[Xpert]Build Xfree 4.2

2001-11-09 Thread Fabio Dell'Aria
> > I have downloaded a Xfree 4.1.99.2 version from CVS server, but when i> > try to compile it, i receive many errors.> >>>   How did you build it?>>   "make World" from the xc directory should be all that's needed> for the general case.  Special considerations need to be made for> some co

[Xpert]X-Programming with Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Ba la
Hi All, I am new to this list and X-programming, I am interested in X-programming, pls point me some resources in the net like tutorials, examples etc,. specifically using xlib. Thanks in advance, Bala. __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post you

[Xpert]Fast graphics card for X

2001-11-09 Thread Alex Bustamante
Hi, One question: When i run X ("out of the box") i get the feeling that it is a little bit, just a little bit slower than m$ winblows at drawing graphics. For example when i move the "xmms" program around, i get trails. It feels like the server isn't utilizing the graphics accel. to the max. M

[Xpert]Dual head On a Matrox G400, no input on second monitor.

2001-11-09 Thread Elgar, Jeremy
<< If possible could you CC any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not subscribed at home >> Hi First off sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask or if its listed in some faq somewhere. I've search for days now for anything related to this, and all I've found is a couple of unanswered post

Re: [Xpert]Keyboard Woes.

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Haneman
>Hi. > >I am having problems with my keyboard and XFree86 4.1.0. > >I get random 'doublestrokes' when I type while in X. > >eg: >"Tthis iis what happpeens sometimes when I type." Hi Steve: This is not a solution to your problem, but it may help with diagnosis and as a workaround: Try running

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
>The GC cliplist would be the "clipping region or clip path" but > will not include any overlapping windows. Hardly anybody sets the > GC clip so you're probably OK to always return the size of the window > for this. What do you mean by 'GC cliplist'? (sorry, but I'm a X11 rookie :-) >

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
>The question is: can I > process them one by one? Why should I take all the Expose events and union > all the rects together, as Greg said? I can hardly believe that someone > might succed in exposing 2 rectangles of a a window at the same time (i.e. > moving to windows that overlap another, so t

Re: [Xpert]Fast graphics card for X

2001-11-09 Thread John Peter Tapsell
On Friday 09 November 2001 11:22, Alex Bustamante wrote: > Hi, Hi, I somehow doubt anyone else will bother to answer this - so I'll answer quickly. You have not given us enough information - whether you are using unaccerated drivers, using frame buffers. using hardware acceleration, or even

[Xpert]How can I understand the parameter of XvPutVideo?

2001-11-09 Thread hzeng
Hi, In the founctin of XvPutVideo, there are a set of parameter(vx,vy,vw,vh) .In the doc of xfree86, these is described as the following: "Define the size and location of the source (video) region to be written. vx and vy define the upper-left pixel of the region. vw and vh define the width

[Xpert]Problems to cross compile for IpaqH3600

2001-11-09 Thread Olov H
Hi, I am having some problems when building X for Ipaq on my host i386 machine. When I add CrossCompile YES it seems like imake is built for the arm-platform, and of course that does not work. Any one that recognizes this problem and knows how to deal with it? Thanks in advance, Olov

[Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread tom schuetz
I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks like 600 x 800. This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Config OR in running xf86config OR in running XFSetup. I don't get any err

RE: [Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread Elgar, Jeremy
Silly question but are you altering the correct Config file (only ask as I was confused by a similar situation till I worked out what was happening.) The log should state which file its using. > -Original Message- > From: tom schuetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 November 2001

Re: [Xpert]fonts look like bar codes

2001-11-09 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 08 November 2001 2:03 pm, tom schuetz wrote: > I just installed xserver-svga 3.3.6-11 (Debian), and it works well, > except all the fonts are illegible. > > The kind of look like bar codes. I have seen this kind of problem when trying to use the xvga server with S3 adapters. Using t

Re: [Xpert]fonts look like bar codes FIXED

2001-11-09 Thread tom schuetz
Thanks-- I am now using the s3 server- fixed the problem! Now I just can't cycle thru screen resolutions... > >Subject: Re: [Xpert]fonts look like bar codes > From: Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 08:52:42 -0700 > To: tom schuetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PRO

[Xpert]big busy pointer?

