Re: [Xpert]To xfs, or not to xfs? Is the question...(Was: Bug#147898: xserver-xfree86: freeze when using TrueType with Xinerama)
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:14:02AM +0100, Jos? Fonseca wrote: What are the differences for a desktop user between using xfs or X's own Xft? Which one is better? Xft and xfs don't fill the same role at all. Xft is the client-side font rendering component (used with the RENDER extension) for anti-aliased fonts. xfs is a separate-process font server (as a complement to, or replacement for, locally-specified fontpaths in XF86Config[-4]). Supposedly in some configurations it can lower font-rendering latency (of course, it doesn't affect apps that use the RENDER extension for font drawing - the fonts there are drawn in the client process space). It also introduces the liability that your X server can hang if it loses its communication channel with the font server. -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]RE: RADEON VE SIGNED DRIVERS UPDATES QUESTION
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 07:20:47PM -0700, H. P. wrote: Have a Radeon VE, and Creative Savage4 video cards. They work perfectly until I Try to load Commanche4 Commanche4 plays the trailer then tries to load game but fails. It crashes back to the desktop when game menu appears. Comanche4 C/S says that I need Signed or Certified Microsoft lab tested drivers even though the Directx drivers are 8.1 and pass the DXDIAG tests for Draw and 3d. None of the web sites have updates for this upgrade and fix. Are you even running X? Doesn't sound like it to me. If you're running Windows, as I suspect, you could call Microsoft, and see if they'll help you (not likely), or if either of your video card manufacturers will (also not likely). -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Howto turn off virtual screens?
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 12:12:38PM +0200, Eric Noack wrote: Does anybody know how to turn of the bigger virtual desktop size, when changing to lower resolutions? Once upon a time(was it an 3.x Xserver, i dont remember) it was possible to set the Virtual Option in the Display Subsection of the Screen section in XFree86Config to a lower setting than your maximum mode, which lead to using of a higher virtual resolution only if i changed to a higher mode than i set in Virtual. I don't think so. That's not how X works, afaik. With X, once the root window (and its dimensions) are established, it stays that way throughout the session. Now my question again, is it possible to turn the usage of a virtual desktop off? (and how) Wait for the XRandR (resize/rotate) extension to make its way into a release version of XFree86. It will add provisions for changing the real desktop dimensions (and dynamically rotating the display in mid-session too). PPS: Of course its possible to work around my specific problem by letting wine grab the cursor completely, or not to use Windoze games at all, but that's another question g Use a recent version of Wine, install the WineSetup tool, and enable DirectX cursor grabbing. That will allow Windows programs that use the DirectInput APIs to keep the mouse cursor within their window (this is off by default). -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Testing opengl
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:27:16AM -0500, Ian Truelsen wrote: Running Linux with 2.4.19 kernel and X 4.2.0 I am at 16bpp, as I read the notes on the card. Yeah, I have read everything that I could find there. Have you tried running 'LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo' at a prompt in X? The dual-head setup may stop DRI from working correctly, unless you don't have libglide3x.so (or don't have the right one). -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]XFree86 version 4.2.0 and SiS 6326 compatibility
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:49:32PM -0700, Dick Lewis wrote: 1. While libglide2x.so wasn't present on my system, that in itself was likely not a problem; Why would you need this anyway? libglide2x is only for standalone 3D mode on Voodoo3/Banshee and for all 3D only Voodoo boards (Voodoo and Voodoo2). Unless you want the X server to use the 'glide' driver to use an old Voodoo/Voodoo2 board as a second head, you don't need the libglide2x.so library. Repeat: Glide is 100% NOT relevant with an SiS chipset. 2. That I could be using an obsolete X configuration file. Could not load the shared library file for Glide: libglide2x.so! What are you getting this from? I'm not convinced you're getting this from the X server itself. The error you got in your X server output log seems to indicate the new SiS drivers just don't grok the chip for some reason (old rev? old BIOS? something else?) -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]xvideo overlay and xinerama
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:30:25PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: If in a non-Xinerama multihead situation the overlay on each head works individually, then it should work in Xinerama. When you say you were able to get either head to work, was that with both cards running simultaneouly in a non-Xinerama multihead mode? I've had dual Voodoos (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI and a Voodoo5 5500 AGP) with XVideo working across both (could stretch a widescreen movie trailer, playing in Xine, across the 2, and it worked great - CPU use 10% all the time, on a PIII-650). Is this somehow specific to just having cards of the same type? Or just paired Voodoo boards? -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Extension GLX missing
