Re: [Xpert]1280x1024 resolution causes major flickering
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to the 4.2 version from the 3.3.6. Previously, I used the 3.3.6 SVGA server, and ran X in with the resolution set to 1280x1024. Now, after upgrading, when I try to run X with the 1280x1024, my screen shakes and wiggles, especially when I try to resize any windows. I've tried the --nodri option with Xconfigurator, as well as manually commenting out the load DRI section in the XF86Config-4 file. Any ideas as to what to do? v3.3 often used a 24bit frame buffer, v4 sometimes uses a 32bit frame buffer. Does the following change make any difference ? Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.|Voodoo Banshee Monitor Visual Sensa DefaultDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 24 try adding the line: Fbbpp 24 here Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection If that doesn't work, can you try a lower refresh rate ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
RE: [Xpert]TinyX Server
i know... i had the same trouble building TinyX from xfree86 4.2.0.. after many tries, i just gave up. so i'm still using Xfdev built from 4.1.0 source tree... any ideas?? anyone? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of anonymous Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Xpert]TinyX Server Hi: I get the Xfree86 4.2.0 tarball and prepare to compile one TinyX server. I copy the two lines of Micro defines into host.def. After that I run command make World . But it doesn't proudce the Xfbdev as Xfree86 4.1.0 tarball does. who can tell me what happened to the 4.2.0. I have tested it on the Redhat 7.2 and 7.3 (PIII). Thanks lots. Sun Zongjun ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]FireGL 3000 Dual Head
There shouldn't be any problem there. Send me a log, and we'll work out what the problem is. Alan. On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:48:11 +1000, Jasmine Davis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way I can make this card work on just one head? I have tried with a single set of the configuration once the xserver starts, the monitor goes into standby mode. Jasmine On Friday 07 June 2002 00:58, Alan Hourihane wrote: The FireGL3000's dual head featured isn't supported. I'm lacking the documentation to enable that feature. Alan. On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:37:02AM +1000, Jasmine Davis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I am having problems setting up a Diamond FireGL on a SuSE 8.0 box using Xfree86 version 4.2.0. The SuSE X config program Sax2 will not function with this card without erroring, so I cannot use it to set the card up. I have tried to set it up manually but am still having no success though I am curious about the line that says BusID 2:4:2 already claimed. Below is the XF86Config settings the Xfree86 log. Maybe someone can help me with this problem as I am having no luck on the web. Thanks in advance, Jasmine // start XF86Config // # /.../ # SaX generated XFree86 config file # Created on: 2002-04-18. # # Version: 4.3 # Contact: Marcus Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001 # # Automatically generated by [SaX2] (4.3) # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! # Section Files FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local 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 type1 Load speedo Load extmod Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Driver keyboard Identifier Keyboard[0] Option AutoRepeat 500 30 Option LeftAlt Meta Option Protocol Standard Option RightAlt Meta Option RightCtl Control Option ScrollLock Compose Option XkbLayout us Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbRules xfree86 EndSection Section InputDevice Driver mouse Identifier Mouse[1] Option Buttons 5 Option Device /dev/psaux Option InputFashion Mouse Option Name SCROLL MOUSE Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Vendor MITSUMI Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Option CalcAlgorithm IteratePrecisely HorizSync27-70 Identifier Monitor[0] ModelName701A VendorName HANSOL VertRefresh 47-150 UseModes Modes[0] EndSection Section Monitor Option CalcAlgorithm IteratePrecisely HorizSync27-57 Identifier Monitor[1] ModelNameSyncMaster 551S VendorName SAMSUNG VertRefresh 50-90 UseModes Modes[1] EndSection Section Modes Identifier Modes[0] Modeline1024x768 61.19 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 775 802 Modeline1024x768 71.39 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 778 802 Modeline1024x768 81.59 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 778 802
Re: [Xpert]TinyX Server
Around 16 o'clock on Jun 7, Q-ha Park wrote: i know... i had the same trouble building TinyX from xfree86 4.2.0.. after many tries, i just gave up. so i'm still using Xfdev built from 4.1.0 source tree... The kdrive sources don't build any servers by default, you have to ask for each one now. Try adding: #define XfbdevServerYES #define XvesaServer YES to your host.def file. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Appearance in X...
Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windows? The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand. I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and Outlook is terrible. Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get them a Windows-quality display? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Portrait
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 06:39, sun zongjun wrote: I want to rotate XServer with 90 degrees or 180---portrait or landscape display mode. How can I do it? Some drivers support Option Rotate CW (clockwise), CCW (counter clockwise) or UD (upside down). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI glBitmap rendering bug
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 20:15, Joe Krahn wrote: Using glBitmap with ATI DRI driver while the depth test is on is resulting in randomly passing/failing each bit, resulting in garbage. There are patterns in the pass/fail that make it look like a depth lookup is occuring, but in a messed up way. Here is a quick demo. Can some other ATI user test this out? I am using a current CVS XFree86 on a Radeon. The 4.2 release was completely unstable for my Radeon. Can you try from the DRI CVS, possibly from the tcl-0-0-branch, and report to the dri-devel list if the problem is still there? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Appearance in X...
About 5 months ago I would have agreed with you completely. Since then, I've downloaded the Microsoft fonts available on their site. When installed, they render identically (except for a few places) as those in Windows without anti-aliasing. Verdana and Times New Roman really make a difference in X. --Pat Xpert wrote: Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windows? The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand. I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and Outlook is terrible. Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get them a Windows-quality display? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Xinerama public review announcement
Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jens Owen wrote: Mark Vojkovich wrote: On 6 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: Congratulations. To what extent is the version of Xinerama that X.Org are proposing compatible with the XFree86 one? It's a different API and the protocol is not compatible. XFree86 will be able to offer both protocols to maintain compatibility with the few window managers that currently use our version, but we should deprecate the old API and eventually remove it. Mark, How much would the XFree86 internal implementation need to change to support the proposed API? Can we minimize the impact to driver maintenance and other development intensive areas within XFree86? There is no change to the implementation or drivers, just the protocol. The SI is going to be using XFree86's implementation, which is mainly why I've been on the X.org Xinerama task force. That's great news. Thanks for your hard work. Part of the Xinerama task force's goal was to have a fixed implementation and I'm glad XFree86's implementation was used as the starting point for that. I've been integrating the additional fixes into CVS as they've been developing. VSW5 is also being modified to be Xinerama aware so there should be no failures when everything is completed. We already pass everything except for one issue that is still being investigated. There are really only two significant changes: the protocol reflects the ability to have multiple Xinerama screens, though no implementations will likely support this for some time. And second, the addition of a XINERAMA_CENTER_HINT which is a root window property to tell clients where they should consider the center of the screen. Outside of the Xext protocol interface we need to initialize the root window property, and that's about it. I'll integrate all that stuff when it's finalized. Good info. Regards, Jens -- /\ Jens Owen/ \/\ _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ \ \ Steamboat Springs, Colorado ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Keep locking up my laptop....
PCG-C1VFK Sony Vaio Picture book XFree86 version: 4.2.99.1 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus If the network card is inserted before starting X, my laptop either freezes up or the network card starts giving lots of PCI errors, (about 20 a second ;-) interesting the network card is still working, just getting lots of errors. If however the network card is inserted after X has been started, everything works fine, its just qa bit of a pain as I have to remove the card every time I boot! There seems to be something in the X boot sequence that is causing problems, hoping to isolate the problem in the scanning code I though I would try scanpci however that does not kill it :-( I have tried to search the web to find solutions to this problem believing firmly someone out there must have already fixed it, however I have drawn a blank, so any help/advice/pointers would be greatly received. James ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Appearance in X...
Freetype's byte-code hinter may not be turned on on your system, depending on what distribution you run. Without it enabled, your font rendering will look significantly worse than on Windows: with them, it should be entirely comparable. Also note that the XftConfig file as shipped by some vendors is badly broken, so you may not get the behavior you'd like either due to that. - Jim Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Xpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:41:06 +1000 To: Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Xpert]Appearance in X... - Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windows? The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand. I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and Outlook is terrible. Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get them a Windows-quality display? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- Jim Gettys Cambridge Research Laboratory HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]S-Video ?
Is S-Video supported? If it is, can someone direct me where I can read more about it ? Thanks -William -- Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information of Merck Co., Inc. (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA) that may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by e-mail and then delete it. == ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Keep locking up my laptop....
