Re: [Xpert]XFree86 Bugzilla

2002-10-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mar 22/10/2002 à 00:30, David Dawes a écrit : On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:54:30PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote: Bugzilla is quickly becoming the standard bug tracking system for large open software projects. Originally developed by the Mozilla project, it is now used by KDE, GNOME, Apache,

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia and Suspend

2002-10-22 Thread Ducrot Bruno
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:14:28PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:38:22AM +0100, Philip Blacker wrote: I'm wondering if it's feasible for the kernel to route ACPI power [...] Does it make a difference if you switch to a text VT before initiating a suspend? That's

[Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-10-22 Thread Anurag Palsule
Hello, Is it possible for me to write a wrapper or a hook to the Xserver,so that all the X calls, instead of going to Xserver, will land into my application and my application will inturn pass them to the X server for further processing. If yes, how ? thanks, Anurag

Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-10-22 Thread John Tapsell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:20:05AM -0700, Anurag Palsule wrote: Hello, Is it possible for me to write a wrapper or a hook to the Xserver,so that all the X calls, instead of going to Xserver, will land into my application and my application will inturn pass them to the X server for further

RE: [Xpert]Re: Status of Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-22 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]Re: Status of Radeon support under XFree86 I tried installing the binary distribution of the radeon dri module, as found on the dri-sf page, but that gave me another signal 11. As far as i read discussion here and on dri-devel, there was a problem with similar effect,

Re: [Xpert]Re: Status of Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-22 Thread Jeroen Coumans
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 08:15, Kacper Wysocki wrote: I'm really trying to avoid having to compile XF86 myself, since I've heard it's not the most fun thing to do on a Saturday nite. There are some good step-by-step instructions at http://blfs.linuxfromscratch.org and

Re: [Xpert]Re: Status of Radeon support under XFree86

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-22 at 08:15, Kacper Wysocki wrote: From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] super-slow! What gives? I did have trouble loading glx earlier, but I traced this problem to my enabling of the radeon framebuffer device in the kernel. Huh? Must have

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:44, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On 21 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Son, 2002-10-20 at 23:57, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Boris wrote: Hmm, Seems to be alot of problems in the CVS the last few days. Heres the latest one.

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: That the new header is being picked up seems the only viable explanantion for the reported symptom. How it got there is irrelevant. Perhaps re-installing glibc from source re-syncs the headers, I don't know. Or, possibly, this system simply does not

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-22 at 14:23, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: That the new header is being picked up seems the only viable explanantion for the reported symptom. How it got there is irrelevant. Perhaps re-installing glibc from source re-syncs the

[Xpert]XF86_FBDev : libXaw.so.7 :error while loading undefined sysmbol

2002-10-22 Thread P.R. Patil
Hello, I' trying to execute the X windows on a m/c using XF86_FBDev driver and linnux 2.4 CS5530 graphics chipset Frame buffer support with 16bit color depth It gives me the first blank screen with crossed cursor and hangs there.The error is undefined symbol XmuCvtGravityToString while loading

Re: [Xpert]i830 refuses to run in 1400 x 1050

2002-10-22 Thread Jens Owen
Martin van Es wrote: Hi, Let me first apologize for posting a newbie question that may have been covered before (I did search the archives and I did find some references to it, but thusfar was not able to solve my problem). I am a little ashamed (and spoilt) to admit that X is running like a

[Xpert]ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO (XF86Config-4)

2002-10-22 Thread TJ OConnor
Hi, I am still having problems with my ATI Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO Card and TV-Out on a Samsung SyncMaster 753DF and connected to my television via an S-Video Cable. Whenever the TV-Out is enabled by the BIOS or atitvout, the Computer Monitor Loses Sync and displays Sync Out of Range at

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: That the new header is being picked up seems the only viable explanantion for the reported symptom. How it got there is irrelevant. Perhaps re-installing glibc from source re-syncs the headers, I don't know. Or, possibly, this system simply does not

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-22 at 16:55, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: That the new header is being picked up seems the only viable explanantion for the reported symptom. How it got there is irrelevant. Perhaps re-installing glibc from source re-syncs the

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: As far as I'm concerned, this issue is closed until such a time when the kernel folk again rename something they shouldn't. Can't you see that the kernel folks can do whatever they want, so long as people use a sane setup where there are no kernel

Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-10-22 Thread Scott Long
I think the easiest way to do what you are suggesting would be to run a proxy (your hook) that listens on the usual X socket (either TCP or UNIX). Then, run the X server on a non-standard port, and forward all the packets in both directions through your proxy. This assumes, first of all, that

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-22 at 17:34, Marc Aurele La France wrote: On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: As far as I'm concerned, this issue is closed until such a time when the kernel folk again rename something they shouldn't. Can't you see that the kernel folks can do whatever they want, so

[Xpert]Xterm raw input

2002-10-22 Thread Russell
Hi all, I'm testing out some terminal escape sequences as in: http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/ctlseqs.txt Just try typing: echo -ne \033[2t into an xterm;) Anyway, how can i type control sequences into an xterm without the cursor moving? When i press ESC, it gets intercepted

Re: [Xpert]Xterm raw input

2002-10-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mar 22/10/2002 à 18:12, Russell a écrit : Hi all, I'm testing out some terminal escape sequences as in: http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/howto/Xterm-Title/ctlseqs.txt Just try typing: echo -ne \033[2t into an xterm;) Anyway, how can i type control sequences into an xterm without the

