Re: [Xpert]CarrollTouch Driver

2002-03-04 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On 4 Mar 2002, David Aitken wrote: Is anyone working on or have a CarrollTouch Driver for XFree86 under Linux? Trident Systems does have one but it is clossed source and costs $300 a copy. Currently as a temporary solution I am running MetroX over the top of my system which is all a bit

Re: [Xpert]A rough sketch of what the screen looks like

2002-03-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 02:42, Eric wrote: http://atlantis.phantasus.net/~spirilis/atidrv_glitch.png is a rough sketch of how the display is skewed... (drawn in GIMP) Try Option composite_sync off in the device section. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc)

Re: [Xpert]Problem on build X4.1.0

2002-03-04 Thread Mike
Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I needed to build some file under .../xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/,but I can't get the right Makefile,I'd read a lots of docs but the problem is still there.Can you give me your Makefile under /input/elographics? Otherwise,if you can tech me that

[Xpert]TI-4600

2002-03-04 Thread Anthony Spinillo
Until Nvidia releases the binary linux driver for the TI-4600, will the nv driver in X420 work for the time being (2D)? Thanks, Tony ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon 7500 vs (XFree 4.2.0 + one piece of 1user)

2002-03-04 Thread David Nielsen
I almost forgot, here's some configuration and output... Sorry for the MASSIVE email really sorry... XF86Config-4 - Section ServerLayout Identifier layout1 Screen screen1 0 0 InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer InputDevice

[Xpert]What is Xinerama?

2002-03-04 Thread Dave Williss
Can somebody tell me what Xinerama is and where to find documentation about it? Just as a suggestion, it would be really helpful if every directory in the XFree86 source tree had a REAME file explaining what that particular library or X server extension was for and where to find more

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I'm using XF86 4.2.0 on Linux 2.4.19-pre2 i686 with a Matrox G450 AGP 32MEG DDR/DH, when I play RTCW the game freezes a short while in. It's usually few min into the game, maybe 2 or 3 min. The kernel is up, (i.e. I can telnet in and reboot the box, or use magic sys-rq). the same thing

[Xpert]can X11 die more slowly ?

2002-03-04 Thread Gniazdowski Mariusz
Hi. Sometimes it happens - work in some vi, staroffice, gimp etc etc and bum - Signal 11 server crash... With Mandrak8.1 it happens very rarely, however it happens. So, are there chances to make it look like Hey XFree did receive signal X11, save your work and prepare to shut down ? -- Regards

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Rene Rebe
On: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:02:01 -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using XF86 4.2.0 on Linux 2.4.19-pre2 i686 with a Matrox G450 AGP 32MEG DDR/DH, when I play RTCW the game freezes a short while in. It's usually few min into the game, maybe 2 or 3 min. The

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread David Nielsen
On this point, I have a lot of instability on my Duron, while working with high intensity GL. X11pref was no problem, but RtCW etc. would bring it to it's knees. Added mem=nopentium to lilo.conf - problems all gone. - David It works fine with Quake3, Chromium and GLTron for me. Only the RTCW

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:52:32PM +0100, David Nielsen wrote: On this point, I have a lot of instability on my Duron, while working with high intensity GL. X11pref was no problem, but RtCW etc. would bring it to it's knees. Added mem=nopentium to lilo.conf - problems all gone.

Re: [Xpert]Re: Memory Leak / suggestions please?

2002-03-04 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MV I can't even think of a case where Xlib can behave differently MV depending on an X driver. I don't think it's possible for this to MV be a driver specific problem. The cost of some server-side data structures depends on the driver, right? So in principle a client-side leak of

Re: [Xpert]TI-4600

2002-03-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Anthony Spinillo wrote: Until Nvidia releases the binary linux driver for the TI-4600, will the nv driver in X420 work for the time being (2D)? It should work in XFree86 CVS. The one card I had access to at the time 4.2 was released worked, but there have been alot of

Re: [Xpert]can X11 die more slowly ?

2002-03-04 Thread Christer Palm
Gniazdowski Mariusz wrote: Sometimes it happens - work in some vi, staroffice, gimp etc etc and bum - Signal 11 server crash... With Mandrak8.1 it happens very rarely, however it happens. So, are there chances to make it look like Hey XFree did receive signal X11, save your work and

Re: [Xpert]Re: Memory Leak / suggestions please?

