Re: [Xpert]A big confusion over here - XFree 4.2 - and rage 128

2002-02-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 00:17, Gustavo Homem wrote: I am having serious trouble with XFree. I have a rage 128 video card. I was using XFree 4.1 from mdk 8.1 and the Xv extension was malfunctioning for DVDs (was ok for other movies). It would eat too much CPU so a lot of frames were dropped

[Xpert]i810, XFree86: vertical bars on screen

2002-02-20 Thread Stuart Lamble
Greetings. I am currently running XFree86 4.1.0 on Linux 2.4.17 (Debian unstable). My system is based around the Intel 815 chipset (Pentium 3, 933 MHz). Afterstep window manager, with a 16 bit color depth. Every so often, I get vertical bars appearing on my screen when I move a window around.

Re: [Xpert]ct65555 and XVideo

2002-02-20 Thread Egbert Eich
Andrei Lahun writes: Hello . Firstly thank you for fixing bug with ct driver , now driver working without modification of source code. But i found that time to time when i whatch video with mplayer/xine and Xvideo, during startup of player CT driver froze Xserver. I looked at diff

Re: [Xpert]request: xlib resources

2002-02-20 Thread mallum
on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:55:47PM +0100, Marc Bruenink wrote: Hi Further i've a problem using XGetFontPath() (segmentation fault) and i didn't find the fault. Perhaps somebody knows where to find a sample source concerning font loading, listing aso. ? okay this is my source code

Re: [Xpert]request: xlib resources

2002-02-20 Thread mallum
I use the man pages, the orielly xlib book and prayer. -- mallum on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:57:41AM +0100, Marc Bruenink wrote: Hi I'm searching for all kinds of resources concerning xlib. I've found http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/introduction/ and i think this is a good tutorial

Re: [Xpert]Re: libxml needs iconv.h ?

2002-02-20 Thread rjh
On 19 Feb, Keith Packard wrote: Around 14 o'clock on Feb 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that XML is the computer religion du jure, but as David and others have mentioned, the bulk of the problems are from situations where users are required to adjust the configuration files to deal

Re: [Xpert]A big confusion over here - XFree 4.2 - and rage 128

2002-02-20 Thread Joe Krahn
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 00:17, Gustavo Homem wrote: I am having serious trouble with XFree. I have a rage 128 video card. I was using XFree 4.1 from mdk 8.1 and the Xv extension was malfunctioning for DVDs (was ok for other movies). It would eat too much CPU so a lot

Re: [Xpert]A big confusion over here - XFree 4.2 - and rage 128

2002-02-20 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 14:30, Joe Krahn wrote: Until these issues are sorted out, use of the DRM for Xv should be an option which defaults to off. I'll submit a patch to that effect soon. Attached is a hack which disables it completely in source for now. I hope this is useful for people

[Xpert]Smallest X initialisation

2002-02-20 Thread Jean-Yves Lamoureux
Hi all I was wondering if my initialisations was ok. Here is the smallest Xlib init I can have (open a window and create an ximage). Has anyone smaller ? display = XOpenDisplay (NULL); root_window = DefaultRootWindow (display); window = XCreateWindow (display, root_window, 10, 10, 320,

[Xpert]Xdm dying at Feb 13th EST 9:58

2002-02-20 Thread r r
I had the most unpleasant surprise last week at Feb 13th EST 9:58: my X clients (running XFree86 4) got disconnected form their HP Login servers. The error message in X log was: XDM: too many keepalive retransmissions This problem ALWAYS happens at this time. I did some research and I found

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2002-02-20 Thread JM Martin
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RE: [Xpert]i810, XFree86: vertical bars on screen

2002-02-20 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Stuart, This is a watermark issue. The watermark is the set of delays etc. that control the flow of data into and out of a FIFO that feeds the dac. Your FIFO is probably running out of data when memory bandwidth isn't available to fill the screen and blit at the same time. Your video mode is

Re: [Xpert]Re: libxml needs iconv.h ?

