Re: [forum] Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On 10 Jul 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

 I need to pick an extension for the bitmap-only SFNT fonts[1].  While
 these fonts use the same file format as TrueType and OpenType fonts,
 they do not fullfill the requirements of any of the four (!) TrueType
 specifications.  Apple calls them ``sfnt-wrapped bitmap fonts'',
 pfaedit calls them ``bitmap-only TTF fonts'', and Microsoft do not
 call them at all.  These fonts are refused by Windows XP.
 
 Because users expect files with a ttf or otf extension to contain
 scalable fonts, they need to have a different extension.  Such fonts
 are used by Apple (who do not use file extensions), but not by
 Microsoft (who do); hence, I believe I need to pick a new one.
 
 I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
 being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

I see that Julian also knows about .snf fonts (I think that suggestion 
that anyone still using them should move *into* the 1980s is a little
unfair - they need to move *out of* the 1980s).
Still .sfn is too close to .snf; I vote for .sfnt.

Andrew C Aitchison

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Re: GetImage with 8 bit pseudocolor on a 24/32 bit display

2003-07-10 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:51:59 -0400
 From: Matthew Tippett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: GetImage with 8 bit pseudocolor on a 24/32 bit display
 
 Hello,
 
 Trying to work through some problems that I am seeing with X.
 
 I have got a TrueColor Display running with 24 bit color (depth 32 bit). 
 Among the visuals available is an 8 bit pseudocolor.  A customer has a 
 requirement to use a legacy application that requires the pseudocolor 
 visual.

 When I run good old 'xv' with the 8 bit pseudocolor, GetImage does some 
 interesting things.  The net result is a SEGV in the server.  I am using 
 'xmag' to grab the

I'm not having this problem with a Matrox G550 in overlay mode.
Can I see your xdpyinfo ?
 
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Re: [forum] Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Alex Deucher
I prefer .sfnt as well.  we shouldn't feel limited by DOS.

Just my 2 cents...

Alex

--- Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 10 Jul 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
 
  I need to pick an extension for the bitmap-only SFNT fonts[1]. 
 While
  these fonts use the same file format as TrueType and OpenType
 fonts,
  they do not fullfill the requirements of any of the four (!)
 TrueType
  specifications.  Apple calls them ``sfnt-wrapped bitmap fonts'',
  pfaedit calls them ``bitmap-only TTF fonts'', and Microsoft do not
  call them at all.  These fonts are refused by Windows XP.
  
  Because users expect files with a ttf or otf extension to contain
  scalable fonts, they need to have a different extension.  Such
 fonts
  are used by Apple (who do not use file extensions), but not by
  Microsoft (who do); hence, I believe I need to pick a new one.
  
  I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
  being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.
 
 I see that Julian also knows about .snf fonts (I think that
 suggestion 
 that anyone still using them should move *into* the 1980s is a little
 unfair - they need to move *out of* the 1980s).
 Still .sfn is too close to .snf; I vote for .sfnt.
 
 Andrew C Aitchison
 
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Re: [forum] Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Alex Deucher
Plus most users will be on some un*x anyway.  Also users generally
don't have a problem with .html vs .htm and .jpeg vs .jpg, at least in
my experience.

Alex

--- Peter \Firefly\ Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote:
 
  I prefer .sfnt as well.  we shouldn't feel limited by DOS.
 
 Especially since it was fixed in DOS in '95 (Win 95) (*).
 There are also TSRs and drivers that will provide the long file names
 for
 just about any DOS, using the standard file format and the standard
 extended APIs.
 
 As far as I know DJGPP will use that API if the underlying DOS
 supports
 it.
 
 So why perform a voluntary lobotomy with regards to the file names?
 
 -Peter
 
 *) It's been 6+ years since I played with this in my DOS programs so
 my
 memory is hazy about whether or not MS-DOS 7.0 /without/ the
 graphical DOS
 extender (Win95) also provided those APIs.  I read something
 yesterday
 that indicated that it didn't.  But most people would use DOS from
 their
 Windows shells and the rest could use the aforementioned TSRs and
 drivers.
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Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Packard
Around 1 o'clock on Jul 10, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

 I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
 being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

While using four letter extensions would be nice, I'm afraid there remain 
file system formats which provide for only three letters that are commonly 
used in systems which run X.  Floppies, flash cards and other devices 
continue to use FAT file systems, and while there are kludges around to 
provide long file names, those aren't always well supported nor compatible.

So, if we accept only a four letter extension we will have issues 
distributing fonts on floppies, flash cards and USB keychain drives.

Juliusz suggests accepting either .sfnt or .sfn to work around this 
problem.  That's how the world deals with the .html extension -- software 
all knows that .html and .htm are equivalent.  I'd rather avoid this 
complexity in every new piece of software that deals with fonts (not that 
fontconfig or FreeType really care, but other pieces of software do).

Instead, I think we can probably come up with a single three letter 
extension to use; perhaps something like:

.ttb- true type 'bitmap' font
.otb- open type 'bitmap' font
.tts- true type 'sfnt' font
.ots- open type 'sfnt' font

.otb appears to be used for Nokia Phone Graphics files of some kind and 
.ots appears used by the OtsJuke application for sound files, but neither 
.ttb nor .tts appear used at the current time.

This is certainly not intended to be an exhaustive list of possibilities, 
but I would like to limit discussion to viable three letter extensions.

I agree with Andrew C Aitchison that the .sfn extension is probably a bad 
idea, both because it may be easily confused with .snf and also because 
SPX Fonts already use the .sfn extension.

-keith


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PLE133 driver source

2003-07-10 Thread Alex Deucher
I just saw this on VIA's website.  It looks like they just took Alan's
code and added some tv features (or perhaps just re-released his
code?).  I don't know if there are already in CVS or not, but for what
it's worth here's the link:
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=296
http://downloads.viaarena.com/LinuxApplicationNotes/RedHat/VIA_RH8.0_KPLE_v12a_03192003.zip

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Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:22:49AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
I need to pick an extension for the bitmap-only SFNT fonts[1].  While
these fonts use the same file format as TrueType and OpenType fonts,
they do not fullfill the requirements of any of the four (!) TrueType
specifications.  Apple calls them ``sfnt-wrapped bitmap fonts'',
pfaedit calls them ``bitmap-only TTF fonts'', and Microsoft do not
call them at all.  These fonts are refused by Windows XP.

Because users expect files with a ttf or otf extension to contain
scalable fonts, they need to have a different extension.  Such fonts
are used by Apple (who do not use file extensions), but not by
Microsoft (who do); hence, I believe I need to pick a new one.

I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

Opinions collected so far:

  - David Dawes doesn't have an opinion either way, but he'd like me to
consult with this list first.

With the proviso that there has been some research to determine that
nobody else is already using an extension for fonts like this, and that
the extension we choose isn't being used elsewhere to mean something
else.

David
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Bugzilla and XFree86 version

2003-07-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
A number of bug reports have gotten filed against XFree86 4.3 
which are actually CVS head bugs.  I think it makes sense to add 
CVS as a version also, so people can choose that too.

Might want to add CVS 4.3.99.n versions too, but that might be 
overkill.

I can report this in bugzilla against bugzilla so it is tracked, 
but I wanted to ask about it here first.



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Re: [Dri-devel] PLE133 driver source

2003-07-10 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:40:27AM -0700, Alex Deucher wrote:
 I just saw this on VIA's website.  It looks like they just took Alan's
 code and added some tv features (or perhaps just re-released his
 code?).  I don't know if there are already in CVS or not, but for what
 it's worth here's the link:
 http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=296
 http://downloads.viaarena.com/LinuxApplicationNotes/RedHat/VIA_RH8.0_KPLE_v12a_03192003.zip

In fact, they've updated some code slightly, so I'll add this in.

Thanks for the heads up Alex.

Alan.
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[Fonts] Re: [forum] Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On 10 Jul 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

 I need to pick an extension for the bitmap-only SFNT fonts[1].  While
 these fonts use the same file format as TrueType and OpenType fonts,
 they do not fullfill the requirements of any of the four (!) TrueType
 specifications.  Apple calls them ``sfnt-wrapped bitmap fonts'',
 pfaedit calls them ``bitmap-only TTF fonts'', and Microsoft do not
 call them at all.  These fonts are refused by Windows XP.
 
