Re: [Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] my X-Kernel question

2001-10-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Peter Surda wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:48:56AM +0100, MichaelM wrote: > >Would you consider it a good idea to make DRI part of the source of a > >kernel? Direct 3d graphics supported from the boot sequence. > Hmm I thought DRI is part of the kernel? Perhaps y

[Xpert]is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-22 Thread trasatti
> > I work under X11R6 server with XFree86 4.1.0, using XLib and XToolkit graphic >libraries. > > My program must capture-process-display every frame captured from a video source, >at the maximum frame rate. > > All done without palette transformations. Thank's to everyone answer my previous po

RE: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Holzrichter, Bruce
How can I sign up to help? I have a Dell Latitude CPiX with Onboard ATI mobility M1 that uses the Mach64 driver, I'd love to get DRI support. I haven't followed dri-devel, though I know that there was some work going on. Also, I have a Sun Ultra5 with a ATI rage pro onboard, are there any plans

Re: [Xpert]Fw: XShmPutImage

2001-10-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Michael Zayats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sorry, it does returns 1 and not -1, BTW I am looking at XShmPutImage > sources, isn't it supposed to return BadDrawable or BadGC or > whatever? No, it doesn't return that. It raises an error to be handled by your error handler. Look at XSet

[Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Alex Deucher
Most of this stuff is being worked on. As far as Xv goes, there has been support in GATOS for a while now, but it has never been brought over to Xfree for some reason. Alex --- I'm curious as to what features of the ATI Mach64 variants that people would like to see suppor

Re: [Xpert]Copying/Pasting

2001-10-22 Thread Greg Ward
On 19 October 2001, Owen Taylor said: > Please read: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboard.txt That URL is really: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt Greg ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree8

Re: [Xpert]is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-22 Thread Michael Zayats
strangely enough I was playing with exactly the same process for last 2 weeks > -1- It is programmed to capture frames in RGB565 format (like the display) on a mmap shared buffer > -2- Via a memcpy, the captured frame is copied into a XImage created with XShmCreateImage > -3- Then the sw process t

[Xpert]SiS630 drawing problems with 4.1.0 (and other 4.x)

2001-10-22 Thread xpert
I submitted this as a bug using the template web page but haven't heard anything. I'd like to know if there's an easy solution to this problem. I'm willing to check out code from CVS, build from source, test patches etc (crash my machine :-). The problem is that certain unfilled 'boxes' are dra

[Xpert]i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Billy Biggs
Hi, I watched a movie yesterday and forgot to shut off the screensaver. When it kicked in, X hung. An strace of the hung process showed alot of SIGALARMs and that's it. No interesting messages to the log. I can investigate further if you like and see what's up, I hope to get the CVS X stuf

[Xpert]RE: i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
> Also, an annoyance. I see alot of thin little green horizontal >lines that flicker all over the overlay surface. Any thoughts >as to what those might be, or any reason they might be happening? > I suspect it's some hardware defect and I should go buy another >video card. If you like I can t

Re: [Xpert]RE: i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Billy Biggs
Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Also, an annoyance. I see alot of thin little green horizontal > > lines that flicker all over the overlay surface. Any thoughts as to > > what those might be, or any reason they might be happening? I > > suspect it's some hardware defect and I should

[Xpert]GDM will not refresh after logout.

2001-10-22 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I'm encountering more and more cases of people using Gnome, attempting to logout and not being able to return to the GDM login screen. The screen just freezes shut (black). Of course I'm hearing it when it's at a "fsck /dev/" level when they get wedged tight and power off the machi

Re: [Xpert]GDM will not refresh after logout.

2001-10-22 Thread Michael Zayats
hm, I am expiriencing the same thing, but: I am using kdm, xfree86 4.1.0 and it happens in 16bpp only my video is i810 Michael - Original Message - From: Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Xpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:29 PM Subject: [Xpert]GDM will not

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread volodya
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > Most of this stuff is being worked on. As far as Xv goes, there has > been support in GATOS for a while now, but it has never been brought > over to Xfree for some reason. It has been, we just didn't make it in time for 4.1.0.

Re: [Xpert] i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Billy Biggs
Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The highest framerate I will ever be pumping video at the board is > > 59.94fps from 720x480, don't know if that matters. In this case > > though I'm only outputting at 24fps. > > Try 10x7@16bpp at 85hz. That should work fine. Well, I would like to

Re: [Xpert]is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, trasatti wrote: > > > I work under X11R6 server with XFree86 4.1.0, using XLib and XToolkit graphic >libraries. > > > My program must capture-process-display every frame captured from a video >source, at the maximum frame rate. > > > All done without palette transformations

Re: [Xpert] i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Billy Biggs wrote: > Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > The highest framerate I will ever be pumping video at the board is > > > 59.94fps from 720x480, don't know if that matters. In this case > > > though I'm only outputting at 24fps. > > > > Try 10x7@16bpp at

[Xpert]Copy and paste in XTerm

2001-10-22 Thread Steve Goldstein
I'm having problems with pasting into an XTerm window. Neither the middle mouse button nor the key combo SHIFT+Insert pastes has an apparent effect in an XTerm window. I can't tell if there is a problem in my environment (either an incomplete XFree86 installation or X configuration problem) or a

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread OS
Hello, I have one of the older ATi Rage Mobility Pro's, which is a Mach64 chipset. There was an 'experimental' version of 3.3.6 which had 3D accelleration. It was brilliant and for an 'experimental' version appeared to work flawlessly. The feature I am requesting is that this accelleration is

Re: [Xpert]Minimizing VC switch time

2001-10-22 Thread Greg Ward
On 20 October 2001, Michel D?nzer said: > No. The way it would work is that the framebuffer device realizes they > are _currently_ using the same mode so it doesn't have to reinitalize. OK. I think I get it. At any rate, I have managed to "minimize VC switch time", which was my original goal.