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:46:31PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: Yes, I searched the archives, but the solutions therein don't seem to apply here. You're displaying X apps to an Xplora Xterminal. It only knows the X extensions that are built into Xncdxpl (not a whole lot). The extensions involve X-server-side code - since the X server doesn't support them, you can't use them. Sorry. -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Cannot establish any listening sockets
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:19:14AM -0800, Doug Fong wrote: and when i attempt to run startx I get the following error Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running. Have you used either 'lsof' or 'netstat -lnp --inet' to see what's holding the socket open? It has to be something holding it open, and one of those should be able to help you find out what the problem is. -- Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]NVIDIA drivers on PowerPC
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Isreal Packard wrote: I hope this is an appropriate question to direct here. I saw a reference on Usenet that indicates I might get some direction here. Basically, as a complete novice, I'd like to know how to get the display working on my GeForce 2? Well, the complexity of that is going to afffected by a few things. What type of display are you trying to drive? VGA, or a DVI flat panel? What version of XFree86 do you have installed? What kernel? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]very confused about Direct rendering
On 8 Feb 2002, Brenden Conte wrote: So i have a banshee (Creative labs, 16M, AGP), on a 2.4.17 debian system. and i'm trying to get as much out of it as i can, being an old card. I've been trying to get direct rendering to work, using (if anyone is familiar with them) mesag3-glide2 and the device3dfx module. glxinfo works and says Direct rendering is on, but i need to set MESA_GLX_FX. once i do that and run it again, it locks the system hard (no matter if i specify window or fullscreen) You're using the wrong GL library then. Are you using XFree86 4.1.0? If so, you should have 'xlibmesa3' installed on your system. You'll probably also have to install the 'libglide3' package, and build and load the 'tdfx' DRM module (it's in the kernel). i've been fishing around the web for answers, which made me even more confused as ever... :-\ Do i need to use the kernel module for the banshee as well? should i not build it (its built as a module now)? am i doing it all wrong, using outdated methods? Do i need a certain glide version for this card? The 'libglide3' package will link the right Glide lib for your needs automatically. But yes, the method you're using is severely outdated, if you're using XFree 4.1.0 (which if you have glxinfo, I suspect is the case). I would love to get glide working on this card, and any help (including directions to other people who would know more) would be very much appreciated... You won't be using Glide itself, but OpenGL (which links the glide library through the tdfx_drm.so module). Once you've installed libglide3, put the whole concept of Glide as an application-level interface out of your head, it's 100% totally irrelevant. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]How exactly do I get DRI working ?!?!
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, OS wrote: Okay, here we go ! I've tried the following on an ATI Rage 128 RL and a Rage Mobility Pro chipset. The R128 will do DRI, the Mobility Pro (which I believe is a Mach64-derived design) will not - at least, not yet. Support for Mach64-based 3D-enabled cores is in the works. I modprobed agpgart and it duly appeared with a useage counter of 0. I then modprobed r128. It too showed a useage count of 0, but the agpgart useage count had gone up to 1. That's right - because the r128 DRM uses the AGPGART interface. I couldn't find a module called mtrr, perhaps Mandrake doesn't ship with that module ? It's never a module, it's either built into your kernel or it's not. If /proc/mtrr exists, then (a) it's built into the kernel, and (b) your CPU supports MTRR (it's a CPU feature - K6-2s stepping 8 and up, K6-3s, Athlons, some Cyrix chips, and P2/P3/P4 (including Celerons) have MTRRs or a close analog). The XFree86 log file indicates that XF doesn't baulk at any of the modules it loads. It happily loads dri, drm, glx etc.. But no where does it say dri enabled. Anyway, it's attached. It looks like you may need to add a line that says 'Load dri' in your Module section. Otherwise the X server itself doesn't know about DRI, or the setup for it or anything else. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Second card in the Mac G4
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if we could use RAC for this, anyone with more knowledge of how RAC works cares to comment ? It's my understanding that the domain patches (which are now in the trunk afaik) will handle this. I haven't had a chance to try them out yet on PPC though. Don't these cards still need to be softbooted somehow though? Or is that really all it'll take to make them work? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]drm and kernel
