stateless thin cliens with decent graphics performance - possible?

2010-06-26 Thread Csillag Kristof
Hi all, I am trying to improve my thin client installation. I have a completely heterogeneous set of (x86-based) thin client hardware and monitors, which I would like to use interchangeably. * * * My current configuration looks like this: - Both the server and the clients run

Re: stateless thin cliens with decent graphics performance - possible?

2010-06-26 Thread Csillag Kristof
2010-06-26 13:51 keltezéssel, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski írta: This is all good and well, but thanks to VNC, the graphics performance is horrible, especially on the bigger screens. (For example, on my 1600x1200 monitor, I can clearly follow the full-screen windows refreshing, which is no big

Re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-19 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: I there any software work-around I could try to test this hypothesis? You could try the windows driver or fglrx and see if they exhibit the problem as well. This is a FireMV card, which is produced for a relatively narrow market segment, so unfortunately, the

Re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-18 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: Could definitely be a problem with the cable, OK, I am already trying to buy a new cable (these are not easy to get by); when it gets here, I will check it again. I tried with the new cables, but unfortunately, the result is the same

re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: / One naive question: the FireMV 2200 card in question has one DMS-59 / / slot, which is then divided to two DVI-U ports with a special Y cable. // I have purchased this Y cable separately, from ebay. / / // Could it be that the problem is with this Y card? / Could

Re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
highly with bent/broken pins on the splitter. Chris On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com mailto:alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/12 Csillag Kristof csillag.kris...@united-consult.hu mailto:csillag.kris...@united-consult.hu

re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-11 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: Does adjusting the gamma on the problematic head help? If I understand your question correctly, you suggest that the gamma correction function might be off. I don't think this is the case, because on my monitor, the relation between (at least) the blue part of the pixel data

radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-10 Thread Csillag Kristof
Hi all, I have two identical (Samsung 214T) monitors attached to the two outputs of a FireMV 2200 PCI card (RV280 based). I see something strange: there are some colors (mostly from the dark blue range) which are rendered completely differently by the two monitors. (One of them does black

Re: radeon: different colors on different heads?

2009-11-10 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Hi all, I have two identical (Samsung 214T) monitors attached to the two outputs of a FireMV 2200 PCI card (RV280 based). I see something strange: there are some colors (mostly from the dark blue range) which are rendered completely differently by the two monitors

Re: multi monitor/multi card status

2009-10-22 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: Now if only the occasional 1-second blanking would go away... Does: Option DisplayPriority HIGH in the device section of your config help? No, it definitely does not. Kristof ___ xorg mailing list

Re: multi monitor/multi card status

2009-10-14 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: For now, I will go with a dual-head, randr-united configuration of two 1600x1200 monitors connected via DVI to my FireMV card. Now if only the occasional 1-second blanking would go away... Does: Option DisplayPriority HIGH in the device section of your config

Re: twitching image

2009-10-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Furthermore, [...] there were some random red dots scattered on the screen, appearing and disappearing back to nothingness, really fast. (Something like static on the TV screen, but only in red, with fewer artifacts, scattered over the normal image.) I have changed

Re: multi monitor/multi card status

2009-10-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Dave Airlie wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Csillag Kristof csillag.kris...@united-consult.hu wrote: I am running a non-KMS system, and zaphod mode on radeon segfaults me. Here is my xorg.conf and X log, again. Latest git of -ati

Re: xdmx questions

2009-10-12 Thread Csillag Kristof
Matt Thrailkill wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Csillag Kristof csillag.kris...@united-consult.hu wrote: 3. Is it possible to use arbitrary areas of a running X server as a back-end server for XDMX, as opposed to the full area of a given X server? By individually addressing

multi monitor/multi card status

2009-10-10 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, Please help me assess the general situation. I am trying to get a multimonitor/multicard setup work with ati cards and the free radeon driver. Here is my current understanting of how things go. Those with the proper knowledge/authority, please confirm/correct/deny the following

xdmx questions

2009-10-10 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, Since I can not get Xinerama work on my triple-monitor configuration, I am experimenting with XDMX. I have had some limited success (have seen an actual big desktop, spanning all 3 monitors), but I have a few questions. 1. Is this the right list for XDMX questions? (The binaries are

RE: radeon, screen option

2009-10-09 Thread Csillag Kristof
Section Device Identifier FireMV 2200-1 BusID PCI:3:6:0 Screen 0 Driver radeon EndSection Section Device Identifier FireMV 2200-2 BusID PCI:3:6:0 Screen 1 Driver

Re: radeon, screen option

2009-10-09 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Alex Deucher wrote: It's been years since I configured zaphod mode, but you need something like this: I have done something like this, and it segfaults. See the attached config and log. I realized that at one place of the config, I have written

Re: radeon, screen option

2009-10-09 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: zaphod rarely gets tested so it tends to be broken periodically on both the xserver and driver side. Make sure you are using xf86-video-ati git master as there was a fix for zaphod recently:

