 -0800, Eric Anholt wrote: We've got a few ideas to improve things for UXA performance still, so it may get better. It's already a win over EXA, since EXA's stuck with only 50MB of aperture space.

[intel gm965] kernel panic while suspending to disk

2008-12-10 Thread Stefano Avallone
Hi lists, I am experiencing a kernel panic while suspending to disk my sony vaio laptop equipped with an Intel GM965 chipset. The call trace is as follows: Call Trace: [c0155db9] count_highmem_pages+0x49/0xa0 [c0153975] swsusp_shrink_memory+0x35/0x200 [c01542d2] hibernation_snapshot+0x12/0x200

Re: xrandr --panning usage

2008-12-10 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:05 +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: Yes, that is one of the things that has to be implemented. Static panning configuration is more important at first, because that should get into Xserver 1.6 still. Can you get this done by next week? I'd like to close down new features

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Glynn Clements
Alan Coopersmith wrote: However, let us not dismiss this POV too soon. It is usually argued that an application that suffers from such memory fragmentation should be restarted occasionally (and, given that the Xserver runs in user space, unlike in Windoze, this is not impossible,

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/10 Charles Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HOWEVER, a compactor within the Xserver should, in principle, be possible, because large Pixmaps and the like are referenced by a serial number rather than by their address in (virtual) memory, and hence it should be possible to relocate them and

Re: X Server: abused or buggy?

2008-12-10 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Charles Lindsey wrote: However, let us not dismiss this POV too soon. It is usually argued that an application that suffers from such memory fragmentation should be restarted occasionally (and, given that the Xserver runs in user space, unlike in Windoze, this is

Re: 2D antialiasing?

2008-12-10 Thread Glynn Clements
McDonald, Michael-p7438c wrote: One of our customers thinks X has 2D antialiasing. In the old days, X had very specific pixelization rules which pretty much prohibited antialiasing for general graphics. Is there any supposrt for 2D antialiasing? The only thing I can find is using Xrender for

Building X11R7.4 from source

2008-12-10 Thread Paul Novak
I would like to build X11R7.4 from source. The first question is how to get the source. I first went to www.x.org and clicked on the X11R7.4 link. I got a list of new/updated modules. For example, app/bitmap_1.0.3 is a new/updated module. I went back to www.x.org, and under Getting X, I

Re: Building X11R7.4 from source

2008-12-10 Thread Pat Kane
I got my Xorg tarballs from here: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.4/src/ then I tweaked the build script until of got an Xorg server to build Pat --- On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Paul Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to build X11R7.4 from source. The first

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.5.99.3

2008-12-10 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Wednesday 10 of December 2008, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: Note that randrproto is another needed (for 1.5.99.3) but unreleased package (configure.ac is buggy in that area). About that... From 3ada6eb84b69809d428ae139b0431cfd6d8b8bac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a CPU limitation but rather something related to the

RE: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
On Thu, December 11, 2008 00:16, Zou, Nanhai wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Packard Sent: 2008Äê12ÔÂ11ÈÕ 13:12 To: Nick Nobody Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] How To Reduce/Eliminate

[Fwd: Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing]

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
Forgot to reply to all :S Original Message Subject: Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing From:Nick Nobody [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Thu, December 11, 2008 00:30 To: Keith Packard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-10 Thread Joseph Adams
Oops, forgot to send to xorg as well -- Forwarded message -- From: Joseph Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:49 AM Subject: Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac To: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch works when my external monitor is

[PATCH] Include sdk header dependencies and protect agains't multiple inclusion.

2008-12-10 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
Hi, The attached patch is the result of as few extra inclusions as possible, by creating a dummy file including just that header, and making it compile. This was done in the loader directory, and I added some extra -I for module headers, but including in the build tree. I would like some

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nick Nobody
On Thu, December 11, 2008 00:31, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Keith Packard wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 23:14 -0500, Nick Nobody wrote: Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher

direct rendering freeze

2008-12-10 Thread garrone
Hi, I am getting freezes in direct rendering. Sometimes glxgears works, but eventually the freeze occurs at program exit, or upon xrandr operation. The freeze occurs because the kernel function drm_lock continually returns -EINTR because the hardware lock variable master-lock.hw_lock is NULL,

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: That would be just a temporary solution with too many problems (since I assume a real solution will be in DRI2?) The OpenGL method with VSync works quite well. Can you recommend a media player that is able to use OpenGL? I've tried mplayer but even on a relatively fast

Re: Fwd: X.org PCI changes breaks support for Silicon Motion SM720 Lynx3DM card?

2008-12-10 Thread Richard Schwarting
Hello again. I am a goat and in an effort to verify that the XAA and EXA performance difference was or wasn't just a Ubuntu issue, I tried installing Fedora 10. Yada yada, Ubuntu got clobbered, Fedora has broken dbus and .gstreamer-0.10 permissions, etc. However! I did salvage two Xorg.0.log's

Re: Trying to use Radeon driver on Apple eMac

2008-12-10 Thread Joseph Adams
My Xorg.0.log and output of xrandr (in the absence of an xorg.conf) can be found at http://www.funsitelots.com/pub/emac_almostthere . It looks to me like Xorg is adding default modelines that aren't appropriate for the internal CRT monitor. Since my LCD monitor supports 1280x1024 resolution that

Re: [PATCH 1/2] xf86-video-intel: i830_driver: drop I830GetRec

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Anholt
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 01:39 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: There are a number of minor issues w/ I830GetRec: - pI830 is local, and therefore never gets used - it only ever returns TRUE (no need to check the result) - it's only ever called once, so there's not much point in protecting