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, James Hawtin wrote: PCG-C1VFK Sony Vaio Picture book XFree86 version: 4.2.99.1 3Com 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus If the network card is inserted before starting X, my laptop either freezes up or the network card starts giving lots of PCI errors, (about 20 a second ;-) interesting the network card is still working, just getting lots of errors. If however the network card is inserted after X has been started, everything works fine, its just qa bit of a pain as I have to remove the card every time I boot! There seems to be something in the X boot sequence that is causing problems, hoping to isolate the problem in the scanning code I though I would try scanpci however that does not kill it :-( I have a similar problem with my VAIO PCG-F707 (which has a neomagic NM2230 graphics chip), but it happens when I stop X. I've had it with CVS builds since about 1st May. Please see http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-May/017995.html which mentions that a fix is in progress, and notes that CVS builds are not guaranteed to be reliable. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]S-Video ?
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Wu, William wrote: Is S-Video supported? If it is, can someone direct me where I can read more about it ? It's entirely up to the driver. Some support it, some don't. Mark. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Re: Appearance in X...
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Xpert wrote: Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:41:06 +1000 From: Xpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-Id: General X Discussion xpert.XFree86.Org Subject: Appearance in X... Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windows? The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand. I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and Outlook is terrible. Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get them a Windows-quality display? Make absolutely sure that you do not have any scaled bitmap fonts in your fontpath. By default, if you list a directory containing bitmap fonts in your font path, they will be made available both scaled and unscaled. Scaled bitmap fonts look atrocious. ie: Bad: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi Good: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled Note that this only pertains to the core X fonts served by xfs or the X server itself. Check your xfs config /etc/X11/fs/config and ensure that all bitmap font directories contain the :unscaled suffix. A large majority of ugly font issues are due to this problem. Future versions of XFree86 will come with bitmap fonts defaulting to unscaled only, and require usage of the new :scaled attribute on font path elements to select the ugly scaled bitmap fonts (for compatibility with any broken apps requiring them). Another possibility is that you just do not have decent fonts installed. Out of the box, there are not a lot of Truetype fonts installed on the system. This is due to there simply being a distinct lack of freely available and redistributeable truetype fonts. As such, a default install, will give you the default few truetype and type1 fonts. You will need to install Microsoft webfonts and/or other truetype fonts from Windows or other software which you have legal license of, or download other fonts off the web. There are tonnes of free fonts out there. We would include many of them if the licencing terms allowed us to do so, however they do not. If the problem you're describing is determined to be due to something else, we'll need a lot more information, screenshots, etc. to be able to hazard a guess as to what is going wrong. Linux/XFree86/KDE/GNOME is certainly becoming a very good desktop, however it does still require a bit of tweaking ala fonts et al. before it looks reasonably like our Windows counterpart. If you're looking to avoid the Microsoft tax, and you're willing to tweak a bit (for the time being), the benefits of using Linux are well worth it IMHO. Also, there is much work being done in the area of fonts within the XFree86 community, in particular Keith Packard's Xft2 and fontconfig. I believe within 8-12 months, most of the font related headaches that are frequently problems to XFree86 users, will have become a thing of the past. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Connecting to more than 1 X server
Hello: I was wondering whether it is possible for an application to connect to more than 1 X server without spawing new processes as I would like to use threads instead of processes. Thanks, Darío ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Support for DVMT (dynamic video memory technology)?
Hello, First of all, let me thank you for all your hard work on the everybody's favourite X-window system! To my question: what are my chances to have support for DVMT, as specified here: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel830m/tti004.htm in any near future? You see, I've acquired a HP Omnibook 510 with the i830 graphics chipset (which is supported by XFree 4.2.0, thank you!), but the stupid BIOS will allocate only 1M of legacy video memory for the card. Thus I can get at best only 1024x768x8bpp in X. Needless to say, the Windows driver supports DVMT, and I can get full 32-bit resolutions in XP. One way around this would be to select more video memory to be allocated in the BIOS setup. Unfortunately the BIOS does not support that, and HP seems to be unwilling to fix the problem, as Linux is not supported - which is stupid since I received the laptop from a HP event with only Linux pre-installed. Intel acknowledges the potential problem in here: http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel830m/tti013.htm but I've yet to receive an answer from them on who could and/or would fix the problem. Would you guys have any insights on the problem? Does the problem lie in a kernel module, or in XFree, ie. who's the party I should bug about this? -- Henri Muurimaa ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Appearance in X...