Re: [Xpert]Minimizing VC switch time

2001-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 00:03, Greg Ward wrote: > At any rate, I have managed to "minimize VC switch time", which was > my original goal. I can now switch between consoles and X servers > with very little monitor dead time and no mode-switch "click" from my > monitor. All I had to do was use "fbs

[Xpert]problem programming mouse pointer

2001-10-22 Thread Elsa Benitez
I hope someone out there with application programming in X can help me out. I am trying to fix a program that has a mouse pointer problem in it. Basically, I have the application window running beyond the screen size of the monitor. I need my mouse pointer to move within the application wind

[Xpert]use ProcVector in loadable module?

2001-10-22 Thread Andy Fong
I am new to the new. I have tried to look at the archive in xfree86.org but it doesn't seem to be searchable. Is there a searchable archive somewhere? My problem: I am writing a ddx driver for a video card with Xextension in the ddx to support a special feature. Because the extension has to use s

Re: [Xpert]problem programming mouse pointer

2001-10-22 Thread Stuart Kreitman
Your application window visibility is clipped by its parent, in this case the root window. Also, the cursor is strictly bounded within the dimensions of the root window. You'll need to write a function to pan the app window wrt the root window. It can be triggered by pointer position or create a

[Xpert][Fwd: Why xtt TTCap of XFree86 does't work?]

2001-10-22 Thread hj
I modify XFree86-4 config file to disable module "freetype" and load module "xtt". Then modigy fonts.dir like this: :ai=0.4:gkai00mp.ttf -Arphic Technology Co.-Kai-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 It did not work. like this: ai=0.4:gkai00mp.ttf -Arphic Technology Co.-Kai-medium-i-nor

Re: [Xpert] i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Billy Biggs
Sottek, Matthew J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Also, an annoyance. I see alot of thin little green horizontal > > lines that flicker all over the overlay surface. Any thoughts as to > > what those might be, or any reason they might be happening? I > > suspect it's some hardware defect and I should

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Shawn Starr
I don't see DRI in XFree86 CVS :( for Mach64. On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Most of this stuff is being worked on. As far as Xv goes, there has > > been support in GATOS for a while now, but it has never been brought > > over

Re: [Xpert] i810 Xv bugs

2001-10-22 Thread Billy Biggs
> > Also, an annoyance. I see alot of thin little green horizontal > > lines that flicker all over the overlay surface. [...] I rebooted my machine (42 day uptime) and the green lines are gone. Before I rebooted (and even before I tried the CVS Xserver), my text consoles had died (gone all mys

[Xpert] gnome hangs when switching consoles with "Trident Blade3D"

2001-10-22 Thread Peter Harms
I'm having problems when switching between virtual consoles on both 3.3.6 and 4.0.3 - more often than not the screen just locks up (sometimes black, sometimes black and white vertical stripes and sometimes coloured vertical stripes). In any case the machine needs to be reset. Also, when using

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Peter Surda
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:57:10PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > I don't see DRI in XFree86 CVS :( for Mach64. Because it is in separate branch in DRI cvs. Check out dri-devel mailing list. Bye, Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023 -- To boldly go

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Rick Scott
Could we not work out a way to peacefully co-exist with a single CVS tree?? As it stands, we need the proper kernel tree, the proper dri tree, the proper XFree86 tree, the proper linuxvideo tree, and probably a couple that I have missed, since things don't seem to work smoothly, to get a working d

Re: [Xpert]insufficient control over monitor gamma

2001-10-22 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Mark Vojkovich wrote: > >This already exists in 4.1.0 and newer. Oh, excellent! Thanks, I still have 4.0.something here, so I didn't notice... > Pay attention to the ramp size our you'll get bitten. > All colors go from 0-65535. And you had better restore it > when you're done with it

Re: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread R C
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:01:32AM -0400, Rick Scott wrote: > Could we not work out a way to peacefully co-exist with a single CVS tree?? As > it stands, we need the proper kernel tree, the proper dri tree, the proper > XFree86 tree, the proper linuxvideo tree, and probably a couple that I have L

RE: [Xpert]ATI Mach64 feature requests

2001-10-22 Thread Sprague, IT3
I remember asking on Newbie about rolling GATOS into XFree, and I think I heard that it was going into 4.2.0 (doubleplusgood). Can anyone confirm this? -Original Message- From: Alex Deucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Xpert]Building 4.1.0 on Linux results in segfaulting binaries

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Reppert
... well, I seem to have solved my problem, and I feel exceedingly stupid now. Since I put this system up myelf ... I was going through the FHS earlier today to get my system more compliant with it. This started with me getting mad at my apache configuration and reinstalling it and putting every

[Xpert]Re: is XShmPutImage the best way

2001-10-22 Thread trasatti
Thank you to all that answer to me. > > Otherwise, how to blit the captured mmap buffer (after processing it) onto the >display, even without any XImage or with other functions than XShmPutImage. > > > >OpenGL provides an alternative method with glDrawPixels. But > I don't expect that to