Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Guido Fiala
On Wednesday, 24. July 2002 03:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks! That sounds really like i'am doing something wrong using repeated > > calls of XvPutStill() every 40ms (PAL). So it would work to just call > > XvPutVideo() once. I thought i made it right, as xawtv and mplayer both > > do use

Re: [Xpert]adding radeon driver documentation

2002-07-23 Thread hy0
- Original Message - From: "James Ralston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 1:56 AM Subject: [Xpert]adding radeon driver documentation > Attached is the first draft. Good to see the new Radeon man page being worked on. I'll try to explain some of FI

[Xpert]Re: nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c

2002-07-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mike Stilson wrote: >Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:16:50 -0400 >From: Mike Stilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: General X Discussion >Subject: Re: nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c > >On Mon, Jul

[Xpert]Debugging server crash?

2002-07-23 Thread Manuel McLure
I'm getting server crashes with the latest CVS build. I have attached a server log, but unfortunately I am not seeing any cores left around to debug this with. Any ideas on how I can try to get more information to debug this? This usually seems to happen when a OpenGL screensaver is running. I'm

[Xpert]Opengl program performance drops after upgrading to XFree86 4.2

2002-07-23 Thread Jason Hu Huang
Thanks Michel, The DRI is not enabled. However I have tried all the methods that I can figure out to enable it with no luck. I am using ATI radeon VE. I have loaded the glx and dri modules and the device type is set "ati" in the XF86Config-4, but in the log file, the dri is not disabled. I dont

[Xpert]porting X420 to our new machine

2002-07-23 Thread xjj
hi all, I want to port X420 to our new machine with new architecture and new assembler language. The video we selected is sis305. which configuration would I choose, XKdrive+vesa, XKdrive+fb,XKdrive+sis305,or XFree86+vesa, XFree86+fb,XFree86+sis305? Which requires the least porting

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Billy Biggs
Michel Lanners ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 23 Jul, this message from Guido Fiala echoed through cyberspace: > >> moving YUV across the bus, but it should use no CPU. > > > > Yes, so i thought. But that would mean, that the XServer loads it's > > data directly from the v4l device itself (mmap-io o

Re: [Xpert]Xserver won\'t recognize PCI card

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 00:33, Daniel Sheltraw wrote: > It appears that, in the machine which is unable to function as > expected, there is a problem with the Xserver recognizing the PCI > card despite the fact we have told it where on the bus to find the > card in the XF86Config-4 file. Also bot

[Xpert]Xserver won\'t recognize PCI card

2002-07-23 Thread Daniel Sheltraw
Hell XF86 xpert and newbie lists I have been chasing the solution to a problem for a few days now and I wondering if anyone can help. I have two machines with identical hardware except for the motherboards. Each has an ATI Xpert 98 (PCI) card and Radeon 7500 (AGP) card. We are controlling the PCI

[Xpert]Re: Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 22:10, Charl P. Botha wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:55:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Excuse the interruption, but I have been having a problem with an IBM > > T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (LCD) losing sync after the display is > > either turned off by either

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Guido Fiala wrote: > > I'm not sure if someone said this already or not, but the XvPutVideo simply > > displays incoming analog video into the drawable specified in the > > XvPutVideo call (some setup and configuration calls are req'd previous to > > calling XvPutVideo() ). >

[Xpert]Xnest blocks when running remote StarOffice, and local Xinerama

2002-07-23 Thread pcpa
Hi, When running "Xnest -query ", logging in, and starting soffice, it will hang if the local xserver is using Xinerama. It seens that the Xnest is not (always) receiving back the expected order of events after a XCopyArea, and blocking in the XIfEvent call. Whit this patch, that is only use

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Lanners
On 23 Jul, this message from Guido Fiala echoed through cyberspace: >> moving YUV across the bus, but it should use no CPU. > > Yes, so i thought. But that would mean, that the XServer loads it's data > directly from the v4l device itself (mmap-io or direct write into AGP-memory?) > The latter

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Cuss
- Original Message - > > Thanks! That sounds really like i'am doing something wrong using repeated > calls of XvPutStill() every 40ms (PAL). So it would work to just call > XvPutVideo() once. I thought i made it right, as xawtv and mplayer both do > use Still. I tried just to use Video()

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:57:29PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > Which patch are you using? The one I sent, or the one Michel committed? I > am concerned (and Michel, correct me if I'm blundering) that the DRI commit > has the bus master enable AFTER RADEONEngineRestore(). I've tested with Mic

Re: [Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:55:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Excuse the interruption, but I have been having a problem with an IBM > T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (LCD) losing sync after the display is > either turned off by either APM or via a Fn-F3. The failure is > intermittent, but freq

Re: [Xpert]nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c

2002-07-23 Thread Mike Stilson
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:36:39PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: >On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:16:50AM -0400, Mike Stilson wrote: >> Just to follow up after giving a little more thought... >> The kernel module doesn't taint it since I'm recompiling it from source. >> the NVdriver.o module (although i

