Re: [Xpert]miPointerUpdate + Strange Mouse Behaviour.

2002-04-16 Thread Keith Packard
KdEnqueueMouseEvent ... ... EINTR ... ProcessInputEvents miPointerUpdate Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamCompaq Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMA

Re: [Xpert]Xft usage errors

2002-04-16 Thread Keith Packard
in Xft has been rewritten since 4.2. I've patched Qt to build with the new version, but haven't heard anything from the Troll's about integrating the changes into the regular release. KDE has some dependencies on the old Xft as well that will cause it to stop building. I'

[Xpert]Re: SAVESET extension proposal

2002-04-22 Thread Keith Packard
request identical to ChangeSaveSet with an additional mode (SetModeInsertRoot). Are there other WM related extensions that we could usefully merge with this extension? I'd like to solve any outstanding issues all at once, rather than with a zillion tiny extensions. Keith PackardXFre

Re: [Xpert]Increased mouse granularity?

2002-05-06 Thread Keith Packard
reported coordinates; you'll want to use something higher order than linear though; that leaves terrible jaggies. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamCompaq Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]TinyX (Xfbdev) not reading XF86Config?

2002-05-17 Thread Keith Packard
un on a machine with no writable file system. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]fontconfig install doesn't respect EtcX11Directory

2002-05-17 Thread Keith Packard
er layer of variables so that EtcX11Directory is derived from EtcDirectory which can point at /etc and be shared by the fontconfig Imakefile. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [Xpert]surviving an X server disconnection

2002-05-18 Thread Keith Packard
on the floor and generated no events. Jg has a plan to return a special event when the connection is lost; that's probably pretty workable and would make notifying the outer loop a bit easier. It shouldn't be that hard to fix; we'd really appreciate the help as there are more a

Re: [Xpert]TinyX (Xfbdev) not reading XF86Config?

2002-05-19 Thread Keith Packard
r; that's part of RandR which hasn't been implemented yet. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Geode & KDrive

2002-05-20 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on May 20, Alex Pavloff wrote: > Option B) Attempt to figure out what Keith Packard was doing with the > "other" drivers in the kdrive directory, and modify the geode source code to > match that. That's the right option -- you'll find severa

Re: [Xpert]fontconfig install doesn't respect EtcX11Directory

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Packard
What problem are you trying to avoid by skipping this step? Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]cvs X: build error in lib/Xft1/xftdir.c

2002-05-21 Thread Keith Packard
Around 3 o'clock on May 22, "Axel H. Siebenwirth" wrote: > I have encountered an error during make install of freshly build x from > cvs.. Sorry 'bout that -- I didn't get the changes into Xft1 that are needed to deal with changes in fontconfig. All fixed now

Re: [Xpert]Allocated colormaps and 4.2.0

2002-05-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on May 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > now I am finding that regardless of the window manager I use, most colours > have already been allocated. Fixed in current CVS. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge R

Re: [Xpert]monitor redetection

2002-05-22 Thread Keith Packard
tched. I use this to switch sizes when plugging into an external projector. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]all color cells preallocated in pseudoColor mode in 4.2.0

2002-05-24 Thread Keith Packard
e modest portion. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]To xfs, or not to xfs? Is the question...(Was: Bug#147898: xserver-xfree86: freeze when using TrueType with Xinerama)

2002-05-26 Thread Keith Packard
ver? xfs uses the X Font Services Protocol which is documented in the XFree86 xc/doc directory. It sends glyphs as bitmaps. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree

Re: [Xpert]Re: use of pseudoColor in v4.2.0

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Packard
ul even on pseudo-color screens as it permits applications to efficiently draw text using client-side fonts. I stronglye believe that Render is a necessary part of a modern X server; those without it should be considered "broken". Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team

Re: [Xpert]modelines for hdtv?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Packard
g would at least make them appear no worse under transformation. I've tried this with Xft2 and (after fixing several bugs), it works just fine. I think I'll add an aspect ratio field to allow the right thing to happen. Keith Packard

Re: [Xpert]modelines for hdtv?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Packard
Around 13 o'clock on Jun 2, Keith Packard wrote: > I think I'll add an aspect ratio field to allow the right thing to > happen. Yes, that looks much better now -- aspect ratios of 1.2 still snap glyphs to the pixel grid to make them appear sharper when hinting is enabled.