If so, wouldn't it be a good idea to make the default fonts true type ? Then, the fonts would look good by default. And basic people would not complain about this ugly font problem anymore... Of course, this should go without deprecating other font types, but that goes without saying ... Best regards, Rolland Dudemaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Freetype's byte-code hinter may not be turned on on your system, depending on what distribution you run. Without it enabled, your font rendering will look significantly worse than on Windows: with them, it should be entirely comparable. Also note that the XftConfig file as shipped by some vendors is badly broken, so you may not get the behavior you'd like either due to that. - Jim Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Xpert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 18:41:06 +1000 To: Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Xpert]Appearance in X... - Can anyone shed any light on why KDE looks so bad compared to Windows? The KDE fonts are really rough and difficult to read, particularly when they are small. I don't know that it is just just the lack of True Type fonts (although this is probably a contributing factor) as I have installed a whole bunch of Windows TTFs and it has made little difference. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am trying to get Red Hat 7.3 installed at my work to replace our network of aging Win95 PCs, but I just _know_ that as soon as the staff see the terrible fonts that they will reject it out of hand. I am evaluating Galeon, OpenOffice 1.0 and Evolution as that is all most of our office will need, but the appearance compared to IE, MS Office and Outlook is terrible. Can anyone offer any information/advice/website that will help me to get them a Windows-quality display? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert -- Jim Gettys Cambridge Research Laboratory HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]XFree86, Solaris x86
Dear Sirs I'm using XFree86 on a couple of Solaris x86 boxes in our local workstation pool. In the past week I've tried to upgrade to release 4.2.0 but failed. The new X server workes well, but libX11.so seems to have a bug. When I try to start an xterm without parameters it crashes with segmentaion violation. When I start it with a parameter (which doesn't matter) it comes up but crashes as soon as I try to select an etry in its root menues. Mu configuration: Solaris8 x86, gcc3.1, Xfree86 4.2.0 In the net I couldn't find any help. Do you know of anybody who works on this topic or has solved the problem already? Any help appreciated. -- Guenter Guenter FeldmannEMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FB 3, Informatik Univ. Bremen ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]MAXCLIENTS
Alan, I download the lastest version and install it on a Redhat 7.2 and I got the following error message after 111 xterm windows open xterm:error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 Warning:local not supported by C libaray, local unchanged Warning:local not supported by Xlib, local set to C Warning: X local modifiers not suppoted, using default xterm: Error 14, errno 23: Too many open files in system I also cannot find any information mention about MAXCLIENTS change to 256 in v4.2 from the release note or bug fixes, do you have a link on those information? Thanks. Hermann On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:55:46 -0700, Hermann Tse wrote: Hi, I got Maximum number of clients reached /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm Xt error: , I know that XServer set the default to 128, anyone know how to set it high? What is the reason to set the default to 128 instead of a higher number like 512? Do I need to recompile the source files? Where I can find a step by step instruction? You must be using an older Xserver, as 4.2.0 certainly sets this to 256. Alan. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
re: [Xpert]TinyX Server
you'd better add #define XfbdevServer YES to the host.def Hi: I get the Xfree86 4.2.0 tarball and prepare to compile one TinyX server. I copy the two lines of Micro defines into host.def. After that I run command make World . But it doesn't proudce the Xfbdev as Xfree86 4.1.0 tarball does. who can tell me what happened to the 4.2.0. I have tested it on the Redhat 7.2 and 7.3 (PIII). Thanks lots. Sun Zongjun ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]xinerama in xf86 = 4.1
