Re: Relative positions of screens

2010-10-04 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Am 04.10.10, 12:28 +1000 schrieb Mark Dwyer: I'm trying to draw large scenes on multi monitor setups. I can get all screens and the resolutions of the screens via: numberOfScreens = XScreenCount(dpy); /* Work out the sizes of the screens */ for (int j = 0; jnumberOfScreens; j++) {

Info about X-architecture

2010-10-04 Thread vijay singh
Hello, I am new to X-window system. I would like to know is their any document available which will explain about X-architecture. if i want to add any new X-client then what is the way. Cheers-- ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support

RE: Relative positions of screens

2010-10-04 Thread Mark Dwyer
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, I am unable to do Xinerama given that there is other software running on the cluster that cannot have Xinerama turned on (easy if that were the case). XRandR doesn't return the information I require (I'm pretty sure, would love to be proven wrong).

Re: can't get dual monitors working

2010-10-04 Thread Francisco P Kaseker
For the old card sis/savage/via/others you have to: 1) X -configure with old X (like 1.4.x) to probe all vga cards 2) X -configure with your X with Option NoInt10 yes enabled only to the old cards like sis/savage/etc Xorg 1.7.x+ has bug with systemcall Int10, an a lot of SiS and VIA old cards

Re: Cann't get dual monitors working, S3Virge bios input/output error

2010-10-04 Thread bh
tj 999alfred at comcast.net writes: I am trying to get a dual monitor system working using the onboard S3 ProSavage adapter and a PCI S3 Virge card. However, after I do Xorg -configure to get a xorg.conf and then execute it, Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new I get a blank screen with

Re: Info about X-architecture

2010-10-04 Thread Corbin Simpson
Which hardware, specifically? If Linux has already been ported, and a framebuffer driver exists, then X will work perfectly already, using the fbdev X driver. Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C. On Oct 4, 2010 3:18 AM, vijay singh testmrs@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-04 at

Dual head on ATI FirePro M5800

2010-10-04 Thread Ole Tange
I am trying to get dual head on ATI FirePro M5800 working. LVDS works, but VGA-0 is in power save mode no matter what I do. My colleague got the non-free driver working, but I would prefer using the free driver. My research seems to indicate the chipset is called Redwood or r8xx or RV830 or r800

Re: Info about X-architecture

2010-10-04 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 09:48:36 -0700 Corbin Simpson mostawesomed...@gmail.com said: indeed. most hw i have ever seen in embedded has a memory mapped dumb fb as part of the main memory - the kernel should already support this- if so x will work just fine (fb drvier). it will work exactly as well as

Re: Dual head on ATI FirePro M5800

2010-10-04 Thread Alex Deucher
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Ole Tange o...@tange.dk wrote: I am trying to get dual head on ATI FirePro M5800 working. LVDS works, but VGA-0 is in power save mode no matter what I do. My colleague got the non-free driver working, but I would prefer using the free driver. My research seems

[ANNOUNCE] font-util 1.1.2

2010-10-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 These utilities are used when generating and building the packages for the X.Org fonts. This release fixes the bug in the fontutils.m4 autoconf macros that allowed packages generated with these macros to successfully pass configure when required