Re: [Xpert]xgamma w/Xinerama bug in 4.1.99.1

2001-09-20 Thread hadron
Mark Vojkovich[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, hadron wrote: Except that it doesn't work, now that I was able to test it. The second head doesn't show any change in gamma even though xgamma reports the newly assigned values on screen 1, screen 0 works correctly. Works fine

Re: Other multihead setups (was Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450AGP + G450PCI)

2001-09-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derrik Pates wrote: Ok, not exactly related, but I wanted to find out if it would work - has anyone been able to get more than one ATI Rage128 working in a system? Particularly in a non-x86 system (in my case an Apple PPC G3 box)? I've tried to get such a setup working, but XFree86

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Peter Surda
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:52:16PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I'd like to propose a change to Xv standard, to add a function XvGetImage, which could be used to transfer data from videoram to system memory. 2 possible situations it can be used: What's the prototype look like. Ie,

[Xpert]linux /dev/input/eventx handling?

2001-09-20 Thread Evan Martin
Is there an input driver for Linux's generic /dev/input/eventx interface? After glancing through the source and mailing list archives, it seems that the wacom input driver does support it (see the functions with names including USB in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/wacom/xf86Wacom.c), but

Re: [Xpert]4.1.0, PowerPC, and ATI Rage 128

2001-09-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
Keith Parkins wrote: That did it! Everything works okay except for when I quit X. The monitor starts making a funny sound (so I shut it off) and virtual consols don't work. Do I need to enable video drivers from BootX on the Mac side? Doing that and using Option UseFBDev should be a

Re: [Xpert]Rage 128 drm

2001-09-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ATI Rage 128 (AGP) and I tried to use the DRI. Everything works well but I have the following message: kernel: [drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed! Make sure you are using the correct version of the kernel module. For XFree86

Re: Other multihead setups (was Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450AGP + G450PCI)

2001-09-20 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: It should work. What version are you trying? I seem to remember Xinerama problems in 4.1.0 which are fixed in CVS. I'm using thhe 4.1.0-6 debs at present. The system I'm using I haven't even gotten around to trying to enable Xinerama - it always dies

[Xpert]nVidia GeForce2 GO / RH 7.1 on Gateway 9550

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Dynes
Hi, The Gateway 9550 is claimed to have a GeForce2 GO. It does have an SXGA display. I've installed XFree86 4.1.0, and the two nVidia rpms from their site. I had to rpm -ivh --force the kernel module to get it to modprobe. I've followed the README to the letter, although I still need to

[Xpert]Both CRTLCD impossible on Dell Latitude CPt/V with ATI Mobility M1?

2001-09-20 Thread Eskil Brun
I have been trying for quite some time now to make XFree86 4.1.0 (and other versions) display both on a CRT and the LCD of a Dell Latitude CPt/V with a Mach64 chipset. But so far I have only managed to get it to display on either one but not both at the same time. The Xserver (XFree86 4.1.0)

Re: [Xpert]nVidia GeForce2 GO / RH 7.1 on Gateway 9550

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Dynes
Worked like a champ. I'll be writing this up (since it wasn't a straight Red Hat install), and posting it to linux-laptops. Andy Ritger([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 10:42:24AM -0700: Hi Richard, I saw your post on the Xpert mailing list. Unfortunately, I've never seen one of the

Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450AGP + G450PCI

2001-09-20 Thread Martijn Dekkers
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 12:18, you wrote: ...and non-primary AGP is detected as having 2M RAM. Hi, sorry to barge in here like this, but I have a similar situation. I use a 3Dfx Voodoo3 on AGP, and an ATI 3D Rage PRO on PCI. the Voodoo is primary. I am having some serious issues setting

Re: [Xpert]Both CRTLCD impossible on Dell Latitude CPt/V with ATI Mobility M1?