I'm really at the end of my rope here. Since 4.1 came out i have had to revert on every release back to 4.0.3. I think I finally have come to a conclusion its not 'cuz I'm a _complete_ dumbass. overall setup: tyan thunder K7 2x1.2mp 768ram agp: matrox g450 pci cards tried: tnt2 m64, tnt2 vanta (are they the same?) 3dfx voodoo 3,4 ati radeon 7500 on the exact same hardware/distro, i can get the TNT's to work correctly with 4.0.3. in 4.1 and 4.2 it appears the keyboard is frozen (i can still ssh in and reboot, but the displays stayed screwed. either pretty fades from red-blue-black on the screen or plain black). the common deniminator from a visual perspective is that under 4.0.3 the bios looking readout is not displayed for the tnt2's (secondary screen) on startup of X. this led me to beleive that 4.0.3 was somehow initializing it differently than 4.0.3. the log files only have 1 difference: (EE) NV(1): Cannot read V_BIOS. (EE) ATI(1): Cannot read V_BIOS. (EE) TDFX(1): Cannot read V_BIOS. everything except X is the same, and xinerama doesnt want to work. if anyone wants config files (ive tried dozens, literally) or some other procedure please, please please, let me know. the majority of errors ive found related to this are on ppc's, and i have found none on intel where it was not a configuration (user) error, so my asbestos suit is on. TIA, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Re: VirtualBindings
This is a follow-up from almost a year ago. When I recently switched to JDK1.4 and Redhat 7.3, I started to receive warnings when I started Java Swing applications in the form of: Warning: Cannot convert string KeyEscape,_Key_Cancel to type VirtualBinding I found an old post on the xpert list that reported to solve the problem, but it didn't. After mailing the original solution provider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), he pointed out that the solution has changed slightly. I am reposting his new solution here (slightly edited) in hope that it will help other people. - richard Note that I am using FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE, so I can not comment on differences with the Red Hat Linux distribution. I'm going to assume that you are using XFree86 version 4.2.0 or greater. The reason that I am making this assumption is that I found, after upgrading XFree86 from version 4.0.2 to 4.2.0, my fix did not work as before. I found that the XFree86 maintainers had omitted a necessary section from the lib/X11/config/Motif.tmpl file in config directory of the XFree86 installation (typically located in /usr/X11R6): #ifndef VirtualBindingsPath /* Modified for XFree86 (Castalia 2/02) # define VirtualBindingsPath /usr/lib/Xm/bindings */ # define VirtualBindingsPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/bindings #endif [The above modified version of the configuration information is] obviously important for finding the virtual bindings definitions. In the lib/X11/bindings directory of the XFree86 installation, modify the xmbind.alias file as before by adding this line (I put it right at the top of the alias list): The XFree86 Project, Inc XFree86 The portion in double quotes is the string that the X server uses to identify the vendor of the software. I find this in the server startup log file (/var/log/XFree86.0.log on my system [): (II) Module scanpci: vendor=The XFree86 Project The key is exactly what follows vendor=; since you are using XFree86 I assume this will be the same as it is for me. In the xmbind.alias file, the identifier after the vendor string (i.e., XFree86) is the name of a file in the same directory containing the virtual bindings definitions. You should be able to name this file whatever seems appropriate to you; XFree86 seems obvious to me (I don't understand why it isn't obvious to the folks distributing XFree86 ;-). I chose to copy the sun_at file in the same directory to be my XFree86; but I don't remember why other than it worked. I'm using a straightforward keyboard (Key Tronic LT Designer) so your needs may vary depending on the keyboard specifics. I do remember digging a bit into the osfXXX definitions in the virtual bindings definitions files and it seems that osfCancel is the virtual name that is bound to the KeyEscape (where Escape is the name for a specific key code) emitted from your keyboard. Of course, if the sun_at bindings don't work for you, trying some other file (or rolling your own) probably will. The key (excuse the pun :^) seems to be telling the XFree86 X server where to find the virtual bindings (which file in which directory), and then configuring the bindings appropriate to your keyboard. In all fairness to the XFree86 folks, I suspect that the reason they do not pre-configure this stuff is that it is virtually (oops!) never needed. Only the Java installation on my system has ever complained. Brad Castalia P.S. Would you please report this, along with your final solution, as an update to the VirtualBindings thread of the Xpert list on the XFree86 site so others will know the solution, too.
[Xpert]Cross compile xkbcomp
Hi, Just trying to cross compile the 4.2.0 tar balls that I have downloaded. I have got the scripts to compile but the make bombs out in the make install. The make files reference xkbcomp in the programs/xkbcomp/cross directory but the make scripts place the executable in programs/xkbcomp and also the exports/bin directory. I've noticed that the source files in xkbcomp/cross are linked to ../ and I assume that there should be a link back to xkbcomp too but can't work out where I set this in the config files. I have set the cross compile flags correctly. Is this a bug or can I change it somewhere? Thanks, Paul. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Appearance in X...
