Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-24 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Michel Dänzer wrote: Right, you need to make the server suid root to start it like that. No. Huh? I didn't ask a question... I meant It doesnt help Indeed, this doesn't show any real problem, sounds rather like a problem on the client side. PS: Please try Daniel Stone's 4.2.99.x debs and see

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-24 Thread Dominik Szczerba
PS: Please try Daniel Stone's 4.2.99.x debs and see if they also have the switching back to X problem. I got stuck on dri source package. there is no info how to build it. i tried both make -f Makefile.linux, -f Makefile.kernel and sh buildpckg in debian sub-dir, they all produce ennormous

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-24 Thread Dominik Szczerba
PS: Please try Daniel Stone's 4.2.99.x debs and see if they also have the switching back to X problem. Daniel's packages dont have this problem. I can use Kevin's workaround now, I'm fine. Plz, how do I properly build radeon.o from his source package? ATM I use yours. I get 1.5kfps now (1.4

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-24 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Moreover, suspend works now even without going to console first! GREAT! Well, I have to re-plug the net cable, somehow ifplugd dies after suspend, but that's a minor worry. Thanks a lot! I'm way ahead of knoppix now! (pls still explain me how to build the drm source module, why doesnt it

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Son, 2003-02-23 at 08:37, Dominik Szczerba wrote: but then I have to forget about the full 4.3 as well, because I doubt it will be fixed there... :( Yes, unless someone finds out what the problem is and fixes it very soon. I copied X11R6 directory from knoppix to my hdd and

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-23 Thread Dominik Szczerba
of /usr/X11R6. Like I did with knoppix. I have 2 X11R6 directories now. Why? 4.2.1 was still there in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules . because I cant start the old 2.4.1 startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 or startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86.nodri-trunk produce: Fatal server error: Cannot

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Michel Dänzer wrote: BTW, you should be able to use current xlibmesa do you mean mesalib 5.0 (www.mesa3d.org) from the last year or xc/extras/Mesa from the latest XFree86's CVS? Dominik -- -- Dominik Szczerba, Dr. CO-ME, D-ITET, ETZ F85 ETH, Gloriastr. 35 CH-8092

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-02-22 at 11:03, Dominik Szczerba wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: BTW, you should be able to use current xlibmesa do you mean mesalib 5.0 (www.mesa3d.org) from the last year or xc/extras/Mesa from the latest XFree86's CVS? I mean xlibmesa4-{gl,dri} or xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk. --

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Dominik Szczerba
BTW, you should be able to use current xlibmesa do you mean mesalib 5.0 (www.mesa3d.org) from the last year or xc/extras/Mesa from the latest XFree86's CVS? I mean xlibmesa4-{gl,dri} or xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk. ?? that's what I did, no? Your package that you gave me? Dominik --

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-02-22 at 15:20, Dominik Szczerba wrote: BTW, you should be able to use current xlibmesa do you mean mesalib 5.0 (www.mesa3d.org) from the last year or xc/extras/Mesa from the latest XFree86's CVS? I mean xlibmesa4-{gl,dri} or xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk. ?? that's what

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Yes, but you're using it with a never version of the X server, with which APM doesn't work. not APM, switching back to X from console! If this works I'm fine. OK, I am beginning to understand the whole concept of XFree. What you mean is to come back to 2.4.1, remove old xlibmesa3 2.4.1 and

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-02-22 at 15:50, Dominik Szczerba wrote: Yes, but you're using it with a never version of the X server, with which APM doesn't work. not APM, switching back to X from console! If this works I'm fine. Whatever. :) OK, I am beginning to understand the whole concept of XFree.

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sam, 2003-02-22 at 17:42, Dominik Szczerba wrote: OK, I am beginning to understand the whole concept of XFree. What you mean is to come back to 2.4.1, remove old xlibmesa3 2.4.1 and install only xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk. but then I have to forget about the full 4.3 as well, because I

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-22 Thread Dominik Szczerba
but then I have to forget about the full 4.3 as well, because I doubt it will be fixed there... :( Yes, unless someone finds out what the problem is and fixes it very soon. I copied X11R6 directory from knoppix to my hdd and startedx with it, and the problem is not there: I can get back to

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-21 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Hi, Following Kevin's comments, I compiled hi-res fb out of the kernel (section: console drivers) and now the display is back after Fn+F3 or suspend but ONLY without X running. So I have to quit X, suspend, wake up, startx. Not bad, but could be better. Half-done. I cant use your key

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-02-21 at 21:40, Dominik Szczerba wrote: Out of curiosity, are you using APM or ACPI? I'm using APM because of problems in the IBM ECDT which they have promised to fix. APM, compiled in, and it was working with 4.2.1 (OpenGL was not working then, that's why the whole story).

