Re: [Pfaedit-devel] Re: [forum] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-15 Thread George Williams
That was the initial plan, but I found out that having FreeType grok such fonts required more changes than David Turner was wililng to make in the 2.1.* series. So I'm generating a zero-length glyf and a one-entry loca. (No EBSC indeed.) Ok, I'm currently posting a new build of PfaEdit which will

Re: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: > This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but > never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source > community to fund open source driver development? It is very difficult to convert money into code. It's

RE: User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Nitin Mahajan
HI! I would be interested in contributing on drivers in open source development ,provided I have resources like datasheets and H/W details. Could u let me know more about this? Regards, Nitin Mahajan mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:51101667. Mobile : 9886099925 == The

Re: [Dri-devel] User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
This sounds like a great idea indeed. There are many questions, I'm sure. One that comes to mind is: *Who* would be able to vote? Luis On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Alex Deucher wrote: > This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but > never really goes anywhere. Why not

User sponsored drivers

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
This proposal comes up periodically on this and other xfree lists, but never really goes anywhere. Why not raise money from the open source community to fund open source driver development? everything from revamping X (ie, speeding up the development of 5.0 features) to adding a new Xfree86 3D dr

Re: X.Org's IPv6 changes (was: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 15 Jul 2003, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > MLF> I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. > Shall we remove libdps from the tree? Why? Is DPS dead? It's just a matter of time before I find the time to convert it. And that doesn't preclude someone else beating me t

Re: X.Org's IPv6 changes (was: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

2003-07-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
MLF> I think the best thing to do here is to recode DPS to rely on xtrans. Shall we remove libdps from the tree? Juliusz ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: [Pfaedit-devel] Re: [forum] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
GW> Is there a real need to distinguish between bitmap only and ouline GW> sfnts? I feel that having the same extension for bitmap and scalable fonts is confusing -- without a naming extension, you need tools such as ftdump to find out what your fonts are. GW> I presume that an .otb font would ju

Re: [forum] Re: Choosing an extension for bitmap-only SFNTs

2003-07-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> As far as I know, Microsoft doesn't use bitmap-only sfnts -- they use >> scalable fonts throughout, nowadays, only keeping the legacy .FON >> format for backwards compatibility. TR> Windows XP still has Terminal, Courier, MS Serif and MS Sans TR> Serif, all of which are bitmapped and in common

RE: Distributing new DDX for testing

2003-07-15 Thread Chris Edgington
> The best thing to do is file a bug report in bugzilla at > http://bugs.xfree86.org and attach your patch to the bug report > as a unified diff (diff -Naur) to the report using the bugzilla > file attachment feature. You should ensure the patch applies to > the current developmental CVS head

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Egbert Eich
Nick Hudson writes: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 4:00 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > [...] > > The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing > > to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's > > contrib/. > > Ok. Thanks for explaining. >

Re: CL266 TV-out bug?

2003-07-15 Thread Tim Roberts
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:58:21 -0700 (PDT), Alan Messer wrote: > >I've been using the 4.3.99 CLE266 (ProSavage) driver >on my Via EPIA M1 board. The CLE266 is a Castlerock, not a ProSavage. To the best of my knowledge, the two chips are unrelated. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Provid

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nick Hudson wrote: > > The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing > > to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's > > contrib/. > Ok. Thanks for explaining. > Am I on a road to nowhere in attempting to change the build

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 4:00 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: [...] > The imake rule in question will not be removed because there is nothing > to preclude its use by external packages such as those found in X.Org's > contrib/. Ok. Thanks for explaining. Am I on a road to nowhere in attempting to

Re: [RFC] Re: Freetype on cygwin link...

2003-07-15 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:49:42AM +0200, Daniel Blueman wrote: >An alternative would be to update the freetype support in XFree86 mainline, >to the current version. I don't know anything about the context of this discussion, but the XFree86 CVS trunk has FreeType 2.1.4, which appears to be the cu

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nick Hudson wrote: > On Tuesday 15 July 2003 1:32 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > [...] > > I feel that the fact SharedLibObjCompile() is unused in our _current_ tree > > is insufficient reason to remove it. > It provides nothing over and above NormalSharedLibObjCompile wh

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 16:17, Michel Dänzer wrote: [ citation without new stuff ] Sorry about that, fun time with Evolution. :\ -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer _

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > >>> latest CVS build (by myself) as of yesterday (4.3.99...) > > >> When did you try exactly ? I've seen more fixes for TMDS getting in the CVS recently. I'm not sure what's up here, definitely not something the doc explains. I suspect it's the path of pixel data from the framebuffer to the TM

Re: Radeon 9000 If (RV250), Mac G4 (Wintunnel) problems withXFree86

2003-07-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:11, Simon Urbanek wrote: > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 01:19 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:22, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:52, Simon Urbanek wrote: > >>> Summary: > >>> 1) CRT + TMDS dual head configuration does

RE: Savage Driver Replacement?

2003-07-15 Thread Alex Deucher
VIA/S3 released fully featured driver that it developed in house. they were based on 4.2.0. VIA had previously released a 2D only driver for the CLE266, which was integrated into xfree86 CVS. The released drivers are available on Alan Cox's website: http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/S3.zip http://w

Re: linux 2.6 atkbd ==> xkb

2003-07-15 Thread Ivan Pascal
Hello, > As per xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/atKeynames.h: > > /* > * Fake 'scancodes' in the following ranges are generated for 2-byte > * codes not handled elsewhere. These correspond to most extended keys > * on so-called "Internet" keyboards: > * > * 0x79-0x93 > *

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Nick Hudson
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 1:32 pm, Marc Aurele La France wrote: [...] > I feel that the fact SharedLibObjCompile() is unused in our _current_ tree > is insufficient reason to remove it. It provides nothing over and above NormalSharedLibObjCompile which is used. Maybe I'm wrong... Nick ___

Re: Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nick Hudson wrote: > I sent a patch in > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01959.html > was this the wrong place to send it? Can someone commit it/give me feedback? I feel that the fact SharedLibObjCompile() is unused in our _current_ tree is insufficient rea

Patch ping

2003-07-15 Thread Nick Hudson
I sent a patch in http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01959.html was this the wrong place to send it? Can someone commit it/give me feedback? Thanks, Nick ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel

RE: Savage Driver Replacement?

2003-07-15 Thread Egbert Eich
Alan Messer writes: > Tim Roberts wrote: > > I've recently been made aware of the XFree86 Savage > > driver that VIA released > > and is now available on Alan Hourihane's web site. > > This driver is so much > > superior to the one I've been maintaining that I > > should be embarrassed.

[RFC] Re: Freetype on cygwin link...

2003-07-15 Thread Daniel Blueman
An alternative would be to update the freetype support in XFree86 mainline, to the current version. This would benefit would yield much higher benefit, I think What caveats would that bring about? What about the development costs? > Daniel schrieb: > > > Any takers? > > > This sounds like