Re: [Xpert]Dual-Head on ATI Mobility 7500?
Could you email your XF86Config? Does anyone know if this is likely to work with a trident cyberblade? thanks jeremy Thomas Estaben wrote: Try to search some documentation about the Xinerama extension of Xfree. I use it with a mobility 7500, and i have no problem with Dual-Head. Tom On Saturday 23 November 2002 02:15, Hugh Caley wrote: I have a new Dell Latitude 640 laptop, and would like to run a second monitor from the SVGA output. This works fine from Win XP, but I can't figure out how to get it to work under RedHat 8.0/XFree86 4.2. Is it possible? The output, when it works, seems to be only mirrored. It evidently uses an ATI Radeon Mobility 7500. Hugh ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]xkb: half-keyboard?
hi, i already asked this in march 02, but did not get much of an answer. maybe now somebody is interested. i am looking for the capability to mirror the keyboard layout when the space-bar is pressed, so that one can touch-type with one hand. this is good for blind people, because they then can have one hand on the braille display, and type with the other, or for applications where you have the mouse in one hand, and for many mor occasions. originally this was marketed as the 'matias half-qwerty' as a hardware solution, but it should not be too hard to implement it in software (in fact, it was already done for winDOS and mac). there already is a kernel patch for this: http://repetae.net/~john/computer/hk/ but it is faulty. if you do not release the letter key early enough, it swallows the space char. i know that it would be possible to use it if i disabled xkb, but this is not feasible in my opinion. what i am looking for is a function that can be disabled at will, and ideally would not require recompilation of the kernel or xfree86. there is also a patch for the x-server: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2002-July/000351.html but it also seems to be faulty (i did not test it myself). dan linder, who worked on accessX some time ago, said that possibly this function can be implemented without coding, by using a specialized xkb keyboard definition or something. if anybody has any ideas or knows somebody who is willing to look into this, i would very much appreciate to hear from them. i am willing to put some time into this, but need some help to do it. maybe somebody can point me to people working on xkb? cheers stefan -- ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]_LoaderFileToMem() read() failed: File too large
Hi all, I am desperately trying to get my Matrox G450 PCI dual head card working under Xfree86 4.2. The OS is FreeBSD 4.7 -RELEASE-Alpha (pws 500au). Using the the supplied mga drivers from XFree86 4.2, X works for the primary monitor but not the secondary monitor. Ok, I thought bec this card has a HD-15 *and* and a DVI connector, that maybe the drivers from www.matrox.com/mga would work. So I downloaded the linux drivers, installed the linux_base port and moved the drivers to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers. I then restarted X and no luck: Can someone out there help. This is error: tail -20 /var/log/XFree86.0.log Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line (II) Module pex5: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension X3D-PEX (II) LoadModule: mga (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o Fatal server error: _LoaderFileToMem() read() failed: File too large This is the entire file: - 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: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE alpha [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: Wed Dec 4 21:10:18 2002 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/XF86Config (==) ServerLayout Simple Layout (**) |--Screen Screen 1 (0) (**) | |--Monitor LG775N1 (**) | |--Device G400_1 (**) |--Screen Screen 2 (1) (**) | |--Monitor LG775N2 (**) | |--Device G400_2 (**) |--Input Device Mouse1 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard1 (**) Option AutoRepeat 500 30 (**) Option XkbRules xfree86 (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Option XkbModel pc101 (**) XKB: model: pc101 (**) Option XkbLayout us (**) XKB: layout: us (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/l ib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X 11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11 R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ ,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (==) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Option Xinerama (**) Xinerama: enabled (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 16777218.0) (--) using VT number 9 (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on freebsd (II) LoadModule: bitmap (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line Not loading .debug_line (II) Module bitmap: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: pcidata (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a Not loading .debug_line (II) Module pcidata: vendor=The XFree86 Project compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:03:0: chip 1011,0019 card , rev 30 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:04:0: chip 1095,0646 card , rev 01 class 01,01,80 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 8086,0484 card , rev 43 class 00,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:14:0: chip 1011,0024 card , rev 02 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 01:08:0: chip 105a,4d68 card 105a,4d68 rev 02 class 01,80,85 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:09:0: chip 3388,0021 card , rev 13 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 01:0a:0: chip 1077,1020 card , rev 05 class 01,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 02:00:0: chip 102b,0525 card 102b,0d43 rev 85 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: scanpci (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a Not loading .debug_line (II) Module
Re: [Xpert]X garbled after lid shut/open on Dell Inspiron 4150
Sigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix Absolutely !!! I have three laptops. Two of them (Acers) freeze solid on closing the lid whether X is running or not. The third (Dell) is a lottery. Very ocassionally it will run quite happily. Usually it will run for a short time and then processes start to hang until eventually the whole machine hangs. The kernel people say nothing we can do it must be a non standard BIOS. Some laptops suspend to RAM okay, but I have yet to see a single laptop (at work we use Compaqs and Sonys), suspend to disk and recover fully !! Who knows, one day :-) Owen Shei, Shing-Shong wrote: Kevin, Thank you very much for the workaround. It does the trick: 1) Use CTRL-ALT-F1 to go to alternative console mode, 2) Close the lid and open it up again, 3) Use CTRL-ATL-F7 to return to the X window. Now the question is why we don't have this problem running Windows XP. Is the problem with the Radeon M7 driver under XFree86? Or the problem is with BIOS? If it's the later, I might bug Dell for a fix. Have a wonderful day. Bruce Sigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix. But there is a (messy) workaround. But it's lots better than a reboot. ... ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]X garbled after lid shut/open on Dell Inspiron 4150
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:05, Owen Savill wrote: Sigh! This really needs to be a FAQ. IF only there was a fix Absolutely !!! I have three laptops. Two of them (Acers) freeze solid on closing the lid whether X is running or not. The third (Dell) is a lottery. Very ocassionally it will run quite happily. Usually it will run for a short time and then processes start to hang until eventually the whole machine hangs. The kernel people say nothing we can do it must be a non standard BIOS. Some laptops suspend to RAM okay, but I have yet to see a single laptop (at work we use Compaqs and Sonys), suspend to disk and recover fully !! You could take a look at http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html for laptops with Radeon GPUs. Note that my patch depends on the laptop switching away to a text VT at suspend time and switching back at resume time. Most of the current users use it with acpi and swsusp: with acpi one can easily connect an event handler to the close lid event that will do the right thing. Funnily enough, the Dell BIOS usually seems to do the right thing with suspend to disc... I made this patch for people with newer laptops that don't support APM anymore instead opting for the more modern ACPI. HTH, Charl -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/ ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Radeon 7500 + Tseng ET6000 dual head lockups
Hi, I have a dual head setup with ATI Radeon 7500 (AGP) and Tseng ET6000 (PCI) cards. Everything (DRI on ATI, v4l on either display) works great (I'm not using Xinerama, but separate sessions). However, the computer locks hard from time to time (might be OK for several days, might crash several times a day). Once it happens, the computer is totally dead. Alt-SysRq-combinations do not work. On the other hand, if XawTV is on when the lockup occurs, the TV continues to show (IIRC), so at least the PCI bus and the display cards seem to survive the crash. I haven't been able to note any common cause for the crashes. They happen both when I'm using the computer, and also when it's idling. It might be that some lockups have occurred when I touch the mouse, but I'm not sure if that's just a coincidence. Anyway, if I disable the dual-head setup (by commenting out the Tseng in ServerLayout), the computer becomes rock-solid, so the crashes are related to XFree86 somehow. Oh, and I'm using Mandrake 9.0 flavour of XFree86, if that counts. My config and log files are available at http://mairas.net/tmp/X11-crashes/XFree86.0.log http://mairas.net/tmp/X11-crashes/XF86Config-4 I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Best Regards, Matti Airas ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]use XGrabKeyboard(...)
I have KDE 3,X 4 and the following code
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XSelectInput ( prDisplay, nWnd, ExposureMask | KeyPressMask );
XGrabKeyboard (prDisplay, nWnd, True, GrabModeSync, GrabModeSync,
CurrentTime);
XMapWindow ( prDisplay, nWnd );
while ( 1 ) {
XNextEvent ( prDisplay, rEvent );
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But my application has not recieved any key events in focus out
Why do it?
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[Xpert]looking for mailing list archive
Hello, Is there an archive of this list that I can search? Thanks. -- Rafael ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]-fPIC issue
Several times in the past we have seen requests to build libraries with the -fPIC flag for which XFree86 doesn't supply shared versions. These requests have always been turned down so far for two reasons: 1. XFree86 wants to discourage anyone from turning the static libraries into shared ones. These libraries are still under development and thus their API subject to change. XFree86 wants to ensure the APIs can still be modified without having to worry about providing backward compatibility. This would no longer be possible if the libraries were shared. 2. Position independent code (PIC) performs somewhat lower than non-PIC. PIC requires one CPU register to hold offset information. Thus this register is no longer available to the code itself. Recently I have been approached by the KDE project about this issue again. 1. In order to provide the functionality of these libraries thru the context of their API KDE fully wraps this libraries' APIs. Thus any call from a KDE application to these libraries is done thru functions provided by a shared library of this toolkit. Direct calls of the XFree86 libs are not permitted. However to do so the XFree86 libraries need to be linked into the shared libs these projects provide. 