Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Those with a defective lying monitor may have to add a "resolution=640x480" parameter to their kernel command line to get out of the black screen modus. This shifts the bother to those with a bad monitor, who then are free to get pissed off at their monitor vendor . . . Helge Hafting

Re: two X servers

2006-05-02 Thread Helge Hafting
uh? I have been running two xservers, both with DRI simultaneously. I gave up on it because the driver for one of the cards was unstable and occationally hung the machine though. (Not a dual setup problem, it is just as bad alone . . .) Helge H

Re: status

2006-01-27 Thread Helge Hafting
occational prerelease kernel) is the only that ever crash my machines. And yes, I use sw rendering on any machine that have an occational hang. In either case, blame it on lack of documentation. Helge Hafting --- This SF.net email is sp

Re: Congratulations - now running opengl on a radeon that _never_ worked before!

2006-01-18 Thread Helge Hafting
tely, as my other message shows, it still doesn't work perfectly. 3D itself is now stable, but precence of a 3D driver makes the 2D driver stumble into the same hang now and then. Wonder if it could be a 2D/3D synchronization issue? My kernel is compiled with "voluntary preem

Sorry, too little testing - still trouble :-(

2006-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Helge Hafting wrote: For years, this card would simply hang the pc a few seconds after starting up X with DRI: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] It did not matter if I actually used any opengl sw or not, the machine would lock solid

Congratulations - now running opengl on a radeon that _never_ worked before!

2006-01-17 Thread Helge Hafting
erformance options. :-) Helge Hafting --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNL

Re: Linux OpenGL ABI discussion

2005-09-30 Thread Helge Hafting
working 3D card. :-( Helge Hafting --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl -- __

Re: [PATCH] DRM depends on ???

2005-05-30 Thread Helge Hafting
DRM=y,AGP=m being invalid for the common single-card setup, but there are multi-card setups too. Not that I need this special case personally - I have two cards but don't use modules. Helge Hafting --- This SF.Net email is sponsor

Re: Another drm/dri lockup - when moving the mouse

2005-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Roland Scheidegger wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I have reported this before, but now I have some more data. I have an office pc with this video card: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] In previous reports I found that starting xfree or xorg with dri

Re: Another drm/dri lockup - when moving the mouse

2005-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Roland Scheidegger wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: I have reported this before, but now I have some more data. I have an office pc with this video card: VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] In previous reports I found that starting xfree or xorg with dri

Another drm/dri lockup - when moving the mouse

2005-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
t; somehow? Or some way to test this further, by disabling the mouse or force some kind of software fallback for the mouse cursor? Helge Hafting Helge Hafting --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid review

Re: Kernel thoughts of a Linux user

2004-11-28 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:31:05PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > >>From the [ruby patch] documentation: > >>The main problem up to this date (November 2004) is that linux kernel > >>has only one behaviour regarding multiple keyboards : any k

Re: New DRM driver model - gets rid of DRM() macros!

2004-09-28 Thread Helge Hafting
once > and one of them work is good enough. I have a radeon9200SE pci card, and a matrox G550 agp card. I can try when that 2.6 patch becomes available. Helge Hafting --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManage

Re: New proposed DRM interface design

2004-09-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Jon Smirl wrote: On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:43:17 +0200, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: I would also like to fix things so that we can have two logged in users, one on each head. This isn't going to work if one them uses fbdev and keeps swithing the chip

Re: New proposed DRM interface design

2004-09-07 Thread Helge Hafting
Something I would really like to have since I just had some and was force to hook up a serial console. Also nice to have. Helge Hafting --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get

Re: [Dri-devel] New DRM design (was ATI I2C, MONID)

2004-02-16 Thread Helge Hafting
would just get whatever is used by the current VT. That might be useful, but it is also useful to be able to deal with only one head at a time, so that another head may be used by another user. I currently do that, with the slight inconvenience that the xserver using one head also affect timings, res

Re: [Dri-devel] dri hangs the pc (radeon 7000/VE, SiS645DX AGP)

2003-10-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, Helge Hafting wrote: Unfortunately, xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ hangs my machine rather quickly. X comes up, and can be used in any way for a few seconds. (Rarely enough to log in via xdm) Then

Re: [Dri-devel] dri hangs the pc (radeon 7000/VE, SiS645DX AGP)

2003-10-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:27, Ian Romanick wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4.2 You have a really, really old version. Please try one of the more recent binary snapshots. They can be found under "Downloads" on http://dri.sourc

[Dri-devel] dri hangs the pc (radeon 7000/VE, SiS645DX AGP)

2003-10-02 Thread Helge Hafting
et and a matrox G550. Helge Hafting lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS645DX Host & Memory & AGP Controller 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 530 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP) 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [S