[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.905

2010-07-14 Thread Keith Packard
Here's 1.9 RC5 (1.8.99.905) Not a huge number of changes this time around, but a couple of useful bug fixes. I posted a summary of the bug status already, so please take a look at that and try to get those fixed. We've got four more weeks before the release; keep the changes coming! -keith

KMS and Radeon RS880 (HD 4200)

2010-07-14 Thread Godfrey Benitez
I have an AMD 785G-based motherboard with built-in Radeon graphics identified by lspci as ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]. I can easily get month-long uptimes when Kernel Mode Setting is disabled. However, when KMS is enabled, the screen locks within two days of running

G400 broken in 1.7.6

2010-07-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi everyone, After my parents' computer was upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04, the mga driver stopped working. The card is a G400 in a single-screen config. X dies with: (==) MGA(0): Using HW cursor (**) MGA(0): Acceleration disabled (--) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block at offset 0x07B20 (==)

Re: KMS and Radeon RS880 (HD 4200)

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Godfrey Benitez xlistm...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an AMD 785G-based motherboard with built-in Radeon graphics identified by lspci as ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]. I can easily get month-long uptimes when Kernel Mode Setting is disabled. However,

Re: KMS and Radeon RS880 (HD 4200)

2010-07-14 Thread Godfrey Benitez
On Wed, 7/14/10, alexdeucher wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, xlistmail wrote: I have an AMD 785G-based motherboard with built-in Radeon graphics identified by lspci as ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]. I can easily get month-long uptimes when Kernel Mode Setting is

Re: KMS and Radeon RS880 (HD 4200)

2010-07-14 Thread Jerome Glisse
On 07/14/2010 07:02 PM, Godfrey Benitez wrote: On Wed, 7/14/10, alexdeucher wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, xlistmail wrote: I have an AMD 785G-based motherboard with built-in Radeon graphics identified by lspci as ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD 4200]. I can easily get

Re: KMS and Radeon RS880 (HD 4200)

2010-07-14 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Godfrey Benitez xlistm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 7/14/10, alexdeucher wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:29 AM, xlistmail wrote: I have an AMD 785G-based motherboard with built-in Radeon graphics identified by lspci as ATI Technologies Inc RS880 [Radeon HD

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.99.905

2010-07-14 Thread Keith Packard
Here's 1.9 RC5 (1.8.99.905) Not a huge number of changes this time around, but a couple of useful bug fixes. I posted a summary of the bug status already, so please take a look at that and try to get those fixed. We've got four more weeks before the release; keep the changes coming! -keith

using SYNAPTICs touchpad as primitive graphics tablet

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Rayner
I originally sent this mail to Christoph Brill who suggested this forum. Let me give 3 sentences of background to my request. I am a totally blind researcher who needs to look at 2-dimensional data. As a hobby project I'm trying to write an application to use graphics tablets and audio output to

Re: Capturing X Traffic using ethreal

2010-07-14 Thread James Cloos
PH == Peter Harris phar...@opentext.com writes: PH Also, make sure you're running wireshark as root (so it has PH permission to sniff traffic). Modern version of wireshark use a setuid helper to do the sniffing; they now recommend against running the gui or tui apps as root. -JimC -- James