[Xpert]Experiences running Intel 830MG equipped laptop

2001-11-01 Thread Adam Kisiel
Hi, For two weeks I have been running an HP Pavillion N5495 laptop (equipped with Intel 830MG chipset) with the latest CVS XFree86. I would like to share my experiences and have some questions concerning various parts of the driver. Genrally I tried running the laptop with FBDev, VESA and the

RE: [Xpert]XvShmCreateImage

2001-11-01 Thread Pranay Kumar
Hi, I have a Radeon and xvinfo gives me and Ximage size of 2048x2048. Is this the largest size image I can scale? This post puts the fugure around 1000 so I was confused. Further I have successfully tried 1920x1080 images but when I try to scale a 2048x1556 image I get a pink band on the right of

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: >So that means that it's not possible to just update the > currentTime. You can get the current system time, but you can't > update currentTime without processing events. OK. Right. Until R2 (R3?) the only way server time got updated was

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Keith Packard wrote: > UpdateCurrentTimeIf can only modify the current time if there aren't any > events queued. The assumption being that any events queued *after* the > system time is fetched will have timestamps later than the current time, > but any events still pendin

Re: [Xpert]XvShmCreateImage

2001-11-01 Thread volodya
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul Robertson wrote: > > > > > Thanks Mark, > > > > > > OK, I'll have to live with that limit and undersample my YUV data as > > > I copy it into the XvImage. > > > > > >

Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage Mobilty and Xv

2001-11-01 Thread volodya
Take a look at http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos Vladimir Dergachev On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Mark Cuss wrote: > Hello all > > I have a question regarding the current state of driver support for the ATI Rage >Mobility graphics processor. I need to be able to display captured v

Re: [Xpert]problems with xvideo and mpeg, attn:vlad

2001-11-01 Thread volodya
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Thomas Marschall wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Hmmm.. the README I am talking about is ati_xv/README > > > Oops. I found it. > > > > > > >>>In particular be aware that > >>>you would need full compiled XFree86 source tree to do that. > >>> > >>I have download

Re: [Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Keith Packard
Around 21 o'clock on Nov 1, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > Looks to me like UpdateCurrentTimeIf doesn't actually > update the current time. Shouldn't this function look like: >if (CompareTimeStamps(systime, currentTime) == LATER) >currentTime = systime; This check should never fail --

[Xpert]UpdateCurrentTimeIf broken?

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Looks to me like UpdateCurrentTimeIf doesn't actually update the current time. Shouldn't this function look like: void UpdateCurrentTimeIf() { TimeStamp systime; systime.months = currentTime.months; systime.milliseconds = GetTimeInMillis(); if (systime.milliseconds < currentT

Re: [Xpert]Re: tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions

2001-11-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Manuel McLure wrote: >Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:36:38 -0800 >From: Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A . Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Detlef Grittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Subject: Re: [

Re: [Xpert]Re: tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions

2001-11-01 Thread Manuel McLure
How does this affect Voodoo 5? Also, note that the only case I see a problem is when switching resolutions - otherwise it's rock-solid. On 2001.11.01 18:12 Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Detlef Grittner wrote: > > Voodoo 3 requires depth 16 for DRI. In addition, if you even > have

Re: [Xpert]Using i815 driver patch

2001-11-01 Thread Pavel Krylov
Hello Johan, JM> I've read the solution from other poster (Harald Koenig) using JM> i810_driver.c, but I can't find this file. You can find the module for XFree86 4.1.0 on http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~koenig/i810_drv.o -- Best regards, Pavelmailto:[

[Xpert]RE: Xpert digest, Vol 1 #1254 - 16 msgs

2001-11-01 Thread Chris Hills
Hi to all just reading some of the errors on Xinerama setup . I have found a article on how to set this up and then I have found another way .so hopefully this will help some people . Im running Mandrake 8 lastest kernel ver 4 Xf86 .Please note some of the Vid Cards are not supported on ver

[Xpert]problems with xvideo and mpeg, attn:vlad

2001-11-01 Thread Thomas Marschall
Hi. I'm supposed to talk to vlad about this problem. I'm having problems with my Xvideo driver(I think). Whenever I playback mpeg video, the frames are cropped. I can only see the upper left hand portion of the frame, and it is scaled to fill the window that it is playing in. I have tried

[Xpert]Re: tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions

2001-11-01 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Detlef Grittner wrote: Voodoo 3 requires depth 16 for DRI. In addition, if you even have a resolution higher than 1024x768 configured in 16 bit depth while DRI is enabled in the config file, you will experience a nasty boom. This is a limitation of X's resource management

Re: [Xpert]tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions

2001-11-01 Thread Manuel McLure
I wish it was as simple as disabling the framebuffer in my case - I tried that and it had no effect that I could see - even with the standard text console it still crashed at least once. If you want to try to reproduce this, try using xmms with the smpeg plugin or avifile - if the stars are right

Re: [Xpert]tdfx driver crashes when changing resolutions

2001-11-01 Thread Detlef Grittner
I have a Voodoo 3 and can see a similar problem when starting an application using OpenGL and changing resolution. This application is Terminus, it switches very often the resolution between 640x480 and the desktop default. When the application has uploaded its textures for OpenGL, the text con