 Because users expect files with a ttf or otf extension to contain
 scalable fonts, they need to have a different extension.  Such fonts
 are used by Apple (who do not use file extensions), but not by
 Microsoft (who do); hence, I believe I need to pick a new one.
 
 I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
 being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

I see that Julian also knows about .snf fonts (I think that suggestion 
that anyone still using them should move *into* the 1980s is a little
unfair - they need to move *out of* the 1980s).
Still .sfn is too close to .snf; I vote for .sfnt.

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[Fonts] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread Keith Packard
Around 1 o'clock on Jul 10, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

 I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
 being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

While using four letter extensions would be nice, I'm afraid there remain 
file system formats which provide for only three letters that are commonly 
used in systems which run X.  Floppies, flash cards and other devices 
continue to use FAT file systems, and while there are kludges around to 
provide long file names, those aren't always well supported nor compatible.

So, if we accept only a four letter extension we will have issues 
distributing fonts on floppies, flash cards and USB keychain drives.

Juliusz suggests accepting either .sfnt or .sfn to work around this 
problem.  That's how the world deals with the .html extension -- software 
all knows that .html and .htm are equivalent.  I'd rather avoid this 
complexity in every new piece of software that deals with fonts (not that 
fontconfig or FreeType really care, but other pieces of software do).

Instead, I think we can probably come up with a single three letter 
extension to use; perhaps something like:

.ttb- true type 'bitmap' font
.otb- open type 'bitmap' font
.tts- true type 'sfnt' font
.ots- open type 'sfnt' font

.otb appears to be used for Nokia Phone Graphics files of some kind and 
.ots appears used by the OtsJuke application for sound files, but neither 
.ttb nor .tts appear used at the current time.

This is certainly not intended to be an exhaustive list of possibilities, 
but I would like to limit discussion to viable three letter extensions.

I agree with Andrew C Aitchison that the .sfn extension is probably a bad 
idea, both because it may be easily confused with .snf and also because 
SPX Fonts already use the .sfn extension.

-keith


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[Fonts] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:22:49AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
I need to pick an extension for the bitmap-only SFNT fonts[1].  While
these fonts use the same file format as TrueType and OpenType fonts,
they do not fullfill the requirements of any of the four (!) TrueType
specifications.  Apple calls them ``sfnt-wrapped bitmap fonts'',
pfaedit calls them ``bitmap-only TTF fonts'', and Microsoft do not
call them at all.  These fonts are refused by Windows XP.

Because users expect files with a ttf or otf extension to contain
scalable fonts, they need to have a different extension.  Such fonts
are used by Apple (who do not use file extensions), but not by
Microsoft (who do); hence, I believe I need to pick a new one.

I suggest they should have the extension ``.sfnt'', with ``.sfn''
being recognised for compatibility with 8+3 systems.

Opinions collected so far:

  - David Dawes doesn't have an opinion either way, but he'd like me to
consult with this list first.

With the proviso that there has been some research to determine that
nobody else is already using an extension for fonts like this, and that
the extension we choose isn't being used elsewhere to mean something
else.

David
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Re: [Fonts] Re: two different gb18030.2000-1 : Sun/Mozilla/Java vsRH

2003-07-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jungshik Shin wrote:

 Hat 7.3, at that time we have to use Mozilla with X core font. Since
 then the patch has been there almost unchanged.

 GB18030.2000* aliases were added purely because we want Mozilla working

(you made gb18030.2000-0 an alias to gbk-0, but you also made a new identity
mapping for gb18030.2000-1. They're different/separate issues that cannot
be aggregated with '*'.)

 As I wrote,  Mozilla's GB18030Font1 is NOT your gb18030.2000-1.enc BUT
Sun's gb18030.2000-1 (and what's proposed by James Su and Roland Mainz).
There's NO dispute about gb18030.2000-0. The question is about
gb18030.2000-1 (not '0'). With this difference, how could you make Mozilla
(non-Xft build) work with your gb18030.2000-1? Probably, it gave you
an impression that it worked either because you also had iso10646-1
fonts  or because you haven't checked BMP characters _outside_
the repertoire of gb18030.2000-0 with Mozilla.

 About the identical mapping in RedHat's GB18030.2000-1, it is because
 the inside compound encoding part is treating them as ISO10646 codes.
 
   This is a bit confusing.  How am I supposed to interpret this together
 with  the first sentennce in your reply? Do you need RH8's
 version of gb18030.2000-1.enc or not?

  This question of mine is about Compound text encoding. You began your
reply with  the following.

 Because RedHat XFree86 18030 patch's compound text encoding part was
 based on James Su's patch which was derived from UTF-8' code, it doesn't
 really need GB18030.2000-0.enc and GB18030.200-1.enc to be functioning.

   and then ended it with 'About the identical mapping
 the inside compound ... is treating them as ..'. To me it appears
to contradict each other.

   How would you propose the conflict between RH's gb18030.2000-1.enc and
 Solaris/Mozilla/Java's gb18030.2000-1 be solved?  Could you add your
 comment to http://bugs.xfree86.org//cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=441 ?

 What GB18030 compound encoding code has XFree86 decided to use? right
 now, there is even no GB18030 X locale definition in CVS,
 there is no
 conflict, just totally depends on how to approach the compound text
 encoding part.

Let me make it clear. The conflict is not inside XFree86 but
between RH8's gb18030.2000-1 on the one hand and Sun's and Mozilla's
gb18030.2000-1 (and what James Su and Romland Mainz proposed) on
the other hand.  It's regrettable that your patch hasn't been discussed
in open forums like fonts/i18n list of XFree86 IIRC (my memory sometimes
doesn't serve me well so that I may have missed it).

  Do you care which of two gb18030.2000-1's  is included
in XFree86, do you? If you don't care, you're willing to replace
RH's gb18030.2000-1.enc with that based on Sun's/Mozilla's/Java's
(as suggested by James Su in
http://www.mail-archive.com/fonts%40xfree86.org/msg01343.html
or by Roland in http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=441)

  Independent of compound text encoding, it's bad that gb18030.2000-1
has two different meanings. That's what I want to resolve here.
If you agree to go with Sun's version, we won't have to worry about
having to figure out which is which (although x11 core fonts
become less and less important...)

You sound like you've investigated this deep enough to be 
knowledgeable of the problems involved.  I'm definitely willing 
to change our XFree86 packages in both future OS releases and in 
any future erratum to be compliant with whatever is decided to be 
the proper solution by the X i18n community.

Just let me know what is required to fix the problem/incompatibility.

TIA


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[I18n] xrus doesn't write cyrillic

2003-07-10 Thread Ripalda-Marin, Miguel-Angel
Hello,

Nowadays I'm totally blocked after two weeks dealing with my keyboard, and
after browsing google.com looking for one solution to my problem.

I have XFree86 4.0.2 on an LinuxFromScratch-based distro (kernel 2.4.18)...
this machine have attached a customized keyboard (own-made antivandalic
one). I have to setup that keyboard to write both in cyrillic and latin
charsets.

I have followed the steps at URL
(http://www.math.nyu.edu/phd_students/krasnov/cyrillic_notes.html) and the
only thing I have customized is the *.xmm file that is passed to
~/xrus/bin/xrus to fit into my own keyboard.

When I launch my FVWM2 window manager, I start an xterm with the params
described, and launch the xrus app, it prints the following lines:
~$ ~/xrus/bin/xrus $HOME/xrus/share/xruskb/my-kbd.xmm
Warning: X locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default

The xterm doesn't print the cyrillic chars that I type at the keyboard, so I
tried with the tips that could collect at the WWW, just check for the
locale.alias and locale.dir to be OK, and export the LANG and MM_CHARSETS
environment variables to ru_RU.KOI8-R but it doesn't work...

Sure I'am doing something wrong, but I have no idea, whether it has
something to do with the way I built and configured XFree86 or anything
else...

