Mouse driver event posting question

2004-01-18 Thread Jonas Wulff
 Hello everyone,
I need some help. I don't know if this is the right mailing list for this 
matter, but as the general list denies development issues it seemed to me 
like the at least most appropriate.

Currently I am working on an application which enables you to use two webcams, 
mounted on the top of your monitor or everywhere else, as a kind of optical 
mouse. The nearest object (which would be your finger or another pointing 
device) gets detected and its room coordinates are calculated.

The point with this project (and what makes it different from other project 
like the Nouse application) is that I want to bring it to real-life usage. 
That means I am also writing a mouse driver for XFree86 which lets you use 
this technology in your everyday work. The driver and the calculating 
application communicate via a certain shared memory area. So far so good.

But now here's my problem. For the MouseReadInput function in mouse.c to be 
executed, an event has to be emitted (at least it seems so, for with the 
normal driver it is only executed when I move the mouse). But I am kind of a 
newbiew concerning driver internal programming, so... Could anybody explain 
this occurence to me? Is an event for the specific device emitted if the data 
you get with read(/dev/mouse...) (or whatever device the driver is set to 
in xfree86config) changes? or does the mouse send a certain signal? and where 
does it get processed?

I hope someone can help...

Thank you,

Regards
  Jonas Wulff

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Re: Module / Driver Loading

2004-01-18 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 06:10:27PM +1100, Andrew Bevitt wrote:
Hello,

Ive been looking into the module loaders available in XFree86 at the moment 
elfloader, coffloader, aoutloader, and importantly dlloader. What Im trying 
to do is establish a working XFree86 system under PaX which requires noexec 
off the stack, as far as tests seem to go this appears to be suited to the  
dlloader system.

Im basically stuck on the symbol resolution for drivers and modules though ive 
been looking at the elfloader code to try and establish an idea but the  
stuctures for the modules are very different.

If I have say a video driver which relies on the xaa module (the list of  
REQUIRED symbols contains symbols from libxaa). How do I find the module that 
those symbols exist in though without either  
A) Specifying : Load xaa in XF86Config;
B) Recursively loading every module until the symbol is resolved.

Or does XFree86 automagically load each dependent module and then leave it to 
the programmer to ensure proper listing order of the symbols so that each 
symbol is accessable where needed?

The driver loads whatever modules it uses directly, and only when it
needs them (for example, the xaa module is typically loaded from the
driver with by calling: xf86LoadSubModule(pScrn, xaa).  Also, a driver
would not load this module if the user has set the NoAccel option,
because it knows that it will never reference it in that case.  The
symbol lists are not a mandatory part of the loader mechanism.  They
are only there for sanity checking and debugging.

This scheme doesn't work with dlloader.  The current dlloader is only
useful for debugging purposes and for special cases (like the glide
driver) where an external shared library is needed.

Maybe dlloader could be rewritten to do the actual loading internally
instead of using system-provided dlopen()/dlsym(), and achieve the same
symbol resolution semantics as the other loaders.

Looking into this is on my todo list, but I'm interested in it more from
the point of view of allowing modules better access to interfaces provided
by external shared libraries.  If you want to follow it up, I'd suggest
using the patches I have for elfloader as a reference for the loader
semantics.  While some of the implementation details may change in future
revisions, the patches that I have available now show how elfloader
should work.  There is a link to the patches at
http://www.x-oz.com/loader.html.

David
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Re: [GATOS]how to check if hardware mpeg2 decoder is working

2004-01-18 Thread William M. Quarles
William M. Quarles wrote:
Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

-the AGP bandwidth problems are not an XFree86 bug, but are a GATOS 
bug,
right?  Because I only have problems with display speed when using the
GATOS drivers.
-I've got a Pentium III, so it is not just an Athlon/Duron problem.


No, GATOS code does not mess with AGP or mtrr. There was some issue 
with
mtrr settings - whereby the framebuffer region was not properly marked,
this manifested (due to different causes) with both Athlons and 
Pentiums.
I don't remember the details..

However, I would have expected that this has been fixed in new kernels.

 best

Vladimir Dergachev



There was an issue with Athlon/Duron AGP bandwidth issues that arose in
Xfree 4.3.0, and was unaffected by GATOS drivers.  A later kernel update
made it a bit better, but I do still get better xv throughput on my PCI
Rage128 card, than my AGP(4x) Radeon8500 card.  The AGP bandwidth issue
affects only Athlon systems using older =266 MHz chipsetsmade by Via,
and does not affect DRI bandwidth.
It sounds as if your problem is something different.


