[Xpert]Add: very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Michael Zayats
forgot to mention: XFree86 4.1.0 - Original Message - From: Michael Zayats [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:45 PM Subject: very strange XVideo behaviour (i810) well I am trying to draw 2 streams of yuv420 frames to 2 windows I am doing

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 14:21, Michael Zayats wrote: ok, lets suppose that video overlay is only one and that it uses the same memory or whatever for both windows, but the first window is already drawn on screen correctly (i.e. in framebuffer) No, it's the whole point of an overlay that the

Re: [Xpert]Sparc Mach64 running 8bit color depth

2001-10-18 Thread Prentis Brooks
ati driver, not familiar with the fbdev Does fbdev work better? On 18 Oct 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 15:49, Prentis Brooks wrote: Has anyone been able to successfully increase the color depth used by the Mach64 on a Sparc? I am currently running

[Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Michael Zayats
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 15:03, Michael Zayats wrote: Can you explain a bit more about texture engine? If I udenrstand it right it is 3d acceleration feature, you first use DRI to DMA it to texture memory and then use OPenGL commands to place it on screen the right way (like video). That's too

RE: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Michael, I Think some of the other replies have given the correct information, but I'll try to sum it up. First, when you do Xv you are not drawing to the screen as you know it as all. The data goes into a totally different buffer. This area is then overlaid on top of the normal framebuffer by

Re: [Xpert]xkb Turkish (ISO8859-9) Unicode Symbol Problems

2001-10-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Is your locale set correctly? Assuming you're running Linux/glibc, what does the ``locale'' command yeidl? Juliusz ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Loss of Fonts on Netscape Menu Bars in 4.1.0

2001-10-18 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
I tried to upgrade to Xfree 4.1.0 from 4.0.1, and now my Netscape comes up with the words on the Toolbars as little squares instead of letters, looks like a loss of Fonts. This just a guess, but make sure you're running everything 4.1.0, in particular the font server if you're using one.

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Billy Biggs
Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be nice to have a software fallback so that you could do as many Xv's as you wanted (slowly) but that isn't the way Xv was designed. You'll have to convert the YUV data into RGB and do a regular XShmPutImage in the second window. Such a

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 15:58, Michael Zayats wrote: On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 15:03, Michael Zayats wrote: Can you explain a bit more about texture engine? If I udenrstand it right it is 3d acceleration feature, you first use DRI to DMA it to texture memory and then use OPenGL commands to

[Xpert]Re: more pci ati aiw 128 [5446] problems

2001-10-18 Thread Joseph Cheek
thanks mike! i've now got past this and have compared the gatos 4.1.0 source with current cvs source. it appears that most of the functionality in their patches has been moved to XFree86 HEAD. while using HEAD, r128 drm gives these errors: (II) R128(2): Direct rendering disabled Symbol

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread 'Billy Biggs'
Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Such a capability needs to be in the client side, since different applications have different needs regarding the accuracy of the Y'CbCr-RGB conversion for optimization. So, really here we just need a method where Xv can tell a client 'I only

[Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread David E. Young
Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine when I was using the TNT2 on Windows 2000. I believe my BIOS is properly

RE: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Personally, I'd like to see as little intelligence as possible in X, but I do admit that it is unfortunate so many apps which currently use Xv just do it directly. Not the X server, the X libs. It isn't any different doing it in the libs than doing it in SDL. Still, I really wouldn't want

[Xpert]X crashes - ATI RADEON !

2001-10-18 Thread Prabhakar Reddy Gudla Venkata Siva
Hi there, I was trying to get a display on my Compaq Presario 1720 US w/ a ATI Radeon 3D mobility chip. I have compiled the CVS checkout of Xfree 4.1.99.1 and have even upgraded my kerenl to 2.4.9 (w/ 2.4.12 i had bizzare problems when trying to modprobe agpgart). FYI, i am running Redhat 7.1.

[Xpert]console reset after X kill using SAK

2001-10-18 Thread Gniazdowski
Hi. Sometimes XServer dies - keyboard and ctrl+alt+Fx stops working. I push then SysRq+k - SAK kernel magic key combination. XServer and other tasks are dead. Butt console is damaged - it looks like X screenshoot before SAK. When i blindly login and type "startx" XServer goes up and works

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can add a XvMC function to get you an XImage from the XvMC surface so that you can use XvMC instead of Xv. Then you can get rid of the delay between the XvShmPut() and the actual flip. But could this

Re: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It would be nice to have a software fallback so that you could do as many Xv's as you wanted (slowly) but that isn't the way Xv was designed. You'll have to convert the YUV data into RGB and do a regular

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine when I was using the TNT2 on

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread David E. Young
Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working... This is the nv driver you are using? According to the Driver Status for XFree86 4.0 page, accelerated

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:23:36PM -0700, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We have tossed around an interface for this. But there needs to be kernel support to get around the permissions problems. If root permissions are required to be able to write to that

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm sure most video cards can trigger an interrupt on the vertical refresh, that would be pretty accurate. Even if I could just query Handling the interrupt requires kernel support. The X-server is a