Thans in advance and best regards,

Miguel Ángel

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[XFree86] X server crashes

2003-07-10 Thread partha_dhara
Sir/Madam,
 I was using Redhat linux 7.1 and the X server was running smoothly. Recently I have 
upgraded it to RedHat 7.3, now X server is not running. I am using S3 incorporate Trio 
video chipset with 4 MB vram. Xconfigurator is also not running , showing segmentation 
fault. I am sending my XF86Config and XFree86.0.log file as attachment.. Please help 
me.
Regards,
Partha Dhara
VARIABLE ENERGY CYCLOTRON CENTRE
1/AF, BIDHAN NAGAR, KOLKATA 700064 INDIA
PHONE:(091)(033)2337-1230 EXTN:3156


XF86Config
Description: Binary data


XFree86.0.log
Description: Binary data


[XFree86] Problem on Linux regarding startx

2003-07-10 Thread mahesh matha
Dear Sir/Madam, I have a peculiar problem while using
startx. My computer's microprocessor is Pentium 4. The
Linux installed on it is Red hat version 8.
Now the problem is as follows: When I type startx at
the command prompt, I get an error :
fatal server error
caught signal 8
server aborting. Then the command prompt is displayed
again.

I  request you to aid me in solving the problem. How
to make startx work properly.

The second point is : When I type startx -- -dip 100
startx works fine. This I had dione on the advice of a
friend. I do not know the underlying reason
for this. 

I would like to know 1)why startx does not work when I
type startx at the command prompt.
How to make it work (the solution)
Also why did startx work when I typed startx -- -dip
100.

I would be grateful if you will reply soon.

Thanking You,
Mahesh.

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RE: [XFree86] X problem

2003-07-10 Thread John_Tai
Dear Egbert,

Thank you for your reply. I did just as you said, and now I am able to run X. However, 
there are still some problems. In the desktop icons I cannot see the filenames. Also 
in the file manager, all filenames are empty. I thought it was something to do with 
the fonts, so I also installed all the font-related tarballs for XFree, but I still 
can't see the filenames. Is this a XFree problem? 

I also can't login using NIS user accounts, but I guess you cannot help me with that. 

Thank you again for your big big help. Hope you can help me with the font problem too.
 
Best Regards 
John Tai 




 


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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [XFree86] X problem



As you can see from the bottom of your log SiS 315 and 650 chips are
not supported by XFree86 4.1.0.
Please get the latest version.

Egbert.



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[XFree86] X-server configuration - regd.

2003-07-10 Thread Ravindran C



I havethe following:

Samsung Samtron 40Bn monitor

S3 Tro V2/DX card

86C775 RAMDAC Chip

1MB video RAM

I have installed REDHAT 7.1


when I run Xconfigurator, it hangs. When I 
try configuring using XFree86, I get an error stating that configuring is 
impossible using the current version of XFree86 as the card is not supported. 
Can someone guide me?

Thanks and regards

Ravindran


[XFree86] XFree86.0.log

2003-07-10 Thread sanju kumar
Sir,

I m using linux7.1 on sis650 chipset. I m not able to
configure my graphics. Plz help me to run Xwindows
system on my linux7.1 with sis650_740 graphics card. I
m sending the XFree86.0.log.

Waiting for ur helpful reply.

Thanx and regards...
Sanju Kumar




***
XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
Release Date: 16 March 2001
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your
card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version
before
reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.17-8smp i686 [ELF] 
Module Loader present
(==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Oct
 9 13:21:50 2002
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==)
default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II)
informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown.
(==) ServerLayout XFree86 Configured
(**) |--Screen Screen0 (0)
(**) |   |--Monitor SyncMaster
(**) |   |--Device My Video Card
(**) |--Input Device Mouse0
(**) |--Input Device Keyboard0
(**) Option XkbLayout us
(**) XKB: layout: us
(**) FontPath set to unix/:7100
(==) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
(==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
(--) using VT number 7

(II) Open APM successful
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.2
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: bitmap
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.2
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: pcidata
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x,
mode1Res1 = 0x8000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1039,0650 card 1019,0a44 rev
01 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1039,0001 card , rev
00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 1039,0008 card , rev
00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:2: chip 1039,7001 card 1019,0a44 rev
07 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:3: chip 1039,7001 card 1019,0a44 rev
07 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:5: chip 1039,5513 card 1019,0a44 rev
d0 class 01,01,80 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:02:7: chip 1039,7012 card 1019,0a44 rev
a0 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 10ec,8139 rev
10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 1039,6325 card 1019,0a44 rev
00 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) LoadModule: scanpci
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project
compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 0.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.3
(II) UnloadModule: scanpci
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL:
0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1  0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0e
(VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1  0xc000 - 0xc0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[1] -1  0xc400 - 0xc4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[2] -1  0xc800 - 0xc8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[3] -1  0xcc00 - 0xccff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0xed00 - 0xed0f (0x10) MX[B]
(II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1  0xe000 - 0xe7ff (0x800) MX[B]
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:2:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL:
0x00 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus -1 I/O range:
(II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range:
(II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range:
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) SiS unknown chipset (0x6325) rev 0,
Mem @ 0xe000/27, 0xed00/17, I/O @ 0xc000/7
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1  0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B]
[1] -1  0x - 0x (0x1) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1  0xffe0 - 0x (0x20) MX[B](B)
[1] -1  0x0010 - 0x3fff (0x3ff0) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1  0x000f - 0x000f (0x1) MX[B]
[3] -1  0x000c - 0x000e 

[XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer

2003-07-10 Thread james amen atayi
Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a file 
as a screen shot?  I have to capture for a long time the display. Doing it 
making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying to find out 
how to capture the video card output. in other way how can I record the screen 
as a movie file without making screen shots?
 
thank for your help

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[XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer

2003-07-10 Thread james amen atayi
Hallo!

Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a file 
as a screen shot?  I have to capture for a long time the display. Doing it 
making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying to find out 
how to capture the video card output. In other way, how can I record the 
screen as a movie file without making screen shots?
 
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[XFree86] problem running x on mac

2003-07-10 Thread M L Oh
x managed to startup for a few seconds before quitting  I needs help to 
solve this problem.  thanks in advance.
mac running os x ver 10.1.5.

below is the log:

XDarwin 1.2.0

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System

(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)

Release Date: 27 February 2003

	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is

	newer than the above date, look for a newer version before

	reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)

Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc.

Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.

_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).

Thus no job control in this shell.



Loading GLX bundle glxAGL.bundle (using Apple's OpenGL)

Display mode: Rootless Quartz

Screen 0 added: 1024x747 @ (0,21)

Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).

dyld: xterm can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib  (No such file 
or directory, errno = 2)

dyld: xterm can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib  (No such file 
or directory, errno = 2)

dyld: xterm can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib  (No such file 
or directory, errno = 2)

Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.

Display mode: Rootless Quartz

Screen 0 added: 1024x747 @ (0,21)

Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).

waiting for X server to shut down

Quitting XDarwin...

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[XFree86] XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread war
Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
xterm usually.

This NEVER occurs in telnet.
The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
when you try to do it again

Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.

I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?
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[XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Heydon
I am working on a DVD/MP3 playing machine that will be controlled entirely by 
keyboard/remote controll.

I am running XF86 4.3.0 and I want to hide the cursor. Is there anyway to make it 
invisible or move it to the bottom right corner of the screen or something similar?

I have tried setting the cursor to use other fonts but the best I have managed is a 
smallish dot, better but not perfect, plus if a window opens below the cursor it 
changes. I have tried changing HWCursor in XF86Config (nv driver) but i think that 
just switches over to software rendering.

Any advice would be much appreciated

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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Måns Rullgård
Michael Heydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 I am working on a DVD/MP3 playing machine that will be controlled
 entirely by keyboard/remote controll.

 I am running XF86 4.3.0 and I want to hide the cursor. Is there anyway
 to make it invisible or move it to the bottom right corner of the
 screen or something similar?

 I have tried setting the cursor to use other fonts but the best I have
 managed is a smallish dot, better but not perfect, plus if a window
 opens below the cursor it changes. I have tried changing HWCursor in
 XF86Config (nv driver) but i think that just switches over to software
 rendering.

Create a transparent bitmap and set the cursor to that.

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[XFree86] Strange problem with mouse cursor

2003-07-10 Thread Luca Micheletti
Hi all,

i'm using Linux Debian sarge distro.

I use sarge since last October without problems.