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jeremy West wrote: Please!! Please!!! I have been fighting dri for the last couple of months. If someone could help me I would be really happy. In my XFree log it says : What does this mean. I went into my /dev/dri directory and found that I have a card1, card2, and card3. So I used mknod, and created a card0 based off of the major and minor numbers for the others. I then restarted the Xserver. I get the same error. I went back into the /dev/dri folder, and the node had been deleted. What is up with that. The kernel module radeon is also not loaded, which is what I need. If I shut down X and run insmod on that module it comes back with lots of errors. If you have a custom-built kernel, make sure you have AGP GART support, and Radeon DRM support, either built into your kernel or built as modules. DRI will not work without them. If you have the module already as you claim, what missing symbols is it complaining about? Maybe you need to rebuild the kernel? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]XFree 4.1.0 and DRM kernel modules for XFree86 4.2.0
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Cyril Zlachevsky wrote: I have 3dfx velocity 100 videocard, Athlon 1.33 GHz on SiS 735 chipset 3Dfx Velocity 100? I've never heard of this. How closely related to the Voodoo3/5 is it? Does it use the 'tdfx' drivers? I find the same sort of issues running UT on my home box with a Voodoo5 and a P3-650. Can this be related to the recently discovered AMD-AGP bug? This would not be likely, since if it's a Voodoo-based card (as I suspect), it doesn't actually make use of the GART anyway - it just uses the AGP bus as a faster PCI bus, basically. About wrong texture colours with Unreal Tournament 436 - on XFree 4.2.0 I can't found this problem - possibly, error fixed in 4.2.0. But I found another problem - UT freeze on high rendering quality in game video settings. Do you see rainbowed textures in the opening sequence in particular? Also, texture corruption in the menus? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]X crashes .
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Vincenzo Di Massa wrote: X 4.1.0 crashes when I try tu run 3d apps. I think I configured everything right. Any suggestion? I don't know what could it be wrong. Can you tell me where to look to find the problem?. Can you be in the least specific? Like, what video card you're using? What distribution? Maybe your XF86Config file or something? There are several boards that have DRI (hardware 3D) support, and many possible configurations, so you really need to narrow it down. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI Radeon VE and xinerama
On 14 Jan 2002, Niclas Sodergard wrote: I have a ATI Radeon VE and I am trying to get xinerama to work with that. It seems to configure both screens but the second screen remains black. It doesn't matter which way I connect them. The second screen seems to get some kind of signal since the No signal-banner disappers when I start X. Have you tried specifying 'Option CrtScreen' for the second-head configuration? I remember seeing something about that being a necessary option. (FYI, I don't have a laptop with a Radeon, so I don't know if this does anything. Might work, might do nothing, might induce meltdown. :) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]radeon and glx problem (RTCW hangs system)
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jacek [iso-8859-2] Pop³awski wrote: [drm:radeon_freelist_get] *ERROR* returning NULL! I frequently see a similar message (but s/radeon/r128/) when I try to use AGP on this iBook with a Rage Mobility M3, and it frequently leads up to a system hang here as well (not running RtCW, of course, but trying to run Quake or TuxRacer). I don't know if it's an AGPGART problem, or a DRM problem. With a Rage128 descendant, of course, PCI GART can be used, but it's a good bit slower than 2X AGP would be... Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Unresolved symbols in r128_drv
On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Mike Heald wrote: Thanks, but I cannot find a DRM kernel module in CVS, I have checkedout xc and done make World, but there is no r128.o when its done. Is there another module i should be checking out? It's in the CVS tree. Look under xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel - yes, it's a long path, but it's in there. Do 'make -f Makefile.linux' in that directory, and it'll make all the DRM modules (r128, radeon, tdfx, ...), or do 'make -f Makefile.linux r128.o' for just the Rage128 DRM. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]DGA requires SUID/root access???
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true for the install but not when the user is running the app, which is what I'm worried about. Surely, we don't need SUID just to display graphics? For the program that's using DGA to open and mmap() /dev/mem, it has to be root. That's part of doing DGA. That's why it's called _direct_. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]DGA requires SUID/root access???
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, David Balazic wrote: Couldn't the X server process open /dev/mem and then pass the file descriptor to the X client ? They're not running in the same process context. The X client communicates with the X server via either TCP sockets or UNIX domain sockets (UNIX domain sockets for local apps), but they run as completely separate processes. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]DGA requires SUID/root access???