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

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Packard
which adjust all kinds of cool parameters, the synaptics touchpad is used in lots of laptops; perhaps those hacks have some helpful information. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAI

Re: [Xpert]modelines for hdtv?

2002-06-03 Thread Keith Packard
imately equal in the result, except that some distances will be adjusted to improve the appearance of the glyphs. Square characters will remain approximately square. Snapping the aspect ratio to whole integers would have been pretty boring :-) Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Ca

Re: [Xpert]Stipple Pattern Question.

2002-06-04 Thread Keith Packard
static unsigned char _back_msb[4] = {0x11, 0x44, 0x22, 0x88}; Set these to zero and you'll have a black root window by default. You'll also get black when you do 'xsetroot -default' with this change. Keith PackardXFree86 C

Re: [Xpert]TinyX Server

2002-06-07 Thread Keith Packard
default, you have to ask for each one now. Try adding: #define XfbdevServerYES #define XvesaServer YES to your host.def file. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

[Xpert]Render support in Xclock by default?

2002-06-07 Thread Keith Packard
CVS that uses Render when available and otherwise leaves the current behaviour unchanged. Polite comments on the fine choice of default colors in Render mode would also be appreciated; I realize my limitations in the area of aesthetics. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Ca

Re: [Xpert]Appearance in X...

2002-06-07 Thread Keith Packard
e (as in beer) web fonts from MS and rebuilding your freetype library to enable the bytecode interpreter. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]Xscope for XFree86

2002-06-14 Thread Keith Packard
all of the various versions that are out there and merge them together. Please let the list know if you've got other xscope fixes available or have an interest in helping merge these things together. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambrid

Re: [Xpert]xscope version

2002-06-19 Thread Keith Packard
can work to get this contributed under > the proper license. That would be nice, but it does depend to some degree on how hard you think that will be. It is getting easier to open-source code from HP these days though. Keith PackardXFree86 Core T

Re: [Xpert]Re: 10-bits per colour

2002-06-20 Thread Keith Packard
//www.presentationmaster.com/2002/04_apr/news/cw_sharp_lcdmill.htm Hmm. Looks I need to do more research in color space conversion and monitor calibration -- one must always direct ones research towards the area with the nicest toys... Keith PackardXFree

Re: [Xpert]Slow opaque window resizing

2002-06-25 Thread Keith Packard
the WM reconfigures an application window. Now the WM will be put to sleep and the app will run. That should be easy enough to test too. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Xpert]Slow opaque window resizing

2002-06-26 Thread Keith Packard
Around 17 o'clock on Jun 26, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > The behaviour where the client stops drawing completely is not > difficult to get with a moderately complex gtk+ 2.0 application and > the X server running without -dumbScheduler. Please give the enclosed patch a try -- it transfers scheduli

Re: [Xpert]PATCH: X-Video support for Radeon 8500

2002-06-26 Thread Keith Packard
DR, DDR radeons, 7000, 7200). If anyone is interested, please download the patch and apply it to current CVS before Kevin lands a giant merge from ATI. http://keithp.com/~keithp/download/radeon_video.diff Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team

Re: [Xpert]Support for more mouse buttons?

2002-06-29 Thread Keith Packard
bs, it doesn't restrict the reporting of higher numbered mouse buttons in regular button events, nor grabbing those buttons. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]PATCH: X-Video support for Radeon 8500

2002-07-01 Thread Keith Packard
er since Mesa 4 hit XFree86 CVS shortly after 4.2. I use the DRI tcl-0-0 branch on my 7500, but that wasn't working on my M6 when I last tried it a month or so ago. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ X

Re: [Xpert]PATCH: X-Video support for Radeon 8500

2002-07-02 Thread Keith Packard
to get them integrated so they could have wider testing for a while before the XFree86 release. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]kdrive screen frequency

2002-07-05 Thread Keith Packard
resulting image, not the refresh rate. If you have programming information for your video card, it's quite possible to hack up a custom server that can change the pixel clock after the server has initialized the card. I've done that in the Xtrident server which is based on Xvesa. K

Re: [Xpert]xawtv issues with 24bpp matrox x session

2002-07-07 Thread Keith Packard
rmat (bpp) is irrelevant here, aside from needing to be no smaller than depth. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]lack of 32bpp mode for G450?

