Re: [Xpert]tdfx soft-boot hang revisited

2002-10-15 Thread Egbert Eich
Bo Brinkman writes: Several months ago I mentioned that tdfx soft-boot problems seem to have re-appeared. I haven't had time until now to poke around into it. The current behavior (linux kernel 2.4.18-10, XFree86 4.2.0-8 through 10/12/2002 CVS) is that whenever I try to softboot

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Tom
Hello all, Excuse me for my poor english.. but, i have the problem you are describing. I tried xfree-cvs from saturday, and then i had two problems i hadn't with 4.2.0 (from gentoo): - xfree was very long to first start, when kdm was launched, hard disk working a lot (a sort of font

[Xpert]My 6 head PC can be seen here.

2002-10-15 Thread kim
http://www.pvv.org/~kim That is me, sitting at my 6 head system in Linux. It is working thanks to this mailing list. So, I wonder if somebody can recommend improvements to my config file, supplied below. F.ex. I would like to have 3d, even though it is not accelerated. Perhaps Mesa? The

[Xpert]Silicon Motion driver problem

2002-10-15 Thread Tony Hacche
Greetings ;o) Trying to get XFree86 v4.2.1 up and running on my laptop (Panasonic CFM-34) running FreeBSD v4.7. It fails terribly and all I get is a blank screen that I can't kill off (kill -9 on XFree86 via logging on via ssh) won't do it and the only option is shutdown -r. The last few lines

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:59:29AM +, Tom wrote: I tried xfree-cvs from saturday, and then i had two problems i hadn't with 4.2.0 (from gentoo): - xfree was very long to first start, when kdm was launched, hard disk working a lot (a sort of font processing ?) - when i first launch the

Re: [Xpert]My 6 head PC can be seen here.

2002-10-15 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.pvv.org/~kim That is me, sitting at my 6 head system in Linux. It is working thanks to this mailing list. So, I wonder if somebody can recommend improvements to my config file, supplied below. F.ex. I would like to have 3d, even

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Tom
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 10:38, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:59:29AM +, Tom wrote: I tried xfree-cvs from saturday, and then i had two problems i hadn't with 4.2.0 (from gentoo): - xfree was very long to first start, when kdm was launched, hard disk working a

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:12:41PM +, Tom wrote: I rerun the test with dri enabled : the steps : - startx go to vt7 - ctrl + alt + f1 go to vt1 - ctrl + alt + f7 go to vt7 I attached the lspci -vv outputs for radeon between the steps, and my XFree.0.log. I didn't get any

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Tom
Oups, i forget the attachment... then now they are ;o). On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:37, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:12:41PM +, Tom wrote: I rerun the test with dri enabled : the steps : - startx go to vt7 - ctrl + alt + f1 go to vt1 - ctrl + alt + f7 go

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:42:09PM +, Tom wrote: Oups, i forget the attachment... then now they are ;o). Okay, this is definitely not the BusMastering VT-switch lockup we used to have, but it's still bad. If you want to solve this problem, you have to build a static X and attach to the

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Tom
Euh.. I would like to help, but could u explain me the steps? ;o) How can i build static X? how can i attach to the running process? (gdb) What are the commands and the important information.. I tried the dri.sourceforge.net drivers, but i have a blank screen.. On Tuesday 15 October 2002 11:52,

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:05:53PM +, Tom wrote: I would like to help, but could u explain me the steps? ;o) How can i build static X? In your host.conf (if I remember correctly, it could also be host.def) you can configure for building a static XFree86. how can i attach to the running

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VTswitch

2002-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-15 at 14:17, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:05:53PM +, Tom wrote: I tried the dri.sourceforge.net drivers, but i have a blank screen.. We could try to diagnose this if you want to. This has been hashed to death on dri-devel. It's a binary

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:24:52PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Die, 2002-10-15 at 14:17, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:05:53PM +, Tom wrote: I tried the dri.sourceforge.net drivers, but i have a blank screen.. We could try to diagnose this if you want to.

[Xpert]Double mouse pointer (nv geforce3ti dvi)

2002-10-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
With 4.2.1, the nv driver *finally* produces a correct image on my setup. Only one small bug remains: The mouse pointer. It is duplicated and half the right size. Actually, the duplication effect looks more to be a case of every other bit being drawn 16 pixels too far to the right. The

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Tom
Why does ur driver is not included in cvs? :o/ it should resolve a lot of problem !! ;o) On Tuesday 15 October 2002 12:36, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:24:52PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Die, 2002-10-15 at 14:17, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VT switch

2002-10-15 Thread Charl P. Botha
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:01:35PM +, Tom wrote: Why does ur driver is not included in cvs? :o/ it should resolve a lot of problem !! ;o) The driver from my pages is not a pure DRI build. It includes code by me for suspending/resuming Radeons and is thus not recommended for everyone.