Sorry if this is a sort-of-repeat, I thought I sent it. On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Billy Biggs wrote: 1. We don't have kernel-level video drivers, so we can't safely mmap to a user app sections of video memory. Right. 2. Giving a user full access to the framebuffer is dangerous so only let root do it. Sort of. In theory, it could be made sufficiently safe (that's what the GGI crew wanted to do with KGI). That is, there's no reason you need full access to /dev/mem just to write to the framebuffer, it's just some silliness because of the way everything is architectured. I'd love to find out the real reason though. If we had framebuffer drivers in the kernel for everything, it'd be OK (then you just have to mediate access between X and the kernel framebuffer driver). However, in the current situation, mapping /dev/mem is necessary. Userspace processes don't know anything about the real physical addressing of memory normally (and they don't have to care - the whole beauty of virtual memory systems), allowing each process to kick around in its littlee sandbox without bugging anybody else. However, to directly access the framebuffer as it stands, via DGA, a process tells X it wants to do DGA - then the X server tells it the framebuffer base address (an offset into physical memory where the display device's framebuffer memory lives), the size of it, and the line width. The process then opens /dev/mem, mmap()s the framebuffer by offset and length. Unfortunately, allowing access to /dev/mem opens us up to an untrusted program proceeding to scribble on whatever it wants in system RAM. (Among all the other things it can do as root.) Which is why you have to be picky about what programs you make SUID root, of course. :) One good reason why the DirectFB project wouldn't be such a bad thing. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Radeon 7000 QD (32Mb DDR)
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Mike Mestnik wrote: Is this really worth trying, dose this enable direct rendering? Can you play Quake Arena (The only thing that matters!)? I have a Radeon 8500 might this work with my card to? No. The Radeon 7000/7200/7500 boards's display controller is closely related to the original Radeon, enough so that this should theoretically work. The 8500, however, has some significant differences from both the 7x00 Radeons and the original Radeon that make it truly incompatible with XFree86 4.1.0's Radeon driver. However, there's a 2D-only Radeon 8500 driver in XFree CVS now, which would at least get the board working. I don't know ATI's intentions as far at Linux 3D support for the Radeon 8500 goes though. Anyone else know what the scoop is there? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
[Xpert]Softbooting video card on PPC with OF ROMs
Has there been any development in this department? I was wondering if the Mac-On-Linux OpenFirmware/OpenPROM implementation (minimal, but maybe enough) would be a potential basis to make something like this work, as part of an int10-like module. Any thoughts? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Voodoo 4 4500 AGP
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Paulo Vitor Magacho da Silva wrote: First, sorry for the very long email that I am sending. So you are saying that I don't need the tdfx_dri.so file anymore ? You need that library. XFree's libGL is just an intermediary, it uses that library to talk to 3Dfx boards to do direct rendering. (II) TDFX(0): [DRI] installation complete (==) TDFX(0): Direct rendering enabled What it's wrong, what else do I need ? I have the opengl library provided by the XFree 4.1.0, I also have installed the Mesa-utils 3.4.1 libs and the glide libraries. I can't use any program that need hardware acceleration, such as tuxracer. Say what? Please say you didn't overwrite your libGL. First, do 'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo' and make sure it's linking the correct libGL. Second, as Michel said, run 'LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo' and see if it spits out any errors. You may need to look at /dev/dri/* and see if the permissions are set correctly for you to access the DRI devnode. If not, 'man XF86Config' is your friend. Look for info on the DRI section. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Abridged: Total frustration with XFree86 4.1.0!
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Mac Cody wrote: Interesting. :-\ I would have thought that interlace support would be in place since XFree86 is at version 4.1.0 already and support was there in XFree86 3.3.6. Anywhere I could find out whether that is the case or not (short of investigating the sources)? If interlace support is missing, I guess I'll have to fall back to XFree 3.3.6 for now [sigh!]. Well, XFree86 underwent some serious reworking with the debut of the 4.x line - moving away from monolithic X servers, and moving towards modules for everything, with one smaller base server. Not a lot of attention had initially been paid to moving the old-style 3.x drivers for many old boards (pre-ViRGE S3 boards, older Cirrus and Trident boards had also fallen victim to this), as much of the redesign was intended to allow support for more-advanced features like the XVideo and DRI subsystems. Only recently have those really old drivers been ported forward to the new modular architecture. So you may need to stay with 3.3.x for now, or if you're up to it, try hacking in interlaced-mode support. That's about all you can do, until someone eventually gets the drivers for the older boards fully ported up. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Secrets to getting XFree86 working on PPC?
