[Xpert]What are the requirement of a device driver as a X-window Input driver?

2002-05-01 Thread Lam Yick Yan
Hi, I have written a USB device driver for writing pad as a character device. The name of the device is Penpower and the driver node is /dev/penpower. When I cat /dev/penpower I saw some meaningful output when touch the screen. However, the driver itself is useless. It must be able

[Xpert]SPARC/Linux keyboard problems

2002-05-01 Thread Alex Buell
I've had to buy a type-6 UK keyboard for my SPARCstation 20 as my old type 5c US keyboard gave up the ghost a few days ago. Unfortunately I can't quite get the configuration set up properly. Does anyone have a suitable XF86Config for this type 6 UK keyboard? Thanks. -- I'm an infojunkie.

[Xpert]Re: Build problems on FreeBSD 4.5

2002-05-01 Thread Bernd Ernesti
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 at 13:57:41 -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:57:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Aurele La France [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xpert]Build problems on FreeBSD 4.5 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Mike

[Xpert]How to disable X Cursor in Xfbdev?

2002-05-01 Thread Jimmy Lin
Hi Balram, You need to start Xfbdev in Frambuffer environment. Make sure your kernel with framebuffer support already. Then, you can run any X apps. Regards, Jimmy Hi Jimmy, Can you tell me how to use Xfbdev and run a X-Client plz..even though I have tried a lot use the Xfbdev exe Am not able

[Xpert]PanelWidth and PanelHeight

2002-05-01 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hello, Could someone please answer this question. How do I use the PanelWidth and PanelHeight options? I see in Section Device in the XF86Config-4 file I find: ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String,

Re: [Xpert]Fatalities in the vidmode extension

2002-05-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote: It looks to me like maybe the vid mode extension allows switching modes while switched away? I had a bug report that VT switching

[Xpert]Xfbdev(tinyX) and fbset

2002-05-01 Thread Frederick Lefebvre
I am using Xfbdev over the cyber2000fb frame buffer on Intel/Linux. I assumed that since Xfbdev seems to use directly the information from the fb driver, it would be possible to switch resolution while Xfbdev is running. But it looks like Xfbdev is not refreshing its configuration abd the

[Xpert]HELP ! I'm stuck with Xfree

2002-05-01 Thread Stefano
First of all I apologize if this mail is too long but, after 5 hours, 50 rebooting and 50 e2fsck, I'm thinking to quit installing Linux or I'll go crazy. I'm trying to install Xfree 4.2.0 on my laptop with Intel i830 chipset and video card but my screen crashes every time I try to run it, I only

Re: [Xpert]830mg config

2002-05-01 Thread Stefano
On 01 May 2002 00:42:03 +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 22:53, Stefano wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:35:31 +0200, ric Brunet wrote: This is indeed the case. From my dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 196M

Re: [Xpert]Fatalities in the vidmode extension

2002-05-01 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Mark Vojkovich wrote: With this patch the application no longer runs. It appears that it calls XF86VidModeLockModeSwitch to prevent users from switching modes while in the game, but the application itself switches modes via the vidMode extension while mode switches

[Xpert]ati radeon 7500, krenel modules itd.

2002-05-01 Thread amu_rest
tu teraz tu tam tu hi, i don't know english i am not good on linux I have installed redhat 7.2 My ati radeon 7500 is not detected. I found on net this page: http://dri.sourceforge.net/ and downloaded 'radeon-20020430-linux.i386.tar.bz2' I was trying to install but it shows sth like this: ...

[Xpert]ati radeon 7500, krenel modules itd.

2002-05-01 Thread amu_rest
tu teraz tu tam tu hi, i don't know english i am not good on linux I have installed redhat 7.2 My ati radeon 7500 is not detected. I found on net this page: http://dri.sourceforge.net/ and downloaded 'radeon-20020430-linux.i386.tar.bz2' I was trying to install but it shows sth like this: ...

[Xpert]Why does xf86PostKeyEvent not send core events?

2002-05-01 Thread Olaf Tauber
Hi, I have some keys on my notebook which don't deliver scancodes, a kernel driver provides a device to access those keys. I started writing a XInput keyboard driver, which reads this device and sends key events using xf86PostKeyEvent. As I tried xev on it, I saw no events showing up. I then

[Xpert]X 4.2 problem w/ Radeon 7500

2002-05-01 Thread Hesty P
Hi all, I am having problem getting X 4.2 to work with Radeon 7500. Everytime I startx, my monitor will go blank. I have tried all sorts of configuration with XF86Config-4 file, including noddc, composite_sync off, etc, but none seem to work. Currently I have to use fbdev and naturally I'm not

[Xpert]Dual screen output on Trident CyberBlade i7

2002-05-01 Thread
Hello. I have compaq 1200xl laptop equipped with Trident CyberBlade i7 video chip. I've been using it for more than a year with excellent results, but there is one small thing I still have problems with. The machine has external monitor connection. When I tried to connect the external

[Xpert]Xinerama and Mouse Clicks

2002-05-01 Thread Eric Liedtke
I've been using XFree86 for a while and it's done well enough that I've never mucked around with the actual details of what was going on other than tweaking my config file. I've run into a couple of problems I just wanted to run by all you folks for suggestions. Here's the setup: I am

[Xpert]Wrong color depth w/ Radeon 8500 DVI?

2002-05-01 Thread Rene Puls
[Please CC any replies to me, I am not subscribed to the list.] Hello, I'm using a SONY SDM-M81 LCD panel together with a Radeon 8500 DDR card in 1280x1024 @ 24bpp mode. My XFree86 is version 4.2.0. When I use the analog VGA output from my Radeon card, the colors on my display look normal.

[Xpert]ATI XPert 2000 Pro w/32MB Ram

2002-05-01 Thread Michael Brenegan
I have an AMD Athlon 1900+ with the above video, upon running Xconfigurator, it puts a # in front of the ram line, which I manually took out. it is listed as an ATI Rage 128 under device with the driver r128. However, the largest resolution that I can use is 800x600. Under WinXP, it will

[Xpert]mixing nvidia and 3dlabs

2002-05-01 Thread DM DM
Hi, anyone know if it's possible and any issues with mixing a quadro4 pro (which appears to only be supported by nvidia's proprietary drivers) and a 3dlabs vx1-1600sw (pci)? In particular i'd be interested in using Xinerama in such a setup. I had experimented back a long time ago with

Re: [Xpert]mixing nvidia and 3dlabs

2002-05-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 1 May 2002, DM DM wrote: Hi, anyone know if it's possible and any issues with mixing a quadro4 pro (which appears to only be supported by nvidia's proprietary drivers) and a 3dlabs vx1-1600sw (pci)? In particular i'd be interested in using Xinerama in such a setup. I had

Re: [Xpert]Xinerama and Mouse Clicks

2002-05-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Eric Liedtke wrote: Problem 1) When I would log into a Sun box export DISPLAY to my box and run HP openview's network presenter app(ovw). I had problems with sections of the map just not being drawn. If I grabbed one of the icons in the window and

RE: [Xpert]How to disable X Cursor in Xfbdev?

2002-05-01 Thread Balarama Chandra N R
Hi Jimmy, Thanx for the reply..and pardon me for the lengthy disclaimer message, which is irritating stuff. Good Day... Regards Balram DISCLAIMER: Information contained and transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to MASCOT SYSTEMS LTD and is intended for use only by the individual or