Re: [Xpert]Another CVS problem

2002-10-22 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On 22 Oct 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: glibc's /usr/include/linux/kd.h ultimately hails from the kernel's include/linux/kd.h. The field name change was propagated through this system's upgrade to a bleeding edge glibc. Less bleeding edge than the kernel it was built against, apparently, or

[Xpert]Matrox G450, two cards, two heads

2002-10-22 Thread Gregg Lebovitz
I am trying to put together a linux system that will drive 4 to 6 heads for use in an transportation operations center. I am using Redhat 7.3, xfree86 4.2.0, and the xfree86 drivers from the Matrox site. I can get one card with 2 heads to work if the card is configured to be the primary video

[Xpert]VBlank interrupt?

2002-10-22 Thread Tony Wu
Does XFree86 video driver support VBlank(Vsync) interrupt? If it does, how to enable it? I know some librarys offer function calls to sync to Vsync (linke SDL_Flip), butthey use polling instead Vsync interrupt. The performance suffers a lot. I did some experiment by probing the vidoe

Re: [Xpert]Matrox G450, two cards, two heads

2002-10-22 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: Gregg Lebovitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Oct 2002 16:39:09 -0400 I am trying to put together a linux system that will drive 4 to 6 heads for use in an transportation operations center. I am using Redhat 7.3, xfree86 4.2.0, and the xfree86 drivers from the

[Xpert]Problems with Trident and 4.2.0

2002-10-22 Thread John Bäckstrand
I have a Thinkpad 760XL, with a trident chipset and 800x600 flatscreen. The BIOS is not upgraded to the latest and greatest (I guess that shouldnt really affect native drivers in any way, at most it could add some VESA functionality?) since there is no battery in this, and that is required for a

Re: [Xpert]6 head xinerama

2002-10-22 Thread Gregg Lebovitz
Kim, I am seeing similar problems on a redhat system, but mine are much worse. As far as I can tell, the G450 cards work okay as the primary video controller, but present garbage on the screen when used as a secondary controller. All my cards are PCI. The 2 heads connected to the primary

Re: [Xpert]VBlank interrupt?

2002-10-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tony Wu wrote: Does XFree86 video driver support VBlank(Vsync) interrupt? If it does, how to enable it? XFree86 drivers are user-space drivers, and as such cannot service interrupts. Only the kernel can handle interrupts. Since most XFree86 drivers do not have a

Re: [Xpert]VBlank interrupt?

2002-10-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2002-10-22 at 23:12, Tony Wu wrote: Does XFree86 video driver support VBlank(Vsync) interrupt? If it does, how to enable it? I know some librarys offer function calls to sync to Vsync (linke SDL_Flip), but they use polling instead Vsync interrupt. The performance suffers a lot. I

Re: [Xpert]Colormap Allocation problems under Linux 7.3

2002-10-22 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:25:40AM +0200, Olivier Chapuis wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 04:54:26PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:12:30PM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Wojciech Kasprzak wrote: The application used to work under Linux 7.1. Has

Re: [Xpert]Nvidia and Suspend

2002-10-22 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:52:26AM +0200, Ducrot Bruno wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:14:28PM -0400, David Dawes wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:38:22AM +0100, Philip Blacker wrote: I'm wondering if it's feasible for the kernel to route ACPI power [...] Does it make a difference if

Re: [Xpert]Colormap Allocation problems under Linux 7.3

2002-10-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 22 o'clock on Oct 22, David Dawes wrote: -no-render-extension / NoRenderExtension -render-extension (for cancelling a NoRenderExtension option in XF86Config) Might shorten these to '-norender' and '-render'. However, I'd argue that Render should be considered

Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-10-22 Thread Chuck Slivkoff
Search on xscope. There was a thread on this not long ago. On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002, at 04:20 US/Eastern, Anurag Palsule wrote: Is it possible for me to write a wrapper or a hook to the Xserver,so that all the X calls, instead of going to Xserver, will land into my application and my

Re: [Xpert]Colormap Allocation problems under Linux 7.3

2002-10-22 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:08:24PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: Around 22 o'clock on Oct 22, David Dawes wrote: -no-render-extension / NoRenderExtension -render-extension (for cancelling a NoRenderExtension option in XF86Config) Might shorten these to '-norender' and

Re: [Xpert]XF86_FBDev : libXaw.so.7 :error while loading undefined sysmbol

2002-10-22 Thread pcpa
Quoting P.R. Patil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, colorparam0100,0100,0100/paramHello, I' trying to execute the X windows on a m/c using XF86_FBDev driver and linnux 2.4 CS5530 graphics chipset Frame buffer support with 16bit color

Re: [Xpert]Colormap Allocation problems under Linux 7.3

2002-10-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 23 o'clock on Oct 22, David Dawes wrote: If it can be run in a mode where no colours other than black or white are allocated, then that'd be OK. It needs to be possible to have a configuration where legacy pseudocolor-only clients can run without interference. I can't think of too

Re: [Xpert]Problems with Type1 big fonts

2002-10-22 Thread David Dawes
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:59:34AM -0400, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote: David == David Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Unless the old Type1 backend can unreservedly be replaced by David the new FreeType2 backend, then it should be disabled, and David maybe even a fake type1 font module created