Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
Can a nvidia riva tnt2 M64 support this? Other option would be to buy an ati Dunno about the tnt2. I once had a Hitachi fixed frequency monitor atteched to a nvidia riva 128 based card. Worked like a charm. I can't think of any reasons why you shouldn't be able use the monitor on the tnt2, but I could be wrong. Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? That's were the problems arise. The bios normally initializes the gfx chip to display standard vga, which often isn't what highend sun monitors displays. So until you reprogram the gfx chip your monitors display is going to be garbled. Either waiting for X to start or enabling framebuffer support in linux (if you need to see linux startup msg) will work. One last thing to consider is powermangement. You need to make sure that the converter cable will work with the monitor in that regard (so that the monitor get the wake up clue) Regards Thomas, Denmark ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]X Configuration Problems: Redhat 7.2 -- XFree86 -- HP Pavilion N3210 Laptop
After working for several days I am no closer than before in getting my HP Pavilion N3210 laptop up and running. I get the macro 320x240 view and that is all that is available to me. I have experimented with a lot of settings within the XF86Config files and am pretty convinced I have it down to the Monitor settings as the issue. I am almost 100% confident that the section I have for the driver is correct, but I could use any help available for the monitor refresh settings. I have looked through the list archive but found no reference for the N3210 HPA LCD settings. Anyone who has this information and could share it I would be greatly appreciative. XF86Config Section Monitor Identifier LaptopLCD VendorName Hewlett Packard ModelName LaptopLCD HorizSync31.5-37.9 VertRefresh 55-90 ModeLine 800x600 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 Modeline 800x600 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync Modeline 800x600 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline 800x600 60.75 800 864 928 1088 600 616 621 657 -HSync -VSync Modeline 800x600 69.65 800 864 928 1088 600 604 610 640 -HSync -VSync EndSection Section Device Identifier Trident CyberBlade i7d VendorName Trident Microsystems BoardName Trident CyberBlade i7d Chipset cyberblade EndSection Section Screen Driver svga Device Trident CyberBlade i7d Monitor LaptopLCD DefaultColorDepth 16 BlankTime 0 SuspendTime 0 OffTime 0 SubSection Display Depth8 Modes800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth24 Modes800x600 EndSubSection EndSection ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]MGA: blinking cursor or garbage
Hi all. There seems to be a problem with the XFree-4 (at least 4.1.0 and 4.2.0) when the Matrox framebuffer is used for the vt. The hardware mousecursor is blinking in the inversed color. Affected are at least the G200 and G400. Strange enough my G450 works in this combination. With the 4.1.0 release the Option HwCursor false helped. But with 4.2.0 the G400 produces a very large blinking square of random pixel garbage in the top,levt corner and with the G200 a normal text-cursor is blinking in the top,left corner. The hardware cursor seems to be incorrectly initialized. We use selfcompiled vanilla sources of the releases compilied by gcc-2.95.3. All the rest works as usually very good! ;-) Thanks. René -- René Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 http://counter.li.org) eMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]4.2.0 and SuSE 7.3
On 23 Feb 2002, John L. Pierce wrote: Installed SuSE 7.3 system runs fine, upgraded to 4.2.0 and system still runs fine but no hardware acceleration on a Rage 128 Chip from ATI. I read on XFree86's web site that the specific chip set I have is supported with the ati driver, but when configuring the card the only driver available is r128. Had switched to Mandrake 8.1 before SuSE 7.3, and had full hardware acceleration, but the distro was unstable in my opinion and printing completely bogged the systems down, network printing was never fully configurable either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. See http://gatos.sf.net/dri-debug.php Vladimir Dergachev TIA John L. Pierce ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
