Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Robert Heller
I am the tech guy for a local library. We have a network containing several diskless workstations. The hardware are these P4 boxes: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SAMBA845V-24-4-Rcat=SYS (We have inserted additional memory, bringing most of the machines up to 1.25Gig of memory, and

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On 9/22/12 5:55 PM, Robert Heller wrote: First of all, using the VGA connection, the X server *refuses* to use any Modeline that is not a 4:3 aspect ratio. It seems that the X server presumes that *all* VGA connected monitors are 4:3. (All three of the new wide screen monitors do have 15-pin

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-22 20:01 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: On 2012-09-22 17:55 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed: I am the tech guy for a local library... (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Controller (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-22 23:33 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed: These boxes are small form factor machines and only have two PCI slots on a riser card. No AGP slots, so no option of alternitive video cards, unless with use PCI video cards (are such cards even available?).

[PATCH 2/3] os: refactor timer processing

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel Kurtz
Combine two open coded loops that do the same thing: Call DoTimer() for all expired timers Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz djku...@chromium.org --- os/WaitFor.c | 68 + 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 3/3] os: refactor CheckAllTimers

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel Kurtz
CheckAllTimers() is called with signals blocked. Calling TimerForce within CheckAllTimers is inefficient because: (a) signals are be blocked unblocked again (b) the timer list is traversed again (c) CheckAllTimers() ignores the return value Instead, just call DoTimer() directly.

[PATCH 0/3] Make timers even more resistant to signals

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel Kurtz
X Input drivers, such as xf86-input-synaptics, tend to do all of their processing in a SIGIO signal handler. This processing often involves creating, modifying or canceling a timer. Any of these operations may modify the global timers array. Therefore, all accesses of this global must be done

[PATCH 1/3] os: block signals when accessing global timer list

2012-09-22 Thread Daniel Kurtz
X Input drivers, such as xf86-input-synaptics, tend to do all of their processing in a SIGIO signal handler. This processing often involves creating, modifying or canceling a timer. Any of these operations may modify the global timers array. Therefore, all accesses of this global must be done

Re: [PATCH 4/7] dix: Repack ClientRec

2012-09-22 Thread Keith Packard
Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com writes: Pick smaller types where possible, including bitfielding some Bools and small enums, then shuffle the result to be hole-free. 192 - 128 bytes on LP64, 144 - 96 bytes on ILP32. One thing that would make this easier to check for 'optimal' packing would be

Re: new xserver 1.13 stable branch maintainer

2012-09-22 Thread Keith Packard
Matt Dew mar...@osource.org writes: Hi all, I've volunteered to drink from the fire hose and help out/take on xserver stable branch maintainer responsibilities from Jeremy for server Thanks, Matt! -- keith.pack...@intel.com pgpUtsozlLAVa.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Bug 52952] Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32-bit and ATI Technologies Radeon Xpress 200 for Intel (RC410) ACPI S3 State Resume Failure

2012-09-22 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52952 --- Comment #11 from mypersonalmailb...@mail.com 2012-09-22 06:43:40 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) try making the following change to radeon_combios_asic_init() in radeon_combios.c in the kernel. Remove the following code: /* DYN