Re: [Xpert] Why won't the server accept connections from local host?

2003-01-08 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:12 pm, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > I run the XFree86 binary. I can't start a window manager from the > console. Why is it doing this? I don't have this problem on another > machine, but on this one it won't accept any connections at all. Given the HUGE of amount of

[Xpert] Pixmap corruption

2003-01-07 Thread John Tapsell
Hi, On my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 laptop I get pixmap corruption. (I think pixmap is the right word - all the icons etc) They often disapear, and half appear etc. If I move my mouse over them I get them back, but only temporarily. For an example, I loaded up kmail, and the icons across the

[Xpert]TFT goes white on DPMS monitor suspend

2003-01-01 Thread John Tapsell
Hi, I have a dual monitor setup (not xinerama) and after 30 mins of inactivity the first monitor powers down. The second monitor, a TFT, instead goes white, and does not show any sign of being powered down. I have the same DPMS options in both sections in the configuration. The logs show no

Re: [Xpert]How do I make my colors _perfect_?

2002-12-17 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:44:38AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to have accurate color representation on my monitor. Of course > monitors and video cards differ in this area, so how do I know a color > being presented to me on the screen is true to the color of the source? > > Is ther

Re: [Xpert]could not open default font 'fixed'

2002-12-16 Thread John Tapsell
> I've had this problem when all disk space on my / partition was used, but > that was also stopping XFS from running - so I don't know how helpful my > advice might be. I've had this problem on multiple occasions. Can we get this fixed please? Thoughts: 1) Get xfs to return the error somehow (vi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: [Xpert]*****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine)

2002-11-26 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:22 pm, Scott Long wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:30:51 +0100 > > Luca Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >En/na David Dawes ha escrit: > >>All I can really say so far without having analysed the data is that > >>the number of false positives has been relatively

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-26 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 2:48 pm, Owen Savill wrote: > It works :-) > > However, only if I login as a user, launch X, lauch a console and do an > 'su' !!! > > Attempts to do any 3D stuff without doing this (even root) is met with : > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted > lib

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-23 Thread John Tapsell
Guys and girls, Can we do a FAQ on this or something? It is comming up every week now. JohnFlux On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, Tim Wright wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > I would dearly love to see this working. > > > > Thoughts? > >

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread John Tapsell
On Friday 22 November 2002 6:15 am, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 5 o'clock on Nov 22, John Tapsell wrote: > > Sorry for being slow, but why isn't the display dpi good? > > You could try to always make the cursor 1cm big for example - isn't that > > a good thing

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-21 Thread John Tapsell
On Friday 22 November 2002 1:00 am, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 0 o'clock on Nov 22, John Tapsell wrote: > > Could we have the cursor size be automatically set from the dpi? > > Is it already? > > It's automatically set from Xft.dpi resource (if set), or from the

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-21 Thread John Tapsell
Could we have the cursor size be automatically set from the dpi? Is it already? JohnFlux On Thursday 21 November 2002 7:44 pm, Scott Lampert wrote: > Is there a simple way to get X to use larger or different mouse cursors? > I notice some applications change the mouse cursor but I'd like to do >

Re: [Xpert]RedHat "Kickstart" for RAMDisk

2002-11-13 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:17 pm, Herman Buel wrote: > Can RedHat Kickstart (Linux 7.3 & up) be used to install linux > on a diskless Client machine ? How can you install linux on a diskless machine? There is no disk to install to... Read about the linux terminal server project if you wan

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-13 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 7:12 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:27, John Tapsell wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > Two input groups doesn't make sense unless you have two foci. > > > That means the concept

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > &

Re: [Xpert]ServerLayout without keyboard input device

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:26 am, James Chin wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to specify a "ServerLayout" section > without a keyboard input device? > > > > Basically, I have a dual independent head setup with two mice and one > keyboard and I want the keyboard to only apply to the

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter > > > in the eve

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > I would dearly love to see this working. > > > > Thoughts? > > well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already >

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope > > with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have > > t

