RE: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integrationmanager...

2003-01-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >>See also this thread: >> https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-November/000881.html >> >>And Keith's X extension to monitor selection changes, though this >>won't be in 4.3. > >Wow! That looks really cool and it is already in the tree a

Re: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread etienne deleflie
Alexander Stohr wrote: what about syncing to the vertical blank? some cards do provide you an interrupt handler for this. what is the vertical blank ? . do you know somewhere where I can get more information on this? i mean if you want to do it with OpenGL in fullscreen anyways then y

RE: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Havoc, >See also this thread: > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-November/000881.html > >And Keith's X extension to monitor selection changes, though this >won't be in 4.3. Wow! That looks really cool and it is already in the tree as xfixes, right? Even though that extension

Re: Fix RENDER acceleration on single-card dualhead.

2003-01-30 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 30 Jan 2003, Nolan Leake wrote: >While poking around the tree, I happened across the reason why >RENDER acceleration was screwed up on dualhead G[45][05]0s. > >xaaStateChange.c was not calling RestoreAccelState before doing >CPUToScreenTexture and CPUToScreenAlphaTexture. > >This patch fixes th

Re: SunRay driver for XFree86

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:40:12PM +, Markus Kuhn wrote: > What would be the best starting point to write a SunRay driver for > XFree86? What interface is there and where is it documented? Does > XFree86 split nicely into a hardware dependent and hardware independent > layer and is that dr

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:10:59PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > CUT_BUFFER is completely obsolete and totally broken. Most newer apps > > don't even use it. > > > > Right, that is what most people keep telling me. > > However, I am a pragmatic guy. If the current effect is that 99% or >

RE: DRM module compile problem under FreeBSD 5.0

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
PCI-gart is a still developing component that is maintained in the "XFree86 3D instable" tree, which is better known as "dri-devel" project. you might have better chances when asking there. anyways, that far i do know about PCI-gart, it was under some rather vague development. there were more pat

DRM module compile problem under FreeBSD 5.0

2003-01-30 Thread Bryan Liesner
The following files use M_WAITOK which is not defined anywhere in the xc tree in the HEAD branch: ati_pcigart.h drm_drv.h drm_scatter.h I sent out a mail a couple of days ago and unfortunately, it wasn't answered. Do I need a secret decoder ring to get a reply? __

SunRay driver for XFree86

2003-01-30 Thread Markus Kuhn
One of my students has now mostly completed a documentation of the SunRay protocol after a lot of network snooping. He would now like to develop an XFree86 driver for it. The SunRay1 thin client http://www.sun.com/products/sunray/sunray1/ is a disk and fan free thin client. Essentially a graph

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integrationmanager...

2003-01-30 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Of course. You'll notice in my first message that I did not make such > an observeration. I got precisely 0 responses. This time I made that > observation and I have gotten 2 extremely helpful replies. Sounds like > your hint doesn't hold up :)

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Owen, Owen Taylor wrote: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Owen, Owen Taylor wrote: "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to hear some of the ideas t

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integrationmanager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Havoc, Havoc Pennington wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote: In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it did

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Owen Taylor
Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Owen, > > Owen Taylor wrote: > > "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? > >> > >>Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to > >>hear some of the ideas that

Re: Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:11:08PM -0500, G O Economou wrote: > > In fact, I have made 8 releases :) I originally copied text from > > CUT_BUFFER0, which worked fine for me. As soon as I released this > > people started complaining about what it did not do (namely, it didn't > > handle non-U.S. t

Fw: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread G O Economou
- Original Message - From: "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G O Economou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:01 PM Subject: Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager... > Oh, but I have already release something: > http://xfree86

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread G O Economou
- Original Message - From: "Owen Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:30 PM Subject: Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager... > "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ...how would you do it, i

xclock docs not up-to-date ...

2003-01-30 Thread Stefan Dirsch
Hi I just recognized, that the xclock docs (manual page and "--help" option) are not up-to-date. Looks like that "-fn" option only works if you also specify "-norender" (Xserver rendering). "-fa" option works for specifying (antialiased) fonts rendered by Xft2/freetype2. Best regards, Stefan Pub

RE: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
what about syncing to the vertical blank? some cards do provide you an interrupt handler for this. i mean if you want to do it with OpenGL in fullscreen anyways then you just have to use double buffered mode and call glSwap() anytimes you are done with rendering. if you want to do something more

Re: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread Tim Roberts
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:14:13PM +1100, etienne deleflie wrote: > > thanks for your reply. I'm not sure that we are talking about the same > thing though. > > I want to be able to control the refresh rate programatically. for a > piece of software used in live video performance. > > I do

How to debug X crashes?

2003-01-30 Thread Meelis Roos
The colors and cursor on PPC s3virge are now OK (modulo videoram size detection) but I have encountered a server crash when viewing a specific web page with Konqueror. How to debug such crashes? X installs its own signal handler and all I get from core file is the following backtrace: #1 0x0fdf0f

Re: s3virge & bigendian

2003-01-30 Thread Meelis Roos
> Some options that are general to all drivers are only documented in 'man > XF86Config' not 'man s3virge'. You should find that 'videoram 2048' > works for the s3virge driver in the Device section. First, I tested the card in x86 now, NoAccel and NoDDC options made it so far that I saw it detect

Touch screen calibration

2003-01-30 Thread John Kjellman
Hi all, Does anyone know of any utility or software that would allow a mutouch (aka microtouch) based touch screen to be calibrated within X? I search and found mtsutil, but it has two major drawbacks. First, there is no source code (at least I cannot find any ;-). Second, it requires the touch

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Owen, Owen Taylor wrote: "Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on how to make such a clipbo

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Owen Taylor
"Harold L Hunt II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? > > Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to > hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on > how to make such a clipboard manager work pr

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, Thanks for responding. Yes, there are at least 3 clipboard/cut-buffer mechanisms. We originally set out to watch for CUT_BUFFER0 to change, at which point we would copy it to the Windows clipboard. That seemed fine, except that non-U.S. users screamed bloody murder because CUT_BUFFER

RE: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
> You'd have to ask Brian to be sure, but I believe the > intention is that > if the interface ever changes, a new .S file be generated in the Mesa > tree and imported to the XFree86 & DRI trees. There should > never be a > case where the .S file would change in XFree86 and not change in Mesa

Re: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Ian Romanick
Alexander Stohr wrote: From CVS/XFree86/xc/extras/Mesa/bin/Attic/glx86asm.py,v revision 1.2 date: 2000/12/07 16:12:47; author: dawes; state: dead; lines: +0 -0 Remove from the trunk the Mesa files that aren't needed. Latest entry in cvs log of c/extras/Mesa/src/X86/glapi_x86.S revision 1.7 da

Re: If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integrationmanager...

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > ...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? > > Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to > hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on > how to make such a clipboard manager work prop

If you were writing a Windows and X clipboard integration manager...

2003-01-30 Thread Harold L Hunt II
...how would you do it, in 150 words or less? Seriously, I have been working on this for over a year and I would love to hear some of the ideas that people have because I am completely stumped on how to make such a clipboard manager work properly. It would be nice if someone responded this time..

RE: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Stuart Anderson
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alexander Stohr wrote: > > From CVS/XFree86/xc/extras/Mesa/bin/Attic/glx86asm.py,v > > > really? hmm, if the respective API listing ever changes or extends > it might be simpler to use an existing script and then submitting the > results > than to perform error prone copy and

RE: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py > From CVS/XFree86/xc/extras/Mesa/bin/Attic/glx86asm.py,v > > revision 1.2 > date: 2000/12/07 16:12:47;  author: dawes;  state: dead;  lines: +0 -0 > Remove from the trunk the Mesa files that aren't needed. > > Latest entry in cvs log of c/extras/Mesa/src/X

Re: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alexander Stohr wrote: > according to its headline glapi_x86.S was generated > by the script glx86asm.py - its just that i cannot > find that script in the XFree86 sources. Any hints? >From CVS/XFree86/xc/extras/Mesa/bin/Attic/glx86asm.py,v revision 1.2 date: 2000/12/07 1

Xv and SiliconMotion: no image formats

2003-01-30 Thread Martin Runge
Hello all, I have the following Problem with a silicon motion Lynx3DM (smi 721) chip when using Xv. It looks like the hardware color conversion is not supported. With a nvidia gforce2 and the nvidia driver, I can see 4 suppoerted Image formats (YUY2, YV12, UYVY, YUV(packed), YUV(planar)). These

Re: s3virge & bigendian

2003-01-30 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Meelis Roos wrote: > > I tried the card in x86 to see if the RAM size is detected right there > but I had little success. First the PC didn't like F-COde ROM so the > card could not be used as the primary card. Running atimach64 as primary > and s3virge as secondary didn't wo

glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py

2003-01-30 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: glapi_x86.S glx86asm.py according to its headline glapi_x86.S was generated by the script glx86asm.py - its just that i cannot find that script in the XFree86 sources. Any hints? -Alex.

Re: s3virge & bigendian

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Brosius
Meelis Roos wrote: > > > > Do you know what physical memory the card has without looking at > > xfree86? ViRGE cards can be 2M or 4M. You might try specifying 2M and > > I googled a little and found that it's likely to be a 2M card. The card > is Formac GA6 (Formac Pro Media 20 Plus), it conta

Re: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread Billy Biggs
Hello etienne, You seem to have two problems. One I think is easy to solve, another I think is very difficult. > >At 2003\01\23 10:45 +1100 Thursday, etienne deleflie wrote: > >> > >> My application uses hardware acceleration (using xv) to draw YUV to > >> screen using XvShmPutImage(...)

Re: controlling refresh rate of the graphics card

2003-01-30 Thread etienne deleflie
Craig, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing though. I want to be able to control the refresh rate programatically. for a piece of software used in live video performance. I dont know if my software is going to be spitting out 25 fps or 22.341 fps (d

Re: a question about register CRT_OFFSET of ATI Radeon 7500

2003-01-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-01-30 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to change graphic surface origin offset in video memory of my ATI > Radeon card by changing the value of register CRTC_OFFSET. Does the > change occur on the screen immediately or not until it synchronizes with > VSYNC? If the CRTC_

Re: s3virge & bigendian

2003-01-30 Thread Meelis Roos
> Do you know what physical memory the card has without looking at > xfree86? ViRGE cards can be 2M or 4M. You might try specifying 2M and I googled a little and found that it's likely to be a 2M card. The card is Formac GA6 (Formac Pro Media 20 Plus), it contains 4 RAM chips and 4 places for ad