2002-07-09 Thread Keith Packard
However, the 3D hardware doesn't deal with 32bpp frame buffers, so if you want to run the DRI, you'll have to pick either 32bpp or 16bpp (iirc). Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing l

Re: [Xpert]Is this a bug? render/picture.c line 228 and 233, PictureCreateDe faultFormats

2002-07-17 Thread Keith Packard
om this line down to the creation of the format stored in this value, so it's not (actually) a typo, but it is a misuse of the macro. Instead, a different PICT_FORMAT macro should be created for PICT_TYPE_COLOR/PICT_TYPE_GRAY which can hold the entire visual index, even if the server has mor

Re: [Xpert]nplanes >=32 ? Can we do 64bit arithmetic ?

2002-07-22 Thread Keith Packard
y extension to allow deeper pixels would have to hide the additional bits from the core protocol. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Re: Re: Xpert digest, Vol 1 #2013 - 11 msgs

2002-07-25 Thread Keith Packard
o hear from a developer on > those...)) As a first hack, all that's really needed is to hook the RandR reconfiguration function up to the existing size switching code in the XFree86 DDX. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab

Re: [Xpert]XftConfig is ignored

2002-07-29 Thread Keith Packard
ck to see if you have /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, that would indicate you're using fontconfig now. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]problem with Xft and pango

2002-08-03 Thread Keith Packard
pe1. the xft.pc file installed with current XFree86 CVS Xft2 should point at the right headers. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Reply code

2002-08-13 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Aug 13, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Replys are synchronous. The reply goes with whatever request > was before it. There is no need for reply codes. In particular, within Xlib, replies are matched with requests by sequence number. Keith PackardXFree8

[Xpert]Re: Savage4 Specs (Was: Support for S3 Savage4 in 4.2.0)

2002-08-21 Thread Keith Packard
nship with XFree86 which permits the redistribution of material covered by various old NDAs that XFree86 used to have with hardware manufacturers; most current vendors use other methods to keep their designs private. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab __

Re: [Xpert]Problems with XClock from CVS

2002-08-27 Thread Keith Packard
server (CVS), I think you'll find the analog mode quite entertaining. To change fonts in Render mode, use the '-fa' flag instead of '-fn'. To get your old xclock back, use the '-norender' flag. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research

Re: [Xpert]what's exact meaning of request length

2002-09-04 Thread Keith Packard
ength, but the reply length indicates the number of additional 4-byte values beyond the 32-byte fixed-size reply header. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree

Re: [Xpert]TSLIB and TinyX

2002-09-06 Thread Keith Packard
ks? Yeah, you have to send a motion event before you can send the button event. That's just the way the server works. It ignores position in button events. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert m

[Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-19 Thread Keith Packard
g with a reasonable commitment to helping with the implementation, it seems more important to get the subset of the specification known to work deployed widely rather than wait an indeterminant time for this final piece of the original design to be completed. Please comment if you have an opinion

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-19 Thread Keith Packard
keithp/talks/randr/ has what you want. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
structures. Another important point -- legacy apps often assume that the 8-bit visual is the default. RandR doesn't address this issue at all; the default visual is not effectively switchable so RandR leaves the default visual alone making legacy apps suffer if i

Re: [Xpert]Re: Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
gacy applications would run on the Xnest-like display, while modern > applications talk directly to the real X server. That's probably a reasonable approach for switching which visual is the default. Couple that with server-side support for emulated visuals and you've got a pretty com

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
uld be relatively easy given the internal structure of XFree86. Drivers using XAA may even be able to provide rotation, although I haven't investigated that very far. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
just leave RandR as the resize/rotate extension and leave hardware visual swaps for some future extension if we ever need it ? Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Re: Resize and Rotate extension progress report

2002-09-24 Thread Keith Packard
inside the X server is actually quite easy, the hard part that RandR added was the ability to switch which visuals were emulated and which were mapped directly to the hardware. The current server internals are not structured well to handle that case. K