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-11 Thread John Tapsell
I would dearly love to see this working. I can't answer your questions unfortunetly, but this is one way I envisage it working: In the XF86Config-4 file, an "input group" section is added. The syntax of CorePointer and SendCoreEvents is discarded (What is the difference between the primary an

Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-10-22 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:20:05AM -0700, Anurag Palsule wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible for me to write a wrapper or a hook to > the Xserver,so that all the X calls, instead of going > to Xserver, will land into my application and my > application will inturn pass them to the X server for > fu

Re: [Xpert]Overriding a graphics card

2002-10-20 Thread John Tapsell
> The card needs an interrupt for graphics mode. Does one show up in /proc/pci? > If it doesn't have one, that would be a motherboard bios bug. Perhaps > there's a newer bios available for it? Which motherboard was this? I will check in a minute.. It's a PC-Chips motherboard with sis chips.

Re: [Xpert]Overriding a graphics card

2002-10-20 Thread John Tapsell
ot before it posts on PCI. I also have this question, and choose "PCI". However this doesn't disable the second card or anything, just prioritises the PCI card. > Yiqun Wang > > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > >> On Sun,

Re: [Xpert]X-Programming

2002-10-20 Thread John Tapsell
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:29:38PM +0530, Bharathi S wrote: > Today at 4:47pm, Yo mailed to Me too : > > > Hello, I am a now Spanish :) member of the list and i wanted info about > > programming in x11: if in archives list there are some tutorials or some > > web. > > http://www.kerguelen.org/x/i

Re: [Xpert]Power button on keyboards

2002-10-07 Thread John Tapsell
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:13AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote: > John, > > You can map those "new" keys to run anything. you can write a script > that simply contains > > shutdown -h now > > and when you hit that key it'll run the that script shutting your > machine down. if you want somethi

[Xpert]Power button on keyboards

2002-10-07 Thread John Tapsell
Hi all, On quite a few keyboards these days there are extra keys. One of which is the power button. How would I get the power button working? I read the Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO but as far as I could follow, the only examples were for mapping new keys to existing functions (next

Re: [Xpert]Getting the current mouse coordinates in XFree86

2002-10-03 Thread John Tapsell
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:25:31PM +1200, David Antliff wrote: > > Well, I don't know if it's been done before, but I use Fluxbox and as it > stands, it has no ability to place new windows 'interactively' (i.e. > choose to open an xterm, click where you want it to be positioned). I > know it's si

[Xpert]Autoconfiguring

2002-10-01 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:27:38PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:31, Keith Packard wrote: > > My hope is that the configuration file becomes entirely optional. There's > > essentially nothing there which can't be autodetected on a reasonable > > system. > And hopefully auto(r

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:01:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want > >>to logout. If I want to logout, the X-Server is chrashing. So I get no screen > >> and it hang

Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer

2002-07-10 Thread John Tapsell
bah What I meant to say, before I so rudely interrupted myself, was that you can emulate multiple cursors etc by having multiple X servers. At the moment you cannot have multiple X-servers on one screen, nor can you have them on multiple monitors. The first, I doubt will ever be changed. The sec

Re: [Xpert]2 mice with 2 mouse pointer

2002-07-10 Thread John Tapsell
I personally want 2 pointers, and do it by binding keyboards and mice together. (e.g. keyboard 1 + mouse 1, keyboard 2 + mouse 2..) There are of course various problems, one of the less technical being that since you have multiple keyboards and mice, you probably will connect them via usb, and t

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-28 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 6:17 am, Bharathi S wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I saw a demo of Linux + XFree86 4.1.0 > > > with 4 DISPLAY( Mon,KB, mouse). > > > > Yeah, I have that working too. But next time you see it, try

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-27 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > So, as I already said, I think some kind of serialization of video > device accesses is needed between the multiple X servers. So who would be qualified to attempt such a thing? Who do we have to beg ? :) >> I saw a demo of Linux + XFree86 4.1.