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
I've been trying to get XFree86 CVS to work on Linux PPC.
Is this expected to work? I'm using the nv driver with
NV11 with Option NoAccel, something which others have
allegedly gotten to work. This is on a YDL 2.0 system.
Basically, the system hardlocks sometime after finishing
the PreInit.
Ani Joshi made some patches against both XFree86 and the kernel sources to
adapt the nVidia drivers in each to work on big-endian systems (esp. PPC
systems). I don't know if his patch against the 'nv' driver in XFree ever
made into the CVS mainline tree. I've attached both patches to this
message, so if it's not in CVS, you can try the patch instead.
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diff -uNr nv.orig/nv_driver.c nv/nv_driver.c
--- nv.orig/nv_driver.c Sun Oct 7 22:28:30 2001
+++ nv/nv_driver.c Sun Oct 7 22:28:35 2001
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@
pNv-Primary = xf86IsPrimaryPci(pNv-PciInfo);
-#ifndef __alpha__
+#if !defined(__alpha__) || !defined(__powerpc__)
/* Initialize the card through int10 interface if needed */
#if 0
if ( !pNv-Primary )
@@ -1280,9 +1280,9 @@
pNv-FbMapSize = pScrn-videoRam * 1024;
+#if 0
/* Read and print the Monitor DDC info */
pScrn-monitor-DDC = NVdoDDC(pScrn);
-#if 0
/*
* This code was for testing. It will be removed as soon
* as this is integrated into the common level.
@@ -1610,6 +1610,18 @@
if ( pNv-Restore )
(*pNv-Restore)(pScrn, vgaReg, nvReg, FALSE);
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+/* turn on LFB swapping */
+{
+ unsigned char tmp;
+
+ VGA_WR08(pNv-riva.PCIO, 0x3d4, 0x46);
+ tmp = VGA_RD08(pNv-riva.PCIO, 0x3d5);
+ tmp |= (1 7);
+ VGA_WR08(pNv-riva.PCIO, 0x3d5, tmp);
+}
+#endif
+
NVResetGraphics(pScrn);
vgaHWProtect(pScrn, FALSE);
@@ -1933,7 +1945,14 @@
vgaRegPtr vgaReg = pVga-SavedReg;
DEBUG(xf86DrvMsg(pScrn-scrnIndex, X_INFO, NVSave\n));
+#if defined(__powerpc__)
+/* temporary hack to get around PowerMac's inability to save
+ * vga fonts and cmap, will find a better solution later
+ */
+vgaHWSave(pScrn, vgaReg, VGA_SR_MODE);
+#else
vgaHWSave(pScrn, vgaReg, VGA_SR_CMAP|VGA_SR_MODE|VGA_SR_FONTS);
+#endif
pNv-riva.UnloadStateExt(pNv-riva, nvReg);
}
diff -uNr nv.orig/nv_xaa.c nv/nv_xaa.c
--- nv.orig/nv_xaa.cSun Oct 7 22:28:30 2001
+++ nv/nv_xaa.c Sun Oct 7 22:28:35 2001
@@ -596,8 +596,12 @@
NVSubsequentMono8x8PatternFillRect;
/* Color expansion */
-infoPtr-ScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFillFlags =
+infoPtr-ScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFillFlags =
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+ BIT_ORDER_IN_BYTE_MSBFIRST |
+#else
BIT_ORDER_IN_BYTE_LSBFIRST |
+#endif
NO_PLANEMASK |
CPU_TRANSFER_PAD_DWORD |
LEFT_EDGE_CLIPPING |
diff -uNr nv.orig/riva_hw.c nv/riva_hw.c
--- nv.orig/riva_hw.c Sun Oct 7 22:28:30 2001
+++ nv/riva_hw.cSun Oct 7 22:28:35 2001
@@ -1656,6 +1656,11 @@
int pan= (start 3) 1;
unsigned char tmp;
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+/* turn on big endian register access */
+chip-PMC[0x0004/4] = 0x0101;
+#endif
+
/*
* Unlock extended registers.