The last days i have installed a package (artwiz-cursor) for a better
look of my mouse pointer.

Initially no problems...after one day my mouse cursor become a square.

Then i have removed this package but the problem persist.

What may be the problem?

Thanks in advance and excuse me for my bad english.
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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Heydon
That still has the problem that it only stays as that image while over the root window 
(iirc).
is there any way to force the cursor to stay the same when it is over other windows?

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:47:53PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
 Michael Heydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  I am working on a DVD/MP3 playing machine that will be controlled
  entirely by keyboard/remote controll.
 
  I am running XF86 4.3.0 and I want to hide the cursor. Is there anyway
  to make it invisible or move it to the bottom right corner of the
  screen or something similar?
 
  I have tried setting the cursor to use other fonts but the best I have
  managed is a smallish dot, better but not perfect, plus if a window
  opens below the cursor it changes. I have tried changing HWCursor in
  XF86Config (nv driver) but i think that just switches over to software
  rendering.
 
 Create a transparent bitmap and set the cursor to that.
 
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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:47:53PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
 Michael Heydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Create a transparent bitmap and set the cursor to that.

Usual disclaimer: Only works for root window. Check the archives, it's
been discussed three times already in the last few days.

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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread Darren Tucker
war wrote:
 Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
 similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
 xterm usually.

Let me guess, you have firewalling/packet filter/NAT and the client and
server are on different subnets?  It's most likely an MTU problem,  see
[1].

Who looks after the OpenSSH FAQ?  I submitted this but never heard
anything.

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-devm=102413585608801

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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread war
 Let me guess, you have firewalling/packet filter/NAT and the client and
 server are on different subnets?  It's most likely an MTU problem,  see
 [1].

Usually yes, but this also occurs on a 100mbps switched lan with no packet
filtering in place.



On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Darren Tucker wrote:

 war wrote:
  Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
  similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
  xterm usually.

 Let me guess, you have firewalling/packet filter/NAT and the client and
 server are on different subnets?  It's most likely an MTU problem,  see
 [1].

 Who looks after the OpenSSH FAQ?  I submitted this but never heard
 anything.

 [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-devm=102413585608801

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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Peter \Firefly\ Lund
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Michael Heydon wrote:

 That still has the problem that it only stays as that image while over the root 
 window (iirc).
 is there any way to force the cursor to stay the same when it is over other windows?

Have a program walk the tree of windows regularly and force the cursor for
all the windows to be transparent.

It's a hack but it sorta works.  Once in a while a mouse cursor will be
visible briefly -- and some programs may become confused.  Perhaps you can
live with that?

Otherwise you'll have to hack the X server -- or write an X proxy that
translates the requests that set the mouse cursor shape :)

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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Måns Rullgård
Dennis Herbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Create a transparent bitmap and set the cursor to that.

 Usual disclaimer: Only works for root window. Check the archives, it's
 been discussed three times already in the last few days.

More precisely, it applies to the window for which you set the cursor.

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[XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer output

2003-07-10 Thread james amen atayi
Hallo!
 
Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a file 
as a screen shot?  I have to capture for a long time the display. Doing it 
making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying to find out 
how to capture the video card output. in other way how can I record the screen 
as a movie file without making screen shots?
 
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Re: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0 [Solved]

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Heydon
I suppose I should have looked their first :)
So much for my assumption that google has indexed the entire universe.

I ended up modifying a bit of code to do an XWarpPointer to send the mouse to the 
bottom left corner of the screen.

thanks
  Michael

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:10:22PM +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:47:53PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
  Michael Heydon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Create a transparent bitmap and set the cursor to that.
 
 Usual disclaimer: Only works for root window. Check the archives, it's
 been discussed three times already in the last few days.
 
 Greets,
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RE: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Oli Comber
What about having a very small, 'always on top', background-colour, 
transparent cursor window in the corner, and (periodically?) set the mouse 
coords to it..?

-Oli

= Original Message From Peter \Firefly\ Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Michael Heydon wrote:

 That still has the problem that it only stays as that image while over the 
root window (iirc).
 is there any way to force the cursor to stay the same when it is over other 
windows?

Have a program walk the tree of windows regularly and force the cursor for
all the windows to be transparent.

It's a hack but it sorta works.  Once in a while a mouse cursor will be
visible briefly -- and some programs may become confused.  Perhaps you can
live with that?

Otherwise you'll have to hack the X server -- or write an X proxy that
translates the requests that set the mouse cursor shape :)

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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

 Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
 similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
 xterm usually.

what version of xterm?
The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
months ago.


 This NEVER occurs in telnet.
 The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
 ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
 problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
 when you try to do it again

 Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
 seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.

 I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?


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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread war
Any version, currently using the latest stable, xterm-179.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

  Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
  similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
  xterm usually.

 what version of xterm?
 The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
 months ago.

 
  This NEVER occurs in telnet.
  The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
  ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
  problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
  when you try to do it again
 
  Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
  seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.
 
  I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?
 

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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

 Any version, currently using the latest stable, xterm-179.

There was a Debian bug report last week in this area, but it turned out to
be a bug in bash (I don't know more than that).


 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

  On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:
 
   Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
   similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
   xterm usually.
 
  what version of xterm?
  The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
  months ago.
 
  
   This NEVER occurs in telnet.
   The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
   ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
   problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
   when you try to do it again
  
   Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
   seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.
  
   I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?
  
 
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[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread war
Ok, next time I can reproduce this problem I will try csh/ksh other shells
and see, thanks for the insight.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

  Any version, currently using the latest stable, xterm-179.

 There was a Debian bug report last week in this area, but it turned out to
 be a bug in bash (I don't know more than that).

 
  On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
 
   On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:
  
Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
xterm usually.
  
   what version of xterm?
   The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
   months ago.
  
   
This NEVER occurs in telnet.
The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
when you try to do it again
   
Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.
   
I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?
   
  
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[XFree86] Problem with ATI Radeon 9000 and Proview LCD 15-inch 568/BMM568 monitor

2003-07-10 Thread Emilie et Sébastien WOLNIEWICZ
Hello,

I have a problem with  XFree86 X server :
  a.. Version of XFree86 : XFree86 Version 4.3.0
  b.. Operating System : Slackware 9.0
  c.. Video hardware : ATI Radeon 9000
  d.. Screen : Proview LCD 15-inch 568/BMM568
  e.. Description of the problem :  I can't start xserver.




XF86Config
Description: Binary data


XFree86.0.log
Description: Binary data


[XFree86] Re: XTerm OpenSSH question w/ freezing.

2003-07-10 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:

 Ok, next time I can reproduce this problem I will try csh/ksh other shells
 and see, thanks for the insight.

no problem (it may be the same problem, or one that I haven't read about).

 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:

  On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:
 
   Any version, currently using the latest stable, xterm-179.
 
  There was a Debian bug report last week in this area, but it turned out to
  be a bug in bash (I don't know more than that).
 
  
   On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
  
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, war wrote:
   
 Sometimes when I use openssh (latest) and do find . or ls -lR /dev or
 similiar, my xterm 'freezes up', there is no way to fix it but to kill the
 xterm usually.
   
what version of xterm?
The only issue that comes to mind is the fix for blinking cursor a few
months ago.
   

 This NEVER occurs in telnet.
 The error is completely reproducable when you come across it.
 ie: one may just be browsing the filesystem and when you come across this
 problem, you can launch another xterm and the EXACT same thing happens
 when you try to do it again

 Bug reports on similiar issues seem to be sparse and people I know never
 seem to have the problem, perhaps they use ssh from a windows machine.

 I was wondering what causes this, and is there a way to fix it?

   
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[XFree86] help: xfree can't start in mac

2003-07-10 Thread M L Oh
expert users please kindly guide me on the following problem: xfree v. 4.3.0 
installed in mac os x v. 10.1.5 starts for only a few seconds before 
quitting.

the following is the log:

XDarwin 1.2.0
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc.
Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
Loading GLX bundle glxAGL.bundle (using Apple's OpenGL)
Display mode: Rootless Quartz
Warning: no access to tty (Inappropriate ioctl for device).
Thus no job control in this shell.
Screen 0 added: 1024x747 @ (0,21)
Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).
dyld: xterm can't open library: /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib  (No such file 
or directory, errno = 2)

waiting for X server to shut down Using keymapping provided in 
/System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.

