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 habit

[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

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 me

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

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

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 have

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 use 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. What

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: 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 virtual

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 same virtual

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 hangs up.

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

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. Attached is the first

[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: 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

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 str+alt+(f7/8. That isn't what I want. You are using the same keyboard (standard PC compatible) with both X

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

[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 not

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 U

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 it

[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 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 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 break

[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 lock

[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

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 both

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 or direct

[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]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 xpert.XFree86.Org Subject: Re: nvidia binary driver: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c On

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 FIXMEs