2002-03-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On 4 Mar 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: MV I can't even think of a case where Xlib can behave differently MV depending on an X driver. I don't think it's possible for this to MV be a driver specific problem. The cost of some server-side data structures depends on the driver, right?

Re: [Xpert]What is Xinerama?

2002-03-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Dave Williss wrote: Can somebody tell me what Xinerama is and where to find documentation about it? Xinerama takes multiple X screens and treats them as one big screen. For example, a typical case where you have a traditional multiheaded X system with two monitors

[Xpert]Laptop LCD/CRT question

2002-03-04 Thread Hassan Aurag
Hi, I have a laptop. Under Windows, I can when having the laptop on port replicator/docking station enable LCD/CRT and extend my desktop to use both screens. After looking for a while, I thought this might be called xinerama on Linux. Anyway, under Linux I can, using Fn+F5 key, enable both

Re: [Xpert]can X11 die more slowly ?

2002-03-04 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Gniazdowski Mariusz wrote: Hi. Sometimes it happens - work in some vi, staroffice, gimp etc etc and bum - Signal 11 server crash... With Mandrak8.1 it happens very rarely, however it happens. So, are there chances to make it look like Hey XFree did receive signal

Re: [Xpert]Laptop LCD/CRT question

2002-03-04 Thread Hassan Aurag
Btw, I am using Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200. The graphics card is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/MX-/IX (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248,

[Xpert]Locale support ?

2002-03-04 Thread Dag Nygren
Hi, just upgraded from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 (selfcompiled) and must have set up some compile options the wrong way as I started getting the following from all the Qt-based applications: Qt: Locales not supported on X server and qstring_to_xtp result code -2 What could be the reason for this ?

[Xpert]XFree86, FreeBSD, and Shared memory

2002-03-04 Thread Andy Ritger
Hi all, I have a few questions about the libc wrapper layer on FreeBSD, and its implementation of xf86shmat() and friends. On FreeBSD, XFree86's libc wrapper is: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd/libc_wrapper.c which is a symlink to:

Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon 7500 vs (XFree 4.2.0 + one piece of 1user)

2002-03-04 Thread Chris
On Monday 04 March 2002 03:37 pm, you wrote: This looks to be the pertinent part of the XF86 startup file. It's showing that your DRI kernel support isn't coming up. Are the kernel module for AGP support and the Radeon DRI module properly compiled/installed? The card has to kick up the DRI

Re: [Xpert]can X11 die more slowly ?

2002-03-04 Thread Jim Gettys
Luckily there is actually a protocol in the ICCCM for the window manager to the send the application a polite request to shutdown, and this is what the 'X' typically does, though many window managers will also have an option for more forceful xkill style termination. (After all, the app

Re: [Xpert]XFree86, FreeBSD, and Shared memory

2002-03-04 Thread Andy Ritger
I was curious why the MIT-SHM extension works, even with these noop xf86shm*() entry points. The implementation of MIT-SHM: xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c Makes system calls directly, rather than going through the libc_wrapper. - Andy Ritger Hi all, I have a few questions about

[Xpert]Re: Re: half-keyboard?

2002-03-04 Thread stefan obenauer
Does anybody know how to get a half-keyboard mode for X? that is, if you press the space key, the keys are mirrored, so you can type with one hand. there is a patch for the linux console, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~john/computer/hk/ but of course it doesn't work for X. Michel Dänzer

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Slava Polyakov
On Monday 04 March 2002 09:32, you wrote: A complete shoot in the dark, could this be the AGP port access, I had similar problems with my GeForce... I tracked it down to being my Duron CPU (AMD CPU flaw, mentioned on LT a few weeks ago) which had a flaw, appended mem=nopentium to my lilo.conf

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Slava Polyakov
Mine is a 1.466Mhz Athlon XP - SiS board. Mine is a Celeron 1200 on Intel i815E Step B (or whatever the step is for the tulantium core...) with a G450 32meg DDR/DH. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]G450 + RTCW + GL Extensions

2002-03-04 Thread Slava Polyakov
On Monday 04 March 2002 13:07, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:52:32PM +0100, David Nielsen wrote: On this point, I have a lot of instability on my Duron, while working with high intensity GL. X11pref was no problem, but RtCW etc. would bring it to it's knees. Added mem=nopentium to