I have been using Win2K on the desktop for quite a while now, and I am now evaluation Red Hat 7.3 with a view to replacing Win2K. Things are progressing well, but the appearance of the fonts on X is not nearly as good as those in Windows. I have tried using True Type fonts and have checked the Anti-Aliasing for Fonts box in the KDE Control Centre, but they are still quite fuzzy compared to those in Windows. I am using many of the applications that came with 7.3 and it is the same in all of them. I have tried to customise the applications by specifying the fonts to use, but have not seen any improvement. I have used several PCs with different video cards and monitors and it is the same with all of them. I have also checked with several colleagues who use Linux and they have agreed that the font appearance is not as good. Can anyone shed a light on this? Regards, Brad Brisbane, Australia ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Re: Radeon VE QY (PCI)
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 11:31 pm, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Keith Gross wrote: Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0500 From: Keith Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 List-Id: General X Discussion xpert.XFree86.Org Subject: Re: Re: Radeon VE QY (PCI) I do most of my work on the weekends so I'll try setting this up this wekend. What would be the easiest way to get the changes you made to enable the support so I could start from there. The patch is in the RHL 7.3 XFree86 src.rpm package, as well as buried somewhere under my testing dir in my sig. I was just wondering if the following will work. I retreived the patch (XFree86-4.2.0-ati-radeon-pci-drm-enable.patch) from your ftp server and applied it to my XFree 4.2.0 build tree and recompiled. I was thinking than that I'd replace the following files with the new versions in the build tree as shown below : Replaced /lib/modules/2.4.19-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o with /xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel/radeon.o Replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so with /xc/exports/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so Replaced /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o with /xc/exports/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o After looking at the patches and reading some background on DRI and XFree design this seemed viable. I as also wondering how bad the reports where on the patch? Did it periodically fail or it just plain wouldn't start? ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Render support in Xclock by default?
I've hacked Render support into Xclock and checked that code into CVS (use 'xclock -render'); the question this evening is whether that should be the default when the Render extension is supported. Unless people have strong objections, I'll go ahead and commit a change to CVS that uses Render when available and otherwise leaves the current behaviour unchanged. Polite comments on the fine choice of default colors in Render mode would also be appreciated; I realize my limitations in the area of aesthetics. Keith PackardXFree86 Core TeamHP Cambridge Research Lab ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Event generations..
Hi,, I have a doubt.. As per the Indian languages, There are some consonants and vowels. On combination of Consonant and Vowel, the glyph to be display is different. It is not similar either to Consonant or Vowel, Its completely different. Normally , in English, if the consonant 't' is followed by vowel 'a', we will write it as 'ta', but in Indian languages, these two chars 'ta' will be written in some different way. For Indian language, I mapped (for eg.) 'D' to a vowel and 'K' to a consonant. If I type 'K' the corresponding consonant to that 'K' would be displayed. If I type the consonant again, it just display the corresponding consonants and going on and on. but, If I type the vowel character 'D' next to the consonant 'K', the already printed consonant, should be removed and the character corresponding to the combination of the Consonant+Vowel should be displayed. This is the thing needed for all the Koffice application( of course, KDE). so, I am modifying the Xlibrary. Do you have any Idea? How to do that? Things I have tried are : To delete the already displayed consonant, we have to generate backspace event, so, in the XTranslateKeySym(), while the match for Consonant and vowel comes, I just assign *sym_rtrn = 65288; (for backspace) and assigned the resulting glyph in buffer such as buffer = resultingValue; but it sends only backspace, not printing the content of the buffer.. If I assigned the values in buffer as buffer[0]='\b'; strcat(buffer,resultingValue); It displays a box for '\b' (in KDE Applns) and appended the resultingValue with that. Now, I think, what happen If I generate a seperate event for backspace ? for that, I have to give a KeyPress and KeyRelease Events, By using, XPeekEvent, I can get the KeyRelease event, but I couldnt get the Keypress event. I dont know, whether I am moving in a correct way... !! Give me your comments and Solutions.. with Regards, Vivek (o---) \ Distributed Systems and Optical Networks Lab, \ \ IITM, Chennai-36, India (__)\ \ Ph:044-2578904 oo ) \ \ 044-2578353-=G=N=U=-|_/\ \ o)___) Expressions other than SMILES are Dangerous ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