2001-11-09 Thread Jeff Chua
Is it possible to change the "busy" pointer to a BIGGER one or use a xpm file? If possible, next question is how to do it? Thanks in advance for your help. Thanks, Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.O

[Xpert]How work is going?

2001-11-09 Thread Gniazdowski
Hi. How are developers doing with work on next relesa of XFree86 ? Some problems? Big changes? :) Regards Gniazdowski. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]Keyboard Woes.

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Mertz
Thanks Bill for the info. That did solve the bounce problem. But now I just have to type a little bit slower, which is more livable than those double chars. -- Steve On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:41:49AM +, Bill Haneman wrote: > >Hi. > > > >I am having problems with my keyboard and XFree86

Re: [Xpert]Keyboard Woes.

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Haneman
>Thanks Bill for the info. That did solve the bounce problem. > >But now I just have to type a little bit slower, which is more livable >than those double chars. You should be able to set the various accessX features so that you don't notice a speed decrease, unless you really *like* typing o

[Xpert]shallow end of the entropy pool (fwd)

2001-11-09 Thread Dr. David Gilbert
Hi, This message was on the DEC-Alpha mailing list for RedHat; i've seen something similar happen. Quite a nice little problem! Dave /--\ | Dr. David Alan Gilbert | | | G7FHJ -

Re: [Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread Louis Lu
Hi Have you tried Xconfigutator command? to add extra resolutions. Louis On 9 Nov 2001, at 6:58, tom schuetz wrote: > I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks >like 600 x 800. > > This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. > > This

[Xpert]XDrawLine basic questions.

2001-11-09 Thread Ted Roden
Hello All, I am trying to learn xlib programming and have had a significant amount of success up until now. I'm trying to draw across the screen using XDrawLine and XDrawRectangle to get a similiar effect as WindowMakers rubberband or most window manager resizing features. The graphics context I

[Xpert]Problem with mouse wheel

2001-11-09 Thread Antonio Larrosa Jiménez
Hello, I've tried the current cvs version of XFree, but the mouse wheel emulation doesn't work as expected. When I try to move up it doesn't do anything, but I can move down correctly. In other words, I can just emulate a wheel that moves downwards, but I cannot move the wheel up ! Any help

Re: [Xpert]Keyboard Woes.

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Mertz
Well, the problem is the bouncekey delay is only .1 sec. And so when you go to type words with the same letter it in more than once then it beeps at you and you have to wait a bit. SlowKeys is turned off. And I have repeat keys set to .3 and 10. So BounceKeys works. It just can't get better t

Re: [Xpert]Keyboard Woes.

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Haneman
Steve Mertz wrote: > > Well, the problem is the bouncekey delay is only .1 sec. And so when you > go to type words with the same letter it in more than once then it beeps > at you and you have to wait a bit. SlowKeys is turned off. And > I have repeat keys set to .3 and 10. > > So BounceKeys

Re: [Xpert]xdga2.0 and openGL?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Chris Nuernberger wrote: > Hey, I would like to mix xdga 2.0 (so I can write directly to the frame > buffer myself) and openGL. Is this possible, if you say yes, please send > code that does exactly this. > I switch modes to whatever I want with XDGASetMode(...). > Then I

Re: [Xpert]X-Programming with Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ba la wrote: > Hi All, >I am new to this list and X-programming, I am > interested in X-programming, pls point me some > resources in the net like tutorials, examples etc,. > specifically using xlib. > See Kenton Lee's big X site. http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.

Re: [Xpert]Fast graphics card for X

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Alex Bustamante wrote: > Hi, > > One question: > > > When i run X ("out of the box") i get the feeling that it > is a little bit, just a little bit slower than m$ winblows > at drawing graphics. For example when i move the "xmms" > program around, i get trails. It feels lik

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > >The question is: can I > > process them one by one? Why should I take all the Expose events and union > > all the rects together, as Greg said? I can hardly believe that someone > > might succed in exposing 2 rectangles of a a window at the same time

Re: [Xpert]How can I understand the parameter of XvPutVideo?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: > Hi, >In the founctin of XvPutVideo, there are a set of parameter(vx,vy,vw,vh) .In the >doc of xfree86, > these is described as the following: > "Define the size and location of the source (video) region to be written. vx and vy >define the upper-left pix

Re: [Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, tom schuetz wrote: > I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks >like 600 x 800. > > This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. > > This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Config OR in running >xf

Re: [Xpert]How work is going?

