Re: TV Card + X11 = problem!?

2010-08-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/22/2010 11:45 PM, Loukas Xanthos wrote: Hello World and please excuse my terrible English. As you can see here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=812960 Users with a tv card (usb or PCI, with or without an IR receiver) have problems with X11. Some times the Shift key 'hangs'

Re: Transition from HAL to udev - mouse config

2010-08-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/17/2010 11:05 PM, Simon Thum wrote: Am 14.05.2010 19:37, schrieb Dan Nicholson: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: merge key=input.x11_options.FilterHalflife type=string5/merge merge key=input.x11_options.FilterChainProgression

Re: Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-08-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/06/2010 01:57 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: Am Friday 06 August 2010 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Does that mean that it could be a bug in KDE's compositor? .. The problem does never occur when compositing is active. ... Doesn't make much sense, yesno? :-) Now that I read it again

Re: Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-08-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 01:10 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not exactly sure when the problem first occurred, but it's been quite a while, definitely more than 6 months. Here's a screenshot of the problem: http://i25.tinypic.com/2vkxrh3.png This is with mplayer using Xv, on standard definition video

Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm not exactly sure when the problem first occurred, but it's been quite a while, definitely more than 6 months. Here's a screenshot of the problem: http://i25.tinypic.com/2vkxrh3.png This is with mplayer using Xv, on standard definition video in fullscreen. Note the gree, red and blue

Re: Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 01:46 AM, Alex Deucher wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I'm not exactly sure when the problem first occurred, but it's been quite a while, definitely more than 6 months. Here's a screenshot of the problem:

Re: Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 03:43 AM, Pat Kane wrote: I'm pretty sure I don't have superhuman vision :-P They're there, I can see them quite clearly. Maybe your monitor is too dark or too low contrast? On my display I might be able to see the artifacts that you mention, but it is hard to tell

Re: Xv has color glitches with radeon driver

2010-07-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/28/2010 03:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] OK, hope this one is clearer: http://i28.tinypic.com/2up36f9.png There's a blue bar to the left and some not-so-easy to spot green ones to the right. I hope I'm not spamming you guys too much with this :P I think there are specific

Transition from HAL to udev - mouse config

2010-05-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I had the following HAL configuration for my mouse in X.Org server 1.7 for a 500DPI mouse: match key=info.capabilities contains=input.mouse merge key=input.x11_options.AccelerationProfile type=string2/merge merge key=input.x11_options.AdaptiveDeceleration type=string2/merge

Re: Intel, h264 and XvMC

2010-04-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2010 06:30 AM, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to understand if Intel XvMC can be used with h264 material. If not, is there any way to use Intel hardware acceleration with h264 source? VA-API does h264 bitstream decoding on the GPU, not XvMC. XvMC is only for motion compensation (which

Re: a question about energy

2010-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/01/2010 11:06 AM, Zhi Li wrote: All, I'm working in a project which study energy saving on PCs. I saw a strange thing which was opposite to my intuition: when PC working on graphic mode, it would be more energy saving. When in graphic mode, on my PC, it is 52w; when I switched to

Re: Slow 2D with radeon KMS

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/30/2010 04:35 PM, Damien Mir wrote: Hi, I just tried KMS with radeon driver, and 2D seems notably slow. Widgets takes time to draw, scrolling in Dolphin or Firefox lags, as if some 2D acceleration was not working alright. Used latest 2.6.33rc5 kernel + drm modules from :

Re: Is it normal that X consumes 800 MB RAM?

2009-12-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/17/2009 10:54 PM, dolphinling wrote: On 12/14/2009 04:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The longer the system runs, the more RAM X eats. After about 5 hours of uptime, I get this: http://i49.tinypic.com/wqu61j.png That's about 800MB memory usage. It gets worse as time passes

Is it normal that X consumes 800 MB RAM?

2009-12-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
The longer the system runs, the more RAM X eats. After about 5 hours of uptime, I get this: http://i49.tinypic.com/wqu61j.png That's about 800MB memory usage. It gets worse as time passes. Is this normal? This looks like some memory leak to me. Does the graphics driver play a role

Re: How to test GLX performance?

2009-01-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan James Caruana wrote: Hi, I am writing an X Server for the company I work for, and I have implemented the GLX extension. I know that it works because 'glxinfo' gives output, 'glxgears' works, and some sample GLX programs I downloaded also do work, but now I want to test for

Re: compiling 32bit libraries on x86-64 system

2009-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dirk Hohndel wrote: I must be missing some 'configure' magic here... For some modules (like the X server) it's rather straight forward to build 32bit on a 64bit system. Something like LDFLAGS=-L/opt/X11R7-32/lib ./configure --prefix=/opt/X11R7-32 --enable-32-bit --build=x86-linux

Re: radeon supported resolutions?

2008-12-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Felix Miata wrote: On 2008/12/27 23:07 (GMT+0200) Nikos Chantziaras composed: Felix Miata wrote: I have DVI cards and displays and cables, but have never found reason to try them. Better picture quality. Many people can't make out a difference though. Exactly. How does any normal

Re: Intel graphics benchmarked by Phoronix

2008-12-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=intel_graphics_q408num=1 That test is wrong. You don't compare different drivers on different distros. You compare them on the same distro

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:00:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Markus Strobl wrote: That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: Intel, ATI+fglrx, ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. All the others

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Markus Strobl wrote: That's not my experience. I've tested most of the possible combinations: Intel, ATI+fglrx, ATI+Radeon and closed-source NVidia. Only Intel has the tearing issue. All the others play video, including HD-Video, perfectly. BTW, my MediaPC has a cheap dual core Intel

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 with a GM945 (at 1920x1080) for my media center PC. The problem I'm running into is a bunch of horizontal tearing on higher resolution videos (720p or greater). From what I can tell it's not a CPU limitation but rather something related to the

Re: How To Reduce/Eliminate Horizontal Tearing

2008-12-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nick Nobody wrote: That would be just a temporary solution with too many problems (since I assume a real solution will be in DRI2?) The OpenGL method with VSync works quite well. Can you recommend a media player that is able to use OpenGL? I've tried mplayer but even on a relatively fast

Re: conflicting memory types in system logs

2008-11-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Halim Issa wrote: Hello, On X.Org X Server 1.5.3 with the Intel 2.5.1 driver on a Lenovo X200 laptop, I get quite a few error messages output in /var/log/messages where the kernel complains about conflicting memory types. Is this just warnings, or something to be taken seriously? If

Cannot build libxcb from git

2008-11-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Trying to build git master of libxcb, I get this: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -pedantic -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -march=core2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -MT xcb_out.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/xcb_out.Tpo -c xcb_out.c