[Xpert]4.x problems with old highscreen monitor

2001-11-01 Thread stefan obenauer
i tried to install suse 7.2 with xfree 4.x on a friend's machine with an elsa erazor 3 and an old hiscreen monitor (LE4something, five years or older). when i tried to open the x server, the picture was very messed up, like looking at one of those screens for 3D-LCD glasses without the glasses, an

Re: [Xpert]problems with xvideo and mpeg, attn:vlad

2001-11-01 Thread Thomas Marschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hmmm.. the README I am talking about is ati_xv/README > Oops. I found it. > > >>>In particular be aware that >>>you would need full compiled XFree86 source tree to do that. >>> >>I have downloaded(CVS), compiled (with the XFree86 source tree) and >>installed the ati

Re: [Xpert]nvidia overlay support

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Andrew Miller wrote: > > Hi, > Does anyone know whether NVIDIA will support visuals with overlay > planes in the near future? I have a GeForce2 Go card. Am I right in > assuming that the hardware could support a 24+8 visual but their > drivers just aren't capable yet? >

Re: [Xpert][nvidia NV15 64mb] startx -- :1 won't work

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > Hello Family, > > I'm encountering situations where we cannot use the command: "startx > -- :1" to start an additional X session and I was wondering if the > 64mb Nvidia nv15 Quattro II had anything to do with it. The machine > is running RedHat-7.1

Re: [Xpert]Re: multi-head (not xinerama) aware window manager?

2001-11-01 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:07:06 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > The latter. The third head is connected to a TV via a "TV-Out" > > supporting card. I don't really want the TV as part of my desktop > > real estate. > > > > > (not likely t

[Xpert]nvidia overlay support

2001-11-01 Thread Andrew Miller
Hi, Does anyone know whether NVIDIA will support visuals with overlay planes in the near future? I have a GeForce2 Go card. Am I right in assuming that the hardware could support a 24+8 visual but their drivers just aren't capable yet? Please CC my address in your response since I am not a mem

Re: [Xpert]Problem with SiliconMotion+Elographics touchscreen

2001-11-01 Thread Gerry Duprey
Howdy George, I can see two possibilities 1) XFree86 is getting mountains of X pointer events and getting lost (seems unlikley) or 2) the elo touch driver is getting confused. I've just developed a touch driver for the 3M/Dynapro touch screens and in it, I have logic that insures

[Xpert][nvidia NV15 64mb] startx -- :1 won't work

2001-11-01 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I'm encountering situations where we cannot use the command: "startx -- :1" to start an additional X session and I was wondering if the 64mb Nvidia nv15 Quattro II had anything to do with it. The machine is running RedHat-7.1 Thanks in advance. -- Bill SchoolcraftLinux/U

[Xpert]X for remote host

2001-11-01 Thread Tom Horan
Hi, I have a RedHat 7.2 box that I use for my workstation and I run kde. I administer a load of HPUX boxes and I would like to run a second X server for some sessions on my HPUX boxes. To do this I tried X :1 -query hpuxbox It fired up a login prompt (ony Ctrl+Alt+F8) and I logged in fine. The H

[Xpert]XFree86 Crash - then hang on "startx"

2001-11-01 Thread Tony Demark
Using Xfree86 4 on a RedHat 7.1 box. Today, Mozilla hung while accessing a site, so I killed the mozilla process. When the process dies, it took the whole X server with it, leaving me with a black screen and a prompt. Typing "startx" brings up the error: waiting for X server to begin acceptin

Re: [Xpert]Radeon shimmer on trini/diamond tron monitors

2001-11-01 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Tim Milstead wrote: > There exists a windoze registry hack for ATI radeon drivers to reduce > shimmering on trini/diamond tron monitors. > I use XFree86 on linux and find the shimmering quite obvious. > Are there any plans to include a similar fix/option in XFree86? > > See ht

[Xpert]Radeon shimmer on trini/diamond tron monitors

2001-11-01 Thread Tim Milstead
There exists a windoze registry hack for ATI radeon drivers to reduce shimmering on trini/diamond tron monitors. I use XFree86 on linux and find the shimmering quite obvious. Are there any plans to include a similar fix/option in XFree86? See http://www.rage3d.com/radeon/reg/index5.shtml for info

[Xpert]Re: multi-head (not xinerama) aware window manager?

2001-11-01 Thread Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:07:06 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > The latter. The third head is connected to a TV via a "TV-Out" > supporting card. I don't really want the TV as part of my desktop > real estate. > > > (not likely to be ever implemented, > > according to Mark V.)? > > I wonder why s

Re: [Xpert]problems with xvideo and mpeg, attn:vlad

2001-11-01 Thread Thomas Marschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I am not quite sure what the above version means, but have you tried using >ati.2 binaries from http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos ? Also g4 - does it >mean cpu or something else (like Matrox graphics card) ? > G4 is a type of cpu used in powerpc computers, e.g. macs