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Gniazdowski wrote: > Hi. > > How are developers doing with work on next relesa of XFree86 ? Some problems? > Big changes? > :) > It's delayed because VA Linux laid off a bunch the people who were working on it. Most of them have new jobs already and have started workin

[Xpert]ATI Rage128 Pro supported in 4.1??

2001-11-09 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi, I just tried to get XF86 4.1 working with an ATI Rage 128 pro card. The web site says Rage 128 is supported. Does this exclude the pro? The error message is: ... (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x5446) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf800/26, 0xff9 fc000/14, I/O @ 0xec00/8, BIOS @ 0x8000/17 ...

Re: [Xpert]XDrawLine basic questions.

2001-11-09 Thread Ted Roden
I figured this problem out. Naturally the same day that I ask in a list such as this. I had to redraw the lines before I drew them in the new position as they moved, I am not sure why this works but it did. Thanks. Ted. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage128 Pro supported in 4.1??

2001-11-09 Thread Nils Holland
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Rich Winkel wrote: > Hi, I just tried to get XF86 4.1 working with an ATI Rage 128 pro card. > The web site says Rage 128 is supported. Does this exclude the pro? > The error message is: > ... > (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI unknown chipset (0x5446) rev 0, Mem @ 0xf800/26, 0xff9

Re: [Xpert]Can't cycle thru different X resolutions.

2001-11-09 Thread tom schuetz
* cringe * I checked out the error log, then looked at my XF86Config. I see now that I've been entering the wrong hsync values, and so the 1024x768 mode was being dropped. Thanks! > > You either don't have any modes in your XF86Config file to cycle >through, or you do but the got discarded

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
> For things like shaped windows you may get > hundreds of Expose events for a single window movement. You mean I can have polygonal-shaped windows in X11? That would be pretty cool! :-) > If you think > you can really optimize it by drawing each rect separately then you > can handle each eve

Re: [Xpert]ATI Rage128 Pro supported in 4.1??

2001-11-09 Thread Rich Winkel
It works!!! Thank you thank you thank you! It looks like I won't be needing an excedrin IV after all :-) Rich ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]X11 clipbox

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > > For things like shaped windows you may get > > hundreds of Expose events for a single window movement. > You mean I can have polygonal-shaped windows in X11? That would be > pretty cool! :-) Yes, run "xeyes". You undoubtedly have it on you

[Xpert]background mode

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
In Win32 there is the following function: int SetBkMode( HDC hdc, // handle of device context int iBkMode // flag specifying background mode ); Parameters: hdc - Handle to the device context. iBkMode - Specifies the background mode. This parameter can be either of the following v

[Xpert]background mode

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
In Win32 there is the following function: int SetBkMode( HDC hdc, // handle of device context int iBkMode // flag specifying background mode ); Parameters: hdc - Handle to the device context. iBkMode - Specifies the background mode. This parameter can be either of the following v

Re: [Xpert]background mode

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > In Win32 there is the following function: > > int SetBkMode( > HDC hdc, // handle of device context > int iBkMode // flag specifying background mode > ); > > Parameters: > hdc - Handle to the device context. > iBkMode - Specifies the

[Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
How do I set in X11 the GC origin/extents and Window origin/extents, if at all possible? In Win32, the corespondent functions are: SetViewportOrgEx/SetViewportExtEx, for Win32 DC and SetWindowOrgEx/SetWindowExtEx for Win32 Window. Maybe clip_x_origin/clip_y_origin in XGCValues/XSetClip

Re: [Xpert]background mode

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
> GCs have nothing to do with window backgrounds. In X, the > window background is what the window gets cleared to before sending > Expose events to the client (if the client requests them). > This is an attribute of the Window (see the man page on > XSetWindowAttributes). I think that Win3

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > How do I set in X11 the GC origin/extents and Window origin/extents, if > at all possible? > In Win32, the corespondent functions are: > SetViewportOrgEx/SetViewportExtEx, for Win32 DC and > SetWindowOrgEx/SetWindowExtEx for Win32 Window.

[Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Jeremy
After playing with Option "Overlay" with my G400, I think I know why most apps only run on the default visual-- it's well nigh impossible to do anything useful on the overlay visual. It's a little annoying that the default visual is 8 bit PseudoColor and there's no way to make it 24 bit TrueColor

Re: [Xpert]Problem with mouse wheel

2001-11-09 Thread Antonio Larrosa Jiménez
El Vie 09 Nov 2001 19:46, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez escribió: > Hello, Hello Antonio, > > I've tried the current cvs version of XFree, but the mouse wheel > emulation doesn't work as expected. When I try to move up it doesn't do > anything, but I can move down correctly. > Yes, it doesn't work as

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
SetViewportOrgEx: The SetViewportOrgEx function sets the viewport origin of a device context by using the specified coordinates. SetViewportExtEx The SetViewportExtEx function sets the horizontal and vertical extents of the viewport for a device context by using the specified values. SetWindowOr

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: [...] > The most annoying, however, has got to be dealing with the colormap on the > PseudoColor visual. XCreateColormap() is happy to claim to give me a 256 > entry colormap, but, I'm assuming because of how the overlay works, entry 255 > (the topmost) doesn't

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > >I don't know what those Windows functions are suppossed to do. > > All rendering in X is window-relative. If that viewport function > > lets you change that, there is no equivalent in X and you'll > > have to do the viewport translation yourself

[Xpert]underline

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
Does someone knows how to draw underlined/strikeout text in X11? All I could find were some Font attributes, like underline thickness, undeline position, etc. Daniel Secrieru, LFC Project Manager http://www.lfc2.net/ _ Do You Yahoo!? G

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Daniel Secrieru
>For the orgin, that's about all that can be done. Clipping > to the extents could be done with the clipmask in the GC. You mean with XSetClipRectangles(...)? (the origin of the GC could also be set in this way - the clip_x_origin/clip_y_origin in XGCValues, isn't it?) Dany. _

[Xpert]Re: Gamma values in xfree (sgamma)

2001-11-09 Thread Stuart Levy
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you care about your colour quality you may care to measure your monitor > yourself and use the functions >XF86VidModeSetGammaRamp >XF86VidModeGetGammaRamp >XF86VidModeGetGammaRampSize > (in include/X11/extensions/xf86vmo

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Jeremy
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: >Contrary to some opinion on this list, overlays are not intended > to make legacy PseudoColor apps work. Overlays in the X-window > system are for layers of windows that don't clip other windows. I'll accept that.

[Xpert]the problem of virtual screen

2001-11-09 Thread hzeng
Hi, When I test a Xv driver, I found some question. I use a virtual screen ,the vitaul is 1024x768 and the visual area is 800x600.When I use PutImage, I found with the mouse moving the father window will move, but the dst coordination values send to the Xv driver will not change, so the over

Re: [Xpert]X11 viewport stuff

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Daniel Secrieru wrote: > >For the orgin, that's about all that can be done. Clipping > > to the extents could be done with the clipmask in the GC. > You mean with XSetClipRectangles(...)? Yes. A single rect could be used to confine rendering to the viewport. >

Re: [Xpert]the problem of virtual screen

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: > Hi, >When I test a Xv driver, I found some question. I use a virtual screen ,the >vitaul is 1024x768 and the visual area is 800x600.When I use PutImage, I found with >the mouse moving the father window will move, > but the dst coordination values send to

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Jeremy wrote: > >Contrary to some opinion on this list, overlays are not intended > > to make legacy PseudoColor apps work. Overlays in the X-window > > system are for layers of windows that

[Xpert]how to deal with the clipBoxes

2001-11-09 Thread hzeng
Hi,    Thanks. And I have another problem about the clipBoxes. In the Xv driver,the clipBoxes is determinded by the drwwindow, and in every founction interface, there are both drw_x,drw_y,drw_w,drw_h and the clipBoxes. I am not clear the use of clipBoxes, how can I fully use the clip

Re: [Xpert]how to deal with the clipBoxes

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, hzeng wrote: > Hi, >Thanks. And I have another problem about the clipBoxes. In the Xv > driver,the clipBoxes is determinded by > the drwwindow, and in every founction interface, there are both > drw_x,drw_y,drw_w,drw_h and the clipBoxes. > I am not clear the use of clipBo

Re: [Xpert]Using alternate visuals with Overlay

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > > Calling XClearWindow() on the TrueColor window should work just fine. > > > It's not clipped by covering PseudoColor windows and I'm not aware > > > aware of any bugs in that code. Sounds like you're saying it doesn't > > > work anymore. If tha