If remember right the problem was that AGP space and framebuffer space
could both be referenced by CPU in more than one way. It had something to
do with O_SYNC flag being added when opening /dev/mem which effectively
turned off mtrr settings. The problem was first noticed on Athlons, but
then a similar effect was noticed with Pentiums.
XFree86 4.2.0 does not exhibit this problem because (AFAIK.. ) it did not
use O_SYNC flag when opening /dev/mem.
My understanding is that with O_SYNC flag we describe two kinds of
behaviour:  when data is written right away and when the write can be
delayed by the kernel.
However, with mttr the meaning of written right away splits in two 
parts
  written right away, even a single byte (used for access to registers)
 and written right away, grouped into blocks for fast transfer (used 
for
access to framebuffer memory). Note that grouping into blocks is done by
the hardware, not the kernel.

So, when XFree86 4.3.0 uses O_SYNC flag to open /dev/mem l-k sets mtrr to
written right away, even a single byte and direct writes to framebuffer
(as needed for transfer of Xv images) become a lot slower.
Now that I have written all this it occurred to me that I too seen some
slowdown after installing GATOS drivers. It might be that whatever
workaround is employed breaks when GATOS reprograms the memory controller
on Radeons. Now how this could happen I have no idea, as Radeon memory
controller is completely separate from mtrr.
Could someone correct me please ? (CC'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

 best

Vladimir Dergachev

I noticed the slowdown most profoundly on this 3D game called Chromium. 
 It acts like I'm not getting acceleration.  DVD playback was also a bit 
finicky.  I'm using an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon.  Then again, I'm also 
using the Red Hat kernel.  Although this kernel variant generally 
performs better because of low latency patches and 2.6 DRM, may not be 
100% GATOS friendly.  I'll try the latest standard 2.4 kernel and report.

Peace,
William
I tried the standard Linux kernel with the GATOS drivers, and there was 
no improvement in graphics performance over using the Red Hat kernel and 
the GATOS drivers.  2D graphics are slow, 3D graphics are ridiculously 
slower.  The drivers included with the kernel packages work much better. 
 Something is definitely wrong with the GATOS drivers for XFree86 4.3.

Peace,
William
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Re: [GATOS]how to check if hardware mpeg2 decoder is working

2004-01-18 Thread William M. Quarles
Francesco wrote:
Christopher Crawford wrote:

William M. Quarles wrote:

William M. Quarles wrote:

Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

-the AGP bandwidth problems are not an XFree86 bug, but are a 
GATOS bug,
right?  Because I only have problems with display speed when 
using the
GATOS drivers.
-I've got a Pentium III, so it is not just an Athlon/Duron problem.


No, GATOS code does not mess with AGP or mtrr. There was some 
issue with
mtrr settings - whereby the framebuffer region was not properly 
marked,
this manifested (due to different causes) with both Athlons and 
Pentiums.
I don't remember the details..

However, I would have expected that this has been fixed in new 
kernels.

 best

Vladimir Dergachev



There was an issue with Athlon/Duron AGP bandwidth issues that 
arose in
Xfree 4.3.0, and was unaffected by GATOS drivers.  A later kernel 
update
made it a bit better, but I do still get better xv throughput on 
my PCI
Rage128 card, than my AGP(4x) Radeon8500 card.  The AGP bandwidth 
issue
affects only Athlon systems using older =266 MHz chipsetsmade by 
Via,
and does not affect DRI bandwidth.

It sounds as if your problem is something different.






If remember right the problem was that AGP space and framebuffer space
could both be referenced by CPU in more than one way. It had 
something to
do with O_SYNC flag being added when opening /dev/mem which 
effectively
turned off mtrr settings. The problem was first noticed on Athlons, 
but
then a similar effect was noticed with Pentiums.

XFree86 4.2.0 does not exhibit this problem because (AFAIK.. ) it 
did not
use O_SYNC flag when opening /dev/mem.

My understanding is that with O_SYNC flag we describe two kinds of
behaviour:  when data is written right away and when the write can be
delayed by the kernel.
However, with mttr the meaning of written right away splits in 
two parts
  written right away, even a single byte (used for access to 
registers)
 and written right away, grouped into blocks for fast transfer 
(used for
access to framebuffer memory). Note that grouping into blocks is 
done by
the hardware, not the kernel.

So, when XFree86 4.3.0 uses O_SYNC flag to open /dev/mem l-k sets 
mtrr to
written right away, even a single byte and direct writes to 
framebuffer
(as needed for transfer of Xv images) become a lot slower.

Now that I have written all this it occurred to me that I too seen 
some
slowdown after installing GATOS drivers. It might be that whatever
workaround is employed breaks when GATOS reprograms the memory 
controller
on Radeons. Now how this could happen I have no idea, as Radeon memory
controller is completely separate from mtrr.

