RE: Xrandr developer

2003-03-31 Thread Rob Taylor
Jim Gettys and Keith Packard are teh main protagonists, however Jim has been busy recuperating from a broken ankle, and Keith has been involved in some political stuff - see the 'forum' mailing for details. It seems the best thing to do at the moment is for those of us interested in XRandR

Xvideo patch for R128

2003-03-31 Thread Rik Faith
[I didn't see anything specific for patches on http://www.xfree86.org/mailman/listinfo (and I haven't been keeping track of the recent list changes), so I hope this is ok to post here.] Here is a patch against XFree86 4.3.0 (from the xf-4_3_0 cvs tag). The problem is that at high screen

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends somewhat on how RH does X init. You can look through startx and xinit setup and see what's being changed. Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment in the xf86site.def file says,

Re: [forum] Help with configuration please!

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Vojkovich
I stripped forum from the reply since devel is more appropriate. The reason why this doesn't work reliably in the nv driver is because there is not an I2C bus - there are THREE of them - and it's not clear which one the driver should be looking on. They're not even the same between one

Re: [forum] Help with configuration please!

2003-03-31 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I stripped forum from the reply since devel is more appropriate. The reason why this doesn't work reliably in the nv driver is because there is not an I2C bus - there are THREE of them - and it's not clear which one the driver should be

Re: [forum] Help with configuration please!

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I stripped forum from the reply since devel is more appropriate. The reason why this doesn't work reliably in the nv driver is because there is not an I2C bus - there are THREE of them -

Creating an XImage

2003-03-31 Thread Josh Davis
I am trying to create an XImage, but after the function call to XCreateImage(), my XImage pointer's value is 0. I really don't know much about Xlib. I want to create an XImage for image data that I already have. Can someone give me a list of steps to follow that lead to a properly created

error building shared libXau

2003-03-31 Thread Frank Liu
I am trying to enable building shared lib for libXau, but got an error: ... gcc -o ./libXau.so.6.0~ -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-soname,libXau.so.6 AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o AuWrite.o + rm -f libXau.so.6 + ln -s libXau.so.6.0

shared Xfontcache

2003-03-31 Thread Frank Liu
I am trying to enabl shared Xfontcache, but xfs fails to link: ... gcc -o xfs -O2 -L../../exports/libdifs/libdifs.a difs/libdifs.a os/libos.a -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lsocket -L../../exports/lib -lXfont -lfntstubs -lfreetype -lXfontcache -lm -lz -lsocket -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Matthieu Herrb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might make more people willing to test XFree86 releases on their machines. One experience like I had for the average tester who just wants to help out is likely to cause him to re- install his Linux distro and never run a 'make install' again

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kevin Brosius
Kendall Bennett wrote: Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends somewhat on how RH does X init. You can look through startx and xinit setup and see what's being changed. Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment

Re: Creating an XImage

2003-03-31 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:13:58 -0500 Josh Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I am trying to create an XImage, but after the function call to XCreateImage(), my XImage pointer's value is 0. I really don't know much about Xlib. I want to create

Re: Make install blows away startup files?

2003-03-31 Thread Kendall Bennett
Kevin Brosius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't the installer supposed to not replace xinit.rc if the file already exists? That is what the comment in the xf86site.def file says, but that would appear not to be the case? Well, /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc certainly wasn't updated during my last

Re: Creating an XImage

2003-03-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:26:47 -0500 (EST) Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:13:58 -0500 Josh Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I am trying to create an XImage, but after the function call to

BuildGlxExt

2003-03-31 Thread Frank Liu
Can somebody explain to me what is BuildGlxExt? in the comment, it says: /* * If you don't want to build support for an external GLX server module or * library, uncomment this. * #define BuildGlxExt NO */ what does external mean? Thanks! Frank

Re: [forum] Help with configuration please!

2003-03-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:34:43PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I stripped forum from the reply since devel is more appropriate. Ok, no problem with me. The reason why this doesn't work reliably in the nv driver is because there is not an I2C bus - there are THREE of them - and it's

Re: error building shared libXau

2003-03-31 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Frank Liu wrote (in a message from Monday 31) I am trying to enable building shared lib for libXau, but got an error: ... gcc -o ./libXau.so.6.0~ -shared -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-soname,libXau.so.6 AuDispose.o AuFileName.o AuGetAddr.o AuGetBest.o AuLock.o AuRead.o AuUnlock.o