Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-07 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Still fails. Log attached. > > > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . > > I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak an

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Still fails. Log attached. > > It tries to initialize int10 which can't work for us yet. Try Option > "NoInt10" (hasn't worked for me yet) or move away libint10.a . I moved libint10.a to libint10.a.bak and it still fails. log attached. jas. This

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . > > Aah. I see. Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought you meant just the > video drivers... Mixing modules between versions may work but it's not guaranteed to. BT

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . Aah. I see. Sorry my misunderstanding, I thought you meant just the video drivers... Still fails. Log attached. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bu

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Michael Schmitz
> >Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lombard but no success. > >And I still have no aty docs to look up the details in. > > Well, if you do that, it may be interesting to impement the same > ioctls I have in my aty128fb version (I'll send it to you later > if you don't want to rsync

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It's using the 4.0.3 modules... did you give it the (correct) -modulepath > > option? > > Damn. Sorry. Wrong log file. > > This is the correct one. Still mostly 4.0.3 modules. Try with all 4.0.99.3 . -- Earthlin

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's using the 4.0.3 modules... did you give it the (correct) -modulepath > option? Damn. Sorry. Wrong log file. This is the correct one. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFre

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note that you needn't install anything to try a new version, check out the > > -modulepath option of the XFree86 binary. Sorry I forgot to point this out > > earlier. > > Aaah... yes, that would have helped. I figure

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Yep. The same is true for atyfb (yes, I should add mirrorring/dualhead >support >> for the Mobility in my Vaio :-). > >Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lombard but no success. >And I still have no aty docs to look up the details in. Well, if you do that, it may be interesting to

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > So i suppose the you will need to use a trick similar to the matrox one to > > get > > dual headed accelerated X to work. > > Yep. The same is true for atyfb (yes, I should add mirrorring/dualhead support > for the Mobility in my Vaio :-). Please do - I tried Ben's mirror utility on the Lomba

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes: > I'm attaching the whole log, as well as my config file. no really, now I am. jas. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] B

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bummer... seems like XFree86 has ProjectRoot hard-coded into the > > binary. I'll have to recompile with ProjectRoot not redefined. > > Why? > > Note that you needn't install anything to try a new version, check out the > -modulepath option of the

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh Excellent. Works nicely. Th

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > >If you point the second CRTC to the same frame buffer region, you'll have >mirrorring, else you have two different heads. In most cases (like what I do with aty128fb), you don't even need to use the second CRTC. Just enable both outputs and let them source from the first CRTC. >> So i suppos

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:14:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > > > >> ability to control the CRT

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > > >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > > >> rsync tree. The tool t

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >So mirroring will work, i guess. Well, it works fine on the Pismo, but the composite output may need additional configuration of the composite encoder. >for dual head you will need X, isn't it, fbdev seems broken (well at least >those using fbgen) for dualhead anyway. Don't know if aty128fb us

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:57:29PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > >> rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh > >

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the >> ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my >> rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh > >BTW, the recently released ibook is said to only have the capacity to mirror,

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:29:35PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the > ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my > rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh BTW, the re

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Note that if you don't want to mess with XFree, I recently added the ability to control the CRT & LCD outputs of the Rage M3 to aty128fb in my rsync tree. The tool to control it is on www.penguinppc.org/~benh Ben.

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > > >> Someone please try the attached patch against curre

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > >> Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns > >> Option > > >> "U

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Dänzer
Jason E. Stewart wrote: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option "UseBIOSDisplay" (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into O

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:10:31PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > I tried to use my old X configuration and it doesn't work at all, > server just hangs. I figured some configuration files in /etc/X11 must > have gotten stomped by the CVS install of X, so I ran dpkg --remove of > xserver-common

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-05-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. > > Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option > "UseBIOSDisplay" (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into > Option "Display" whic

Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-04-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
(Adding CC: to linuxppc-dev to reach more potentially interested people) "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > I'm writing this email to you off my ViewSonic21 running at measly > 1280x1024 but it's much better than the 1024x768 I got using > 'mirror'. > > I rebuilt r128_driver.c with the CRTOnly code co

Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo)

2001-04-30 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > I don't want to mess up my existing configuration so I only want to > > 'make install' if I can get it to happily install someplace other than > > /usr/X11R6/* > > You'd have to set ProjectRoot in host.def before the b

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Steven Hanley
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:28:59AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > You'd have to set ProjectRoot in host.def before the build. it is detailed nicely on http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIcompile.html which also mentions 9.3 Update Locale Information To update your X locale information do the fol

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:28:59AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > I don't want to mess up my existing configuration so I only want to > > 'make install' if I can get it to happily install someplace other than > > /usr/X11R6/* > > You'd have to set ProjectRoot in hos

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > I don't want to mess up my existing configuration so I only want to > 'make install' if I can get it to happily install someplace other than > /usr/X11R6/* You'd have to set ProjectRoot in host.def before the build. > Shouldn't I just need to install > > xc/programs

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > Yes. Note that the current trunk doesn't contain CRTOnly anymore in "favour" > of a "UseBIOSDisplay" option (very portable ;). I suggest getting the > xf-4_0_2-branch . Yeah!!! It's done!!! I don't want to mess up my ex

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > Ok. grabbed it. Now all I really need to build is just the Rage128 > > driver, right? I don't have to build the entire system. Do you know > > what I need to comment out in the config files to just build the > > minimum

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > > Should I just use apt-get to grab the server source, or do I need > > > > > Ani Joshi's tree especially? > > > > > > > > Both should be more or less equivalent. The best would of course be to > > > > get it from CVS. > > > > > > Fine by me. What repository shoul

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-05 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > > Should I just use apt-get to grab the server source, or do I need Ani > > > > Joshi's tree especially? > > > > > > Both should be more or less equivalent. The best would of course be to get > > > it from CVS. > > >

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Iain Sandoe wrote: > > > > because it's useful? ;-) > > Interesting word. I wonder what it means. But all seriousness > aside, what I meant was that if I was going to do some development > on this, I would also simultaneously work on getting the aty

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Iain Sandoe wrote: > > > One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding > > this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already > > there. > > because it's useful? ;-) Interesting word. I wonder what it means. But all seriousness aside, what I meant was that if I wa

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > Should I just use apt-get to grab the server source, or do I need Ani > > > Joshi's tree especially? > > > > Both should be more or less equivalent. The best would of course be to get > > it from CVS. > > Fine by me. What repository should I use, >[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > Should I just use apt-get to grab the server source, or do I need Ani > > Joshi's tree especially? > > Both should be more or less equivalent. The best would of course be to get it > from CVS. Fine by me. What reposit

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > Does anyone know if the old "CRTOnly" option (which was always commented > > out in the source) worked? > > It's been a few months since I built the code from scratch, and I > never used that option. That seems like a place to start. > > Should I just use apt-get to

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > Ani Joshi sounds like a good starting person, Michel Danzer, maybe? > > No promises as I'm very busy to say the least, but I might look into it > sometime. Actually, all I'm asking for is a little coaching, and I'm

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Michel Dänzer
"Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding > > this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already > > there. Perhaps you would be able to get a lot more direct info from > > another li

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding > this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already > there. Perhaps you would be able to get a lot more direct info from > another list, like one dedicated more to laptops or

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Iain Sandoe
> One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding > this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already > there. because it's useful? ;-) >Perhaps you would be able to get a lot more direct info from > another list, like one dedicated more to laptops or X. well maybe.

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
One has to question whether anyone would be interested in adding this to a frame buffer driver, assuming that it isn't already there. Perhaps you would be able to get a lot more direct info from another list, like one dedicated more to laptops or X. I've actually seen an XF86Config for driving th

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Iain Sandoe
>> Since I'm mirroring the LCD I only get 1024x768, and the pismo can >> drive a [EMAIL PROTECTED] bit depth. So what needs to happen to aty128fb.c >> to support the external monitor, and what can I do to make it happen?? >> > > That is beyond *me* but maybe someone else knows. I am just the artis

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-04 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On 03 Apr 2001 19:03:28 -0700, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Tuomas Kuosmanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi! > > > > "mirror" works fine for me even on kernel 2.4.3 on my Pismo. Weird. This > > kernel is from Ben's rsync and it contains the pismo sleep code as well. > > > > rsync -avz -

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Tuomas Kuosmanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > "mirror" works fine for me even on kernel 2.4.3 on my Pismo. Weird. This > kernel is from Ben's rsync and it contains the pismo sleep code as well. > > rsync -avz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4-benh > > I got scared

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-03 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does your laptop have a key sequence that will switch the output > from LCD to CRT(external monitor) and back? Mine does. Fn-F8. > It's directly tied to the hardware and doesn't need any support in X > or Linux. Of course it's an x86 laptop, but it'

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-03 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
Hi! "mirror" works fine for me even on kernel 2.4.3 on my Pismo. Weird. This kernel is from Ben's rsync and it contains the pismo sleep code as well. rsync -avz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4-benh I got scared because I am going to GUADEC (a GNOME conference in Denmark) th

Re: External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-03 Thread Andrew Sharp
Does your laptop have a key sequence that will switch the output from LCD to CRT(external monitor) and back? Mine does. Fn-F8. It's directly tied to the hardware and doesn't need any support in X or Linux. Of course it's an x86 laptop, but it's the same video controller, so maybe your Pismo has

External Monitor under Pismo

2001-04-02 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Hey All, So after 7 months of flailing I finally got my Pismo to run it's external monitor port, yeah!!! 3 days before I had a talk to give about our OpenSource project, I realized I was going to be using OpenOffice under linux, and I couldn't actually drive a projector... So after I got done pa