Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-16 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:51:41 AM James Cloos did opine: Gene, If the display gets in the way of the realtime code, you may want to separate the two. It may not be in vogue these days, but running X11 over tcp still works. No it doesn't to some distros, like this pclos. I can ssh

Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-16 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:25:51 PM walter harms did opine: Am 16.08.2011 16:29, schrieb James Cloos: Gene, If the display gets in the way of the realtime code, you may want to separate the two. It may not be in vogue these days, but running X11 over tcp still works. Just

Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, August 15, 2011 04:20:49 PM Mark Wagner did opine: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; One of the problems that was confusing me recently is that I had replaced the old samsung crt monitor with a much newer cheap AOC lcd

Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, August 15, 2011 06:07:09 PM Alex Deucher did opine: 2011/8/15 gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com: On Monday, August 15, 2011 04:20:49 PM Mark Wagner did opine: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 05:50, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings all; One of the problems

Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, August 15, 2011 07:01:27 PM Felix Miata did opine: On 2011/08/15 18:16 (GMT-0400) gene heskett composed: On Monday, August 15, 2011 06:07:09 PM Alex Deucher did opine: gene heskett wrote: One of the problems that was confusing me recently is that I had replaced

Re: Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-15 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, August 15, 2011 08:01:26 PM Felix Miata did opine: On 2011/08/15 19:05 (GMT-0400) gene heskett composed: Chuckle, rotsa ruck finding one of those without mail ordering it putting up with a 40 day back order because they have to get one of those from China. compatible cheap

Emc vs modern lcd monitors

2011-08-13 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; One of the problems that was confusing me recently is that I had replaced the old samsung crt monitor with a much newer cheap AOC lcd that runs at 1360x724 at best, but under the vesa driver on an ati x1650 video card, it apparently is running in 1024x768. This results in a

Re: Virtual in xorg.conf

2011-06-05 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, June 05, 2011 04:35:58 PM Тихомиров Валентин did opine: divWhy is there a limit on virtual desktop size? I think it would be useful to have a virtual desktop larger than your display area (screen size). For instance, You can capture google maps and other application screenshots and

Re: X11 forwarding

2011-05-28 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, May 28, 2011 11:23:13 AM Sérgio Basto did opine: On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 10:54 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Greetings; Where can I find a tut that will show me how to make X11 forwarding work like it used to 2-3 years ago? The usual ssh -Y -l gene shop hasn't worked right

Re: replace nv with nouveau

2011-05-23 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, May 23, 2011 09:01:43 AM Tai-Lin Chu did opine: I dont know whether this has been discussed or not, but it would be nice if xserver enables nouveau by default. I personally would be in favor of that, for the simple reason that it would result in a huge spike in bug reports that

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-27 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 08:42:13 PM gene heskett did opine: On Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:27:13 AM Sven Arvidsson did opine: On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:11 -0400, gene heskett wrote: try and apply the patch linked in the bug report I mentioned in an earlier post, which is https

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-24 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:27:13 AM Sven Arvidsson did opine: On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:11 -0400, gene heskett wrote: try and apply the patch linked in the bug report I mentioned in an earlier post, which is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=44749 This shows me

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-23 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:35:19 AM dark_m...@gmx.net did opine: Am 23.04.2011 02:42, schrieb gene heskett: On Friday, April 22, 2011 08:40:50 PM dark_m...@gmx.net did opine: Am 22.04.2011 23:00, schrieb gene heskett: Greetings folks; I have a problem. Anytime I spend some time

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-23 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:44:20 AM gene heskett did opine: I wonder if there is a different name for it when using the nvidia driver? Thanks. I did some digging in the xorg.conf options list and found this: I don't have those docs unforch. Option NoFlip boolean I

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-23 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, April 23, 2011 09:05:43 PM dark_m...@gmx.net did opine: Am 23.04.2011 17:46, schrieb gene heskett: On Saturday, April 23, 2011 11:44:20 AM gene heskett did opine: I wonder if there is a different name for it when using the nvidia driver? Thanks. I did some digging

Screen contamination

2011-04-22 Thread gene heskett
Greetings folks; I have a problem. Anytime I spend some time watching a news video on say fox or cnn's sites, I wind up with screen background contamination in my console windows of other workspaces. Bit and pieces show up on the bottom half of such a terminal window, remain stationary on

Re: Screen contamination

2011-04-22 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, April 22, 2011 08:40:50 PM dark_m...@gmx.net did opine: Am 22.04.2011 23:00, schrieb gene heskett: Greetings folks; I have a problem. Anytime I spend some time watching a news video on say fox or cnn's sites, I wind up with screen background contamination in my console