Re: [Xpert]RandR and per-user config

2002-09-30 Thread Keith Packard
screen resolution would change appropriately. maybe some option in > their .xinitrc. You can't change the depth, but you can change the size with the 'xrandr' program. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab __

Re: [Xpert]XML format for XF86Config

2002-09-30 Thread Keith Packard
My hope is that the configuration file becomes entirely optional. There's essentially nothing there which can't be autodetected on a reasonable system. At that point, the format of the file is moot. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Re

Re: [Xpert]Autoconfiguring

2002-10-01 Thread Keith Packard
ny video modes added through the VidMode extension. RandR also permits DDX to reprobe the monitor whenever the app requests the available sizes. The kdrive-based Xvesa server requeries the BIOS at this point to catch monitor changes. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridg

Re: [Xpert]Autoconfiguring

2002-10-01 Thread Keith Packard
;t test or change any of that code. If you've got a fix that makes it work, please send it along with a sample program to actually test this stuff. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [E

Re: [Xpert]XML format for XF86Config

2002-10-03 Thread Keith Packard
#x27;m also realistic about the installed base of X configuration files and the existing community expertise in managing them. You can't throw that away lightly, instead you'll have to replace that with a more compelling solution. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Ca

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 9 o'clock on Sep 15, Sidik Isani wrote: |> With 8 bpp pseudocolor, I'm finding that simply starting the |> X-Server allocates almost all the color cells in the default |> colormap. There are only about 12 free cells, and most programs |> either fail or install a private colormap.

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Sep 15, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Can render allocate the colors as needed and use whatever it > gets? This would be more consistent with traditional PsuedoColor > behavior. That is, first come first serve and if you don't like that > use a private map. Hmm. Not with

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Sep 15, Sidik Isani wrote: > Unfortunately, there is. We look at astronomy CCD images, and > the visualization tools like to manipulate a colormap to give a > quick contrast adjustment. If you have source, you could consider fixing these to use DirectColor instead;

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Sep 15, Sidik Isani wrote: > It may be enough. Usually we look at our images with simple > grey scales, and just need a way to exaggerate contrast to bring > out features. I'd like to learn more about DirectColor. How much > control does it give over luminence cur

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Sep 15, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > 3) No preallocated colors by default. > > It might be reasonable to assume users stuck in PseudoColor are there > because they have antiquated hardware, in which case, they don't have > very high expectations for things like anti-aliasing.

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Sep 15, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Like by temporarily lowering the sigBits? Changing current allocation > behavior makes me uneasy. Doesn't the specification say something > about this? AllocColor: "This request allocates a read-only colormap entry corresponding to the

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Sep 20, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >XShmGetImage is blocking, so maybe it's not important for XvShmGetImage > to be asynchronous. Having to send the event (and receive it) > probably just increases the latency anyhow. OK, the event is > a bad idea. The protocol isn't bloc

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 19 o'clock on Sep 22, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > On an eight-bit visual, XDPS will allocate a 9-level gray ramp, and a > 4x4x4 colour cube, for a total of 73 colourmap entries. (Colour > allocation happens on the client side in XDPS.) > Can RENDER deal with such a configuration? RENDE

Re: [Xpert]pre-allocated colormap?

2001-09-23 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Sep 23, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > The 9 + 4 x 4 x 4 scheme gives excellent results (to my eyes) while > leaving a lot of colour cells free. I was suggesting that you should > try implementing a similar colourmap for RENDER, and see what the > results look like. I think a

[Xpert]Re: Bug in xterm vt100 WRT scrollbar stealing keyboard focus

2001-09-25 Thread Keith Packard
Around 2 o'clock on Sep 25, "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > I just received the following bug report. I have confirmed the > behaviour described occurs, although I am not sure if it should > be considered a bug or not. > > = > Using t

Re: [Xpert]Odd looking code in XFree86

2001-09-25 Thread Keith Packard
Around 22 o'clock on Sep 25, "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > (void) sprintf(openLicenseString, "%s:%d", >LICENSE_METHOD_OPEN, >OPEN_LICENSE_VERSION); > openLicenseMethod = XInternAtom(dpy, openLicenseString, True); > > Since the return code of sprintf i