Could someone correct me please ? (CC'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

 best

Vladimir Dergachev

I noticed the slowdown most profoundly on this 3D game called 
Chromium.  It acts like I'm not getting acceleration.  DVD playback 
was also a bit finicky.  I'm using an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon.  
Then again, I'm also using the Red Hat kernel.  Although this kernel 
variant generally performs better because of low latency patches and 
2.6 DRM, may not be 100% GATOS friendly.  I'll try the latest 
standard 2.4 kernel and report.

Peace,
William
I tried the standard Linux kernel with the GATOS drivers, and there 
was no improvement in graphics performance over using the Red Hat 
kernel and the GATOS drivers.  2D graphics are slow, 3D graphics are 
ridiculously slower.  The drivers included with the kernel packages 
work much better.  Something is definitely wrong with the GATOS 
drivers for XFree86 4.3.

Peace,
William

What frame rate do you get from glxgears??  Please include resolution 
and color depth.

I get 2400fps (default) with X4.3 w/ati.2 @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@24bpp.

AthonXP 1700+ w/512MB DDR  4x AGP AiW Radeon8500DV


Well, then my results are too low too. I have X4.3 w ati.2 
@[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel 2.4.23 and I only get ~1400 FPS with glxgears
My system is AthlonXP [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Radeon 8500LE

How do I check if I have this problem with AGP bandwidth?


Are you guys multiplying by 10 or is my hardware just a whole lot slower?

With the GATOS drivers, I'm getting around 170 fps.  With the Red Hat 
drivers, I'm getting around 798 fps.  So there is definitely more than a 
significant slow-down in the GATOS drivers.

Pentium III 1.1 GHz (100 Mhz FSB), 256 MB ECC SDRAM, ATI All-In Wonder 
Radeon AGP running at 2x, 1024x768 24 bpp.

Peace,
William
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Re: Module / Driver Loading

2004-01-18 Thread Andrew Bevitt
 This scheme doesn't work with dlloader.  The current dlloader is only
 useful for debugging purposes and for special cases (like the glide
 driver) where an external shared library is needed.

Why doesnt the scheme work though, the interface to the module is only 
redefined in 3 drivers, and still I cant see how the differences effect the 
usage in regards to loading necesary modules / libraries.

 Maybe dlloader could be rewritten to do the actual loading internally
 instead of using system-provided dlopen()/dlsym(), and achieve the same
 symbol resolution semantics as the other loaders.

What im basically trying to do is eliminate the calls to malloc as this causes 
an execution on the heap, something that will not work under the enhanced 
security of this system. 

 Looking into this is on my todo list, but I'm interested in it more from
 the point of view of allowing modules better access to interfaces provided
 by external shared libraries.

Thats fine but essentially it comes down to determining what to load without 
the user having to specify this manually, which is where the current dlloader 
model breaks down.

Andrew Bevitt
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Re: [GATOS]how to check if hardware mpeg2 decoder is working

2004-01-18 Thread William M. Quarles
Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
Well, then my results are too low too. I have X4.3 w ati.2
@[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel 2.4.23 and I only get ~1400 FPS with glxgears
My system is AthlonXP [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Radeon 8500LE
How do I check if I have this problem with AGP bandwidth?


Are you guys multiplying by 10 or is my hardware just a whole lot slower?

With the GATOS drivers, I'm getting around 170 fps.  With the Red Hat
drivers, I'm getting around 798 fps.  So there is definitely more than a
significant slow-down in the GATOS drivers.


Is this fullscreen or in the default window ? If the latter, than this
speed is indicative of no acceleration at all - what does glxinfo
tell you ?
   best

 Vladimir Dergachev


Pentium III 1.1 GHz (100 Mhz FSB), 256 MB ECC SDRAM, ATI All-In Wonder
Radeon AGP running at 2x, 1024x768 24 bpp.
Peace,
William
Attached are the two glxinfo outputs.  They are in fact different.  The 
Red Hat one is still a bit disappointing because it says that my card is 
only running at 1x.  Does anybody know how to get it going at 2x?

Thanks,
William
name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, 
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, 
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, 
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, 
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, 
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, 
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, 
GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, 
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_texture3D, 
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, 
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, 
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array, 
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_MESA_window_pos, 
GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_SGI_color_matrix, 
GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

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server glx vendor string: SGI
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server glx extensions:
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client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
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GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, 
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, 

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Re: [XFree86] Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread auto68980
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 It would probably be better to tell Red Hat (or your favorite
linux
 distributor) about this, if they have a feature-request page
somewhere.

I use debian. If there is something similar I would like to heard
about it.

But, this can direct to the distro/desktop babel..., when we are
using the
same XFree ( that creates the problem and can offer an universal
solution).

http://www.xfree86.org/mission.html

The above link should point you in the direction of the appropriate vector
to voice your concerns.

