postponed output on intel graphic with recent mesa & xorg-server

2010-02-19 Thread Stephan Raue
Hi all, with recent Mesa (git from 19.02.2010), xorg server (git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~krh/xserver dri2-invalidate branch), xorg-video-intel from 13.02.2010 i have an very postponed output on my Thinkpad X200t. in my Xorg.log i see a lot of follow messages: [3904117.243] (EE) intel(0): F

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> You need to adjust the display area of the mode relative to the total. That is exactly what I have done down to 1064x504 in steps of 8 (from 1280x720). I even tried the --scale option but that only effects the width (and in big fragments) not the height. I try more tomorrow. Thanks to all so

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV too large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> Try the autosize button on the TV. If it doesn't have a dedicated button > for it, find the equivalent in its menus. If it doesn't have that either, > resize manually. Oh I wish I could do any of this. My TV lets me only resize when it runs in PC mode (that is if it is connected via 15pin vga ca

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Alex Deucher wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Sebastian Beßler > wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Beßler >>> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler > Some TV's enable overscan by default.  Turn off oversca

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Beßler >> wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler Some TV's enable overscan by default.  Turn off overscan on your tv. The >>> option might be called "fit" or "ex

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV too large

2010-02-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/02/19 20:37 (GMT+0100) Sebastian Beßler composed: > recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to > xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. > Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my > TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it doesn't fi

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Steffen Schaumburg wrote: > One thing that strikes me as odd is that the issue even exists with > HDMI. What's the point in overscan when you don't have a DA converter? TV industry refusing to let go of old habits... Perhaps OP can try this: http://www.ypass.net

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Beßler > wrote: >>> xrandr says: >>> metat...@shao ~ $ xrandr >>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2720 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 HDMI-0 connected 1280x720+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 708mm x 398mm >> >> I don't know if it has

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> xrandr says: >> metat...@shao ~ $ xrandr >> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2720 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 >> HDMI-0 connected 1280x720+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y >> axis) 708mm x 398mm > > I don't know if it has so

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Beßler > wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler >>> Some TV's enable overscan by default.  Turn off overscan on your tv. >>> The >> option might be called "fit" or "exact" or something like that. The >> other alternative is to unde

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> xrandr says: > metat...@shao ~ $ xrandr > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2720 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 > HDMI-0 connected 1280x720+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y > axis) 708mm x 398mm I don't know if it has something to do with it but my TV is much smaller than 708mm x 398mm

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler >> Some TV's enable overscan by default.  Turn off overscan on your tv. The > option might be called "fit" or "exact" or something like that. The > other alternative is to underscan the mo

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:58:09AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > The elections were one month late according to the latest updated > > schedule. Right in the middle of FOSDEM preparations too, which i think > > is a valid excuse from my side for not being able to respond earlier. > > > > As bro

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> >> Underscan doesn't seem to help too. I tried down to 1064x504 in steps of 8 >> (from 1280x720) and my TV always seems to compensate. >> > Disclaimer: I never did this so my suggestion may be stupid. > Are you sure you're actually underscanning? Sounds to me like you're changing the resolution,

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Dave Airlie
> > The elections were one month late according to the latest updated > schedule. Right in the middle of FOSDEM preparations too, which i think > is a valid excuse from my side for not being able to respond earlier. > > As brought up before; elections are pretty much the only event where > anyone g

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Steffen Schaumburg
> Underscan doesn't seem to help too. I tried down to 1064x504 in steps of 8 > (from 1280x720) and my TV always seems to compensate. > Disclaimer: I never did this so my suggestion may be stupid. Are you sure you're actually underscanning? Sounds to me like you're changing the resolution, I wou

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler > Some TV's enable overscan by default. Turn off overscan on your tv. The option might be called "fit" or "exact" or something like that. The other alternative is to underscan the modeline sent to your > monitor. Google for "underscan modeline"

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:42:17AM -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:03:15 -0500 (EST), Leon Shiman > wrote: > > I do not think suggesting that a member just "not vote" is an appropriate > > response from a Board Member to a legitimate concern about the election. > > Fair enoug

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:41:43PM +, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I meant that, on average, everyone would presumably be happy with the > board, as it reflects the opinion of everyone who voted. Presumably > most people who didn't vote don't particularly care about the makeup of > the board, and

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
2010/2/19 Tomasz Torcz : > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:37:13PM +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> Hello, >> >> recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to >> xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. >> Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my >> TFT-TV is

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:37:13PM +0100, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Hello, > > recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to > xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. > Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my > TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so

Re: Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > Hello, > > recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to > xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. > Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my > TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it

Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hello, recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it doesn't fit completely in. It is only a cm or so on all sides that ov

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:03:15 -0500 (EST), Leon Shiman wrote: > I do not think suggesting that a member just "not vote" is an appropriate > response from a Board Member to a legitimate concern about the election. Fair enough. I'm definitely not trying to discourage participation. > Isn't it th