Re: [Xpert]Odd looking code in XFree86

2001-09-25 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Sep 25, "Mike A. Harris" wrote: > Hmm. Looks to me like the programmer probably tried to silence > the warning resulting from the lack of inclusion of stdio.h by > adding (void) then.. More likely a warning was generated on a system where sprintf returned a char * inste

Re: [Xpert]Trident Chipsets & Xv support

2001-10-04 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Oct 4, Alan Hourihane wrote: > > I agree, hotkey display switching will most likely mess up the > > video offsets. The Xserver doesn't get notified when a switch happens > > therefore we cannot adapt our values. I don't like to read back the > > CRTC registers on every frame

Re: [Xpert]XDM

2001-10-24 Thread Keith Packard
Around 17 o'clock on Oct 24, "David Harris" wrote: > Whoever I log in as using xdm it says 'Login Incorrect' > What could cause a login to fail ? Xdm is probably not using the right password options -- you might have MD5 passwords or shadow passwords enabled and xdm might not have support for

Re: [Xpert]pseudocolor support in 24 bit depth?

2001-10-24 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Oct 24, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > >I don't know that there are any plans to hack this. It's not > > > worth the effort in my opinion. It's a mess and the problems are > > > with the apps, not the server. It's a TrueColor world. > > > > Doesn't the RandR extension giv

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Keith Packard
Around 21 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > Looks to me like UpdateCurrentTimeIf doesn't actually > update the current time. Shouldn't this function look like: >if (CompareTimeStamps(systime, currentTime) == LATER) >currentTime = systime; This check should never fail --

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >So that means that it's not possible to just update the > currentTime. You can get the current system time, but you can't > update currentTime without processing events. OK. Right. Until R2 (R3?) the only way server time got updated was

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-02 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Nov 2, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >Not the currentTime field. I need more reliable current time but > I can use GetTimeInMillis and do my own month accounting. I discovered > that you can't call UpdateCurrentTime() any place you like. If you > do it in the pointer/viewport

[Xpert]Re: crashing a client with XDrawString

2001-11-02 Thread Keith Packard
Around 17 o'clock on Nov 2, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Attached is a test case for the client library that always exits on my > machine. Sometimes it gets a SIGPIPE, sometimes it gets a real X error > but most of the time that it does get a real X error it has a random > request_code. >

[Xpert]Re: crashing a client with XDrawString

2001-11-02 Thread Keith Packard
Around 19 o'clock on Nov 2, Jim Gettys wrote: > I had about 5 minutes to look into this this afternoon: BIG-REQUESTS > postdates me, but it sort of looks like XDrawString doesn't implement > it, from what I could tell in a very quick look. That's right, none of the text requests even attempt to

[Xpert]Re: crashing a client with XDrawString

2001-11-03 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Nov 3, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > It would be good if you guys went through and looked at that code, > though. If you can generate bad bits on the wire through an abusive, > yet still legal use of the api, it probably needs to be fixed. Yeah, anything which trashes th

Re: [Xpert]Re: crashing a client with XDrawString

2001-11-04 Thread Keith Packard
Around 14 o'clock on Nov 3, Jim Gettys wrote: > Or we could have Xlib generate the error: that is easy, I think... It > could still look as if it were generated as a protocol error. Having Xlib generate the error is actually somewhat hard -- it would have to generate a synthetic request (as a

Re: [Xpert]Compiling from source.

2001-11-12 Thread Keith Packard
Around 22 o'clock on Nov 12, Alex Bustamante wrote: > Got one question. Whats the difference between compiling > xfree86 from source, or compiling the soruces directly from > x.org? X.org ships a completely separate implementation from XFree86; it's designed to provide a stable X base for X.org

Re: [Xpert]Xfbdev & fbset not working together

2001-11-14 Thread Keith Packard
Around 19 o'clock on Nov 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But if I start in the default mode (640x480x8) and do an > "fbset -a 800x600x16" before starting Xfbdev the upcomming > X is totally corrupted (wrong memory layout??) while all other > (text) virtual terminals switch correctly to the new

Re: [Xpert]Packed Pixels

2001-11-15 Thread Keith Packard
Around 11 o'clock on Nov 15, Branden Robinson wrote: > As I understand it, "packed pixel modes" are those in which pixel data > is not aligned on (Intel 80386+) word boundaries, which are 32 bits. That's not the historical usage. In the old days, there were two kinds of frame buffers -- packe

Re: [Xpert]X wide line rasterization bug

2001-11-16 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Nov 16, Alex Larsson wrote: > I've stumbled upon a rasterization bug while drawing lines of width 1. Nice one. There's an "optimization" in the wide line code to avoid drawing joins when one of the two lines will do it. It's busted. This patch is already in XFree86 CVS.