Frank Van Damme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a certain HV refresh rate; someone told me for 1152x900 it would be 61,8 KHz H and 66 Hz V. This is most likely wrong, the 1962b in its factory setting likes H around 72 kHz to maybe 78kHz. 1280x960 is my preferred resolution. You can try these modelines: ModeLine 1152x864 115 1152 1200 1300 1600 864 864 868 900 -hsync -vsync ModeLine 1280x960 131 1280 1336 1456 1680 960 964 968 1000 -hsync -vsync Can a nvidia riva tnt2 M64 support this? Most likely yes. There are only a few broken cards that cannot produce negative sync, all others should work. I just want to know what video cards can do fixed-freq. monitors before I buy a 13W3-hd15 adaptor. Depending on the intended use of the monitor and depending on the adaptor you may need a card that does composite sync. Some do, others don't... You can get an adapter that does the mixing. Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? Right. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Umweltfreundlich, da aus recycleten Buchstaben. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Frank Van Damme wrote: Hello, I recently bought an old sparc station 2 with a 21 inch monitor (gdm 1962b), it's got a sony trinitron crt. The machine is very slow and the framebuffer in it supports only 8 bit colors, terrible waste of a good monitor. So I thought about buying an adaptor (it's got a 13W3 connector) and attaching the thing my somewhat-beefier PC. Now the problem is: because the GDM-1962 is a fixed-frequency monitor, the PC video card must give the minitor exactly the 'right' signal. It's a certain HV refresh rate; someone told me for 1152x900 it would be 61,8 KHz H and 66 Hz V. Can a nvidia riva tnt2 M64 support this? Other option would be to buy an ati radeon [7-8]500 if that is better (their xfree support seems quiet good). The monitor works on the sparc, configuring is no problem. I just want to know what video cards can do fixed-freq. monitors before I buy a 13W3-hd15 adaptor. Fixed frequency is not a problem and pretty much any video card can nail the frequencies if you've got the correct modeline. The problem is that most fixed frequency monitors are also sync-on-green or in the case of Sun, composite-sync. NVIDIA cards cannot do sync-on-green nor composite-sync. Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? That's correct for the bios screen, but svgatext mode should be able to let you see most of the boot messages (from the part where it gets loaded). mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:40:24AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: can nail the frequencies if you've got the correct modeline. The problem is that most fixed frequency monitors are also sync-on-green or in the case of Sun, composite-sync. NVIDIA cards cannot do sync-on-green nor composite-sync. In case you can't find a card that will do so, Matrox cards have always been a snap to get working with sync on green and composite sync for me, I have had 4 or 5 fixed frequency monitors that I obtained for free that worked great with Millenium I's and Mystiques. Just add a Option Sync_on_Green to your device section in your XF86Config file. Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? That's correct for the bios screen, but svgatext mode should be able to let you see most of the boot messages (from the part where it gets loaded). I have seen methods of building your own frequency stabilizing circuit of sorts using off the shelf stuff from radio shack that can allow you to see even the bios screen if it's a big concern, but that may be just as much hassle as buying a card that is specifically for your fixed freq monitor. Also, here is a utility I have found useful in working with fixed freq monitors: http://without.netpedia.net/kvideogen http://saturn.tlug.org/sunstuff/ffmonitor.html#matrox http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html Good luck, Nate ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nate Smith wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 10:40:24AM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: can nail the frequencies if you've got the correct modeline. The problem is that most fixed frequency monitors are also sync-on-green or in the case of Sun, composite-sync. NVIDIA cards cannot do sync-on-green nor composite-sync. In case you can't find a card that will do so, Matrox cards have always been a snap to get working with sync on green and composite sync for me, I have had 4 or 5 fixed frequency monitors that I obtained for free that worked great with Millenium I's and Mystiques. Just add a Option Sync_on_Green to your device section in your XF86Config file. SyncOnGreen, yes, but I'm not sure about Composite Sync. Their hardware can do composite, I'm pretty sure, but I don't recall any option to turn that on in the driver. Composite Sync is a trivial external electronic circuit, however. Sync-on-green is not so trivial due to the frequencies involved (it messes with the analog data and naive approches will give you visible artifacts). Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