*/
diff -uNr nv.orig/riva_hw.h nv/riva_hw.h
--- nv.orig/riva_hw.h Sun Oct 7 22:28:30 2001
+++ nv/riva_hw.hSun Oct 7 22:28:35 2001
@@ -60,8 +60,12 @@
typedef volatile struct
{
U032 reserved00[4];
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+U032 FifoFree;
+#else
U016 FifoFree;
U016 Nop;
+#endif
U032 reserved01[0x0BB];
U032 Rop3;
} RivaRop;
@@ -71,8 +75,12 @@
typedef volatile struct
{
U032 reserved00[4];
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+U032 FifoFree;
+#else
U016 FifoFree;
U016 Nop;
+#endif
U032 reserved01[0x0BD];
U032 Shape;
U032 reserved03[0x001];
@@ -86,8 +94,12 @@
typedef volatile struct
{
U032 reserved00[4];
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+U032 FifoFree;
+#else
U016 FifoFree;
U016 Nop;
+#endif
U032 reserved01[0x0BB];
U032 TopLeft;
U032 WidthHeight;
@@ -98,8 +110,12 @@
typedef volatile struct
{
U032 reserved00[4];
+#if X_BYTE_ORDER == X_BIG_ENDIAN
+U032 FifoFree;
+#else
U016 FifoFree;
U016 Nop[1];
+#endif
U032 reserved01[0x0BC];
U032 Color;
U032 reserved03[0x03E];
@@ -112,8 +128,12 @@
typedef volatile struct
Re: [Xpert]popup windows
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: They don't have a title bar. And that's why there are WM hints, so you can tell the WM hey, don't decorate me! Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]Re: Rage128 (esp. RageM3) bad line length issue - Ifigured it out...
On 4 Dec 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: If that's the problem, then the fix should be to query the pitch (i.e. displayWidth) from the framebuffer device. There is an fbdevHWGetLineLength() function for this. Derrik says it's also broken without Option UseFBDev though. Yes, when the X server worked on PPC without UseFBDev - which it doesn't right now - I did see the same effect, regardless of whether I specified UseFBDev or not. Also, is the fix that you came up with available as a patch against the 4.1.0.1 tree that Debian is using at present, so I can just build my own local X server package and use that until 4.2.0 is released, and packages for it make their way into Sid? I could, I suppose, use a local parallel X install, but I'd rather not, if for no other reason than saving disk space for other stuff. :) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]No Screens on XFree86
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, David Loszewski wrote: I just installed XFree86-4.1.0, after I finished installing it I did the 'XFree86 -configure' and it made my configuration file, so then I type 'startx' and this is the error it gives me: Did you copy the created config file (./XF86Config.new) to /etc/X11/XF86Config? If not, that probably explains why the log is claiming that it couldn't open the config file. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]ATI Question
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Gene Dascher wrote: Does anyone know who I need to talk to about seeing if it would be possible to get the ATI Rage128 Mobility card (I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e) in dual-display mode under XFree86? It works wonderfully under Win98SE (ATI's drivers), so I don't see why it isn't POSSIBLE under X. Others have discussed this very thing. (Check the list archives for more info.) The only real problem is getting the right docs to the right people to make it happen. Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: Other multihead setups (was Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450AGP + G450PCI)
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: It should work. What version are you trying? I seem to remember Xinerama problems in 4.1.0 which are fixed in CVS. I'm using thhe 4.1.0-6 debs at present. The system I'm using I haven't even gotten around to trying to enable Xinerama - it always dies with a signal 11 (even avfter moving the int10 module out of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules, as one message I'd seen about a similar setup suggested). Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Re: [Xpert]EGA-Cards on XFree ?
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Michael Hess wrote: I have a nice display (lcd) with 640x480 but it needs to be driven by digital signals. My Idee was to take an old EGA-Card i have here (AST3G) and if i'm right, EGA is digital. Now my question is, does anyone know, if EGA-cards are supported in anyway by XFree ? (And which one are supported ?) EGA? EGA is _not_ digital, it's _very_ analog, and pretty old. Far as I know, even XFree 3.3.x didn't support anything less than a standard VGA display device. Are you sure it's an EGA card you have? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
Other multihead setups (was Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450AGP + G450PCI)
Ok, not exactly related, but I wanted to find out if it would work - has anyone been able to get more than one ATI Rage128 working in a system? Particularly in a non-x86 system (in my case an Apple PPC G3 box)? I've tried to get such a setup working, but XFree86 (including the 4.1.0 release bins) just dies with signal 11 every time (after coming up with a blue root-weave-ish image). Has anyone gotten this to work? Will it ever work? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
