Monitor doesn't display anything. EDID trouble ?

2011-10-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I know it may be off-topic, but the experience is there. I've just bought a used 30 monitor (HP ZR30w), and it doesn't display anything, even at BIOS time. The backlight is on, but I see nothing except a faint flickering at mode change times. Screen blanking works (the backlight switches

Re: Monitor doesn't display anything. EDID trouble ?

2011-10-24 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 à 16:53 -0400, Alex Deucher a écrit : On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 à 15:16 -0400, Alex Deucher a écrit : On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: Hi

Re: clip masks/simulating transparency

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:28 +1000, Amy C wrote: Can anyone think of an alternative way to do this (have the penguins walk over a screen of my choosing and restore said window after they've passed through, without too much flickering? You should use compositing of an ARGB pixmap. It will only

Re: clip masks/simulating transparency

2011-05-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 09:58 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 15:28 +1000, Amy C wrote: Can anyone think of an alternative way to do this (have the penguins walk over a screen of my choosing and restore said window after they've passed through, without too much flickering

Re: Custom font format

2011-01-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:59 +0100, Michael Thalmeier wrote: Hi ! We are currently developing an application that is using xlib directly for all the drawing operations. Our problem is, that we have a huge library of fonts in a custom font format, that is currently not supported by the x

Re: Which one to buy ?

2010-11-15 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 02:21 +0100, Steffen Schaumburg wrote: Here comes that time again: I have to buy a graphic card, I want to buy a radeon, not too long/wide (limited space in the box), reasonably recent and powerful, to be used in a debian/sid system. What do I buy if I want 3D (compiz

Re: radeon driver EXA option

2010-10-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 08:48 -0700, ott0disk a écrit : Hi everybody,i'm having some trouble with the xorg.conf configuration file,i recently switched from the amd/ati proprietary driver to the radeon that support well my graphic card. You should try just getting rid of your xorg.conf.

WebGL under debian, radeon driver

2010-10-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I'm using a debian system rather uptodate, with: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-2 libgl1-mesa-dri 7.8.2-2 libdrm2 2.4.21-2 and I'm trying to get various WebGL examples working under Firefox 4b7 and Chromium 6.0.472.62. Lot of them don't work, and the ones that do are quite slow. E.g:

Re: WebGL under debian, radeon driver

2010-10-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 à 19:22 +0200, Sven Arvidsson a écrit : On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 19:11 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: I'm using a debian system rather uptodate, with: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.1-2 libgl1-mesa-dri 7.8.2-2 libdrm2 2.4.21-2 and I'm trying to get various WebGL

Re: Exclusive Fullscreen Mode

2010-09-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:53 +0200, Roland Plüss wrote: I tried searching on the Internet for informations on how to take over the screen using Xlib. I think here about fullscreen exclusive access like for example SDLMAME does it. I stumbled so far though only on one single mentioning of an

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:41 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 year old monitor. Using

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.13.0

2010-04-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 12:18 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: Major changes since the 6.12.x series - Add support for KMS (kernel modesetting) for r1xx-evergreen asics I think you meant r8xx-evergreen here. Xav ___

Re: The current dualseat status for radeon?

2010-01-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 16:24 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 01:26:14PM +, Kārlis Repsons wrote: I wonder, what is the current status for dualseat setup with radeon cards? Are there any people out there by now, who have it all working just fine? I could add,

Re: client side ddc/ci

2009-12-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 20:59 +1100, Graeme Gill wrote: Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: ddccontrol uses /dev/i2c-xxx, so the problem of non root access remains with that library. Otherwise it seems very fine. Is there a mechanism to associate the /dev/i2c-xxx with the matching display though ? The

Re: CT ct65545 problem

2009-10-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 18:15 +0100, walter harms wrote: recently versions of the server don't support ISA anymore. the the error message should be more clear: if Primary Device is == ISA ISA is not supported anymore (since 1.x) If the server doesn't support ISA, it will

Re: X ports?

2009-09-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lundi 28 septembre 2009 à 12:23 -0500, Busse Rich - rbusse a écrit : Hi, Does the X protocol use specific IP ports? We have been running X in a trusted network situation but now also need to use X in a WAN / VPN situation. If there are special ports for X, I'll need to have the

Re: proportional panning

2009-06-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:44 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr writes: Why not making the proportional mode simply replace the push mode ? Why keeping an allegedly inferior panning mode ? Don't. Some people are used to this behavior. Ok, I was under

Re: proportional panning

2009-06-08 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 18:16 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: On Jun 08, 09 17:55:20 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: Why not making the proportional mode simply replace the push mode ? Why keeping an allegedly inferior panning mode ? Don't. Some people are used to this behavior. Ok, I was under

Re: It's useful to have a working X server if a client holds a grab when it triggers a debugger breakpoint

2009-05-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:50 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: The main benefit of a grab in the use of menus is that you will get the next event regardless of where it occurs. This is what makes the menu disappear when you click elsewhere. If the application didn't grab, the menu could only

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:29 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Someday somehow I'll try to do some tests to check whether that's really true with a better optimized protocol, because right now everything that uses xft over a ssh tunnel is an horrible pain in the ass, I don't know what problem

Re: Documentation?