Re: [Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Kevin Oberman
Excuse the interruption, but I have been having a problem with an IBM T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW (LCD) losing sync after the display is either turned off by either APM or via a Fn-F3. The failure is intermittent, but frequent. Is is remotely possible that this bus mastering issue could also

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Dean S. Messing
:: :: > I'm not quite sure what YUV2 is but ordinary MPEG2 YUV (more properly, :: > Y, Cb, Cr) is such that U and V are subsampled x2 horizontally w.r.t. Y and :: > that is how you get "16 bits". :: :: I'am far from xpert at this area - so maybe i'am wrong at this ml anyway :: mayself ;

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Guido Fiala
> I'm not sure if someone said this already or not, but the XvPutVideo simply > displays incoming analog video into the drawable specified in the > XvPutVideo call (some setup and configuration calls are req'd previous to > calling XvPutVideo() ). Thanks! That sounds really like i'am doing someth

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:46:34PM -0500, Steven Walter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:04:56PM -0500, Steven Walter wrote: > > To summarize, this patch seems only the make the lock-ups less > > reproducible. Sometimes it takes 3, sometimes four, sometimes 2. I > > don't think I've gotten a

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:04:56PM -0500, Steven Walter wrote: > > So, appended is a patch that changes the RADEONEnterVT code in > > radeon_driver.c so that it re-enables bus mastering mode. Michel has tested > > it on his TiBook (which doesn't have the problem) and the patch doesn't seem > > to

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:33:27PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >So, appended is a patch that changes the RADEONEnterVT code in > >radeon_driver.c so that it re-enables bus mastering mode. Michel has tested > >it on his TiBook (which doesn't have the problem) and the patch doesn't seem

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Cuss
> But, this is going OT now - as it was about Xvideo docs. Still got no > detailed explanation why i should use the XvPutVideo() function call at all, > which i thought would solve btw, the problem of the high CPU-load (at least > reported to me with V3K + NVIDIA + Matrox cards). I'm not sure if

Re: [Xpert]MotionNotify

2002-07-23 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, jeyasudha wrote: > Hi Xperts, > I want to get all the mouse move events. I'm using all masks > ButtonMotionMask > (for all 5 buttons), PointerMotionMask. Still my window is not getting > the > MotionNotify events whenever i move the mouse. I read PointerMotionHint > Mask

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 19:05, Charl P. Botha wrote: > Dear list, > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:02:05PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > This is just to add another sample to the Radeon switch to VT and back X > > freeze bug, which is apparently known. > > Michel Dänzer and I spent some more time

[Xpert]Dual head with on board S3trio64 and PCI GVX1 card?

2002-07-23 Thread John Gay
I was playing with an old box and a PCI GVX1 card I have. After building X4.2.0 from source, the first time I ran XF86Config it noticed that the box also has an S3trio64 on-board, but X crashed before I could set it up. After that I had to resort to using XF86Config -textmode to configure it.

Re: [Xpert]XVideo extension docs

2002-07-23 Thread Guido Fiala
> I'm coming (butting?) into the middle of this so my comments > may not be germane (in which case I won't be offended if you tell > me to buzz off). No, many thanks for your in depth explanation. > I'm not quite sure what YUV2 is but ordinary MPEG2 YUV (more properly, > Y, Cb, Cr) is such that

[Xpert]Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon switch to VT and back X freeze POSSIBLE FIX

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
Dear list, On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:02:05PM +0200, Charl P. Botha wrote: > This is just to add another sample to the Radeon switch to VT and back X > freeze bug, which is apparently known. Michel Dänzer and I spent some more time on this bug today. After having mucked around with some of the

[Xpert]MotionNotify

2002-07-23 Thread jeyasudha
Hi Xperts, I want to get all the mouse move events.  I'm using all masks ButtonMotionMask (for all 5 buttons), PointerMotionMask. Still my window is not getting the MotionNotify events whenever i move the mouse. I read PointerMotionHint Mask will reduce the motion events to one.  Hence i have no

Re: [Xpert]Accessing selection from command line

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Peter Finderup Lund wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Ville Herva wrote: > > > I was wondering whether people feel that something like this should exist in > > the XFree86 distribution: > > Yes, please! > > I was very fortunate to find xcut some months ago, which does the paste >

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But this is not what I want. I want to have two different mice > on each monitor. If you have one keyboard, but two mice with different pointers, how do you you expect the server to know which screen should receive key presses ? -- Dr. Andrew C.