Frank Van Damme wrote: Hello, I recently bought an old sparc station 2 ... terrible waste of a good monitor. So I thought about buying an adaptor (it's got a 13W3 connector) and attaching the thing my somewhat-beefier PC. ... I've had one of those in service (on various Windows boxes) for several years using a Gemini C1 video card (uses Tseng 6000) from www.si87.com. Works beautifully, including handling the BIOS messages right. 640x480, readable at 10 yards. There are Linux and FreeBSD drivers for some of their cards, for example: http://www.si87.com/Support/satlinux.html Here's an old post of mine on a similar monitor. I never tried getting my pair (an HP as described and one from NCD that's the same Hitachi product with a different OEM label) going under Linux, but a URL in the post gives info on that. I've since sold them and the buyer had no trouble bringing them up on Linux. I can get details if anyone needs them. old post: I've just tried an experiment using a bunch of spare parts I had around: HP c2746a 20 inch monitor, off an old server (HP 715?) ATI mach 64 PCI card (mine's the VT model; I don't know if that matters) VGA-to-5-BNC cable I plugged them into a 98 box with an AGP card as primary video adapter, fiddled a bit and bingo! Dual monitors with minimal sweat. If I'd had to buy the parts, my cost for the lot would have been about $120 Canadian, equivalent to about $90 US. Seems like an awfully good deal. Details on these monitors, including info for setting them up on Linux are at: http://freeweb.pdq.net/jcooper/c2746a.htm For 98, I just told it I had a generic monitor capable of 1280*1024 @ 75 Hz. It then gave me a menu of refresh rates. I'm using 1152*864 @75 Hz. That is the higehest resolution you can use with 16-bit colour on a 2 meg card and I find it quite readable. 1280 by 1024 works at the adapter default refresh rate. Just telling Windows you have a 1600*1200 monitor does not work, but the HP behaves nicely, puts itself into a power-down state when it sees signals it dislikes. My guess is these monitors would be available almost anywhere (they were a common HP part) and that the same trick would work with other monitors. Sun, SGI, other HP, ... Many of these won't work as primary monitor on a PC (barring expensive adapters or clever tricks) because they only run at one set of frequencies (or a limited range) and cannot do standard VGA. They therefore tend to be dirt cheap on the surplus market. $50 Canadian in my area. YMMV. As a second monitor, though, they are happy. I've rebooted the machine in Linux. No problem. By default, it just sees the primary monitor. The HP sees no signal, goes politely into a power-save mode. I don't yet know if I can get the multi-screen stuff in Linux. Has anyone on the list tried 98 with three monitors? I'm contemplating getting another of these. Two 20 HP's flanking my 19 Viewsonic... Run 98 on the desktop, VNC to Linux servers ... ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]junk following cursor in X (ATI Rage II)
Some time ago when I did a system upgrade I tried Gnome (or KDE) and saw this problem, couldn't be bothered to understand it and just kept running fvwm2. However, I now see it in fvwm2 (and twm) with a just-compiled copy of xdoom, so maybe it's an X problem rather than a Gnome problem. Most everything else I ever run is OK (Netscape, xv, staroffice, xterm,xfig, etc. etc. etc. - I have only seen this problem in I think 2 apps) The problem: In an X app (xdoom, or gnuterm/kterm etc.) there is junk following the cursor around. Under the cursor (invisible in xdoom) is is an imaginary square about 63 pixels on edge which is OK. (The cursor at its upper left vertex). Under this is a translucent blue square superimposed on the screen Under this is another square composed of translucent vertical bars in about 3 colours. The pattern repeats to the bottom of the screen. (Actually they are not all exactly square) My system: RedHat 6.0 upgraded to RedHat 6.2, probably with some apps and libraries left around from old a.out days too. Graphics device ID: ATI RAGE II XFree86-3.3.6-20 XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-20 DefaultColorDepth 16 Anyone see this before ? -- Andrew Daviel Are you always losing things? - http://huzizit.com ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]lilo config
In suse 7.2 lilo.conf file there is a setting vga=771. Is there a document that descibes 771 and other video modes? thanks. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