Display mode: Rootless Quartz

Screen 0 added: 1024x747 @ (0,21)

Screen 0 placed at X11 coordinate (0,0).

Quitting XDarwin...

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[XFree86] XFree86 and S3trio64V2 video card

2003-07-10 Thread Laerte Pereira
Mark,
 startx doesn't work. 
 Can you help me with this? 
  My PC:
  IBM Netfinity 5500
  video card S3trio64V2
  Linux Red Hat 8.0
  Thank you.
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[XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0 
from startx, and works fine, but on exit,
I don't have a screen, but i can type shutdown -r now, blindly, and 
it works. What is it?

I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a 
crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15.

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Re: [XFree86] Would you like to boost your career? i

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:25:59AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
David Dawes writes:
  On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:30:51PM -0400, News/Info wrote:
  Yeah you do have to be a member but even the guidelines say that their
  
  No, you don't have to be a member.  The member-only restriction was
  tried with the old newbie/xpert lists, and failed.  The relatively small
  amount of spam that gets through is preferable to having a list moderator
  manually scan through all non-members postings, which, at times, resulted
  in multi-week delays in posts getting through with those old lists.
  Not to mention that member-only is no substitute for a good filter,
  given that much of the virus mail going around these days appears to
  come from valid addresses that are likely to be list members.

The other downside of having an open list is that a considerable
number of answers never seem to make it to their destination.

The first time someone posts to this list, they get an auto-reply
informing them that they may not see the reply if they don't
subscribe.  For 99% of cases, they have enough time to subscribe if they
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replies.

There are a couple of sites that archive this list, so people can go check
there if they don't want to subscribe.

I think this issue is orthogonal to the one of member-only restrictions.

As I have pointed out in a postiong about a similar subject yesterday
even when doing a group reply the answer is only sent to the list, not
to the author in the From: field unless this author was clever enough
to add himself to Cc: - something that we cannot ask from our support
customers. 
And no, I'm convinced now that this is not a problem with my mailer as
the RFC clearly states that the Reply-To: filed has precendence over
the From: filed.

Well, I've never seen this problem.  The mailer I use (mutt) handles it
just fine.  But then, mutt is very flexible and configurable.

I have looked thru a long list of postings on this list and only very
few replies had the original author in the Cc. Since we cannot say
for sure who is subscribed (unless replying to a reply) we  
would always have to put the original author into the Cc: manually.
Something that seems to be forgotten most of the times. 

The question is if this could not be automated. If we can agree on
a solution we may be able to find somebody who'd volunteer to
help setting this up for us.

I don't believe that it can be automated in any useful way.

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Re: [XFree86] libXrender calling unfound symbol

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, gabe f wrote:

 where do I want to add it?

 -lXext 

  on the link line.  But I'm not sure that's your problem.
I don't have a reference to _XextFindDisplay in my libXrender.so.1.2.
There is, however, a XextFindDisplay.  Maybe your libXrender.so.1.2
and libXext are mismatched?

Mark.

 
 On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 08:38 PM, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
 
  On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, gabe f wrote:
 
I believe this is an x problem, not an aterm problem, based on the x
  server error.
I'm having a problem running aterm under 4.3.0. I recompiled aterm
  after installing 4.3.0, and reinstalled it. Now, when I run it I'm
  getting errors:
 
  /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol _XextFindDisplay called from
  aterm:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.2 at 0x401e50dc
 
  Was I missing some library when I compiled xfree86 4.3.0?
 
 Any extensions require that libXext is linked in.
 
 
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Re: [XFree86] Xinerama blacks out

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
   If you can get either to work individually when both are in the
machine, but they don't work simultaneously... assuming that 
not loading the GLX module doesn't make things better, it sounds
like a bug in the S3 driver.  I think I recall there being problems
at one time about it not setting its RAC flags correctly and 
subsequently not being able to work in multihead configurations
correctly.  That might be fixed in XFree86 4.3.

   If the S3 card doesn't work alone when the NVIDIA card is
in the machine, that probably due to the S3 driver not being
able to work on secondary cards.  Changing which card boots
via the motherboard bios can often fix that.


Mark.


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, McNeill Kirkpatrick wrote:

 I'm trying to dual head my display using an Nvidia geforce2 and a s3 virge
 board. Using the XF86Config file attached, I got X to run using both
 displays simply by commenting out the screen line in the server layout
 corresponding to the card I wouldn't be using. To get the virge card to
 work, however, I had to remove my nvidia card from my computer.If I
 don't take the nvidia card out, or if both screen lines are
 included(as they are in the attached file) when I type startx, my
 screen goes black, and nothing happens. I can't even ctl-alt-f1 to a
 console, and the only thing that works is rebooting via ctl-alt-delete.
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Re: [XFree86] Problem on Linux regarding startx

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
   Does running XFree86 instead of startx give you a
working server (without window manager of course, you'll need
to use ctrlaltbackspace to quit).

   When it did fatal error, was that from the server or from
the window manager?  If it's from the server it should 
show up at the end of the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file.


Mark.


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, mahesh matha wrote:

 Dear Sir/Madam, I have a peculiar problem while using
 startx. My computer's microprocessor is Pentium 4. The
 Linux installed on it is Red hat version 8.
 Now the problem is as follows: When I type startx at
 the command prompt, I get an error :
 fatal server error
 caught signal 8
 server aborting. Then the command prompt is displayed
 again.
 
 I  request you to aid me in solving the problem. How
 to make startx work properly.
 
 The second point is : When I type startx -- -dip 100
 startx works fine. This I had dione on the advice of a
 friend. I do not know the underlying reason
 for this. 
 
 I would like to know 1)why startx does not work when I
 type startx at the command prompt.
 How to make it work (the solution)
 Also why did startx work when I typed startx -- -dip
 100.
 
 I would be grateful if you will reply soon.
 
 Thanking You,
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[XFree86] Re: XFree86 and S3trio64V2 video card

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Vojkovich
  I don't know anything about the S3 driver.  Perhaps someone else
on this list knows.  Perhaps you'd get better results using the
vesa driver.

Mark.

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Laerte Pereira wrote:

 Mark,
  startx doesn't work. 
  Can you help me with this? 
   My PC:
   IBM Netfinity 5500
   video card S3trio64V2
   Linux Red Hat 8.0
   Thank you.
   Laerte.
 
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RE: [XFree86] Hide mouse pointer under XF86-4.3.0

2003-07-10 Thread Peter \Firefly\ Lund
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Oli Comber wrote:

 What about having a very small, 'always on top', background-colour,
 transparent cursor window in the corner, and (periodically?) set the mouse
 coords to it..?

Even better, I think.

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Re: [XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:22AM +0200, james amen atayi wrote:
 Hallo!
 
 Is it possible to directly read the video card output and save it into a file 
 as a screen shot?  I have to capture for a long time the display. Doing it 
 making screen shots is not a good solution. That why I'm trying to find out 
 how to capture the video card output. In other way, how can I record the 
 screen as a movie file without making screen shots?
  
 thank for your help

I'm not sure of anything specifically for making movies/animations out of
them, but there are several programs that can capture X protocol events,
such as xmon, xscope, and xlab. Also, you could run a VNC server and use
rfbproxy to capture its output.

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Re: [XFree86] read directly from the video card framebuffer

2003-07-10 Thread Peter \Firefly\ Lund
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Eric Christopherson wrote:

  how to capture the video card output. In other way, how can I record the
  screen as a movie file without making screen shots?
 
  thank for your help

 I'm not sure of anything specifically for making movies/animations out of
 them, but there are several programs that can capture X protocol events,
 such as xmon, xscope, and xlab. Also, you could run a VNC server and use
 rfbproxy to capture its output.

Maybe he could use a separate video capture card?

Otherwise I'd say that the only way to go would be to take screenshots
some number of times per second for as long as necessary but to get a
program to do it, of course.

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[XFree86] Xft Documentation

2003-07-10 Thread David Gmez
Hi all ;),

I looking documentation for the Xft 2.0 API. I've only a found a paper by
Keith Packard, and i don't know if it covers all the details of the last
version of Xft. Is there any more documentation I should know of?