[Xpert]shared and static extension libraries re(^6)-visited

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:20:37AM -0700, Billy Biggs wrote: Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): use libXv.so to hide the uglies and if you don't want a software fallback then you don't have to have one. I sure hope you're distributing it as a .so then. On my debian system it's

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine when I was using the TNT2 on

re [Xpert]Null devices X server

2001-10-18 Thread Stuart Kreitman
I have a similar need- but specifically I need a version of VFB that loads like any other ddx. I'm currently untieing Xvfb's I AM the server! logic. If someone's can give me a version already done, it would be great. thanks, skk -- Stuart Kreitman Sun Microsystems Inc. - Software Systems

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread David E. Young
Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: The nv driver offloads all power mangement issues to the core vgaHWDPMS code in XFree86. If properly configured (I don't know what the correct XF86Config syntax is now-a-days) it should offer all that the core code

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread David E. Young
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: For some reason, XFree86 v4 defaults to DPMS disabled, check that you have a line like: (**) NV(0): DPMS enabled in your logfile (often /var/log/XFree86.0.log). If not turn it on; since it is a monitor options I preferr to put Option DPMS in

[Xpert]Re: shared and static extension libraries re(^6)-visited

2001-10-18 Thread Erik Walthinsen
Branden Robinson wrote: Real world example: there is a plugin for XMMS called smpeg-xmms that uses the SMPEG library, which is based on SDL, to playblack MPEG movies. Now, XMMS itself doesn't use SDL, or the aforementioned static X extension libraries. Therefore it has no reason to contain

Re: [Xpert]DPMS not working on NVidia

2001-10-18 Thread David E. Young
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, David E. Young wrote: Greetings. Redhat Linux 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3, NVidia TNT2 (16mb) driving a ViewSonic 17PS. DPMS isn't working, despite being configured to do so. It worked fine when I was running my old Mach64 and it also worked fine

Re: [Xpert]console reset after X kill using SAK

2001-10-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 20:34, Gniazdowski wrote: Sometimes XServer dies - keyboard and ctrl+alt+Fx stops working. I push then SysRq+k - SAK kernel magic key combination. XServer and other tasks are dead. Butt console is damaged - it looks like X screenshoot before SAK. When i blindly

[Xpert]Re: more pci ati aiw 128 [5446] problems

2001-10-18 Thread Joseph Cheek
hi rick, i got it! thanks so much for your help! it works now! xv seems to pick up on the first card defined in XF86Config. so i just had to switch the order of the card listings in the config file, and now xvinfo shows info on the ATI card, not the Matrox. thanks again! joe Rick Scott

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
Please respect my mail headers: Mail-Followup-To: Xpert list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0700, Billy Biggs wrote: It's not like I'm demanding the app be installed setuid root. But

Re: [Xpert]Re: shared and static extension libraries re(^6)-visited

2001-10-18 Thread Erik Walthinsen
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: What's not correct about it, aside from it not being a shared library? Well, exactly. It may be correct, but it's not exactly pretty, IMO. My main concern will be how things like libtool will react to that method. To the best of my knowledge,

RE: [Xpert]very strange XVideo behaviour (i810)

2001-10-18 Thread Pranay Kumar
As far as I know only the glint drivers provide RGB formats for Xv. Other cards do support RGB but the functionality has not been implemented (I know this for ATI Radeon as Vladimir Dergachev pointed out to me). It would indeed help if Xv could be used to hardware scale RGB surfaces. Pranay

[Xpert]/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXau

2001-10-18 Thread Liam Wilks
Could anybody help me with this problem? DRI doesn't seem to want to compile from CVS. I am running Redhat 7.1, with kernel 2.4.5 patched for Win4Lin, and XFree86 4.10. I have an ATI Rage Mobility P/M Graphics Card, which is a Mach 64 based card. I downloaded the alpha patch for ATI Mach 64

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Billy Biggs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I don't understand is why there is such an issue about root permissions. v4l devices, for example, have been user-accessible for a while. [...] Please consider the root issue a separate matter: I don't want it to hinder my suggestions for

[Xpert]Re: XVideo and interlaced input

2001-10-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: Hi Mark (and list), apologies for keeping traffic so high, but I have another question about XVideo and it's just too useful. :) Say I'm attemping to play 525/59.94 video (identical problem exists for 625/50 systems). Ideally, I want to do

[Xpert]Matrox G400 dual head, 2 X servers?

2001-10-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have a Matrox G400 (dual head). I want to be able to run two separate X-server instances, one per head. Is it possible? How about running an X-server on the first head and a frame-buffer on the second? Somehow I doubt the latter even more than the former. Thanx. b. -- Brian J. Murrell

Re: [Xpert]Re: XVideo and refresh sync

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Surda
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:21:12AM -0400, Billy Biggs wrote: The +/-5ms error here is visible, especially on big cinematic pans. I REALLY doubt what you perceive as an error is a 5ms difference. Though I agree that current vsync adjusting in XF86drivers (those that support it e.g. ATI) is