 So, it's very unlikely at least on the distribution side of
 things, that the XFree86 config file is going to be presented
to
 end users in any way other than what it is currently, which is
to
 edit the file using a text editor as root if required.

If you know what root is. Sometime ago, my distro-er said the floppy
disk
were mounted. But it wasn´t . I had to mount it handly. When you
are just a
newbie, a copy to floppy is risk-less and can help to solve the
problem
(i.e. the user can send it to the technical service using a graphical
email
program in a good-working operating system in another partition
).

This list isn't a technical service, it's a discussion list upon which
members of the XFree86 community volunteer their free time to help others,
 see:

http://www.xfree86.org/mission.html#operation

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Re: [XFree86] Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro M.
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Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [XFree86] Re: Improvement


 But, this can direct to the distro/desktop babel..., when we are
 using the
 same XFree ( that creates the problem and can offer an universal
 solution).

 http://www.xfree86.org/mission.html

 The above link should point you in the direction of the appropriate vector
 to voice your concerns.

Specially interesting :


- Protecting, preserving, promoting and extending code stability, quality,
design and architectural direction.
-  Resolving conflicts that may arise between different technical solutions
to the same problem.

I would like to see XFSetup (RedHat) and Xconfigurator within X .

Why when i go to Windows the first time, it goes in a low resolution and
frequency and no in XFree ??.

If everything is OK (after installation = first time) I can change the
resolution, frequency and so on from the same Gnome or another desktop
manager.

I suggest try ( during installation) by default the 800X600 mode and a low
refresh frequency ( if there is not plug and play autodetection).


 This list isn't a technical service, it's a discussion list upon which
 members of the XFree86 community volunteer their free time to help others,
  see:

 http://www.xfree86.org/mission.html#operation

 X0

Windows, for sure is not too...But finally, you recieve the ask form the
users.

Sorry, but I think things can be done better easily ...

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Re: [XFree86] Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread auto68980
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Sorry, but I think things can be done better easily ...

Perhaps you are right. But I'm not the person who needs convincing, I
am able to cope sufficiently with how things are now, despite my unsupported
hardware. And this probably isn't the appropriate communication vector;
if you are really interested, you should probably contribute your ideas
to the discussion forum:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Maybe you will get some support, who knows?

If you are really dedicated, you should probably learn about the software
architecture of the system, or befriend someone who already knows. Since
it is easy to say that Z idea would be great, but without knowing in
detail how the underlying system it would be part of is implemented,
it is difficult to understand the feasibility of integrating Z into the
system, and its interaction with multi-platform support, the plethora
of supported hardware, developer resources,  development priorities,
and community politics.

Thus, I wish you luck should you choose to take your ideas any further.

Have a nice day

Regards

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[XFree86] Driver

2004-01-18 Thread wwk






I am trying to find a driver for S3Virge DX/GX to ryn Windows XP.

Can you help?

W Kelly









[XFree86] can't ping to local host when set default gateway

2004-01-18 Thread Gen Bao
I am making a Java application on top of a Samsung ARM
embedded platform.
I can not ping the local host when trying to reach an
internet address when set the default gate way to
192.168.0.1, the shell says,

#ping localhost
unknown host

but it is strange enough that ping to 127.0.0.1 is ok.

Since the X-server need to use localhost to get to the
local machine, this becomes a very big problem.

I have filled the /etc/hosts file with the following
line,
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

and in the /etc/host.conf,
...
order hosts
...

I found the named is missing in my system, could this
possibly be the reason? Then how can I find it?

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2004-01-18 Thread Verebes



XFree86 Version 4.3.0Release Date: 27 February 
2003X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6Build Operating 
System: FreeBSD 4.7 i386 [ELF]Build Date: 01 April 
2003 Before reporting problems, 
check http://www.XFree86.Org/ 
to make sure that you have the latest version.Module Loader 
presentMarkers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default 
setting, (++) from command 
line, (!!) notice, (II) 
informational, (WW) warning, 
(EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.(==) Log file: 
"/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 18 16:35:30 2004(EE) Unable to 
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Fatal server error:no screens 
found

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be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".Please report problems to 
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[XFree86] Re: Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Pedro M. wrote:

I would like to see XFSetup (RedHat) and Xconfigurator within X .

Not sure what XFSetup is unless you mean XF86Setup, which was an 
ancient XFree86 3.x and earlier config tool written in TCL/Tk.  
It was shipped with XFree86, but was removed from the source tree 
at some point as it only worked with 3.3.x, and nobody had any 
intention on porting it to 4.x.  There was no motivation for 
anyone to port it to 4.x either, since xf86cfg more or less 
replaced it as a GUI X configuration tool, supplied with XFree86.  
XF86Setup, was not a Red Hat tool however, but an XFree86 tool 
that is now obsolete.