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:28:19PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:29:14PM +, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > > I believe some things have been asked for already: > > > * minutes or logs. > > > > Bart is collat

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:29:14PM +, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > > > I believe some things have been asked for already: > > * minutes or logs. > > Bart is collating his logs, and those will be posted very soon. > > > * de

Re: Send String to Window input field

2010-02-19 Thread Glynn Clements
a...@ac13.de wrote: > I try to send a string to an input field of an application. I think the > only way is to use the XSendEvent function and send the keycode of every > single character of my string. But how could I get the special keys like > shift or alt for characters like '%'? XKeysymToKey

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Leon Shiman
on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:26:30 -0800 Carl Worth wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:11 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: >> Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... > >I might make one suggestion regarding this point. If you (and a >significant number of the general members

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:26:30AM -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > > Please, whenever you want more information from the board, please just > > ask. I can give you my personal assurance that there's no desire on the > > part of the bo

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Feb 19, 10 17:01:15 +, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I didn't know it was that much. Now thinking of it I do not remember > > what we used PayPal for... > > Clare College would only accept one large group booking for > accommodation (and accommodation is ridiculously expensive and generally > qui

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Matthias Hopf wrote: > On Feb 18, 10 21:45:07 +, Daniel Stone wrote: > > As far as I can tell (and I've not looked hard, because I'd like to > > escape the office early), XDS 2007 cost $US10k for the venue, around > > $US24k for travel sponsorship

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:26:30AM -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:11 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > > Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... > > Hi Luc, > > I'm glad that you brought some concerns forward. > > As a board member, I know that

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Feb 18, 10 17:27:24 -0800, Stephane Marchesin wrote: > Considering that: > - there is so much money in the bank (about 3 times what you need for > XDS 2007, *hint* *hint*), Which means that 2013 we are out of money :-P > - giving wide sponsorship makes these conferences better by gathering > m

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Feb 18, 10 21:45:07 +, Daniel Stone wrote: > * THIS IS ONLY MY RECOLLECTION FROM A TWO-MINUTE SCAN OF EMAIL. * > * DO NOT TAKE IT AS GOSPEL, DO NOT RELY UPON IT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH.* Thanks for dealing with this so quickly, Daniel! > As far as I can tell (and I've not looked hard,

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:11 +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... Hi Luc, I'm glad that you brought some concerns forward. As a board member, I know that there's nothing better than knowing that the general membership of the orga

Re: Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Deucher
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, David Sveningsson wrote: > Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, > similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been started? > > It doesn't matter if it is an existing tool or if it is only possible by > using some library ro

Re: Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread Barry Scott
On 19/02/10 15:47, David Sveningsson wrote: > On 2010-02-19 16:27, John Tapsell wrote: > >> On 19 February 2010 14:53, David Sveningsson wrote: >> >>> Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, >>> similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been start

Re: Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread David Sveningsson
On 2010-02-19 16:27, John Tapsell wrote: > On 19 February 2010 14:53, David Sveningsson wrote: >> Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, >> similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been started? > > sudo apt-get install xresprobe > sudo ddcprobe | grep ^m

Re: Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread John Tapsell
On 19 February 2010 14:53, David Sveningsson wrote: > Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, > similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been started? sudo apt-get install xresprobe sudo ddcprobe | grep ^mode: John ___

Getting monitor resolutions when xorg isn't running

2010-02-19 Thread David Sveningsson
Hi, is it possible to get a list of supported resolutions for a monitor, similar to using xrandr, but even if xorg hasn't been started? It doesn't matter if it is an existing tool or if it is only possible by using some library routines. I could live with having to start some subset of xorg as

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi Egbert, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:13:41AM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18:47PM +, Daniel Stone wrote: > > I'm pretty uncomfortable with the suggestion here. No, wait, very > > uncomfortable. (Not to mention that if any misuse of funds _did_ go on > > here, then

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:27:24PM -0800, Stephane Marchesin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 13:45, Daniel Stone wrote: > > If you feel this is unacceptable and are looking to assign blame, the > > mail archives back me up that the entire thing was entirely my idea, and > > every single cost

Re: Xserver doesn't support XvPutImage to Pixmap?

2010-02-19 Thread Matthew Fincham
On 17-02-10 13:13, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:13 +0200, Matthew Fincham wrote: > >> On 17-02-10 07:57, Matthew Fincham wrote: >> >>> On 16-02-10 17:27, Michel Dänzer wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 14:17 +0200, Matthew Fincham wrote:

Send String to Window input field

2010-02-19 Thread ac
Hello everyone, I try to send a string to an input field of an application. I think the only way is to use the XSendEvent function and send the keycode of every single character of my string. But how could I get the special keys like shift or alt for characters like '%'? Regards, André _