Re: Simple test

2011-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, February 25, 2011 02:47:47 pm Pat Kane did opine: Hi Gene, Could run these simple tests: ssh -Y -l gene shop xdpyinfo About 1000 lines of output, I didn't note any errors, how much of it do you need? Here is the first 150 or so lines: gene@shop:~$ xdpyinfo name of

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, February 25, 2011 03:05:56 pm Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen did opine: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:23:08 pm Glynn Clements did opine: gene heskett wrote: So that probably explains where the 10.0 is coming from, but not where I might

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-25 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, February 25, 2011 03:26:57 pm Glynn Clements did opine: gene heskett wrote: Note that if you change DISPLAY manually (via export), you may also need to update the X authentication credentials with xauth. I recall I did have to use xauth at one time, years ago. Unforch

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:41:00 pm Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen did opine: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com writes: On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 04:30:52 pm Adam Jackson did opine: On 2/22/11 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote: Where can I find a good tutorial on making this Just Work(TM

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 01:40:45 pm Pat Kane did opine: What does the following command show? ssh -Y -l your_name your_host /usr/bin/env Pat --- Humm, this gets to demo a system problem since I started to use inotifywait for a file monitor. And the only way to fix it is

Re: Xorg -configure questions

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 01:53:16 pm Alan Coopersmith did opine: On 02/24/11 07:06 AM, lfs lfs wrote: From: lfs lfs linuxfromscra...@yahoo.com Subject: Xorg -configure questions To: xorg@lists.freedesktop.org Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 8:04 AM

Re: Xorg -configure questions

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 02:31:26 pm Alan Coopersmith did opine: On 02/24/11 11:00 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 01:53:16 pm Alan Coopersmith did opine: On 02/24/11 07:06 AM, lfs lfs wrote: From: lfs lfs linuxfromscra...@yahoo.com Subject: Xorg

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 09:49:55 pm Pat Kane did opine: [gene@coyote log]$ssh -Y -l gene coyote /usr/bin/env Looks like you are ssh'ing from coyote to coyote, is that what you intend? Humm, I think I blew it, so lets repeat it for the shop machine =

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:23:08 pm Glynn Clements did opine: gene heskett wrote: So that probably explains where the 10.0 is coming from, but not where I might change it? That seems to be the $64k question... Why do you need to change it? Because its not working

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-24 Thread gene heskett
works flawlessly, but starting an app that needs an X display fails. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:12 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 09:49:55 pm Pat Kane did opine: � �[gene@coyote log]$ � �ssh -Y -l gene coyote �/usr/bin/env Looks like you

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-23 Thread gene heskett
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 04:30:52 pm Adam Jackson did opine: On 2/22/11 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote: Where can I find a good tutorial on making this Just Work(TM) when the user numbers are disparate, as they will be between a debian based system and the rest of the world. I did

ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-22 Thread gene heskett
Greetings; Where can I find a good tutorial on making this Just Work(TM) when the user numbers are disparate, as they will be between a debian based system and the rest of the world. I did have this working 6 months ago, but every time *buntu updates the ssh stuff on the LTS releases, it all

Re: ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

2011-02-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 07:42:01 pm Pat Kane did opine: I like the O'Reilly books: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000110 Thanks pat, Unforch, that is a 404 from here. Link short? On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:11 AM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings; Where

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 08:15:13 am Alan Coopersmith did opine: On 01/18/11 02:18 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: That it is, but where is the list and description of the other options so that we can make considered choices? For the standard cursor font: http://tronche.com/gui/x

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:26:07 am rhubarbpie...@gmail.com did opine: Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? In explanation, years ago I suggested (to deafening silence), that Open Office offer a block/blinking block or underscore/blinking underscore

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:26:07 am rhubarbpie...@gmail.com did opine: Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? In explanation, years ago I suggested (to deafening silence), that Open Office offer a block/blinking block or underscore/blinking underscore

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible to replace the I-beam cursor system wide through X? Sure. You need to change the (server-side) cursor font used

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 07:58:58 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes: r Is it possible

Re: Replacing the I-beam cursor system wide.