Xconfigurator was originally written by Red Hat (way before my
days here) and was very heavily based upon the XFree86 supplied
xf86config source code.  Xconfigurator was discontinued as of Red
Hat Linux 8.0 however, and replaced with a new tool written in
python, named redhat-config-xfree86.  The reason that
Xconfigurator was discontinued was because it was never more than
a quick ugly hack really.  It worked quite well all things
considered, but the source code is a huge ugly mess of spaghetti
code which had new bits bandaided in over time with each new OS
release, while developers rushed to enhance it in new ways with
minimal effort to minimize developmental resources put into the
tool, at least that is my personal viewpoint based on examination
of the source code and having maintained it myself for a year or 
so.  It was more a hot-potato application that nobody really was 
interested in owning, and more got stuck with.  The 
unmaintainable sources can attest to that.

With a pileup of new features required or requested for X 
configuration, it became obvious to me, that Xconfigurator would 
not be able to be pushed any further without a total rewrite from 
scratch.  Look at the source code of it yourself, and you will 
find it difficult to disagree with me on that.  ;o)  So it was 
decided to rewrite a new config tool for our OS distribution, and 
in Red Hat tradtition (obsession?), it was written in 
python+GTK+, as a GUI application.  While redhat-config-xfree86 
does not currently do all of the same things Xconfigurator did, 
that is by design and intentional, as Xconfigurator had too many 
advanced/expert settings in it which normal users rarely if ever 
require, and many users changed things anyway and created 
problems unnecessarily for themselves.

So, Xconfigurator wont be coming back in our OS at least, however
the source code is dual licensed GPL and MIT, so anyone can hack
at it if they desire.  If someone in the OSS community is
interested in any way of rekindling Xconfigurator as a
sourceforge or other project, feel free to contact me about this, 
and I don't think there will be any problem reassigning the 
source code to someone else.  ;o)  Be sure to actually LOOK at 
the sources first before committing to such an effort however, 
and make sure you've got a barf bag handy.  ;o)

That said, the only X configuration tool that will be in our OS 
releases here on out, will be our in-house written new config 
tool, redhat-config-xfree86, which is being renamed to 
system-config-xfree86 I believe in our next release, so that 
others feel more at ease about reusing the source code for their 
own purposes, or in other distributions.

Now I know your comments were not pertaining directly to Red Hat,
and our XFree86 releases, however I thought that my comments
might help others to understand the two applications a bit better
that you pointed out, and at least why they are not present in
Red Hat OS distributions any longer.  That can help to understand
also why neither application is part of XFree86 itself directly,
and neither application is ever likely to be part of XFree86 in
the future, as there is really no good technical reason for them
to exist anymore.

Nonetheless, this is the open source community, and anyone 
sufficiently motivated enough, can take either utility and 
revitalize them for their own purposes.


Why when i go to Windows the first time, it goes in a low
resolution and frequency and no in XFree ??.

Windows starts up generally in 800x600 nowadays (XP).  It uses a 
special driver Microsoft supplies called VGASAVE.  I'm not 
completely at understanding at what this driver is doing 
specifically, however I believe that it is more or less a VESA 
BIOS driver, which can fallback to VGA mode if need be, and might 
possibly have special code in it for certain other hardware.  
It's more or less a failsafe driver which is good enough in 
order for a proper native driver to be installed for the video 
hardware in the system.  When you boot into 'safe mode', this is 
the driver Windows uses.  XFree86 could benefit also from having 
such a driver of course, and the vesa driver is probably the 
closest thing to such that exists in XFree86 currently.  The vesa 
driver however requires a non-broken VESA BIOS in order to work 
correctly, and judging by the 

[XFree86] can't ping to local host when set default gateway

2004-01-18 Thread Gen Bao
Sorry, forgot something very important:
If we delete the default gateway, we can ping the
localhost successfully:
#route del default gw 192.168.0.1
#ping localhost
... OK ...


The following is the original e-mail:

I am making a Java application on top of a Samsung ARM
embedded platform.
I can not ping the local host when trying to reach an
internet address when set the default gate way to
192.168.0.1, the shell says,

#ping localhost
unknown host

but it is strange enough that ping to 127.0.0.1 is ok.

Since the X-server need to use localhost to get to the
local machine, this becomes a very big problem.

I have filled the /etc/hosts file with the following
line,
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

and in the /etc/host.conf,
...
order hosts
...

I found the named is missing in my system, could this
possibly be the reason? Then how can I find it?

regards


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[XFree86] cant get a crystal scan monitor to work

2004-01-18 Thread ewolfe
I've successfully installed RedHat 9, but on bootup I get a message about not
being able to start the xserver, then it leaves me with a text window.  Linux
seems to be functioning ok from there.