(suddenly noticed I was only replying personally and not to the list) On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:59, you wrote: Frank Van Damme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a certain HV refresh rate; someone told me for 1152x900 it would be 61,8 KHz H and 66 Hz V. This is most likely wrong, the 1962b in its factory setting likes H around 72 kHz to maybe 78kHz. 1280x960 is my preferred resolution. You can try these modelines: ModeLine 1152x864 115 1152 1200 1300 1600 864 864 868 900 -hsync -vsync ModeLine 1280x960 131 1280 1336 1456 1680 960 964 968 1000 -hsync -vsync I got this from a pdf on the monitor I own: Vertical refresh rate : 60-85 Hz Horizontal Scan rate: 60- 80 KHz (Kilo Hetrz). Default set to 72Khz--- this is what you just said. Horizontal scan rate is adjusted by H.Freq (Hold) as mentioned above. Maximum Resolution: 1600x1200 Monitor Adjusted for: 1024x768 Tube: Sony Trinitron http://www.fixedfrequency.com/FTP_Diablo/Readme.txt says: d-1962b.rom9.02a 72 khz, 85 hz Sun/Sony GDM-1962b, GDM-1662b This is annoying, information I find on the web often contradicts. Even basic things like refresh rates. The pdf gives *ranges* for a fixed freq monitor?? Can a nvidia riva tnt2 M64 support this? Most likely yes. There are only a few broken cards that cannot produce negative sync, all others should work. And posts on mailing lists apparently contradict too :-) If I ever find out how to get the monitor to work I'l certainly do a follow-up here and in debian-sparc... I just want to know what video cards can do fixed-freq. monitors before I buy a 13W3-hd15 adaptor. Depending on the intended use of the monitor and depending on the adaptor you may need a card that does composite sync. Some do, others don't... You can get an adapter that does the mixing. See the note above: the cheapos should do that no? -- homepage: www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9917684 jabber (=IM): [EMAIL PROTECTED] No part of this copyright message may be reproduced, read or seen, dead or alive or by any means, including but not limited to telepathy without the benevolence of the author. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]junk following cursor in X (ATI Rage II)
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Andrew Daviel wrote: Some time ago when I did a system upgrade I tried Gnome (or KDE) and saw this problem, couldn't be bothered to understand it and just kept running fvwm2. However, I now see it in fvwm2 (and twm) with a just-compiled copy of xdoom, so maybe it's an X problem rather than a Gnome problem. Most everything else I ever run is OK (Netscape, xv, staroffice, xterm,xfig, etc. etc. etc. - I have only seen this problem in I think 2 apps) The problem: In an X app (xdoom, or gnuterm/kterm etc.) there is junk following the cursor around. Under the cursor (invisible in xdoom) is is an imaginary square about 63 pixels on edge which is OK. (The cursor at its upper left vertex). Under this is a translucent blue square superimposed on the screen Under this is another square composed of translucent vertical bars in about 3 colours. The pattern repeats to the bottom of the screen. (Actually they are not all exactly square) My system: RedHat 6.0 upgraded to RedHat 6.2, probably with some apps and libraries left around from old a.out days too. Graphics device ID: ATI RAGE II XFree86-3.3.6-20 XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-20 DefaultColorDepth 16 Anyone see this before ? Yep. This was fixed in the 4.* series some time ago. Marc. +--+---+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax:1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +---+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply| | CANADA | | +--+---+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
(suddenly noticed I replied personally instead of to the list, sorry) On Sunday 24 February 2002 19:40, you wrote: Fixed frequency is not a problem and pretty much any video card can nail the frequencies if you've got the correct modeline. The problem is that most fixed frequency monitors are also sync-on-green or in the case of Sun, composite-sync. NVIDIA cards cannot do sync-on-green nor composite-sync. Hm. I think someone on the debian sparc mailing list told me the adaptor would solve this problem, it's called a 'sync combiner' I think. Anyway. If the nvidia doesn't work, Maybe a radeon card would? (I suddenly also notice Mark Vojkovich works for nvidia :) ) --- copy-paste --- so any video cable adaptor *must* contain a sync combiner. The Ultraspec # 1396 adaptor is one that does and it's made to work with older Sun