2011-01-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 01:41:20 am mcnic...@austin.ibm.com did opine: From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@gmail.com On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 05:17:14 pm Thomas Dickey did opine: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, James Cloos wrote: r == rhubarbpieguy rhubarbpie...@gmail.com writes

Re: Possibly silly, certainly a little OT Question

2010-12-25 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 24, 2010 05:50:14 pm Pat Kane did opine: Gene, What sort of stuff do you need to do via the serial console? What sort of legacy system are you talking to? I took a look a quick look at the minicom source code and it looks a bit crufty:

Re: Possibly silly, certainly a little OT Question

2010-12-25 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, December 25, 2010 04:26:02 pm Glynn Clements did opine: gene heskett wrote: Are the authors of minicom still available? Or how about src code? I found some names in the docs and sent an email to those, but it bounced and that was probably 2 years back up the log

Re: Possibly silly, certainly a little OT Question

2010-12-24 Thread gene heskett
On Friday, December 24, 2010 12:26:13 pm Glynn Clements did opine: gene heskett wrote: I have a minicom session connected to a serial port of an antique computer, and the diffs in the keyboard codes for the control characters are killing me because I can't use the uparrow repeat

Possibly silly, certainly a little OT Question

2010-12-23 Thread gene heskett
Greetings everybody and a Merry Christmas to those who observe it; I have a minicom session connected to a serial port of an antique computer, and the diffs in the keyboard codes for the control characters are killing me because I can't use the uparrow repeat functions of the terminal

Forcing the vesa driver, how?

2010-09-10 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; I have now installed ubuntu-10.04 LTS on my old box that runs my milling machine, and its a disaster in terms of speed compared to 6.06. One thing that is a given is that I must use the vesa driver because all the others, including the radeon driver from the 10.04 install, do

Re: Forcing the vesa driver, how?

2010-09-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, September 10, 2010 11:59:22 pm Alan Coopersmith did opine: gene heskett wrote: So, since there is not an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file now, how do I force x to use the vesa driver at its optimum settings? You make an xorg.conf file. We didn't get rid of xorg.conf, it's just

Forcing the vesa driver, how?

2010-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have now installed ubuntu-10.04 LTS on my old box that runs my milling machine, and its a disaster in terms of speed compared to 6.06. One thing that is a given is that I must use the vesa driver because all the others, including the radeon driver from the 10.04 install, do

DPMS works in init3, but not in init5

2010-08-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greets all; I had a round with some updates this morning that cause all sorts of hate and discontent in the X dept, booting to a pure white screen, this being pclos-2010.7 on a phenom 4 core cpu. While fighting with X, an nvidia error of some sort that was eventually able to fix, I have

Re: Download failure

2010-02-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 February 2010, paul rogers wrote: Sunday afternoon, using WinXP's ftp client You may want to try it with a real ftp client, that one isn't. From my admittedly limited experience, its borked, thinks binary files are text helpfully translates them to winders style line endings.

uncontrolled blanking of ati rv610 video cards

2010-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings folks; Its back this morning. I cannot touch the right edge of the screen with an apps window without blanking the screen, but if I pull the window back left before I release the mouse button I grabbed it with, it will unblank in around a long second. Using the F10 radeon driver

Re: Pointer Acceleration

2009-12-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 19 December 2009, Simon Thum wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Lorenz Ruhmann wrote: Is there a way to exactly reproduce this old behavior with the new code? I don't like to rely on a scheme that is kinda considered obsolete. [..] Yes, this is VERY annoying to me

Re: radeonhd blank screens

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Goran Gajic wrote: For some reason all reports regarding problems with ATI 48xx seems to be ignored. I also have ATI, but 4870 chipset and the only solution I have come up to was switching to xorg-server 1.4.2. Issue is not OS related behaviour is same under Linux and

Re: radeonhd blank screens

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, tsuraan wrote: FWIW, this is also an ongoing problem for owners of the HD2400 Pro cards, rv610's I think they are. It can be triggered by sliding a window to the right to touch the screen edge, or go completely off it. Sometimes even just hitting the edge with

Re: radeonhd blank screens

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 07 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:14:31PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 07 December 2009, tsuraan wrote: These drivers sound seriously unloved. Yes, for the rv610 based cards in particular. The guys have seemingly danced all the way around

Re: radeonhd blank screens

2009-12-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:14:48AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 07 December 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: And does the problem occur with the radeon (not radeonhd) driver? I have not checked recently Daniel. The last time I did check

Radeon question

2009-10-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I am trying to setup an 8.04 system to run emc, the machine control program, and I'm observing something odd. The video card is a 9200SE, driver is radeon. Cpu is 1GHZ athlon, 384 megs of dram. glxgears shows about 560 fps. This program would normally issue screen updates at

Re: Finishing the X11R7.5 katamari

2009-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2009, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:12 -0700 From: Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com Jeremy Huddleston wrote: If anyone disagrees with these, or the module versions listed as being a stable, X11R7.5-compatible version that should be

Re: Finishing the X11R7.5 katamari

2009-10-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 03 October 2009, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 09:13:57AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 03 October 2009, Mark Kettenis wrote: I still use xinit/startx to start X, and very much *do* consider it to be an essential part of X. +1000, Amen and hip hip hooray. I

Re: Artifacts on Radeon 4850

2009-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 July 2009, Alex Deucher wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Matt Turnermatts...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Casey Jonesjonescas...@gmail.com wrote: Would using the radeon-rewrite branch of mesa actually fix this? AFAIK, this isn't a 3D/OpenGL problem.

Re: Griffin Powermate evdev setup

2009-04-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Phil Endecott wrote: Peter Hutterer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:09:17AM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: Option DIALRelativeAxisButtons 4 5 This option isn't supported anymore. OK. I think something like this is needed, though. If you have an

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.5 Release

2009-04-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Klaus Dittrich wrote: Matthias Hopf schrieb: Announcing the 1.2.5 Release of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx/r7xx chipsets. The development is driven by Novell and AMD at the time of writing, together with

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: Tuomo Valkonen a écrit : Which is a registration-required suckzilla. No thanks. Projects that require registration for their bug trackers, clearly and loudly state that they're not interested in the reports. Enough already, please stop. Sorry

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-04-08, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: xmodmap should work fine these days: if it doesn't, file an actual bug ^^ on http://bugs.freedesktop.org, instead

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: You want a bug report? Let us file the bug without half an hour filling out forms and such to register for yet another service that may generate even more spam. Screw it. Registering for a bugzilla account doesn't take

Re: Radeon DPMS problems? backlight turns back on after a minute

2009-04-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Lowell Alleman wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Magnus Kessler magnus.kess...@gmx.net wrote: On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Lowell Alleman wrote: Are there any known issues with DPMS not working properly with the latest radeon driver? I've found some old bugs that

radeonhd stuff, missing function now?

2009-03-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Up till a week ago (approx) that script I wrote worked well to get me a much improved speed out of my x, but recently when I do the 'modprobe -r drm;modprobe drm' there is a function missing. And I'm stuck with an x driver that scrolls painfully slow. From dmesg: [135979.940024]

Missing file for dri

2009-02-27 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Just installed by upgrade route, fedora 10. Running kernel-2.6.28.7 now. When booted to the latest fedora i386 kernel-PAE, I have no dpms control over the monitor, and now booted to 2.6.28.7 I do. I ran that script I posted in my other radeonhd thread, after booting back to

drm Q, kernel 2.6.28.6

2009-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
In rebuilding the drm.ko and radeon.ko modules, I am seeing this warning go by in large numbers: /usr/src/drm/linux-core/drm_compat.h:346:2: warning: #warning init_mm is not available on this kernel! As this kernel is home brewed, like most I've been running for the last 10 years, is there

^...@#@ disappearing msgs to this server and/or bounce msgs from this server

2009-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Hi Alex; I hate to trouble you, but can you please fwd this to whomever is in charge of the listserver, including its many aliases? Why is it that I am getting mails from at least a half dozen aliases of xorg@lists.freedesktop.org, but cannot post to the list? The last 2 messages sent, the

Re: [radeonhd] xf86-video-radeonhd:r6xx-r7xx-support: 1 commit(s)

2009-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 February 2009, Alex Deucher wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: [...] Do I need to adjust that? If you have an agp card you'll need agp support. PCI-E card HD2400 Pro, rv610. Humm, maybe I need something in modprobe.conf? I just

possible link between wild screen blanking and the ntpd daemon

2009-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Running the radeonhd driver, version 1.2.4, on a Diamond HD2400 Pro (rv610) card here. Fedora 8 system (up2date) on an AMD 9550 4 core Phenom, 4 gigs of memory. The screen blanker occasionally goes wild, and sometimes even refuses to unblank without a reboot. Such was the

Re: Fw: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.91 - release candidate

2008-12-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 26 December 2008, Alex Deucher wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Shunichi Fuji palgl...@gmail.com wrote: Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:29:38 -0500 From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net To: Shunichi Fuji palgl...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE

Re: Fw: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.91 - release candidate

2008-12-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Dave Airlie wrote: [...] I found the one in xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4, and copied it to the src tree beside the other .h files, and it built, and I've installed it and running it, although not much is changed. glxgears is still moping along at about 875 fps,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.91 - release candidate