The video card (Trio 32/64) was recognized during the installation, and the
monitor (Gateway Crystal Scan 1024 NI) I found in the list provided (I was
surprized).  Once I selected this, the panel with the scan frequencies showed
values that more or less agreed with the manual I have for the monitor.

The installation guide says I'll get a gui to help me set preferences - but I
never get one.  I've tried editing the XF86Config file to tell it to use the
vesa driver instead of the S3 -- but it still fails.

I also have Windows XP installed, and the monitor works fine there.

What I think is happening, from the messages I get, is that the configurator
finds the card ok, but it gets no answer back from the monitor (it being so old
that it doesn't respond?).  It then creates a default configuration file and
tries again, to no avail.

I think it is a bug that there seems to be no way to force the server to use
the
monitor I told it to use and not probe to see if I got it right.

I have the log file, but somewhere between getting it on floppy and viewing it
from Windows, it seems to have lost the line breaks.  I enclose it anyway, in
hopes that it is useful as is.  The troubles are shown, of course, near the
end:

Primary Device is:
(WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:8:0) found

it repeats that many times as it steps throught the addresses down to 
(BusID PCI:9:19:0)

Then 
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
No screens found

Hopefully, you can suggest to me a way around this?



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Description: Binary data


Re: [XFree86] Re: Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro M.
- Original Message - 
From: Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: [XFree86] Re: Re: Improvement


 So, Xconfigurator wont be coming back in our OS at least, however
 the source code is dual licensed GPL and MIT, so anyone can hack
 at it if they desire.  If someone in the OSS community is
 interested in any way of rekindling Xconfigurator as a
 sourceforge or other project, feel free to contact me about this,
 and I don't think there will be any problem reassigning the
 source code to someone else.  ;o)  Be sure to actually LOOK at
 the sources first before committing to such an effort however,
 and make sure you've got a barf bag handy.  ;o)

This is an interesting idea.  A sourceforge project would be a good thing
( with Xconfigurator or a new tool).

  That can help to understand
 also why neither application is part of XFree86 itself directly,
 and neither application is ever likely to be part of XFree86 in
 the future, as there is really no good technical reason for them
 to exist anymore.

 Nonetheless, this is the open source community, and anyone
 sufficiently motivated enough, can take either utility and
 revitalize them for their own purposes.

There is user´s interest about it . See
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianDesktop

Now, my screen is black, without Xwindow. Why ??. When I could see it in
Knoppix LiveCD without problems ??. :?

I think the problem is the monitor frequency, but not sure... I would like
to try to change the frequency ( with a help tool that automatically restore
to the last value if I don´t press the OK key in a popup window in a certain
time after the changes ).

This is newbie-proof, isn´t  it ?? ( one uses it in Windows too ;)



 Why when i go to Windows the first time, it goes in a low
 resolution and frequency and no in XFree ??.

 Windows starts up generally in 800x600 nowadays (XP).  It uses a
 special driver Microsoft supplies called VGASAVE.

Good thing to imitate ;)

 I'm not
 completely at understanding at what this driver is doing
 specifically, however I believe that it is more or less a VESA
 BIOS driver, which can fallback to VGA mode if need be, and might
 possibly have special code in it for certain other hardware.
 It's more or less a failsafe driver which is good enough in
 order for a proper native driver to be installed for the video
 hardware in the system.

That´s what I need for my first installation. Later, I can use another
driver...

 When you boot into 'safe mode', this is
 the driver Windows uses.  XFree86 could benefit also from having
 such a driver of course, and the vesa driver is probably the
 closest thing to such that exists in XFree86 currently.  The vesa
 driver however requires a non-broken VESA BIOS in order to work
 correctly, and judging by the large number of vesa driver
 user's bug reports I see, there are numerous broken BIOSes out
 there which make it difficult to have a failsafe driver.

 I believe it would be possible to fork the vesa driver into a
 new driver named failsafe or somesuch, which uses VESA VBE by
 default, but gets special hacks put in place for systems that are
 reported to not work, but workarounds can be found, and detected
 by PCI ID and other mechanisms.  I'd like to at least experiment
 with this in the future to see if it is a crazy idea or not.


Go ahed with it. You are taking Linux to a next step forwards.

 If everything is OK (after installation = first time) I can
 change the resolution, frequency and so on from the same Gnome
 or another desktop manager.
 
 I suggest try ( during installation) by default the 800X600 mode
 and a low refresh frequency ( if there is not plug and play
 autodetection).

 I don't disagree, however in order for it to work on _all_ video
 hardware, including hardware there are no drivers for, and
 hardware there are drivers for, but the drivers may be buggy,
 thus preventing the user from using X from the start, a new
 driver is required, which can provide minimal unaccelerated 2D
 video using VESA VBE and other fallbacks.  Without that, it's
 just a pipe dream.


I agree. (perhaps in the near future I am going to change to redhat ;)

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[XFree86] Re: Re: Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Pedro M. wrote:

 the sources first before committing to such an effort however,
 and make sure you've got a barf bag handy.  ;o)

This is an interesting idea.  A sourceforge project would be a good thing
( with Xconfigurator or a new tool).

Ah, so you haven't looked at the Xconfigurator source code yet.  
;o)


 Nonetheless, this is the open source community, and anyone
 sufficiently motivated enough, can take either utility and
 revitalize them for their own purposes.

There is user´s interest about it . See
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianDesktop

I see goals of having a friendly useable desktop there, not 
interest in someone bringing XF86Setup or Xconfigurator back from 
the dead.   ;o)


Now, my screen is black, without Xwindow. Why ??. When I could
see it in Knoppix LiveCD without problems ??. :?

Insufficient information to draw any conclusions...  ;o)

I think the problem is the monitor frequency, but not sure... I
would like to try to change the frequency ( with a help tool
that automatically restore to the last value if I don´t press
the OK key in a popup window in a certain time after the changes
).

This is newbie-proof, isn´t  it ?? ( one uses it in Windows too ;)

Some people or distributions might be interested in following 
that approach perhaps.  That isn't user friendly however.  A user 
friendly system would have monitors that just worked, requiring 
zero user intervention or configuration.  Any monitor metadata 
needed for configuration would be supplied by the system (or 
manufacturers) and included with the OS (or driver updates), just 
as it is done in Windows.

You (and others) may want to have a dialog for punching in this 
information indefinitely perhaps.  Personally, I want to see the 
problem solved on a higher level, and be automatic, thus having 
users not need to know anything about their monitor other than 
how to turn it on.


 Why when i go to Windows the first time, it goes in a low
 resolution and frequency and no in XFree ??.

 Windows starts up generally in 800x600 nowadays (XP).  It uses a
 special driver Microsoft supplies called VGASAVE.

Good thing to imitate ;)

I agree.

 I'm not
 completely at understanding at what this driver is doing
 specifically, however I believe that it is more or less a VESA
 BIOS driver, which can fallback to VGA mode if need be, and might
 possibly have special code in it for certain other hardware.
 It's more or less a failsafe driver which is good enough in
 order for a proper native driver to be installed for the video
 hardware in the system.

That´s what I need for my first installation. Later, I can use another
driver...

Indeed, that is what I'd like to see in the future.  The problem 
is a complex one however to solve.  There is so much video 
hardware out there, that it is impossible to test it all.  All a 
vendor such as us can do, is make changes to our infrastructure 
and defaults, release beta OS releases, get feedback from users 
and try to fix things in time for the final OS release.  That 
isn't good enough though, because what's more likely to happen, 
is that once the OS is released, 100 times as many people use it, 
find problems that didn't turn up in beta testing or internal 
testing, and then they wonder why it doesn't work.

So I'd like to see a failsafe driver in the future, but I'm not 
sure what the best approach is to create one in an evolutionary 
manner, rather than switchover overnight.  Also, such a driver 
would need to exist for x86, ia64, AMD64, ppc, ppc64 for us, and 
also Alpha, sparc and other systems to be useful across the 
board.  That complicates things a bit.  I'd focus on x86 and 
AMD64 at first, and add bits to other architectures over time, in 
order to make the problem sanely approachable.

 I believe it would be possible to fork the vesa driver into a
 new driver named failsafe or somesuch, which uses VESA VBE by
 default, but gets special hacks put in place for systems that are
 reported to not work, but workarounds can be found, and detected
 by PCI ID and other mechanisms.  I'd like to at least experiment
 with this in the future to see if it is a crazy idea or not.

Go ahed with it. You are taking Linux to a next step forwards.

Well, it wouldn't be Linux specific per se.  It'd be OS neutral 
more or less, but it would have some architectural ties likely.  
I'd like to see some kind of driver emerge that is a superset of 
the vesa driver.  I might fiddle with it myself over time as 
people report problems in the vesa driver to us, although I dont 
think such hacks belong in the vesa driver itself per se. as that 
would clutter the existing driver and go against it's purpose 
IMHO.  But a driver based upon it, which gets hacked up over time 
might suffice.  ;o)

Take care,
TTYL


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Re: [XFree86] Bad points on screen

2004-01-18 Thread Mark Vojkovich
   Which graphics card is the screen shot from?  It looks like a driver
bug or bad video ram, but I'm not aware of any nv driver bugs like that,
so I would guess that your video card is old and flaking out.  I assume
it goes away if you disable acceleration with Option ShadowFB in the
Section Device of the XF86Config file?

Mark.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-2] Jakub Hodaò wrote:

 I have a problem !!!
 