colour monitors when connected to PC's. I guess these cheapos wont: http://www.miragemultimedia.biz/product.asp?3=97 They are talking about the SUN 20d10 monitor, is that one comparable to mine you think? (No I don't know too much about sun hardware as you can tell). http://store.yahoo.com/cablesonline/vgato13sunvi.html They aren't talking about anything :) But with that adaptor from ultraspec (36$) I should have everything I need to get pretty (big) pictures on my PC? - - His answer: - - Yes, that adaptor (or a similar third-party one) will enable the 1962 monitor to work with your PC's framebuffer once you get it to generate the right video specs. The cable adaptor is only a wiring adaptor - it's still up to your PC's display card to output signals with suitable parameters to make the monitor happy. 8-) --- copy-paste --- Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? That's correct for the bios screen, but svgatext mode should be able to let you see most of the boot messages (from the part where it gets loaded). I'll compile it in. No problem!! ;-) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]fixed-frequency monitor
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Frank Van Damme wrote: (suddenly noticed I replied personally instead of to the list, sorry) On Sunday 24 February 2002 19:40, you wrote: Fixed frequency is not a problem and pretty much any video card can nail the frequencies if you've got the correct modeline. The problem is that most fixed frequency monitors are also sync-on-green or in the case of Sun, composite-sync. NVIDIA cards cannot do sync-on-green nor composite-sync. Hm. I think someone on the debian sparc mailing list told me the adaptor would solve this problem, it's called a 'sync combiner' I think. You can buy adaptors that do this or make your own (the logic is very simple. see http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/sun.html). Sync on green monitors, however, are not so simple because the logic modifies the green analog signal which makes this a high frequency circuit. I made a circuit to do that once and had it on my old web page back in college - long gone. Anyway. If the nvidia doesn't work, Maybe a radeon card would? Somebody like Marc La France would have to address that. I don't see an option for it in the radeon driver. (I suddenly also notice Mark Vojkovich works for nvidia :) ) --- copy-paste --- so any video cable adaptor *must* contain a sync combiner. The Ultraspec # 1396 adaptor is one that does and it's made to work with older Sun colour monitors when connected to PC's. I guess these cheapos wont: http://www.miragemultimedia.biz/product.asp?3=97 They are talking about the SUN 20d10 monitor, is that one comparable to mine you think? (No I don't know too much about sun hardware as you can tell). http://store.yahoo.com/cablesonline/vgato13sunvi.html They aren't talking about anything :) But with that adaptor from ultraspec (36$) I should have everything I need to get pretty (big) pictures on my PC? - - His answer: - - Yes, that adaptor (or a similar third-party one) will enable the 1962 monitor to work with your PC's framebuffer once you get it to generate the right video specs. The cable adaptor is only a wiring adaptor - it's still ^^ I don't know if the 13W3 adaptors have a power line in them. In order for the *cable* to do the sync combining I think it would need active electronics in it, which means it needs power of some sort. So I'm suspicious about the ability of a dumb cable alone to handle the sync combining. Mark. up to your PC's display card to output signals with suitable parameters to make the monitor happy. 8-) --- copy-paste --- Am I also right thinking I will only be able to use the monitor under X (no console or boot messages)? That's correct for the bios screen, but svgatext mode should be able to let you see most of the boot messages (from the part where it gets loaded). I'll compile it in. No problem!! ;-) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Compitable video cards
I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is compitable or closely matched video card drivers that matches the cards that uses nVidia's Geforce 2 MX series chipsets? It is for v3.3.6 of XFree86 Thanks! -- WWW: http://stephenw4.tripod.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: S Wenzler ICQ: 124608891 **for sale** I have a bunch of items for sale on eBay, click this link below: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=stephenw1include=0since=-1sort=2rows=25 **UPDATE** No updates at this time ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]How X application distinguish input devices?