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-24 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > There is no accelleration in fbdev. But will there be? Is it possible? btw, whats GGI or whatever it is? JohnFlux -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE87ncYoRvfZQkd7qoRAqxcAKC1Bh9Ruw5Seg0INPkC6W5DChLsSACgoRWd u

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-24 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > You would be correct, unless someone has written an X server with a VNC > Server built in. Hmm.. have there been any attempts at this? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE87iT9oRvfZQkd7qoRAhvKAJ4tJMMEQcFAB4XPR

Re: [Xpert]Remote broadcast, possible?

2002-05-23 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 23 May 2002 2:12 am, res0i1oz wrote: > My friends, > > I am curious to ask you: whether it is possible to find a solution of the > problem in Xwindow. The probelm is: I run an application (for Xwindow) in > local (machine A), meanwhile, I

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-23 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 May 2002 1:10 am, Trent wrote: > > 2) Some way for one unix user, but two human users to use the machine. > > I.e. two ppl share a desktop. I would like this so that I can work on > > one half one monitor, and gf on other monitor, then i

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-23 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Are you aware of the linuxconsole project at > linuxconsole.sourceforge.net, looks like this kind of thing is included > in thier plans. Stuff is already getting merged into the 2.5 development > kernels. Several years ago (jeez, that long.. how ti

Re: [Xpert]adding more keyboards and mice

2002-05-23 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 May 2002 9:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Xperts, > > how hard would it be to add more keyboards and mice to XFree, each > delivering events to a different screen, thus enabling a full local > multiuser setup? Is there any rea

Re: [Xpert]how to copy XF86Free.0.log to floppy

2002-05-20 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 May 2002 8:11 pm, Yannick Gingras wrote: > Le 19 Mai 2002 14:57, vous avez écrit : > > Put the floppy disk in > > > > Make a directory for it: "mkdir /mnt/floppy" its okay if already > > exists > > > > Copy file there: "cp /var/log

Re: [Xpert]how to copy XF86Free.0.log to floppy

2002-05-19 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Put the floppy disk in Make a directory for it: "mkdir /mnt/floppy" its okay if already exists Copy file there: "cp /var/log/XFree86.0.log /mnt/floppy" unmount the drive: "umount /mnt/floppy" wait for green light to go out on the drive, an

[Xpert]Dual Head

2002-05-06 Thread John Tapsell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Card: Matrox G400 Dualhead X version: 4.1.0.1 Distro: Debian, sid (unstable) Attempt:To get dual head working, using mgapdesk, using xinerama. Problem:"kicker" (the panel) crashe

Re: [Xpert]mouse wierdness and xfree86 HELP..

2002-02-10 Thread John Tapsell
On Monday 11 February 2002 01:04, Brent Bailey wrote: > just installed xfree86 4.2 all is good but this mousewhn i do > startx...KDE starts up ...and everything looks ok ..untill i move the > mouse ...then the cursor flies up to the top letf corner and stays > there ..unusableis there som

Re: [Xpert]2 mice, one default

2002-01-20 Thread John Tapsell
On Monday 21 January 2002 13:58, jg wrote: > Hello > This is my setup > > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "layout1" > Screen "screen1" > > # from command line startx -- -pointer > #InputDevice "mouse1" "CorePointer" > #InputDevice "mouse2" "CorePointer" Why not ha

Re: [Xpert]AA Fonts look smudged

2002-01-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Saturday 12 January 2002 15:42, you wrote: > Hello, > > I am using a 14" TFT 1024x768 LCD screen and I am trying out AA fonts for > the first time on a Mandrake system. I have used them on RH 7.2 at work > with a 17" CRT display and the result using Open Office makes even the most > hard line W

Re: [Xpert]*Severe* time lossage with XF86 4.1.0 and S3Virge MX LCD

2002-01-05 Thread John Tapsell
On Saturday 05 January 2002 18:26, you wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, John Tapsell wrote: > > but could you try with the latest 2.4 kernel? just to check - thanks. > > Tried *that*, too: 2.2.19, 2.4.4, 2.4.17 . No difference. If I'd had the > right binutils, I'd'

Re: [Xpert]*Severe* time lossage with XF86 4.1.0 and S3Virge MX LCD

2002-01-05 Thread John Tapsell
Hate to be an ass, but could you try with the latest 2.4 kernel? just to check - thanks. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert