Re: lockups

2004-02-19 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Xscreensaver uses OpenGL for many of the screensavers. It's most likely OpenGL driver bugs. Mark. On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > I've complained about lockups in the past. > I have uninstalled xscreensaver 4.14 and my PC has not locked up for two > days

Re: lockups

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Roberts
Fred Heitkamp wrote: I've complained about lockups in the past. I have uninstalled xscreensaver 4.14 and my PC has not locked up for two days so far. What worries me is that a poorly writen or buggy program can lock up my machine hard so that only a hard reset will cure it. A program can't do tha

lockups

2004-02-19 Thread Fred Heitkamp
I've complained about lockups in the past. I have uninstalled xscreensaver 4.14 and my PC has not locked up for two days so far. What worries me is that a poorly writen or buggy program can lock up my machine hard so that only a hard reset will cure it. I am using: XFree86 Version 4.3.99.902 (4.

Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

2004-02-19 Thread Sergey Babkin
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > DD> [XFree86] was not, as a whole, FSF-free before the change, let > DD> alone GPL-compatible. Same after the change. But then XFree86 > DD> has never factored in those two licensing criteria. > > That's not quite the point, David. > > Of the many reasons for whic

Re: i855GM: New BIOS breaks i810-driver - solved

2004-02-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
Alain, Can you try the int10 emulator ? To do this, (re)move this file out of the way. /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a Then XFree86 will use /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a Which is the emulator. Does it still lockup with that BIOS call ? Alan. _

Re: i855GM: New BIOS breaks i810-driver - solved

2004-02-19 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:17:03PM +0100, Alain POIRIER wrote: > Hi, > > > > Christian Zietz writes: > > > Hi, > > > > > > as developer of 855patch I get a lot of feedback from people using > > > XFree86 on computers with i855GM graphics. > > > It seems like new notebooks by Dell feature a new vi

Re: 3D support for radeon 9600 pro (ppc)

2004-02-19 Thread Ian Romanick
jaspal kallar wrote: I know there is already 2D support for the radeon 9600 pro in the upcoming 4.4 release. My question is if I buy an Apple Powermac G5 with a radeon 9600 pro card will I eventually in the future be able to get 3D support on the powerpc platform (not x86!!) ? Only if ATI ports t

Re: i855GM: New BIOS breaks i810-driver - solved

2004-02-19 Thread Alain POIRIER
Hi, > > Christian Zietz writes: > > Hi, > > > > as developer of 855patch I get a lot of feedback from people using > > XFree86 on computers with i855GM graphics. > > It seems like new notebooks by Dell feature a new video BIOS from Intel > > (iirc Build 3066) which finally implements the int 0x10

Re: Printer-builtin fontpaths broken / was: Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

2004-02-19 Thread Roland Mainz
David Dawes wrote: > >David Dawes wrote: > >> CVSROOT:/home/x-cvs > >> Module name:xc > >> Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/11 13:11:26 > >> > >> Log message: > >>799. Some more font path checks. > >> > >> Modified files: > >> xc/lib/font/fontfile/: > >> d

Re: i855GM: New BIOS breaks i810-driver]

2004-02-19 Thread Predrag Miocinovic
>Christian Zietz writes: > > Hi, > > > > as developer of 855patch I get a lot of feedback from people using > > XFree86 on computers with i855GM graphics. > > It seems like new notebooks by Dell feature a new video BIOS from Intel > > (iirc Build 3066) which finally implements the int 0x10

3D support for radeon 9600 pro (ppc)

2004-02-19 Thread jaspal kallar
I know there is already 2D support for the radeon 9600 pro in the upcoming 4.4 release. My question is if I buy an Apple Powermac G5 with a radeon 9600 pro card will I eventually in the future be able to get 3D support on the powerpc platform (not x86!!) ? _

Re: Crashing Xvfb

2004-02-19 Thread Paul Millar
Jeff, Thanks for the info (its good to know I'm not alone) and at least I now have a backup plan if Xvfb cannot be fixed easily. If I get stuck trying to configure vncserver, could I contact you directly? That said, it would be better if Xvfb worked without crashing. Who looks after the vfb cod

Re: trivial patch for startx.cpp

2004-02-19 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Tyler Retzlaff wrote: > > If you read the notice that accompanied the change you are refering to, > > you will see that this change of yours is unnecessary. > I'm not sure why you feel it's unnecessary since I never declared my > motivation for the change. I use tools (exter

Re: Modifications to linuxPci.c to optimize PCI scan

2004-02-19 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Tim Roberts wrote: > Pier Paolo Glave wrote: > >I'm trying to optimize an embedded system based on > >ARM9 CPU, which is running a cross-compiled version of > >XFree86 4.3.0 on linux 2.4.18. > >I noticed that XFree86, at start-up, makes a complete > >scan of 256 possible PCI

Re: i855GM: New BIOS breaks i810-driver

2004-02-19 Thread Egbert Eich
Christian Zietz writes: > Hi, > > as developer of 855patch I get a lot of feedback from people using > XFree86 on computers with i855GM graphics. > It seems like new notebooks by Dell feature a new video BIOS from Intel > (iirc Build 3066) which finally implements the int 0x10 0x5f11 functio

Re: XFree86 4.4.0 RC3

2004-02-19 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, David Dawes wrote: >The big deal you are all making about the GPL-incompatibility of >the modified XFree86 licence is really quite minor in comparison. >Lets face it: Your real objection is to giving credit to XFree86 >and its contributors. GPL-incompatibility and FUD about