2. The ABI of the currently most widely used platform (IA32) does not require objects to be position independent when being linked into shared libraries. This is not true however for some platforms like IA64, PPC, x86-64 or AXP. To make toolkits like KDE work on these distribution vendors have added more or less nasty kludges to their XFree86 build configuration to either create shared versions of all XFree86 libraries or create a PIC version of these. As most GUI toolkits were developed on IA32 this problem has never been realized until these toolkits were ported to other platforms. Reviewing these arguments I arrived at the following conclusion: A. PIC .a libraries themselves are not usable as shared libs. B. The performance issue matters significantly only on IA32. All platforms that require PIC objects to build shared libraries have a sufficiently large number of CPU registers that performance penalties are negligible. C. A fully encapsulated XFree86 library API doesn't place any more burden on XFree86 to provide any more backward compatibility than statically linked libraries. I therefore propose the following procedure: A. Identify all XFree86 libraries whose may be encapsulated by toolkits shared libraries without being shared themselves. B. Compile libraries identified in 1. with -fPIC on platforms that require position independent code for shared libraries. C. Always require a full encapsulation of the API when a static XFree86 library is added to a shared toolkit library. Thus: a. Toolkit designs that need to expose any part of this ABI are considered broken. b. Applications that reference any part of this ABI bypassing the toolkit are considered broken. I would like to get feedback from the community on this. After talking this over with David I have implemented and committed it to the XFree86 CVS. However David suggested to discuss this in public. Should any serious objections arise We can still modify/remove it before 4.3 comes out. Egbert. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Dual-head Gnome / GDM workin with NVidia on Mandrake 9 but (help...please)
the CRT device is the first screen while the LCD is the second one. May I change it? I sent my XF86Config file. However, wheter i set TwinMode off, i can use the hot keys to switch between my monitors but when I try to use LCD+CRT togheter (as TwinMode=on and Orientation=Clone) the LCD resolution becomes 640x480. How do i fix it? I expect to use 1600x1200 resolution at the 2 screens... Thanks... XF86Config-4 Description: Binary data
[Xpert]Re: CT 69030 Freeze up with RH Linux 8.0
Fixed: Adding "SWcursor" to the XF86Config device section did the trick All, thanks for your help HBDo you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
Re: Thank you ATI! - was [Xpert]ATI driver that supports Powered by ATI cards is out!
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:37:54PM -0800, Nat Ersoz wrote: Thank you ATI. I recently ordered a Dell Inspiron Laptop and upgraded the video card from the default nVidia card to the ATI Radeon 9000 - a US$130 upgrade. The sole reason for the upgrade was that ATI has been such a faithful supporter of the XFree86 project. I was very pleased that after installing the RPM released by ATI - which was very easy to do - I was able to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein on my laptop (mission critical app). Not only did it play smoothly, but it played smoothly at 1600x1200 resolution (beautiful). Of course Wolfenstein is not why I ordered the laptop - but it sure is nice to get all the performance from the machine that I paid money for. And it does perform beautifully! Nicely stated. I think it wouldn't hurt to send this to ATI somehow. I used their feedback page (http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/) to say thanks. I'm sure they got soundly thumped for their previous policy, so saying thanks for the new one is only appropriate. Kurt -- Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. -- Trotsky ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Linux 8.0 Chips 69030 system freeze
Herman Buel wrote: Patrick I have looked at http://store.suse.com for the solution to the 69030 problem as you suggested - did not find anything there - can you be more specific where the solution can be found ? HB = :-) Yes, Herman, it's the part about where how to order SuSE 8.1 Linux for your crippled RH machine. :o) Patrick -- ---SuSE Linux v8.1 Pro--- Registered Linux User #225206 Life's a garden, Dig It! --Joe Dirt ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]bind mouse button
Hi, I 've tried to setup my cordless optical trackman from logitech. I ve 8 buttons but I've successfully setup 6 of them. I used mousemanplusps/2 protocol and buttons 8 option. The mouse is plug in the ps/2 connector via an usb adaptator. Anyway 6 buttons are already a lot. But now I like to bind funtion to this button, I ve setup srcolling but I want for example a button to launch a terminal. I've search the net but didn't found anything and the control center from gnome doesn't seem to support mouse binding. Anybody have a solution ? please cc me because I'm not subscribe to the list Thanks a lot -- ___ __ ( O O ) ( ) | ) \_/.. --oOOo--( )--oOOo/V\--- Sebastien Person // \\ tel.: 06 70 00 08 95 /( )\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^'~'^ ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Linux 8.0 Chips 69030 system freeze
C'mon now, you could have just as easily pointed him to Gentoo or Slackware. Gentoo powered! -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. This entire domain and all associated e-mail addresses are located in the State of Washington,and sending mail to addresses at this domain is subject to the provisions of the Revised Code of Washington. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]External Monitor on Trident CyberBladeXP (HP Pavilion n5415)
Hello, I have asked part of this question before and tried all the feedback, but still no luck. All I want to do is have the display a) on the LCD or b) on the external monitor on my desk. Seems simple enough right? Well after many weeks of frustration and despair, I am still at square one. I have tried the fn-f5 combination (which is what works under Windows), no luck. So then I tried the Display Option CRT, and this causes the LCD not to show the picture but does not display it on the CRT (so no diaply at all). I followed this by BIOS another option I found somewhere on the web, still no luck. So I have a few questions, 1) Is this possible with the current Trident driver (I took the one from http://xfree86.org/~alanh on Dec 1, 2002)? If so, how would I go about this? 2) The key codes do not show up anywhere (the fn-f5 ones), how do these normally work on other laptops,are they intercepted by the BIOS and then processed or shoudl they generate key codes? 3) Is there a list of TODO's for the trident driver? 4) Finally, Has anyone on thsi list gotten this working? If I ama asking these questions in the wrong place please let me know. Anxiously waiting, JLH. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