2001-09-20 Thread OS
Hello, My understanding is this chipset (I have an Inspiron) was better supported in XF 3.3.6 !! The 'reasoning' appears to be that this chipset is now too old to bother with !! This goes for 3D acceleration as well which seemed to be fully supported in 3.3.6 !! All I can think is to try

Re: [Xpert]Re: Informations request (development team)

2001-09-20 Thread pcpa
Quoting Georgina O. Economou [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all: I'll start with a classic: congratulations for the great work. As a developer of CaixaMagica, the first Portuguese Linux distribution I would like to request some informations regarding the XFree project which is

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:52:16PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: I'd like to propose a change to Xv standard, to add a function XvGetImage, which could be used to transfer data from videoram to system memory. 2 possible situations it can be

Re: [Xpert]linux /dev/input/eventx handling?

2001-09-20 Thread Brad Hards
Evan Martin wrote: Is there an input driver for Linux's generic /dev/input/eventx interface? snip Has someone attempted to write a driver for it? If not, is there a good reason I shouldn't attempt to write one? Would it belong as yet another modification to the (rather complicated) mouse

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:30:52PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Then the client API would be the same as XvGetStill but would use an XvImage as the destination instead of a Drawable. Er, not quite. XvGetStill seems to have a Drawable as a source and Port as a destination. What I want is to

[Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-20 Thread Gustavo Carvalho Homem
Hello all ! I can't find a list XVideo capable XFree86 drivers . The one I have was built from xine users feedback. Can someone comment , add entries or say something about future plans ? This is my list: 3dfx Voodoo3 (xfree 4.1) Voodoo4 (xfree 4.1) Voodoo5 (xfree 4.1) Nvidia ( xfree 4.1 )

[Xpert]Two ways to framebuffer

2001-09-20 Thread Gustavo Carvalho Homem
Hello all: One thing I can't find in the documentation. Are there advantages (or disadvantages) of using XF86_FBDev over XFree86 4.1 with fbdev driver ? Any other relevant comments ? Thank you very much Gustavo Homem ---

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:39:06PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Sorry, I meant XvPutStill. aha. There will need to be an option for a shm completion event on XvShmGetImage so the client isn't blocked while the server fetches the data. I must confess I don't know the difference between

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-20 Thread Bob
I was under the impression that the Matrox G100 that I'm struggling with also supports Xv? If not, that will save me the continued anguish of trying to get it to work :) On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Gustavo Carvalho Homem wrote: Hello all ! I can't find a list XVideo capable XFree86 drivers . The

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob wrote: I was under the impression that the Matrox G100 that I'm struggling with also supports Xv? If not, that will save me the continued anguish of trying to get it to work :) The driver doesn't support it. Back when I wrote the Xv support for the mga driver, I

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:39:06PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: Sorry, I meant XvPutStill. aha. There will need to be an option for a shm completion event on XvShmGetImage so the client isn't blocked while the server fetches the data. I

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Keith Packard
Around 16 o'clock on Sep 20, Mark Vojkovich wrote: XShmGetImage is blocking, so maybe it's not important for XvShmGetImage to be asynchronous. Having to send the event (and receive it) probably just increases the latency anyhow. OK, the event is a bad idea. The protocol isn't

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: XvPutImage pushes the data through the socket. With XvShmPutImage (only available for local clients) data is stored in shared memory so that the server just copies it from the client's XvImage itself. I get it now. It seems

Re: [Xpert]Xv standard change proposal

2001-09-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Peter Surda wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:27:26PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: XvPutImage pushes the data through the socket. With XvShmPutImage (only available for local clients) data is stored in shared memory so that the server just copies it from the

Re: [Xpert]Xv card list and Vesa 2.0 compliance

2001-09-20 Thread Bob
Aok, good to know before I beat myself any further. Thanks On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Bob wrote: I was under the impression that the Matrox G100 that I'm struggling with also supports Xv? If not, that will save me the continued anguish of trying to

[Xpert]3D on ATI Mobility Radeon-M

2001-09-20 Thread Brian Lavender
I have a laptop with the ATI Rage Mobility Radeon-M on a Sony VAIO PCG-GR170K. I did an lspci and this is the ID of the card. It has 8 Megs of RAM #define PCI_CHIP_RADEON_VE 0x4C59 I got the latest XFree86 4.1.99 by doing a CVS checkout a couple weeks ago. I am running RedHat 7.1. X is