RE: [Xpert]Which dual headed video card for production machines?

2002-06-03 Thread Berge, Harry ten
We use G200's They are expensive but the work fine! However, we also use G450's and G550's. They work fine to XFree86 4.1.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3 Pro Regards Harry > -Original Message- > From: Dan Garthwaite [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:09 PM > To: [E

Re: [Xpert]Radeon VE QY (PCI)

2002-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 17:55, Keith Gross wrote: > I have a radeon 7000 (PCI) running on my machine under XFree 4.2.0. I'm > hoping to find out the state of 3D for this card. I see that the AGP version > of the this card does 3D but that the PCI version only works on the Alpha > platform. >

Re: [Xpert]X getting somewhat slow after a while

2002-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 23:06, Eric wrote: > Hi, I've noticed something with XFree86 4.2.0. First off here's my hardware >configuration: > AMD Athlon 900MHz, VIA chipset motherboard > ATI All-In-Wonder Pro PCI 8MB, using the ati_drv.o from the GATOS project's ati.2 >project. > Linux version 2.4.1

Re: [Xpert]linux-drm-4.2.0-kernelsource tdfx.o compile woes

2002-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 23:29, Gregory S. Hayes wrote: > When compiling the tdfx.o module I set the following warning: > > [root@icebreaker drm]# make -f Makefile.linux tdfx.o > cc -O2 -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -D__KER

Re: [Xpert]X getting somewhat slow after a while

2002-06-03 Thread Henrik Farre
Yello On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 17:06:03 -0400 Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, as time goes on, say the X server has been running for a few > days, with XMMS staying up almost all the time, occasionally running > XawTV with the GATOS project's km module for video4linux, and > occasionally r

RE: [Xpert]X server not able to start.

2002-06-03 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
I don't know how the /tmp dir is related to this problem, but the error message comes when the graphics engine is locked up. You will need to power down to get it back... Perhaps boot into run level 3 instead and then "startx", you will at least have a usable console while you fix the problem. O

[Xpert]X getting somewhat slow after a while

2002-06-03 Thread Eric
Hi, I've noticed something with XFree86 4.2.0. First off here's my hardware configuration: AMD Athlon 900MHz, VIA chipset motherboard ATI All-In-Wonder Pro PCI 8MB, using the ati_drv.o from the GATOS project's ati.2 project. Linux version 2.4.18 (Slackware Linux 8.0) Here's the symptom. Usuall

Re: [Xpert]Reg. X Security Extensions

2002-06-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On 3 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I've never seen anybody use the security extension, and have yet to > feel the need for it. It seems to appear at the same time as the remote X extension, xrx, which makes me think that the idea something like this: You have a browser (netscape was one

Re: [Xpert]Reg. X Security Extensions

2002-06-03 Thread Jim.Gettys
> > I've never seen anybody use the security extension, and have yet to > feel the need for it. > The scenario I see where it may have use is for shared environments like projectors/projector walls, so you might have much looser access control than usual, but want some level of projection betw

[Xpert]X server not able to start.

2002-06-03 Thread Leela Krishna Poola
Hi, I have a problem with xserver. Its not able to start as I start the system. The monitor flashes at intervals with the folowwing message on the screen: [drm:i810_flush_queue] *ERROR* lockup Once I deleted the /tmp directory and then again created it. This problem started only after that.

Re: [Xpert]VSYNC/VBLANK reporting

2002-06-03 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On 3 Jun 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 03:39, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > > > For people who were interested in observing VSYNC/VBLANK interrupts from > > userspace there is an experimental implementation for radeons on > > http://gatos.sf.net/ in CVS - modul

[Xpert]ATI glBitmap rendering bug

2002-06-03 Thread Joe Krahn
Using glBitmap with ATI DRI driver while the depth test is on is resulting in randomly passing/failing each bit, resulting in garbage. There are patterns in the pass/fail that make it look like a depth lookup is occuring, but in a messed up way. Here is a quick demo. Can some other ATI user test t

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 multi-head problems

2002-06-03 Thread Matti Airas
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 18:49, Alan Hourihane wrote: > That's been fixed in the latest CVS. Make sure you cvs updated to > the latest code. OK, I did a cvs update, remade and installed, and fair enough, I can get it to run. However, display zooming seems to be even more broken than in 4.2.0. It fr