Re: [Xpert]Probable return of Radeon, R128 XFree86 crash at VTswitch

2002-10-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-15 at 15:12, Charl P. Botha wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:01:35PM +, Tom wrote: Why does ur driver is not included in cvs? :o/ it should resolve a lot of problem !! ;o) No, the problem is only with the binary snapshots, if you build yourself from CVS it should work

Re: [Xpert]rage pro (16mb) symbol errors

2002-10-15 Thread Geoffrey
So, anyone have any ideas why the the cvs version I pulled Oct 12 might cause my box to lock up? I'm trying to get dual head working with a redeon ve (retail 32mb) and a rage pro (16mb). Previous efforts, the box would lock up if I had both the radeon and rage configured. In the case of the

[Xpert]Sun(Sony)GDM-1662B

2002-10-15 Thread Allan Klinbail
HI Has anyone actually got this one going... I've seen posts that claim to have working modelines on various websites but none seem to work. cheers Allan -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible

RE: [Xpert]!! Correction for i810 driver !!

2002-10-15 Thread Sottek, Matthew J
Actually... I am not sure that reg 0x6 will be set in all cases. I may only be programmed if there is a TVout controller present in the system. Doing it this way is safer. Maybe someone looking for a task can make a diff out of this and submit it to the patches list? -Matt File :

[Xpert]How is modeline chosen?

2002-10-15 Thread Spammers Must Die
I just got my new 1280x1024 17 flatscreen set up, and it looked like hell, with moires, aliased vertical lines, etc.. As seems to be the case after running XF86Config originally, I had several 1280x1024 ModeLines in my XF86Config file. The closest modeline looked like this: # 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz,

Re: [Xpert]Double mouse pointer (nv geforce3ti dvi)

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Björn Stenberg wrote: With 4.2.1, the nv driver *finally* produces a correct image on my setup. Only one small bug remains: The mouse pointer. It is duplicated and half the right size. Actually, the duplication effect looks more to be a case of every other bit being

Re: [Xpert]Double mouse pointer (nv geforce3ti dvi)

2002-10-15 Thread Björn Stenberg
Mark Vojkovich wrote: The artifact you describe sounds like what you get when you run the nv driver after running the nvidia driver Ah, that's exactly what I did. Silly me, I should have tested from cold. But as far as I know, DFP isn't supported in 4.2.1 in the first place. Ok, back to

[Xpert]Patches for xfree86 cyrix (NatSemi GX1) driver

2002-10-15 Thread Bruce R. Montague
Hi, I have been playing with Alan Cox's version of the xfree86/drivers/cyrix (Geode) video driver on a NatSemi Centaurus reference platform (Geode GX1 cpu) running FreeBSD. The cyrix driver in the CVS tree at xfree86.org appears not to have been modified for some 9 months, except for makefile

Re: [Xpert]Patches for xfree86 cyrix (NatSemi GX1) driver

2002-10-15 Thread Alan Hourihane
You could try using the geode driver which is now in the XFree86 CVS. Alan. On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:46:50PM -0700, Bruce R. Montague wrote: Hi, I have been playing with Alan Cox's version of the xfree86/drivers/cyrix (Geode) video driver on a NatSemi Centaurus reference platform (Geode

[Xpert]Issues with X cvs

2002-10-15 Thread mike
Hi I have just downloaded and built (several times) X cvs I have some issues On my current build (which generally works) The mouse is big and red and cant be changed I get messages related Xlib not supporting my locale #, which is 1so 889915 On my last build which I had to revert On nearly

RE: [Xpert]How is modeline chosen?

2002-10-15 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]How is modeline chosen? You can toggle trough multiple modes with same resolution by naming them differently. Those ... labels are (freeform?) strings. This means you can e.g. have a 640x480i and a 640x480p timing, where the appended characters might mean for your

[Xpert]ati driver doesn't work with some laptop LCD screens

2002-10-15 Thread John Baldwin
Hey all. I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e with an ATI R128 M3: drm0@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x00cc1028 chip=0x4c461002 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies' device = 'Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x' class= display subclass = VGA Out of the box xf86cfg with X server

[Xpert]Sync Out of Range when I switch to a VT

2002-10-15 Thread TJ OConnor
Hi, I am having a problem with my display. I am running XFree86-4.2.1 on Mandrake 9.0 and tried using the radeon, ati, and ati.2 driver for my Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO on a Samsung SyncMaster 753DF Monitor. It works fine if a tv-out cable isn't connected to my card. However, whenever I hook a

Re: [Xpert]Sun(Sony)GDM-1662B - fixed frequency monitor

2002-10-15 Thread Allan Klinbail
What I should hav included was that this is a composite sync monitor that uses the SOny GDM 1662 Trinitron tube (the difference between the 1662 and 1662B tubes is one is for the southern hemisphere. cheers Allan . On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 00:40, Allan Klinbail wrote: HI Has anyone