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-20 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Switch to a character display (CTRL-ALT-F2) Turn off the display (usually Fn-F3 on ThinkPads) Turn display on (Any key) Switch back to X (Alt-F9 on FreeBSD, maybe something else on your OS) Hi, Thanks a lot, but it doesnt work :( If I press fn+F3 I cannot get the display back even without

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-20 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Hi, The problem is precisely defined now: IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH APM NOR SUSPEND. I turned suspend off in the BIOS, now re-opening the LCD brings the display back (but no sleep mode of course :( ). BUT FN+F3 alone kills the display, it goes completely black, then, after pressing a key the

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-02-20 at 09:06, Dominik Szczerba wrote: 2) still: what was I doing wrong with standard xfree. then I go back to it. I don't understand what you mean here. Why wasnt my OpenGL working with my debian with 4.2.1, while it was working on the same machine with knoppixCD

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-20 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Why wasnt my OpenGL working with my debian with 4.2.1, while it was working on the same machine with knoppixCD 4.2.1. If I know what the problem was I want to go back to 4.2.1 and have APM working. See the bugs filed about this against xlibmesa3-gl. Compiling 4.2.1 with gcc 3.2 doesn't work

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-19 Thread Dominik Szczerba
If you're still using my packages, have you read /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk/README.Debian ? yes, right, xdm authorize works :) APM still hangs my laptop (display doesnt come back) Keep in mind though that my packages are bleeding edge DRI CVS snapshots, you may prefer to use

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-19 Thread Dominik Szczerba
* whether page flipping (Option EnablePageFlip, only in 4.2.99.x or later) is enabled (page flipping is faster) yes, this is it, it gives the missing 20% performance. but KNOPPIX doesnt have it in its XF config file.. For your reference, I get 1400-1500 fps on this PowerBook

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-19 Thread Kevin Oberman
Just in case you have not seen any of my posts on the no/distorted display after suspend problem, there is a work-around. Switch to a character display (CTRL-ALT-F2) Turn off the display (usually Fn-F3 on ThinkPads) Turn display on (Any key) Switch back to X (Alt-F9 on FreeBSD, maybe something

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 12:15, Dominik Szczerba wrote: * whether page flipping (Option EnablePageFlip, only in 4.2.99.x or later) is enabled (page flipping is faster) yes, this is it, it gives the missing 20% performance. but KNOPPIX doesnt have it in its XF config file..

[XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-18 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Hi, I have a problem on my IBM TP A31 running debian/unstable 2.4.20. Most (but not all!!) OpenGL commands dont work. Just black screen effect. GL_LINES and GL_POINTS work for example, but GL_TRIANGLES and more complex commands won't work. Is it something to do with libGL* stuff? So will

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2003-02-18 at 10:55, Dominik Szczerba wrote: I have a problem on my IBM TP A31 running debian/unstable 2.4.20. Most (but not all!!) OpenGL commands dont work. Just black screen effect. GL_LINES and GL_POINTS work for example, but GL_TRIANGLES and more complex commands won't work.

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-18 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Hi, Thanks a lot for hints. Here is the report: 1) I installed xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk and xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/. I didnt find the mentioned xlibmesa3-dri-trunk. 2) I installed drm-trunk-module-src package, but havent built it - I have

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-18 Thread Dominik Szczerba
Hi, I just discovered that on knoppix debian-on-cd all works fine and very fast (glxgears give 1.2kfps!!!): knoppix@ttyp1[knoppix]$ XFree86 -version This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and patches submitted to

Re: [XFree86] Thinkpad A31 and Radeon Mobility 7500

2003-02-18 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2003-02-18 at 19:28, Dominik Szczerba wrote: I very much apologize for my ignorance on kernel-package stuff. I just compiled the modules myself, and brute-force copied radeon.o into my /lib/modules. IT WORKS! No more errors, no unstabilities (well, still I cant login, I have to