Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Ivanko B
They also changed screen coating - possibly because of the mentioned crystall effect many sensitive people complain on. When selectiong a new monitor, me also got affraid of these (as revealed today - vaste ones) complains. --

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 11:11, Ivanko B wrote: > Oops,sure - me did a mistake. Cheaper U2713HM (edge W-LED, 16mln > color) & pro U2713H (matrix BG-LED, high-contrast, 1bln color) I just went on the Dell website, and it seems the U2711 has been replaced by the U2713H model. I haven't looked in more detail t

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Ivanko B
I have never heard of the "crystal effect" before. No idea what it is, sorry. == That mean the effect was really exaggerated. DELL U2317H(M) == Oops,sure - me did a mistake. Cheaper U2713HM (edge W-LED, 16mln color) & pro U2713H (matrix BG-LED, high-contrast, 1bln color)

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 23/09/13 10:06, Ivanko B wrote: > Me was affaraid this (and some ohers) model because of huge crystall > effect shown by I have never heard of the "crystal effect" before. No idea what it is, sorry. > But it seems that this effect was highly exaggerated as to real > feeling, correct ? All I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Ivanko B
I couldn't find many, but glad I spotted and choose the U2711. Another well know monitory is the 27" Apple Display - but at a crazy high price. === Me was affaraid this (and some ohers) model because of huge crystall effect shown by "www.overclockers.ru/images/lab/2013/08/06/1/98_kristaleff

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-23 Thread Julio Jiménez
I forgot to say XAA was dropped in newer xorg versions, still working in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 7. For new xorg versions, disabling EXAPixmaps or disabling acceleration is the only way for the moment. -- Julio Jiménez Borreguero

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-22 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Saturday 21 September 2013 10:49:54 Julio Jiménez wrote: > What I did in the mean time. > > For ATI cards. > > Added file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf > content: options radeon modeset=0 > > Added to xorg.conf (or your xorg config file...) Device section: > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA+ Linux issues

2013-09-22 Thread Ivanko B
but glad I spotted and choose the U2711 == A good monitor :). Also features the quite rare (for 27'') CCFL (no LED PWM issues to eyes) backlight. -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Traini

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA+ Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Saturday 21/09/2013 at 14:34, Ivanko B wrote: Me also had to swicth to 27 inches monitor (combo with analog+digital TV) "LG 27MA53D-PZ" IPS) - 1920x1080 for highly expected large 0.31mm I was specifically looking for the higher resolution 27" displays. I couldn't find many, but glad I

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Ivanko B
Correct, I switched from a dual 19" LCD setup to a single 27" LCD setup. I am currently using the 27" DELL U2711 IPS display, which is absolutely brilliant. == Me also had to swicth to 27 inches monitor (combo with analog+digital TV) "LG 27MA53D-PZ" IPS) - 1920x1080 for highly expec

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/21 Graeme Geldenhuys > On 2013-09-21 09:18, Julio Jiménez wrote: > > As I > > said it was probably because no xorg.con supplied and this will be fixes > > setting the proper modeline in xorg.conf. > > I don't specify manual modeline's in my xorg.conf - I simply specify the > monitro displa

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-21 09:18, Julio Jiménez wrote: > As I > said it was probably because no xorg.con supplied and this will be fixes > setting the proper modeline in xorg.conf. I don't specify manual modeline's in my xorg.conf - I simply specify the monitro display size, and the resolution I'm interested

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hello Ivanko, On 2013-09-20 23:05, Ivanko B wrote: > Graeme, it seem that You had to switch to a large LED backlight monitor (27 > inches me guess). How did You tune its backlight & brightness level so that > your eyes feel comfortable ? Correct, I switched from a dual 19" LCD setup to a single 2

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Martin Schreiber
Am 21.09.2013 09:49, schrieb Julio Jiménez: > What I did in the mean time. > > For ATI cards. > > Added file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf > content: options radeon modeset=0 > > Added to xorg.conf (or your xorg config file...) Device section: > > Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" > > in this way, I h

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Julio Jiménez
What I did in the mean time. For ATI cards. Added file /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf content: options radeon modeset=0 Added to xorg.conf (or your xorg config file...) Device section: Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" in this way, I have MSEide working fine and have hardware acceleration. 3D

