[XFree86] DGA with XFree 4.3 and Voodoo3?

2004-02-08 Thread Jon Niehof
So far I haven't been able to get DGA working with any version of X 4.x so I figured now was as good a time as any to ask... When I use any program that uses DGA, my screen goes black (but not into powersave) and nothing displays. All other functions of the program work (e.g. sound, control, etc.)

Re: [XFree86] Matrox G450 and DRM question

2004-02-09 Thread Jon Niehof
> Everything is working except DRI/DRM. When I run > GlxGears (on either head), I > get: > > libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not > permitted > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering > > Section "DRI" > Group "video" > Mode0660 ** > EndSection Is the user

Re: [XFree86] hardware caracteristics

2004-02-10 Thread Jon Niehof
> does somebody know a simple shell command to get > hardware caracteristics > (for exemple graphics hardware file) analogous to > "winmsd" under > Window NT? I'm not familiar with winmsd so this may not be what you're looking for, but "lspci" lists all the devices found on the PCI bus. If you're

Re: [XFree86] A cuestion about X Server on Linux

2004-02-10 Thread Jon Niehof
> When I run the Xvnc script on linux, it show me next > problem: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] vnc-3.3.7-x86_linux]# Xvnc > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: > ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server > already running In general, don't start vnc with Xvnc...us

Re: [XFree86] Questions about fonts

2004-02-12 Thread Jon Niehof
> I would like to improve my knowledge about fonts in > Linux. > Can some one point me to a document/web site/book > that will help me in > that. A few questions which I'm asking myself appear > below my signature. A good place to start is the XF86 Font De-uglification HOWTO: http://feenix.burgiss.

Re: [XFree86] Monochrome

2004-02-13 Thread Jon Niehof
> I'm trying to use a small set of tools over a dialup > link using vnc, nomachine > nxclient or something of the sort and i want to set > up the x server to work > with gray scale because of the low bw. how can i do > that? Greyscale isn't going to be any lower bandwidth than 8bit colour. Set up t