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RE: [XFree86] XWINDOWS Crashed

2003-07-10 Thread Mx21725
Hello Mark,

Sorry to bother you but I made the test , change the lines as you told me ,
but I am still stuck !! :-(

I just replaced the line and it still not happy !

Do you know why suddently this didn't work anymore ?
I check on the Machine I re-install everything, and the font is
UNIX:7100
And seems to work fine at the moment !.. but for how long ???


Regards,

Stephane


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Subject: Re: [XFree86] XWINDOWS Crashed


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mx21725 wrote:

 Hi there,

 I am using RedHat v 8.0 on 2 different machines
 Suddently, one couldn't start anymore...
 Impossible to restart the Xserver...!!
 Having no time, I decided to re-install everything!!

 My second machine did exactly the sam thing
 I have the same problem !!! and this timne I would like to avoid
 re-installing everything !

 I sent a previous email where Mark told me to restart the XFS service 
 service xfs reload
 Unfortunately, the answer is FAILED

 What can I do ??

   Don't use a font server.  Put the following lines in the
Section Files of the XF86Config file.

   FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
   FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
   FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
   FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
   FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo



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# XFree86 4.2.0 configuration generated by Xconfigurator 4.10.7
# Red Hat Linux 6.0 and later use the xfs font server for improved
# interactive performance
# Module loading section

Section ServerLayout
Identifier XFree86 Configured
Screen  0  Screen0 0 0
InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer
InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard
EndSection

Section Files
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
FontPath   /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
EndSection

Section Module
# Load  record# X event recorder
# You only need the following two modules if you do not use xfs.
# Load  freetype   # TrueType font handler
# Load  type1 # Adobe Type 1 font handler
Load  dbe # Double-buffering
Load  GLcore  # OpenGL support
Load  dri # Direct rendering infrastructure
Load  glx # OpenGL X protocol interface
Load  extmod  # Misc. required extensions
Load  v4l # Video4Linux
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Keyboard0
Driver  keyboard
Option  XkbLayout gb
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier  Mouse0
Driver  mouse
Option  Device /dev/mouse
Option  Protocol PS/2
Option  Emulate3Buttons off
Option  ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier   My Monitor
VendorName   Unknown
ModelNameUnknown
HorizSync31.5 - 48.5
VertRefresh  50.0 - 90.0
Option  dpms
EndSection

Section Device
 # Option no_accel# You may enable this if there are timeouts when 
starting X
 #Option xaa_benchmark
Identifier  My Video Card
Driver  savage
BoardName   Unknown
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier  Linux Frame Buffer
Driver  fbdev
BoardName   Unknown
EndSection

Section Screen
Identifier Screen0
Device My Video Card
MonitorMy Monitor
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection Display
Depth 24
Modes1152x864
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 16
Modes1024x768 800x600 640x480
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section DRI
Mode 0666
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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Andy Goth
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
 Daniel Stone writes:
   I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
   just *wrong*.

 Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
 into the Reply-To.

Daniel is probably referring to:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Andy Goth wrote:

 On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
  Daniel Stone writes:
I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
just *wrong*.

  Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
  into the Reply-To.

 Daniel is probably referring to:

 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

... which expresses an opinion not that widely held.

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote:
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
 Daniel Stone writes:
   I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
   just *wrong*.

 Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
 into the Reply-To.

Daniel is probably referring to:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

This comes up from time to time, and has been for years.  There's no
point rehashing that particular matter of personal preference again.

If you want to force your own reply-to, you can.  It only gets set to
the list if you don't provide your own (this was broken, but has been
fixed again).  I'll continue to use mutt's 'l' reply method most of the
time, which sends replies to the list regardless of how the reply-to is
set.

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Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread Ken Thompson
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote:
 I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 4.3.0
 from startx, and works fine, but on exit,
 I don't have a screen, but i can type shutdown -r now, blindly, and
 it works. What is it?

 I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a
 crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15.

 gabe

I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA  Matrox 
etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use framebuffer 
mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back.
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[XFree86] X configuration on IBM Thinkpad A22p

2003-07-10 Thread Johnny Jones
I'm trying to get linux (Suse 8.1) running on my A22p Thinkpad but so
far I haven't had any success.  I've read one instance where someone
installed an older version and it worked fine, then upgraded and it kept
the same settings.  I tried doing this also.  I used Suse 7.3 and it
came up just fine.  However, when I upgraded to 8.0, it took a
nosedive.  It picks up the ATI Mobility M4 chip just fine.  I just can't
get it to use any of the monitor profiles for the lcd.  Below are the
XFConfig and the log file:

# /.../
# SaX generated XFree86 config file
# Created on: 2003-07-09.
#
# Version: 4.3
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (4.3)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
Section Files
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi
  FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest
  ModulePath   /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
  RgbPath  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
EndSection

Section ServerFlags
  Option   AllowMouseOpenFail
EndSection

Section Module
  Load dbe
  Load type1
  Load speedo
  Load extmod
  Load freetype
EndSection

Section InputDevice
  Driver   keyboard
  Identifier   Keyboard[0]
  Option   Protocol Standard
  Option   XkbKeyCodes xfree86
  Option   XkbLayout us
  Option   XkbModel pc104
  Option   XkbRules xfree86
EndSection

Section InputDevice
  Driver   mouse
  Identifier   Mouse[1]
  Option   Device /dev/psaux
  Option   Name AutoDetected
  Option   Protocol ps/2
  Option   Vendor AutoDetected
EndSection

Section Monitor
  HorizSync31-65
  Identifier   Monitor[0]
  ModelNameAutoDetected
  VendorName   AutoDetected
  VertRefresh  58-78
  UseModes Modes[0]
EndSection

Section Modes
  Identifier   Modes[0]
  Modeline 640x480 27.96 640 656 720 864 480 480 485 501
  Modeline 800x600 43.68 800 816 928 1072 600 600 606 626
  Modeline  1024x768 69.35 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 778 802
  Modeline  1024x768 79.55 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 778 802
EndSection

Section Screen
  DefaultDepth 16
  SubSection Display
Depth  16
Modes  1024x768  640x480 800x600
  EndSubSection
  Device   Device[0]
  Identifier   Screen[0]
  Monitor  Monitor[0]
EndSection

Section Device
  BoardNameAutoDetected
  Driver   r128
  Identifier   Device[0]
  Option   dpms
  VendorName   AutoDetected
EndSection

Section ServerLayout
  Identifier   Layout[all]
  InputDevice  Keyboard[0] CoreKeyboard
  InputDevice  Mouse[1] CorePointer
  Screen   Screen[0]
EndSection

Section DRI
Group  video
Mode   0660
EndSection








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Release Date: 23 January 2002
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Re: [XFree86] no screen after exiting X from startx

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
I disabled dbe, but I can still just barely read the text when back in 
terminal mode.
Like the text color is black, or something. I experienced text color 
being changed to
blue for a while, then I changed XF86Config, and this started happening 
- maybe
the config changes just changed the text color to a (much) darker blue? 
So, as a
workaround, how do I change the text color in terminal mode?

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Ken Thompson wrote:

On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:04 am, gabe f wrote:
I saw this posted in the groups, but no response there. I start X 
4.3.0
from startx, and works fine, but on exit,
I don't have a screen, but i can type shutdown -r now, blindly, and
it works. What is it?

I have an ati radeon 7500, and have the problem on both an lcd and a
crt monitor. I'm running fvwm 2.4.15.
gabe

I have had this happen with various higher level video cards, nVIDIA  
Matrox
etc. - what I have done to work around the problem is to not use 
framebuffer
mode. Set lilo to vga=normal and you should get your term screen back.
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[XFree86] Closing XDMCP without stopping processes?

2003-07-10 Thread Rene Bartsch
Hi,

I'm running a terminal-server with XFree86 4.3.0, XDMCP and KDE 3.1.

From SUN I know you can close the X-session without stopping
processes/programs/window-manager running on the server (just pull off
your smartcard from one terminal and put it into another one and keep on
working. The processes and window-manager have kept running in
background on the server).

Is that possible with XDMCP (I want to use power-management on the
terminals, so I need it)?