2002-02-20 Thread Keith Packard
Around 8 o'clock on Feb 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a format, XML is fine. I would prefer S-expressions, but a restricted XML schema is merely S-expressions with pointy delimiters instead of curved delimiters. If you squint, and format your XML properly, you can easily pretend that it

Re: [Xpert]A big confusion over here - XFree 4.2 - and rage 128

2002-02-20 Thread Gustavo Alberto Homem
Hi Michel : Thanks for your answer. I can only guess why 4.0.3 worked better than 4.1.0; I guess it's because the r128 driver in 4.0.3 didn't properly support 420 video (or was it 422? I forget :) yet. I don't know exactly what are those 420 and 422 ? Image formats ? How does that justify

Re: [Xpert]Why suid for linear framebuffer?

2002-02-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the nv driver for a Riva TNT 2 on a FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE system and receive the following fatal error when starting X with a non-superuser: (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access

[Xpert]Matrox G200 MMS almost-quad display

2002-02-20 Thread Jan Ploski
Hello Xperts, I am encountering a weird problem with a Matrox G200 MMS quad-display card. Maybe someone can shed some light upon it or at least suggest a direction of what I could try next? I tested 2 different cards (same model) already, so it's not defect hardware like I suspected: I

[Xpert]Here's how to unsubscribe from this list!

2002-02-20 Thread Dave Williss
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[Xpert]An question about StopVideo on ATI AiW

2002-02-20 Thread
Coz I use a non-member mailbox last time, so I send it again by member mailbox Kevin Huang === Hello everyone : I encounter a strange problem and can't figure out why. I have a ATI AiW r128 video card his new Xv supported driver. When I use DVD player to play mpeg2 file move other window

Re: [Xpert]An question about StopVideo on ATI AiW

2002-02-20 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, [big5] ¶À¸s³Í wrote: Coz I use a non-member mailbox last time, so I send it again by member mailbox Kevin Huang === Hello everyone : I encounter a strange problem and can't figure out why. I have a ATI AiW r128 video card his new Xv supported driver. When I

[Xpert]out of scan range

2002-02-20 Thread Nyhassan
Running suse 7.2, kernel 2.4.16, kde 2.1.2, matrox g200 video card and sony cpd-200es monitor. I upgraded to Xserver 4.1 and I used sax2 for configuration. The monitor horizontal and vertical freq ranges were detected correctly by sax2. System will boot properly to kde desktop.The problem is

Re: [Xpert]Radeon VE dualhead

2002-02-20 Thread hy0
You can try to use HorizSync 80 and VertRefresh 75 (be careful, check your monitor manual first) instead of HorizSync 64 and VertRefresh 60. Or you can simply try to remove HorizSync 64 and VertRefresh 60 lines from both of your Monitor sections, radeon driver will use the sync ranges from the

Re: [Xpert]Radeon VE dualhead

2002-02-20 Thread jp_XFree86
Actually, the monitors ideally want 1280x1024@60Hz and that's why I have the HorizSync and VertRefresh set the way I do (the monitor spec said that the monitors use those frequencies). However, I will try putting the valid ranges back for HS VS and see what that does. I know that it's

[Xpert]S3 TRIO 3D system hang from PCI violation

2002-02-20 Thread Bradley Thomas
Hello everyone, Recently, we discovered a PCI violation occuring using ATI Rage XL chipsets, which Marc Aurele La France was kind enough to provide a fix for us. We have also discovered that the same PCI violation is occuring with S3 TRIO 3D (as well as the PERMEDIA) chipset. I was hoping

[Xpert]xgamma not working with second head of MGA G400 AGP

2002-02-20 Thread Don Armstrong
I have a 3 (well, trying to make it 4 if I can get the second voodoo to soft boot) head system, and for some odd reason, xgamma won't change the gamma of the second MGA head, while it will change the gamma of the first head no problem. dual:~$ xgamma -s 0 - Red 1.237, Green 1.239, Blue 1.374

Re: [Xpert]An question about StopVideo on ATI AiW

2002-02-20 Thread Kevin Huang
Hi Mark : Thanks for your answer in advance!! :) I'm working on Xv driver for my company's graphic chip, but I encounter an problem can't fint out the reason. Everytime I use other window to clip the video window or move it, StopVideo will be called makes the video flicker. This doesn't

Re: [Xpert]Here's how to unsubscribe from this list!

2002-02-20 Thread Yuri van Oers
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Dave Williss wrote: If you forget your password, don't worry, you will receive a monthly reminder telling you what all your XFree86.Org mailing list passwords are, and how to unsubscribe or change your options. There is also a button on your options page that will