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-21 Thread Julio Jiménez
Hi The true problem is the artifacts when using EXA acceleration. I'm not going to use VESA son I didn't want to waste time investigating why it detected and dropped the true monitor resolution and fall to 1024x768. As I said it was probably because no xorg.con supplied and this will be fixes sett

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-20 Thread Ivanko B
Julio's machine doesn't provide full resolution when using the VESA driver = To get all supported resolutions, there's UVESA driver (kernel module + v86d userspace tuner) instead. Its drawback is unable to have booting penguins (earliest stage graphic console) :) 2013/9/21 Ivanko B

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-20 Thread Ivanko B
VESA, UVESA & KMS (DRM based) Nouveau/Radeon disallow any h/w accelarating but simpliest area copying in rare cases. With modern hardware, they can be considered as deep fallbacks. Graeme, it seem that You had to switch to a large LED backlight monitor (27 inches me guess). How did You tune its ba

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-20 Thread Sieghard
Hallo Graeme, Du schriebst am Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:57:45 +0100: > > If Julio runs Linux, which he probabely does, it is quite possible that > > the VESA driver doesn't support all the built-in firmware ... > Nope, I installed X11 via FreeBSD's ports system (from source code). The ... > driver I'm

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-19 21:43, Sieghard wrote: > This might be the reason, there _are_ differences between the systems. > If Julio runs Linux, which he probabely does, it is quite possible that the > VESA driver doesn't support all the built-in firmware functionality, as it > is mainly provided as a fallback

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Sieghard
Hallo Graeme, Du schriebst am Wed, 18 Sep 2013 23:32:20 +0100: > > No way to disable EXA.. change modeset makes use of VESA driver and max > > resolution is 1024x768.. of course MSE runs fine with VESA > > Not sure if I understood you statement correctly. I run the X11 VESA > driver here, under

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
I got it working fine using nouveau driver too.. just had to disable thee hw acceleration. I added to xorg.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Nouveau" Driver "nouveau" Option "NoAccel" "on" EndSection Like for EXAPixmaps "off" there is a performance penalization, but this is better t

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > > > > > may be a issue related to ati and radeon open source drivers. > I meant nouveau*(nvidia) and radeon :) -- Julio Jiménez Borreguero -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Tr

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Thursday 19 September 2013 11:49:15 Julio Jiménez wrote: > 2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > > > I saw artefacts without fades too. For example in objectinspector there > > can be > > not painted white or garbage areas. With fades the problems are more > > visible > > it seeems. > > Yes, that's why

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > > I saw artefacts without fades too. For example in objectinspector there > can be > not painted white or garbage areas. With fades the problems are more > visible > it seeems. > > Yes, that's why I asked if you were using fades in tfilenameedit components... (mse con

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 20:37:24 Julio Jiménez wrote: > There are lots of reports about EXA issues. I can fill a bug report, but > probably you are more indicated to do it. You know how MSE interact with > xrender in deep ;) > > About NOUVEAU xorg driver... I'm unable to make it working prop

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Thursday 19 September 2013 10:43:24 Julio Jiménez wrote: > 2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > > > I think something goes wrong with clipping mask plane. IIRC widget > > refreshing > > does not help. What happens if you build with -dmse_flushgdi? It then > > doesn't > > use an intermediate pixmap for

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > > I think something goes wrong with clipping mask plane. IIRC widget > refreshing > does not help. What happens if you build with -dmse_flushgdi? It then > doesn't > use an intermediate pixmap for flicker free drawing. > > Compiling with -dmse_flushgdi is working fine

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Thursday 19 September 2013 09:48:36 Julio Jiménez wrote: > I have observed that if you switch from one working area to another, when > you return all is rendered fine, It looks something related to > refresh/invalidate. I haven't tested if invalidating the widget may help... > I think something

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
I have observed that if you switch from one working area to another, when you return all is rendered fine, It looks something related to refresh/invalidate. I haven't tested if invalidating the widget may help... Regards 2013/9/19 Martin Schreiber > On Wednesday 18 September 2013 21:42:12 Juli