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Re: [XFree86] libXrender calling unfound symbol

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
Not sure what you mean. I don't have a reference to
_XextFindDisplay in my libXrender.so.1.2, either. I think the stabs only
contain symbols that it provides code for, not ones that are used by
it's code.
But, what file do I want to add the link to, I mean, what is the proper
user config file to edit for the Xrender library?
gabe

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, gabe f wrote:

where do I want to add it?
 -lXext

  on the link line.  But I'm not sure that's your problem.
I don't have a reference to _XextFindDisplay in my libXrender.so.1.2.
There is, however, a XextFindDisplay.  Maybe your libXrender.so.1.2
and libXext are mismatched?
			Mark.

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 08:38 PM, Mark Vojkovich wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, gabe f wrote:

  I believe this is an x problem, not an aterm problem, based on 
the x
server error.
  I'm having a problem running aterm under 4.3.0. I recompiled aterm
after installing 4.3.0, and reinstalled it. Now, when I run it I'm
getting errors:

/usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol _XextFindDisplay called from
aterm:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.2 at 0x401e50dc
Was I missing some library when I compiled xfree86 4.3.0?
   Any extensions require that libXext is linked in.

			Mark.

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[XFree86] xdm startup auth problem

2003-07-10 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi, I'm running 4.2.1 under freebsd 4.8.  I can run just xf86cfg or startx
with no problem, but running xdm I get:

AUDIT: Thu Jul 10 20:31:47 2003: 2422 X: client 2 rejected from local host
  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

I've seen this before ... shouldn't this be in a FAQ somewhere?

Thanks for any help!!!
Rich

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
   Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
   into the Reply-To.
 
  Daniel is probably referring to:
 
  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 
 ... which expresses an opinion not that widely held.

No, it's that widely held.  Been on mailing lists since I had a bang path.
It's harmful.  Believe me.

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Re: [XFree86] Would you like to boost your career? i

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:25:59AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
 The question is if this could not be automated. If we can agree on
 a solution we may be able to find somebody who'd volunteer to
 help setting this up for us.

record condition=broken
Yes, this can be done; this has been done; [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses
it and it works nicely; would you like a copy?
/record

:-)

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Re: [XFree86] Closing XDMCP without stopping processes?

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:03:59AM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote:
 I'm running a terminal-server with XFree86 4.3.0, XDMCP and KDE 3.1.
 
 From SUN I know you can close the X-session without stopping
 processes/programs/window-manager running on the server (just pull off
 your smartcard from one terminal and put it into another one and keep on
 working. The processes and window-manager have kept running in
 background on the server).
 
 Is that possible with XDMCP (I want to use power-management on the
 terminals, so I need it)?

If you need to be able to walk entire sessions around, you might want to
consider running the session on the server under Xvnc, and just running
vncviewer to connect to it.

I've done this for a small (6 seat) client office, and it works quite nicely,
though it does up your server requirements a tad (they're using a dual
PII-450 Dell Precision 410 with 640MB of ram and 100BaseT -- interactice
response times are quite reasonable).

Cheers,
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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
harmful in that it adds traffic to the list? I learn things by hearing 
replies that
people might have (inadvertantly) made direct to the author. If the 
reply-to
field was not munged people would have to choose to make the
threads readable by the list ( like a news group). If they didn't think 
about it,
or decided for some (shy/considerate) reason to make their responses not
to the group, then we'd really miss out on a lot of knowledge. my 2 
cents.

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:40 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list 
address
into the Reply-To.

Daniel is probably referring to:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
... which expresses an opinion not that widely held.
No, it's that widely held.  Been on mailing lists since I had a bang 
path.
It's harmful.  Believe me.

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 08:40:39PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:10:58PM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
   Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
   into the Reply-To.
 
  Daniel is probably referring to:
 
  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 
 ... which expresses an opinion not that widely held.

No, it's that widely held.  Been on mailing lists since I had a bang path.
It's harmful.  Believe me.

It's still an *opinion*.  11 years of dealing with XFree86 mailing
lists have shown me that for everyone who agrees with it, there is
at least one who disagrees.  The biggest difference is that those
who agree with it are more likely to be so fanatical about it that
they'll use their last breath to insist that it's a right vs wrong
issue rather than an *opinion*.

No amount of rehashing this tired old topic will serve any useful
purpose.

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:19:12PM -0400, David Dawes wrote:
 No, it's that widely held.  Been on mailing lists since I had a bang path.
 It's harmful.  Believe me.
 
 It's still an *opinion*.  11 years of dealing with XFree86 mailing
 lists have shown me that for everyone who agrees with it, there is
 at least one who disagrees.  The biggest difference is that those
 who agree with it are more likely to be so fanatical about it that
 they'll use their last breath to insist that it's a right vs wrong
 issue rather than an *opinion*.
 
 No amount of rehashing this tired old topic will serve any useful
 purpose.

It's not my list.

It *IS* probably a good idea to point out that the list does such munging at
the point of signup, though.  There have been divorces.  No, I'm not kidding.
... Yeah, an X Window list is *not* all that likely to cause a divorce.  :-)

And actually, no, it's not an opinion; it's a cost benefit analysis.  *I*
make the costs much higher than the benefits, and *that* is an opinion.  A
professional opinion; yes, I *do* make a living at this Internet stuff.

Cheers,
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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread gabe f
So then, why do you subscribe to the list, you could just read the 
emails on the website,
thereby saving all of that internet traffic, by only viewing the email 
body text  that appealed to you
by its subject, and you wouldn't have to deal with those harmful 
vacation auto-replies, either?

the internet has more than one field, by the way. I doubt you're in a 
personnel/user related
area.

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:21 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

It's not my list.

It *IS* probably a good idea to point out that the list does such 
munging at
the point of signup, though.  There have been divorces.  No, I'm not 
kidding.
... Yeah, an X Window list is *not* all that likely to cause a 
divorce.  :-)

And actually, no, it's not an opinion; it's a cost benefit analysis.  
*I*
make the costs much higher than the benefits, and *that* is an 
opinion.  A
professional opinion; yes, I *do* make a living at this Internet stuff.

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[XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:58:56PM -0400, gabe f wrote:
 So then, why do you subscribe to the list, you could just read the 
 emails on the website,
 thereby saving all of that internet traffic, by only viewing the email 
 body text  that appealed to you
 by its subject, and you wouldn't have to deal with those harmful 
 vacation auto-replies, either?

Cause I asked a question (which has drawn *no* replies, BTW -- mostly,
probably, cause I'd already asked the point guy on the topic and he didn't
know), and subscribing to follow the answers *is what you do*.  I stayed on
a) waiting to see if someone picked up the questions and b) in case someone
asked one I could answer -- much the same reason I'm on the Linux Gazette
Answer Gang.

 the internet has more than one field, by the way. I doubt you're in a 
 personnel/user related area.

Almost all of them in 20 years, except maybe BGP4.  *Lots* of front line user
hand-holding and training, in fact -- including teaching people how to work
their mail user agents for best effect.  So that poor configuration choices
on mailing lists won't bite *them*.  :-)

And between your attitude and David's, I must say, I can see why there was a
fuss with Keith, and why people suggested that he fork the project.  If y'all
can't be bothered to be polite anymore, go find something else to do, 'k?

No, really.  FOSS doesn't need any bad attitudes, even this late in it's
evolution.

Cheers,
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Re: [XFree86] Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:59:02PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

And between your attitude and David's, I must say, I can see why there was a
fuss with Keith, and why people suggested that he fork the project.  If y'all

I've been making that suggestion too.  Haven't seen anything come
of it yet.  Hopefully y'all won't have to wait too much longer.

can't be bothered to be polite anymore, go find something else to do, 'k?

No, really.  FOSS doesn't need any bad attitudes, even this late in it's
evolution.

If objecting to your misrepresentation of your opinion as right
vs wrong is a sign of a bad attitude, then cool.  I don't know
why you fail to consider that in a project as old as XFree86 this
tired old issue wasn't considered and dispatched a long long time
ago.  It was.

If you want to look at it as cost vs benefit, the benefit to the
subscribers (and archives) as a whole in maximising the chance that
they'll see all the discussions outweighs the cost of the occasional
misdirected private reply, in my experience over the life of XFree86.
It works for us.  Unlike you, I'm not claiming that one solution
is best for all situations.