2008-12-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2008, Dave Airlie wrote: [resend, heavily snipped for readability] This is a pre-release of what will be called xf86-video-ati 6.9.1 Pre-release notes: This contains a lot of bugfixes/enhancements, highlights include Output support for all radeon chips from r100 to rv730

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.91 - release candidate

2008-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 December 2008, Dave Airlie wrote: This is a pre-release of what will be called xf86-video-ati 6.9.1 Pre-release notes: This contains a lot of bugfixes/enhancements, highlights include Output support for all radeon chips from r100 to rv730 (mergedfb accel for all r600 and newer) -

Dri vs Diamond HD2400-Pro (rv610)

2008-12-13 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Is there a way to get dri Xv working on this combo? I have ipv6 disabled, which is the first 3 lines of the log file, and here are the WW and EE's from it. radeonhd-1.2.4 built with '--prefix=/usr --enable-dri' [r...@coyote src]# grep -e '(EE)' -e '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW)

bounce messages

2008-12-13 Thread Gene Heskett
GReetings; I am subscribed to this list, but everytime I post, I get a bounce message even though my message is posted in a few minutes. I see you have a bunch of alias addresses, and my kmail sorter has numerous entries because of that, but are all the servers running from a synchronized

Re: [ANNOUNCE] radeonhd 1.2.4 Release

2008-12-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 December 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008, Matthias Hopf wrote: Announcing the 1.2.4 of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver. RadeonHD is the X.org X11 driver for AMD GPG (ATI) r5xx/r6xx chipsets. The development is driven by Novell at the time of writing, together

Call me puzzled, but happy, see below

2008-11-19 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I had my main 500Gb pata drive upchuck all over itself last saturday morning, and I had a heck of a time with the bios in this ASUS mobo constantly re-arranging the drives as I struggled to save some of my data, like a 10Gb email corpus, and figuring out how to get this thing to

New 8.11 ati driver

2008-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Had a hell of a time getting it to build until I told it for 32 bit RHEL5. F8 system, 32 bit, amd 9550 4 core phenom, 4GB of ram on an ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo. I ran aticonfig, but it didn't seem entirely happy, then a startx winds up complaining of a missing /dev/dri/card0 (among

I forgot to say thanks.

2008-11-15 Thread Gene Heskett
Thanks everybody. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It is better to remain childless than to father an orphan. ___ xorg mailing list

Re: radeon vs radeonhd drivers

2008-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Nov 11, 08 14:02:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Anyway, where is (url to sub) the radeondh list? To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But that address rejected my mail, several times. But, I finally found a good address got it done

Re: radeon vs radeonhd drivers

2008-11-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Nov 10, 08 22:15:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Never mind, the answer is yes, monitor powerdown works using the radeon driver, but doesn't using the radeonhd driver. radeonhd does support DPMS, it should just work (TM). Here, we don't honor

radeon vs radeonhd drivers

2008-11-10 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I rebuilt 2.6.26 for smp and my new hardware and have rebooted to it. But the monitor is still sitting in black, not powered down, the next morning. This did work well when the box was an xp2800 and the card was an ATI 9200SE AGP version. I was using the radeon driver in my

Uncontrolled screen blanking again

2008-10-29 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; New mobo, new 2400HD-Pro card, 32 bit F8 install on a quad core phenom. Early in the morning I cannot keep a screen unblanked. Someone suggested that was a bug in radeonhd when using the digital output on this card. So I plugged in the analog cable too, but that refused to come

Re: modular: Changes to 'master'

2008-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 27 October 2008, Corbin Simpson wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Corbin Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: radeon doesn't just have r5xx, r6xx, and r7xx support grafted on, as you imply. The support is provided through AtomBIOS, and the acceleration for the r5xx chipsets is nearly identical

Re: Radeon + LCD problems

2008-10-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Markus Eriksson wrote: unsubscribe * end This list is not where you send that message, Markus. See the bottom of every message this listserver handles for a link that should get you there to unsubscribe. If you aren't seeing those links, then I'd call your email

Re: Transfer display of active windows remotely

2008-10-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Magnus Kessler wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008, Prasad H.L. wrote: This is what I have in mind. - Consider display :0 on machine 1 (m1) and display :0 on machine 2 (m2). - Let us say, a process 'p1' running under privileges of user 'u' opens a window on :0 of

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to mess with xhost in each user's profile. I've looked at libnotify, but it runs into dbus security issues.