Re: [Xpert]Kdrive server regeneration bug.

2001-11-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Nov 22, Michael Wake wrote: > Here is a small one line startup/server regeneration > related bug fix in the mouse handling code that I > think should be added into > xc/programs/Xserver/hw/kdrive/linux/mouse.c Thanks. It's in XFree86 CVS. > Who looks after, vetting

Re: [Xpert]Re: Radeon 2D accel very slow when DRI is enabled.

2001-11-21 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Nov 21, Michel D nzer wrote: > > In 1600x1200x24 It takes 1 full second to draw the screen, or a > > good 3/4 of a second. That is definitely not accelerated. > > Again, disabling DRI, the MMIO accel makes everything fly. > > Color expansion is probably what's missing.

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]X cvs has a problem with the fixed font?

2001-11-26 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Nov 26, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > Come to that, there is no good reason why the average application > should be using fonts where it matters. If I have two 1024x768 displays, > one a 14" laptop and the other a 50" plasma display, I usually want the > text to be the same

Re: [Xpert]backing store question

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
hang when suspending if the server with DRI isn't running. Kinda loses the integrated desktop feel, but I can run other X apps in the same server for IRC or whatnot. Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
e from various helpful mail systems is not pleasant. Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
a member of the list; is there anyone for whom that would be a significant burden? Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Too many viruses of late

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
ses that get people kicked off the list by management. Limiting posting to members will reduce spam, but won't eliminate the viruses, unless I also eliminate postings from Outlook... Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing lis

Re: [Xpert]damn, another one with BADTRANS...

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
Please don't forward the virus header to the list; that just annoys the various virus scanners, and there's no easy way to filter it out; it's not an attachment, it's just a regular email (lame scanners). Keith Packard

Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-11-30 Thread Keith Packard
might eventually be reasonable to consider switching the core server to using that mechanism so that a single font configuration can be truely shared by all font consumers. We would get better XLFD matching for free, too :-) Keith Packard

[Xpert]Re: Memory map of Xvesa server

2001-12-05 Thread Keith Packard
'm afraid I won't be much help here; but if this BIOS works with it mapped from /dev/zero, I'd rather leave it like that for now. You might add some config options that change the mapping around so we can test other bioses without recompiling the server. Keith PackardXFree8

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-11-30 Thread Keith Packard
this, and there are a couple of questions to be answered before we can design one: + What basic signalling mechanism should be used + Who has permission to signal apps Suggestions are welcome, as this would be a useful addition to the architecture. Keith Pac

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-11-30 Thread Keith Packard
see it? If the X server and Xfs shared the same font configuration mechanism as Xft, then they'd get updated information via the same route. Right now, you can install new fonts, re-run 'mkfontdir' and then 'xset fp rehash' and the X server will see the new fonts. Ke

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-12-01 Thread Keith Packard
unless you are running as root > (and it is common convention to not run as root whenever > possible to avoid accidently damaging the OS). One can modify the X server's font path to point at a directory controlled by the current user. Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-12-01 Thread Keith Packard
to share fonts > between users. You can't have it both ways -- either the user has administrative rights to modify the system font configuration, in which case they have rights to modify the X related font configuration, or they don't. Two separate cases that must be handled different

Re: [Fonts]Re: [Xpert]Honest question about font complexity.

2001-12-01 Thread Keith Packard
stalled fonts. Might not be a graphical application either; just some console app run by the administrator. Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]Attempting virus filtering

2001-12-03 Thread Keith Packard
a good thing or not... Please feel free to complain if it either appears not to work, or if it blocks some reasonable posting. Keith PackardXFree86 Core Team ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

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