Dear Sir, I have just devleoped a X input driver for my small graphic tablet. It is a small tablet that is very popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China for Chinese handwriting recoginition. It is working now. I have cursor that will move according to mouse OR graphic tablet. Now I want to devlope a GTK application (honestly I posted this question in GTK mailing list) or X application that will ONLY respond the event from my graphic tablet. I have a callback function in my X application, motion_notify_event and I have compared the event content of my mouse and my graphic tablet and they look the same (the deviceid content etc). and I have no way to distuguish whether the event is from the mouse or from the graphic tablet. What did I do wrong in my driver? can please have a look at http://input.foruto.com/IME/BINARIES/gogopen.tar.gz and tell me whether I did wrong in the device driver? (BTW I would like if someone can distribute this driver). How can I pass special information from the driver to my X applicaton? Yick Lam Hong Kong, China Yick Hong Kong china ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Compitable video cards
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Stephen Wenzler wrote: I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is compitable or closely matched video card drivers that matches the cards that uses nVidia's Geforce 2 MX series chipsets? It is for v3.3.6 of XFree86 Thanks! I doubt GeForce2 MX is supported in 3.3.6. Why don't you use 4.x? 3.3.6 is a couple years old. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]An question about StopVideo on ATI AiW
Ur explanation is very clear. YES, the StopVideo in Xv library can be called by Xserver without AP's request. I have a DVD player AP which will use PutImage function in Xv library to display the video. When I use our own graphic card driver, in fact, Xserver will call StopVideo in my driver not only when I destroy the window but also moving or cliping the window. If I remove the flag VIDEO_OVERLAID_IMAGES in my driver, Xserver will never call StopVideo even though I destroy the window. Those both are the expected behavior. In ATI's driver, it also set VIDEO_OVERLAID_IMAGES flag. But I move or clip the video window, Xserver never call StopVideo in ATI's driver. It is only called when the window is destroy. I don't understand that. That shouldn't be the case, at least not of the driver that's in the XFree86 tree. My purpose is to eliminate the flicker state when moving the video window. Coz in StopVideo function, we turn off video H/W engine; in PutImage function, we turn on video H/W engine, the same does ATI. Not in the driver I'm looking at. The R128 driver sets a timer and turns it off later. Mark. Hi Mark Vladimir, I feel so sorry for that I don't mention about the version of ATI AiW r128 driver. I got it from my colleague, and I will send it to your mailbox for ur reference. Mark, Thanks a lot !! You are right! I try the AiW r128 driver in XFree86 tree 4.1.0 4.2.0 find that they have the expected behavior. This means that they will call StopVideo whenever we move the video window. Only the special version of the AiW r128 driver has the strange behavior. Maybe the reason is the ReputImage function Vladimir mentioned about. I will try it ! Kevin. - ¨C¤Ñ³£ Yahoo!©_¼¯ www.yahoo.com.tw ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]lilo config
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In suse 7.2 lilo.conf file there is a setting vga=771. Is there a document that descibes 771 and other video modes? thanks. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert Look in the Linux source documentation: linux/Documentation/fb The vga= modes can select regular text modes or frambuffer modes, where text is rendered as graphics, for slower but nicer text. I think the fb docs list both the text and framebuffer modes. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]An question about StopVideo on ATI AiW
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, [big5] Kevin Huang wrote: Hi Mark Vladimir, I feel so sorry for that I don't mention about the version of ATI AiW r128 driver. I got it from my colleague, and I will send it to your mailbox for ur reference. Mark, Thanks a lot !! You are right! I try the AiW r128 driver in XFree86 tree 4.1.0 4.2.0 find that they have the expected behavior. This means that they will call StopVideo whenever we move the video window. Only the special version of the AiW r128 driver has the strange behavior. Maybe the reason is the ReputImage function Vladimir mentioned about. I will try it ! ReputImage is an alternate way of doing things. If you provide that function, the ReputImage function gets called with the new cliplist when the window is moved. Without it, stop gets called (but with the cleanup flag not set). Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