Re: [Xpert]VSYNC/VBLANK reporting

2002-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 03:39, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > > For people who were interested in observing VSYNC/VBLANK interrupts from > userspace there is an experimental implementation for radeons on > http://gatos.sf.net/ in CVS - module "km". Support for rage128 and mach64 > chips would be easy

[Xpert]Radeon VE QY (PCI)

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Gross
I have a radeon 7000 (PCI) running on my machine under XFree 4.2.0. I'm hoping to find out the state of 3D for this card. I see that the AGP version of the this card does 3D but that the PCI version only works on the Alpha platform. I searched the mailing list for the last 2 years and noti

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 multi-head problems

2002-06-03 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 06:33:07PM +0300, Matti Airas wrote: > On ma, 2002-06-03 at 15:17, Michel Dnzer wrote: > > > If that's with DRI enabled, try disabling it. > That helped somewhat. No more freeze, but X still crashes back to text > mode. The log file states: > > Symbol RADEONEngineInit f

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 multi-head problems

2002-06-03 Thread Matti Airas
On ma, 2002-06-03 at 15:17, Michel Dänzer wrote: > If that's with DRI enabled, try disabling it. That helped somewhat. No more freeze, but X still crashes back to text mode. The log file states: Symbol RADEONEngineInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o is unresolved! So

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 multi-head problems

2002-06-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 13:59, Matti Airas wrote: > On su, 2002-06-02 at 18:04, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > The DDC on DVI support has been improved in CVS. > > Beyond that I can't help. > > Actually I noticed that while browsing the CVS logs. I even tried > fetching the CVS version and co

Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 multi-head problems

2002-06-03 Thread Matti Airas
On su, 2002-06-02 at 18:04, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > The DDC on DVI support has been improved in CVS. > Beyond that I can't help. Actually I noticed that while browsing the CVS logs. I even tried fetching the CVS version and compiling it, but because of changed ABI version the CVS radeon

[Xpert]Is fonts related with colour ?

2002-06-03 Thread Anticipating Reply
Hi All , I'am working on Xfree86-4.2.0 with Kernel version 2.4.16 I'am using an assabet-like custom board having SA1110 processor. Since I'am not using any fonts with Xfbdev for this board, Can somebody please tell me if this is going affect the quality of the displayed colour ? I'am using

Re: [Xpert]Reg. X Security Extensions

2002-06-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
HS> I need some help on understanding "X Security Extensions". HS> This seems to be made up of X server having the -sp option, commands HS> like xhost, authorization through MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1... I think they are two different things. xhost, MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and friends are the X server's acce

Re: [Xpert]Xterminal freezing

2002-06-03 Thread Eric N. Valor
At 08:44 AM 6/3/2002 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >Eric N. Valor wrote: > > I've tried stepping through the archives, but the lack of a search > > engine means that I have to manually parse 80+ megs of information > > (this takes a human quite a long time). > >Have you tried using somethin

Re: [Xpert]modelines for hdtv?

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 8 o'clock on Jun 3, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > That might be nice, but Xlib.h has DisplayWidth() and DisplayWidthMM(), > (ditto for height) and these can be set in the config file or probed via > DDC. From these you can get the pixel pitches and aspect ratio (although > this does assu

[Xpert]Re: KDrive doesn't like my mouse

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 9 o'clock on Jun 3, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > So it looks like the Synaptics touchpad reacts to the Intellimouse > initialisation sequence by switching to some weird protocol. Do you > have any suggestions for fixing that, other than disabling > Intellimouse support? One suggestion wo

Re: [Xpert]Xterminal freezing

2002-06-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
Eric N. Valor wrote: > I've tried stepping through the archives, but the lack of a search > engine means that I have to manually parse 80+ megs of information > (this takes a human quite a long time). Have you tried using something like google to search through the archives ? I've found that w

Re: [Xpert]modelines for hdtv?

2002-06-03 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Keith Packard wrote: > Xft assumes that pixels are square; users and applications generally > expect the dpi to be equal along each axis, so Xft plays along. > > Fixing that would be pretty easy; I could add an 'aspect ratio' field to > Xft that could be configured per displ