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server onone vt

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, when I use Xinerama, is it not possible to get two separate mice. Then I Yes it is. > will get one mouse (one mouse-pointer) which I can move with the two mice. > Isn't it so? > But this is not what I want. I want to have two different mice on

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread SST.Lohner
>> I will see the two X-Servers at the same time and when I tried to display them >> at different vt's I have to change between them with ++(f7/8>. That >> isn't what I want. > >That explains the vt thing. But why aren't you using Xinerama? It's much >better suited to your needs - actually I th

Re: [Xpert]Trident Cyber9385: display trashed after resume from suspend

2002-07-23 Thread Tino Keitel
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:32:30 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi, > > if I resume from suspend to RAM or suspend to disk while the lid of my > ThinkPad 765L notebook is closed, the display will be blank, glowing > slowly to white. I could fix this by switching to a text console, > activate standby

Re: [Xpert]nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c

2002-07-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Stilson wrote: | Just to follow up after giving a little more thought... | The kernel module doesn't taint it since I'm recompiling it from source. No, you're just recompiling some glue code, the real module is binary only. | the NVdriver.o m

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will see the two X-Servers at the same time and when I tried to display them > at different vt's I have to change between them with ++(f7/8>. That > isn't what I want. You are using the same keyboard (standard PC compatible) with both X servers, a

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've two monitors at two Graphic Cards. Now I want to display one X-Server at > one of them. This is only possible, when I start the X-Servers at ONE vt. One > time with :0 and one time with :1 and different XF86Configfiles. Isn't it > correct?? Not

[Xpert]XSendEvent and Capital/Small Letters.

2002-07-23 Thread Juan José Andrés Gutiérrez
Hi, I have a problem with the sending of keys using XSendEvent. When I send a letter, for example the letter "a" sends it correctly but when sends the letter "A" does not send it correctly, but it sends the small letter (a). I have made a function that sends a string: SendString(display

Re: [Xpert]adding radeon driver documentation

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 10:56, James Ralston wrote: > On 17 Jul 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 08:58, James Ralston wrote: > > > > > (I'd be willing to take a crack at writing a man page for the > > > radeon driver, > > > > Great! That's very much appreciated. > > Attach

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI Radeon 8500 support

2002-07-23 Thread Anders Saaby
Check out http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ (r200) Here you will find the CVS snapshots of Tungsten's Radeon 8500 driver. It works (a bit slow though) on my machine. /Anders On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:37, Ani Joshi wrote: > > Or for 3D 8500 support you could download the Fi

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:01:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want > >>to logout. If I want to logout, the X-Server is chrashing. So I get no screen > >> and it hang

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread SST.Lohner
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want >>to logout. If I want to logout, the X-Server is chrashing. So I get no screen >> and it hangs up. >> >> What's about this? > >Dunno... why do you want them to use the sa

Re: Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want > to logout. If I want to logout, the X-Server is chrashing. So I get no screen > and it hangs up. > > What's about this? Dunno... why do you want them to use the same vir

Antwort: Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread SST.Lohner
>What if you create a dummy user that belongs to the same group as your >ordinary user (so they can read/write each other's files) and have >the dummy user start the second X server? OK, that's fine. I tried this, and it works. Now I have a problem when I want to logout. If I want to logout, the

Re: [Xpert]adding radeon driver documentation

2002-07-23 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, James Ralston wrote: > I was tempted to break down support by chipsets instead of cards, but > I didn't know enough of the mappings among PCI IDs, Radeon chipsets, > and card names. (For example, to my knowledge, all "Radeon 8500" > cards are using the R200 core/chipsets. W

Re: [Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread Peter Finderup Lund
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - and when i want to start a application at the first x it will work > correctly. but on the second x the warning "can't do this! please start the >docpserver!". What's this? That's a KDE problem (it says "dcopserver", right?). KDE programs us

Re: [Xpert]nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c

2002-07-23 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:16:50AM -0400, Mike Stilson wrote: > Just to follow up after giving a little more thought... > The kernel module doesn't taint it since I'm recompiling it from source. > the NVdriver.o module (although it doesn't specifically have a > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")) also doesn't

Re: [Xpert]nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c

2002-07-23 Thread Mike Stilson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:25:35PM +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Mike Stilson wrote: >Are you sure the nvidia module was loaded at the time of this crash? >It would taint the kernel if loaded: > >Jul 7 20:20:54 pippo kernel: kernel BUG at page_allo

Re: [Xpert]Dual-head + dri on an ATI Radeon VE video card

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 07:51, Angus Wallace wrote: > > I've got a quick question regarding an ATI Raedon VE dual-VGA-out card. > I've read in several places that the driver doesn't currently support > both dri and dual-head at the same time. Is this still the case? Yes. > Is it likely to be add

Re: [Xpert]Opengl program performance drops after upgrading toXFree86 4.2

2002-07-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:43, Jason Hu Huang wrote: > > I have just upgraded my RH7.2 box's x server from 4.1 to 4.2. I found the > performance of the opengl program that I am working on drops significantly. > The original framerate is 40 fps, and now it is only around 20 fps. Can anyone > tell

[Xpert]two x-server on one vt

2002-07-23 Thread SST.Lohner
i want to start two x-server on one vt but on two different monitors. i get this correctly by using startx -- :0 -xf86config XF86Config0 vt07 startx -- :1 -xf86config XF86Config1 vt07 so i can see two displays with different mouse pointer and one keyboard. and there are the problems: - the t

Re: [Xpert]adding radeon driver documentation

2002-07-23 Thread James Ralston
On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > While the most asked question is "Does the driver support my card ?" > I'm uncomfortable about the man page listing the supported cards, > for several reasons: > > 1) For the most part the driver supports chips, not cards. ATI have > a strong