Re: Problems with SiS730S and 4.2.0-0pre1v2

2002-08-20 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi!

 All works as expected but:
 - I can't use my tty0-tty6
 - Before I can use X, I have to do a console switch
 - I didn't requested a fbdev, but after switching from 3.3.6 to
   4.2.0, lsmod shows me sisfb (maybe this leads to black consoles).

Today I found http://www.winischhofer.net/sisdri.shtml.
Seems to be the xfree86 sis maintainers website. I disabled DRI and my
SiS 730 worked as expected. I hope this helps someone.

sis_dri needs sisfb - in 4.2.0-0pre1v2 a nogo. Maybe I give new driver
versions a try and report it my possible success.

so long
Thomas

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Re: trident noise

2002-08-20 Thread Karl Hammar

  for inexpensive hardware. However, as soon as X is loaded and a window
  is perturbed, the sound card goes insane.
 
  Now, if I remember my history, PCI video card manufacturers discovered
  at some point that they could lengthen the little bars produced by
  WinBench by a few percent if they wrote blindly to the instruction
  queue on the video card.
 
 Exactly.
 
  I can't imagine that Branden had anything to do with this, so is
  probably an upstream problem.
 
 Yep.  Try adding ``Option PciRetry true'' to your Device section.
 Upstream is trying to be benchmark- rather than user-friendly.
 
 (To expand on that: the XFree86 4 client scheduler specially optimises
 the case of a single client.  That only happens when benchmarking.)
 
 Juliusz
...

I have the same motherboard with their fanless 533MHz processor.
The system has the problem that switching to text console and back
(c-a-f1, a-f9) makes the screen dark (as if it was off), and after
a little fiddling trying different options, look as if the horizontal
lines are not properly synced and the screen is darker.

  Blindly trying things:

Lowering HorizSync or VertRefresh or setting or clearing NoPciBurst,
PciRetry, CyberShadow, or CyberStretch gives me the not synced look.

Setting NoAccel, NoMMIO, ShadowFB, or SWcursor to true gives you a
dark screen (the monitor behaves as if the computer is powered off).

Do anyone have any suggestions.
I use this as an potential netbooting, no noise, low cost xterminal. 

Regards,
/Karl

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xfree86 4.2.0-0pre1v3 (source,i386) available at the X Strike Force

2002-08-20 Thread Branden Robinson
Changes: 
 xfree86 (4.2.0-0pre1v3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
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   *** debian-x@lists.debian.org.  DO NOT FILE BUGS AGAINST THIS RELEASE WITH
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   * TODO: more mips weirdness; somehow BuildHtmlManPages is getting set to YES
 .
   * patch #000_post_xf-4_2_0:
 - include DPMS fix for r128 driver (thanks to Stuart Anderson for pulling
   the patch over to xf-4_2-branch)
   * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD:
 - Fix SEGV in 3dfx DRI driver. (Alan Hourihane)
 - Fix enabling of i810 DRI when XvMC is disabled (#5208, Matthew Sottek,
   Intel).
   * patch #000_stolen_from_HEAD_nv_driver:
 - Refence the nv driver.  PPC and Alpha users should test this.
   Especially to see if this solves the problem with color expansion hangs.
   (Mark Vojkovich)
 .
   * patch #001: turn off modular XFree86 server for MIPS architectures since
 the ELF loader isn't yet working on those platforms, per Guido Guenther
   * patch #075: new; don't ship the XIE headers if we're not building the
 library
   * patch #076: new; xterm now works around hateful lies from GNU libc's
 getpt() function (see #121899)
   * patch #077: new; define DriverManSuffix as 4x and MiscManSuffix as 7x on
 GNU and Linux systems per suggestion from Colin Watson (see #157020)
 (Closes: #85297)
   * patch #078: new; fix i810 crash on VT switch due to call to Sync() while
 switched away (Andris Pavenis) (Closes: #78395)
   * patch #313: new; tell xdm that more architectures have fragile /dev/mem
 devices (i.e., only read above 1MB) (might fix #107311)
   * patch #600: new; patch from Guido Guenther to fix some newport driver
 bugs:
 - broken 24bpp mode setup
 - black console after starting X
 - screensaver blanking the console
 - off-by-one errors in the RefreshArea code
 .
   * debian/MANIFEST.*: updated
   * debian/control:
 - new package: xserver-xfree86-dbg -- a monolithic XFree86
   server binary complete with debugging symbols for your SEGV backtracing
   pleasure
 - add ${shlibs:Depends} for library debugging packages
   * debian/local/{XF86Config.7,Xsession.5,Xsession.options.5,
 Xwrapper.config.5,dexconf.8,update-fonts-alias.8,update-fonts-dir.8,
 update-fonts-scale.8,xdm.options.5,xfs.options.5,xvfb-run.1}: update
 manpage reference to reflect change from patch #077 (see above)
   * debian/local/Xsession: remove unused *MODMAP variables (see #157396)
   * debian/local/update-fonts-alias: only start writing new alias file if
 there are any aliases to process (thanks, Ian Zimmerman) (Closes: #144780)
   * debian/rules:
 - new rules; genscripts and cleanscript, and some miscellaneous
   cleanup
 - add infrastructure to support new xserver-xfree86-dbg package
 - add workaround for dpkg-shlibdeps brain damage so that xlibs does not
   end up depending on itself (see #80340)
   * debian/{xdm,xfs}.postinst.in: only invoke update-rc.d if init script
 exists (user may have removed it) (Closes: #151023)
   * debian/xfree86-common.files: update to new manpage filenames (see above)
   * debian/xfree86-common.postinst.in: include a confmodule-sourcing
 fragment
   * debian/xlibs.links: remove obsolete symlinks to XIE and PEX5 libraries
   * debian/xlibs.shlibs.dummy: kludge file to work around dpkg-dev bug #80340
 (see above)
   * debian/xserver-xfree86-dbg.files: new; ship XFree86-debug executable
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.files*: update to new manpage filenames (see above)
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.files.hppa: ship nv(4) manpage
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.files.m68k: ship driver modules and manpages for nv
 and savage drivers
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.files.mips: remove server modules (see above)
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.files.powerpc: ship driver modules and manpages for
 nv and savage drivers
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.templates:
 - document that the maximum supported color depth is 8 on old ATI hardware
   (see #76291)
 - mention that the vbe module depends on the int10 module
   (Closes: #139755)
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.templates.nl: added Dutch translation (needs
 update) (thanks, Wouter Verhelst) (Closes: #139231)
   * debian/xserver-xfree86.templates.sv: updated Swedish translation (thanks,
 Mikael Hedin) (Closes: #143477)

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Re: trident noise

2002-08-20 Thread Thatcher Ulrich
On Aug 21, 2002 at 12:11 +0200, Karl Hammar wrote:
 
 I have the same motherboard with their fanless 533MHz processor.
 The system has the problem that switching to text console and back
 (c-a-f1, a-f9) makes the screen dark (as if it was off), and after
 a little fiddling trying different options, look as if the horizontal
 lines are not properly synced and the screen is darker.

I had a similar problem on my laptop (Acer 340T using Trident
CyberBlade) with XFree86 4.1.0.  Switching back to X from console, or
waking up from suspend, caused the screen to bloom, which I believe
is a symptom of improper sync timings.  The problem went away when I
upgraded to 4.2.0.

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