As I said in another message today, you can set your own reply-to,
and it won't get overriden, so some of the stuff on Chip's page
doesn't even apply here.

A warning from the Surgeon General:  Mail sent to this list may
be infected by a reply-to header pointing back to the list.  Some
experts consider this harmful.  The most reliable way to avoid this
potential harm is to unsubscribe from this list.

:-)

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[XFree86] Re: Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

category.  Munging the RT violates the Principle of Least Astonishment rather
thoroughly, so even if it's a miswart, it's still worthy to be pointed out.

Personally, not that it matters at all in any way, but I prefer 
lists that do Reply-to pointing back to the list.  I wont go into 
my reasons, as they're identical to the reasoning of everyone 
else who prefers it this way.

The bare fact is, that reply-to munging flamewar threads have
occured on mailing lists since the first days that reply-to
munging started happening.  I must have been on at least 200 if
not 500 mailing lists which have had this exact same flamewar,
and not just once, but several times a year/month, and it creeps
back up again occasionally.  Not just on lists like this one
which set Reply-to to the list, but also on lists that *dont*,
where people are arguing that the list *should*.

Regardless of what *any* one person or 500 people think, this is
a completely preferential and controversial issue.  As
controversial as abortion, capital punishment, vi vs. emacs, or 
whatever your favourite 50/50 split flamewar is.

The bottom line, is that 50/50 split flamewars (or any ratio from 
about 40/60 to 60/40 or so) end up almost always in the end, 
or at least 99.9% of the time ending with no list change 
occuring.  Changing behaviour pisses off more people than it 
pleases, in particular if a list has had a certain behaviour for 
a long time.

As such, it is extremely pointless to demand that a given list
should change it's policy on this issue, regardless of what
datapoints you'd like to raise.  You won't raise even a single
datapoint that the list maintainers, and the majority of
subscribers are not already fully 100% aware of.  They just
disagree with you, and are not likely to change their line of
thinking no matter how much you disagree or how big of a flamewar
you'd like to make about it.  The best you can do, is agree to 
disagree and then move on to another topic - or unsubscribe.

Regardless of how a particular mailing list is ran with respect 
to Reply-To, _anyone_ who is bothered by a given list's policy, 
can easily change it on their end to suit their own preference.  

If you prefer Reply-To to point back to the mailing list, but the 
list does not do that, a simple procmail filter which moves any 
existing Reply-To to Cc, and puts the list address from From: or 
another header into the Reply-To will accomplish that (that's 
what I do).

If you prefer Reply-To: never replying to the list, then have 
procmail strip out the Reply-To: header, and optionally munge 
From: or CC: to Reply-To to simulate putting it back.

One thing is fairly certain however - you are very unlikely to
to change long term list policies/preferences to your way of 
doing things via flamewar, and not likely via any other 
mechanism, so just deal with it, or unsubscribe.



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Re: [XFree86] Re: Mailing list behaviour and etiquette, in general

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:33:10AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
 The bare fact is, that reply-to munging flamewar threads have
 occured on mailing lists since the first days that reply-to
 munging started happening.  I must have been on at least 200 if
 not 500 mailing lists which have had this exact same flamewar,
 and not just once, but several times a year/month, and it creeps
 back up again occasionally.  Not just on lists like this one
 which set Reply-to to the list, but also on lists that *dont*,
 where people are arguing that the list *should*.

I see the former all the time, as to you.

I've only ever seen the latter, maybe twice in 15 years.

I'd actually be fairly interested to see the relative percentages.

 Regardless of what *any* one person or 500 people think, this is
 a completely preferential and controversial issue.  As
 controversial as abortion, capital punishment, vi vs. emacs, or 
 whatever your favourite 50/50 split flamewar is.

Given safety (which is, admittedly, only an accurate description of the
benefit gained on certain types of mailing lists) versus convenience (which
is how *I* describe making easier for users something their *MUA* should be
making easier for them instead), it seems to be as obvious to me as the
smoking in bars issue -- for the smokers, it's only convenience, they're
gonna die of lung cancer *anyway*... but the non-smokers *weren't*. 

It isn't just the convenience issue the smokers paint it as, and they're
trumped.

 The bottom line, is that 50/50 split flamewars (or any ratio from 
 about 40/60 to 60/40 or so) end up almost always in the end, 
 or at least 99.9% of the time ending with no list change 
 occuring.  Changing behaviour pisses off more people than it 
 pleases, in particular if a list has had a certain behaviour for 
 a long time.

*That* I can't argue with.

 As such, it is extremely pointless to demand that a given list
 should change it's policy on this issue, regardless of what
 datapoints you'd like to raise.  You won't raise even a single
 datapoint that the list maintainers, and the majority of
 subscribers are not already fully 100% aware of.  They just
 disagree with you, and are not likely to change their line of
 thinking no matter how much you disagree or how big of a flamewar
 you'd like to make about it.  The best you can do, is agree to 
 disagree and then move on to another topic - or unsubscribe.

Pretty sure that I did *not* advocate *this list* changing anything, Mike.

Go re-check the thread.

Was merely expressing an opinion.

 Regardless of how a particular mailing list is ran with respect 
 to Reply-To, _anyone_ who is bothered by a given list's policy, 
 can easily change it on their end to suit their own preference.  

Well, not always.  *This* list permits user set RT's to go through, but some
lists do *not*, and in that case, your assertion is incorrect.

 If you prefer Reply-To to point back to the mailing list, but the 
 list does not do that, a simple procmail filter which moves any 
 existing Reply-To to Cc, and puts the list address from From: or 
 another header into the Reply-To will accomplish that (that's 
 what I do).

Note that the issue here is what does my message get to *list subscribers*
with a RT set to? -- an item I *cannot* control if the list doesn't permit
it.

I don't mind having my opinion ignored on this topic on lists... but let's
all be clear, shall we?

 If you prefer Reply-To: never replying to the list, then have 
 procmail strip out the Reply-To: header, and optionally munge 
 From: or CC: to Reply-To to simulate putting it back.

Why would I want to bother?  If I could run procmail, I'd just run mutt (or,
likely, one of the KDE mailers which probably also get it right) and not
worry about it.

 One thing is fairly certain however - you are very unlikely to
 to change long term list policies/preferences to your way of 
 doing things via flamewar, and not likely via any other 
 mechanism, so just deal with it, or unsubscribe.

Wasn't staring a flameware, Mike; not real pleased that you're trying to cast
me as *having* tried to start one...

and since the original question was is there an automated way to make sure
the querent gets an answer and *I've answered that twice, with an offer of
code and been ignored*, I reserve the right to be cranky for being bitched at
about the issue.

'k?

Cheers,
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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Andy Goth
On Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:12 pm, David Dawes wrote:
 On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote:
 On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
  Daniel Stone writes:
I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
just *wrong*.
 
  Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
  into the Reply-To.
 
 Daniel is probably referring to:
 
 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 This comes up from time to time, and has been for years.  There's no
 point rehashing that particular matter of personal preference again.

Sorry I brought it up... :^(  I didn't mean to start anything.  I just 
happened to remember seeing the words munge alongside reply-to and 
thought there might be a reference.  I will not reply to this thread again.

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Re: [XFree86] Xpert, Any software just for 15$ - 40$

2003-07-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:42:05AM -0500, Andy Goth wrote:
 On Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:12 pm, David Dawes wrote:
  On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:31:16PM -0500, Andy Goth wrote:
  On Tuesday, July 8, 2003 12:05 pm, Egbert Eich wrote:
   Daniel Stone writes:
 I also hope like hell Mailman isn't munging Reply-To, because that's
 just *wrong*.
  
   Hm, I don't know what you would call munging, it puts the list address
   into the Reply-To.
  
  Daniel is probably referring to:
  
  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 
  This comes up from time to time, and has been for years.  There's no
  point rehashing that particular matter of personal preference again.
 
 Sorry I brought it up... :^(  I didn't mean to start anything.  I just 
 happened to remember seeing the words munge alongside reply-to and 
 thought there might be a reference.  I will not reply to this thread again.

Don't worry, Andy; it's me they're yelling at.  :-)

Cheers,
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