2009-04-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 12:46 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:29 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 10:29 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: Someday somehow I'll try to do some tests to check whether that's really true with a better optimized protocol, because right

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: Try Option AccelDFS true Any reason this kind of option isn't the default ? It seems xorg.conf is mandatory for radeons just for the don't suck true options. Xav ___ xorg

Re: r200 exa performance regression in xserver-1.6?

2009-03-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:29 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:05 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: Try Option AccelDFS true Any reason this kind of option isn't the default ? It seems

Re: New Video Decode and Presentation API

2009-02-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 27 février 2009 à 15:21 -0800, Andy Ritger a écrit : Neither, I'm trying to not use deinterlacing in the graphics card. Is it technically (theoretically) possible to rearrange the order of merging the fields and scaling? I think if you want to scale, then you really need to

Re: [EDIT] Why do I need mouse acceleration to move windows and click buttons?

2009-02-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 18:58 +0100, Dirk wrote: People who believe they need an accelerated pointer to click buttons or move windows are not bright enough to realize the absence of acceleration anyways. Sorry for not being bright enough for you, but I do enjoy acceleration. Xav

Re: Input transformations: Compiz

2009-01-21 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 13:01 +0900, Joel Bosveld wrote: After hiding the cursor once with XFixes, some mouse cursors will simply be invisible. The Firefox loading cursor being one of them. Woah, this thing has been driving me mad for a long time, and I couldn't find an explanation. Thanks

Re: Font rendering problem in 1.6 branch (fine in 1.5 and master)

2009-01-16 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 16 janvier 2009 à 14:22 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston a écrit : Has anyone noticed oddities in font rendering (or perhaps even just font selection) in the 1.6 branch? It looks fine in 1.5 and in master, but 1.6 shows something different. I looked through the list of nominated

Re: Increasing the frame buffer size

2009-01-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 09:10 -0800, Dirk Hohndel wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:01:21 +0100 Xavier Bestel xavier.bes...@free.fr wrote: You can add a directive in your Xorg config file: Virtual 1920 1200 so that the maximum screen size is correct for you. This used to have

Re: Signal 11 in xorg-server

2008-12-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:30 +0300, Руслан Бондарь wrote: Hello all. Sometimes my xorg server crashes. Xorg-server version: 1.5.2 Linux distro: gentoo X11 wm: openbox-3.4.7.2 I notice this problem only when I'm using dual-screen configuration. I have dual headed nVidia GeForce 8600

Re: [rant] keeping policy in HAL

2008-12-03 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 11:10 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Xavier Bestel wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:58 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 16:47, Alexander E. Patrakov a écrit : Apriori, there is no sensible default keyboard layout. There could be if the hardware

Re: [newb] Will xorg still allow non-hal config?

2008-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 14:11 +, Beso wrote: just look at the evdev driver. i think that after its development the usability of keyboards and mouses has increased quite a lot. now i cannot see a reason to switch back to kbd + mouse instead of evdev. I see one: keyboard layout isn't

Re: [newb] Will xorg still allow non-hal config?

2008-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 12:59 +, Alan Cox wrote: The result is that since there is no single shared layout X and the kernel use, no layout info is exposed by the kernel infrastructure. (and from a functional point of view there is no reason a key should have a different behaviour in X

Re: [rant] keeping policy in HAL

2008-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:58 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 1 décembre 2008 16:47, Alexander E. Patrakov a écrit : Apriori, there is no sensible default keyboard layout. There could be if the hardware started advertising what actually painted on its keys (and even then many people

Re: Rotate trouble on r300 (was: Re: XRandR rotate support HW rotate or not?)

2008-11-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:51 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:39 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:35 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:30 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 10:27 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote

Re: Rotate trouble on r300 (was: Re: XRandR rotate support HW rotate or not?)

2008-11-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 12:25 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 19:17 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 09:34 -0400, Alex Deucher a écrit : 2008/10/31 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Keith Packard: I have recently study RandR, I found if we

Re: Rotate trouble on r300 (was: Re: XRandR rotate support HW rotate or not?)

2008-11-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le samedi 01 novembre 2008 à 14:51 +0100, Xavier Bestel a écrit : Le samedi 01 novembre 2008 à 12:25 +0100, Michel Dänzer a écrit : On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 19:17 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: BTW, does anyone know why rotating the screen doesn't play well with compiz on an r300 ? The screen

Rotate trouble on r300 (was: Re: XRandR rotate support HW rotate or not?)

2008-10-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008 à 09:34 -0400, Alex Deucher a écrit : 2008/10/31 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Keith Packard: I have recently study RandR, I found if we use RandR rotate no matter static rotate or dynamic rotate,we always use RandR's own software rotate. We draw