Re: FireMV 2200 vs CustomEDID

2009-10-08 Thread Csillag Kristof
forcing digital output, despite the analog EDID info, like this: OptionCustomEDIDDVI-1:/etc/Samsung_214T.edid:digital At least, it works now. Kristof Csillag Kristof wrote: Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 03:38 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote

radeon, screen option

2009-10-08 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, Now that my individual monitors are operational, I would like to create the following setup: Monitor 1Monitor 2Monitor 3 (Connected to (Connected to (Connected to FireMV 2200) RS690M) FireMV2200) If I don't do anything

Re: radeon, screen option

2009-10-08 Thread Csillag Kristof
here. Thank you anyway: Kristof ps. The FireMV 2400 also contains two different GPUs, so even if it worked (which it currently does not), you still couldn't configure more than two monitors into one big desktop without Xinerama. Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Csillag Kristof

Xinerama breaks randr config?

2009-10-08 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, as a temporary workaround, I am trying to set up the following config: (from left to right) Monitor 1 - SyncMaster 214T (with broken DDC) - connected to RS690 Monitor 2 - SyncMaster 205BW - connected to FireMV 2200 PCI Monitor 3 - SyncMaster 152v - connected to FireMV 2200 PCI

static RandR config in xorg.conf with Radeon (was: Xinerama breaks randr config?)

2009-10-08 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Dear all, as a temporary workaround, I am trying to set up the following config: (from left to right) Monitor 1 - SyncMaster 214T (with broken DDC) - connected to RS690 Monitor 2 - SyncMaster 205BW - connected to FireMV 2200 PCI Monitor 3 - SyncMaster 152v

Re: FireMV 2200 vs CustomEDID

2009-10-07 Thread Csillag Kristof
Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 03:35 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote: It looks better now, but still, no image on my monitor. Do you have any other suggestions? Sure, you're running on the wrong radeon: (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:791f:103c:302b ATI Technologies Inc RS690M

Re: FireMV 2200 vs CustomEDID

2009-10-07 Thread Csillag Kristof
Adam Jackson írta: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 03:35 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote: It looks better now, but still, no image on my monitor. Do you have any other suggestions? Sure, you're running on the wrong radeon: (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:791f:103c:302b ATI Technologies Inc RS690M

Re: FireMV 2200 vs CustomEDID

2009-10-06 Thread Csillag Kristof
Adam Jackson wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 03:38 +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote: Therefore, I have extended the syntax of the CustomEDID option to accept commands after the EDID file name, and implemented one command (digital) to override this information in the EDID. I'm going

Re: patch: add support for CustomEDID to radeon

2009-10-04 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Alex Deucher alexdeuc...@gmail.com wrote: Whoops. try this version. This time with patch. This time it works OK. Kristof ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org

randr/xinerama: mixing screens from different heads?

2009-10-04 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, I have a question about X config/randr/xinerama. If I have two monitors connected to device 1 (1A and 1B), and a third monitor connected to device 2 (2A), how do I configure X to respect the physical layout of the monitors, which is 1A-2A-1B? As you see, the monitors are mixed: the

Re: twitching image

2009-09-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
Alex Deucher wrote: This is likely display watermark or pll related. What is a display watermark? Please try xf86-video-ati from git master as that has proper watermark setup implemented and support for fractional feedback dividers. I will do this tomorrow; just one question until then: if

Re: Ati FireMV 2400 vs. BiosLocation

2009-09-13 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dave Airlie wrote: It works for me on a kernel modesetting supported system, don't think it'll work before KMS or multi-card vga arbiter work. I am not (yet) familiar with the KMS architecture; is it possible to implement something like CustomEDID under KMS? Kristof

twitching image

2009-09-12 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, Now that the CustomEDID support is (mostly) in place, I can force my card to output the proper data, even when the monitor is connected via DVI. According to the X log, the selected mode is correct (ie. it is the same as the mode I get when I connect via VGA.) The OSD menu of the

random green pixels

2009-09-12 Thread Csillag Kristof
Hi all, I have one more problem with my display: when viewing some pictures, at some fixed positions if the images, bright green pixels appear. These pixels are sometimes flickering (bright green vs. regular color.) The pixels move together with the image, and if I resize the image (ctrl + in my

Ati FireMV 2400 vs. BiosLocation

2009-09-12 Thread Csillag Kristof
Dear all, I am trying to get an Ati FireMV 2400 PCI card to work. This is a quad-head device, made from two almost-independent video cards, glued together with some BIOS hack. * * * According to the post at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-March/022328.html , the card

Re: twitching image

2009-09-12 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: This is pure speculation (and I don't have an oscilloscope to check it ouy), but could it be that the NVIDIA operates with somewhat higher signal voltages (or sharper signals), which get through the poor-quality cabling, where the weeker signals from the radeon get

patch: add support for CustomEDID to radeon

2009-09-10 Thread Csillag Kristof
Hi all, As I have mentioned a few days earlier, I have encountered a Samsung 214T monitor, which is unable to properly use DDC when connected via DVI, but works fine via VGA. I could not get it to work with the Radeon driver, but the proprietary NVIDIA driver had an option to force-feed the