 First please see to a screenshot.
 
 Problem is in bad coloured poits in screen. Its like as site of bad coloured points 
 in screen. This points is some times repaired and create in new location. Refreshing 
 off screen do nothing.
 
 I tested this problem on different hardware combination e.g. Nvidia Riva 128ZX, RIVA 
 TNT2 (grafic adapters); ADI microscan 4G, Hyundai Image Quest Q790 (monitors). 0nly 
 one component is same : Motherboard MSI 6338 LE5.
 
 With different distribution Mandrake 9.0 9.2 and Knoppix 3.3.
 
 Different grafic drivers xfree86 nv driver and original nvidia driver.
 
 With different desktops KDE GNOME ICEWM.
 
 Please help me, because I dont know what is it 
 
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Re: [XFree86] Re: Re: Re: Improvement

2004-01-18 Thread Pedro M.
- Original Message - 
From: Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:23 PM
Subject: [XFree86] Re: Re: Re: Improvement


 On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Pedro M. wrote:

 Some people or distributions might be interested in following
 that approach perhaps.  That isn't user friendly however.  A user
 friendly system would have monitors that just worked, requiring
 zero user intervention or configuration.  Any monitor metadata
 needed for configuration would be supplied by the system (or
 manufacturers) and included with the OS (or driver updates), just
 as it is done in Windows.

 You (and others) may want to have a dialog for punching in this
 information indefinitely perhaps.  Personally, I want to see the
 problem solved on a higher level, and be automatic, thus having
 users not need to know anything about their monitor other than
 how to turn it on.

There is two different ways to it :

- The people with some computeres that want to use Linux. They cannot use
this automatic  configuration and they couldn´t know about linux now :(

- Follow another standard for a full automated user-friendly
installation/configuration. This can be stablish from now, so the next
computers can follow this good standard.

Unfortunatelly,  I think one have to follow the two ways.

I love the automated installation idea. So go ahead with it.

On the other hand, I was thinking about another problem with the desktop :
the keyboard / language.

Thinking about automated installation, I would like to see the keyboard
talking to the operating system ( symbolically, of course ) and saying : I
am a keyboard and my ID is KB_ES_es
(http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_code ).

In this way, I wouldn´t have to type, i.e.,  the cheatcode knoppix lang=es

VGASAVE.
 
 Good thing to imitate ;)

 I agree.

I have included more links in http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?XFreeCommon
and information in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGASAVE


 Take care,
 TTYL

Good work.

All the best.

Pedro.

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[XFree86] RE: Hi

2004-01-18 Thread Brian I. Goines
? Eh?

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hi


 Test =)
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[XFree86] seeking advice

2004-01-18 Thread Soumik Sikdar
I installed Mandake linux 9.0 which ships with xfree86(version4.2.1) .I
have a 15 inch. color monitor(mikrotek model:digisync) with max.
resolution 1024x768 @60 hz(vert.) (hfreq:30-55khz,vfreq:50-120hz,display
area:260mm(H)x195mm(v))and an intel845 machine(pentium 4) .
Now the X-server refuses to come up .I send along full output from 
X-server and the Xf86config file.
Please suggest.
(mail me at :[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 or  [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 

X-server output:


XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 3 September 2002
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/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-23mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] 
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Mon Jan 19 04:31:18 2004
(==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Using vt 7
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
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XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0
  after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

XF86Config :
# File generated by XFdrake.

# **
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **

Section Files
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath unix/:-1
EndSection

Section ServerFlags
#DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
#DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section Module
Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension
Load v4l # Video for Linux
Load extmod
Load type1
Load freetype
Load glx # 3D layer
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier Keyboard1
Driver Keyboard
Option XkbModel pc105
Option XkbLayout us
Option XkbOptions 
EndSection

Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse1
Driver mouse
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection

Section Monitor
Identifier monitor1
VendorName Generic
ModelName 1024x768 @ 60 Hz
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 50-70

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?
# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync
ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344   480  488  494  563 -hsync -vsync

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine 768x576 50.00  768  832  846 1000   576  590  595  630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine 768x576 63.07  768  800  960 1024   576  578  590  616
EndSection

Section Device
Identifier device1
VendorName Intel Corporation
BoardName Intel 845
Driver i810
Option DPMS
EndSection

Section Screen
Identifier screen1
Device device1
Monitor monitor1
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection Display
Depth 8
Modes 800x600 640x480
EndSubsection

Subsection Display
Depth 15
Modes 800x600 640x480
EndSubsection

Subsection Display
Depth 16
Modes 800x600 640x480
EndSubsection

Subsection Display
Depth 24
Modes 800x600 640x480
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section ServerLayout
Identifier layout1
InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard
InputDevice Mouse1 CorePointer
Screen screen1
EndSection