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-19 Thread Julio Jiménez
By default (with no xorg.conf) logs said was unable to set other screen resolutions. Probably I had to set the modeline in xorg.conf to enable other resolutions. I didn't investigate it.. was only trying to set nouveau driver working with MSEide. Regards. 2013/9/19 Graeme Geldenhuys > On 201

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 21:42:12 Julio Jiménez wrote: > 2013/9/18 Martin Schreiber > > > I tried to find workarounds for Radeon in MSEgui, no success. > > What about not using xrender stretched bitmaps and make all required the > images in fpc? but probably too much work and poor performan

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-18 19:44, Julio Jiménez wrote: > No way to disable EXA.. change modeset makes use of VESA driver and max > resolution is 1024x768.. of course MSE runs fine with VESA > Not sure if I understood you statement correctly. I run the X11 VESA driver here, under FreeBSD 9.1 and my resolution

[MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
Hi all! After several years, it seems that the problem still persists. My observations: ATI AMD proprietary fglrx graphics driver: all is fine. NVIDIA propietary graphics driver: all is fine Radeon xorg driver: using EXA is fine if you disable EXAPixmaps. If you do not use EXA is ok too.(Of cour

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/18 Martin Schreiber > > I tried to find workarounds for Radeon in MSEgui, no success. > What about not using xrender stretched bitmaps and make all required the images in fpc? but probably too much work and poor performance -- Julio Jiménez Borreguero --

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
I was thinking in nouveau driver :) 2013/9/18 Ivanko B > but some drivers are unable to work without KMS > = > These may only be framebuffer-based ones ( "fbdev.drv" accomp by > "UseFBDev=true"). > > -- Julio Jiménez Borreguero --

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/18 Ivanko B > I think is the combination of drivers and KMS enabled. > == > KMS=framebuffer VGA, correct ? Then there're possible problems with > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting/ > MTRR sharing & their modes (write-through, write-combining,..).

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Ivanko B
but some drivers are unable to work without KMS = These may only be framebuffer-based ones ( "fbdev.drv" accomp by "UseFBDev=true"). -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Ivanko B
I think is the combination of drivers and KMS enabled. == KMS=framebuffer VGA, correct ? Then there're possible problems with MTRR sharing & their modes (write-through, write-combining,..). -- LIMITED T

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/18 Martin Schreiber > > Somebody should make bug reports at freedesktop.org. > I tried to find workarounds for Radeon in MSEgui, no success. > > Done (from your bug report at OpenSuse list...) ;) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69543 -- Julio Jiménez Borreguero --

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
2013/9/18 Ivanko B > NOUVEAU > == > Youd be a lucky LUNUXer if have these working : > 1) any ATI HD+ drivers (me've even stopped downloading & trying these) > ATI open source drivers (radeon) working fine: - Use radeon.modeset=0 (this makes radeon using another hw acce

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Martin Schreiber
On Wednesday 18 September 2013 18:16:58 Julio Jiménez wrote: > > I wonder why other toolkits like Gtk2, Cairo, Qt don't show this problem. > Perhaps they use their own implementation for stretched bitmaps.. dunno. > Because the X11 driver devels test there work with the mainstream toolkits. > I wo

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Ivanko B
NOUVEAU == Youd be a lucky LUNUXer if have these working : 1) any ATI HD+ drivers (me've even stopped downloading & trying these) 2) NOUVEAU powered NVidia. It's definitely a driver's issue. -- LIM

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
There are lots of reports about EXA issues. I can fill a bug report, but probably you are more indicated to do it. You know how MSE interact with xrender in deep ;) About NOUVEAU xorg driver... I'm unable to make it working properly. Not using skins is a temporal solution, but still getting issue

Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] About xrender and stretched bitmaps + EXA + Linux issues

2013-09-18 Thread Julio Jiménez
I forgot to say that INTEL graphics are ok too. 2013/9/18 Julio Jiménez > Hi all! > > After several years, it seems that the problem still persists. My > observations: > > ATI AMD proprietary fglrx graphics driver: all is fine. > NVIDIA propietary graphics driver: all is fine > Radeon xorg driv