Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-11-12 Thread Anurag Palsule
Any idea how to implement such kind of approach. Anurag --- Ricardo Baratto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that'd definitely depend on your code. afaik (conceptually) there's nothing there that's specific to any kind of machine. ricardo At some point in the past you (Anurag Palsule [EMAIL

Re: [Xpert]8+24 Overlay Implementation

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Luugi Marsan wrote: I thought about using the shadow framebuffer also. It seems like the easiest way. I need to get myself more acquainted with shadow framebuffer. For our new chip I need to specify an overlay surface and an underlay surface, the chip will take care of

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have to be software cursors.) Popular window managers will be extended to support multiple input groups.

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: Each input group has one cursor. (Few, in any, graphics cards can cope with multiple hardware cursors, so above one cursor, the rest will have to be software cursors.) Popular

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 5:10 am, you wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: I would dearly love to see this working. Thoughts? well, I've done some more research, and it turns out that it's already been done. The linuxconsole project (linuxconsole.sourceforge.org) has done

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group created the event. I don't know that area, but I'm not sure that such a

[Xpert]How to turn of internal Laptop Display ? (Latitude C640)

2002-11-12 Thread markus . nickel
Hello all, I've a problem running Xfree86 on a Dell Latitude C640 laptop. At work I'm using this machine in a docking station (C-DockII) with an external monitor. All works fine, but with the laptop docked, the internal display stays on and gets very hot (because the lid is closed) ... so I'd

[Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ?

2002-11-12 Thread David Balazic
( I sent this message a few days ago, when I was not subscribed; I got a reply that the moderator will consider it for posting and then either post it to the list or send me an explanation why he won't post it. As neither of that happened as of today, I subscribed and am resending the message )

RE: [Xpert]About audio sampling rate

2002-11-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]About audio sampling rate from Martin Ding: Hi all Does unix support 22KHz and 44KHz frequencies sampling rate in Audio? Or is just just related to the sound card installed in the OS? Sorry, wrong mailing list. Xpert is the XFree86 GUI and drivers mailing list. There

[Xpert]Prebinding X libs

2002-11-12 Thread Dave Williss
When building X on MacOS X, is there any way to tell it to prebind the libraries? grepping the config directories, I didn't see anything that would do it even if I could figure out how to activate it. Prebinding is useful, because an application linked to a prebound library starts MUCH faster.

Re: [Xpert]Hooking onto Xserver

2002-11-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:05:34AM -0800, Anurag Palsule wrote: Any idea how to implement such kind of approach. You said in the archives: Actually, what my requirement is to get the coordinates of the rectangular portion on the desktop that has changed. Comparing the screens would be a

Re: [Xpert]V_BIOS error at ATI card.

2002-11-12 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Yongho Kwak wrote: I would like to resolve some problems in ATI card. I Configured dual VGA card(Nvidia and ATI) setting but ATI do not work. X do not read V_BIOS of ATI card. What can I do for it? The ATI adapter is built into the motherboard, is it not? If so, tell

[Xpert]touchscreen driver

2002-11-12 Thread Chris Simmonds
Hi, I am trying to track down a driver for the Semtech Screencoder (as used in the ViewSonic ViewPad 1000). Randy Bentson posted a description of it in February (http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2002-February/015981.html) and there are periodic references to it since then. Does anybody

[Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread BWeaks
-Original Message- From: Bill Weaks Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:07 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity Not sure if this is the correct list, but I'll give it a try. We're trying to move from M$ to Linux, using Netraverse via X

RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity for very low speed connections the VNC data transmission is superior over the X11 protocol. there is a even VNC driver for X11, aside to the regular VNC implementation which creates a second virtual display on the unix server

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is the correct list, but I'll give it a try. We're trying to move from M$ to Linux, using Netraverse via X to diskless (or minimal - like a ThinkNic) workstations. We're in proof-of-concept mode here, and are trying to serve

[Xpert]Intellimouse mouse wheel doesn't works with X 4.2.1-3 (debian)

2002-11-12 Thread Martin Sarsale
Hello :) I've just upgraded to X 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-3 20021016191246 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the mouse wheel is not working anymore. I've tried running xev and scrolling the wheel but it doesn't prints anything. My mouse is a Genius netscrol+ (serial). Input device section from my config file:

RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread BWeaks
I guess my problem is that it appears that there is some sort of throttle on this, somewhere. That is, why doesn't the client saturate my ISDN line with screen updates, instead of a steady 3KB/sec fpr 3 full minutes? Why doesn't it behave the same way over my internal ethernet? It's not like it

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
X is very sensitive to latency as well; we designed X for high speed (of the day) campus scale networks. ISDN and dial up lines therefore suffer both due to limited bandwidth and large latency, not a good situation. Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with

Re: [Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ?

2002-11-12 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Balazic wrote: Hi! I've been toying with this idea to use the video overlay feature as an efficient anti alias method. Is this doable ? Here is how it would work : set the display to some resolution ( higher is better ) render your picture ( at a lower ,

RE: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Experts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread BWeaks
Thanks for the responses! I hadn't thought of font translation in the mix. Perhaps since both of my examples internally are RH 8, this isn't as much of a problem? How often does this occur? Once per session or every time a screen has to be refreshed? I will try to do another experiment with

Re: [Xpert]touchscreen driver

2002-11-12 Thread Illegalum legaal
Hi Chris, I saw you are looking for information about a touchscreen driver/module I myself am trying to get information about the elegraphics_drv.o module , do you already know what module you need for your screen ? maybe we can work together to find more info ... greetings Illegalum ---

Re: [Xpert]About Ways to reduce the size of X

2002-11-12 Thread John Gay
On Tue 12 Nov 2002 04:39, P.R. Patil wrote: I, too, would really like to know how you managed to make X that small. From /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib move all the files in some temp directory except your X server and startx script.Run startx. It will go on asking you the required

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Exp erts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread Owen Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the responses! I hadn't thought of font translation in the mix. Perhaps since both of my examples internally are RH 8, this isn't as much of a problem? How often does this occur? Once per session or every time a screen has to be refreshed? I will

Re: [Xpert]Re: ATI Radeon 7500 fails in XFree 4.2

2002-11-12 Thread Harri Pasanen
On Saturday 19 October 2002 03:31, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Apostolod Dimitromanolakis wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:39:11 -0400 From: Apostolod Dimitromanolakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/mixed;

RE: [Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ?

2002-11-12 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ? Video overlays do only scale when read by the ram dac. You cant read it back for the normal application cases. (ingoring framegrabbers and boundary checks for now) typical overlays have a degree of transparency on a per pixel base. Thats in

re: [Xpert]Radeon 7500 TV out works partially...

2002-11-12 Thread Nils Philippsen
[Cc'ed xpert, this is (hopefully) of interest for other people, too] On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 18:56, Dan Schwarz wrote: Saw your 23 Jun 2002 posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got a Radeon 7500 on order and I'd like to get TV-out working under Linux. Were you ever able to make this work

Re: [Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ?

2002-11-12 Thread Scott Long
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:09:37 +0100 David Balazic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been toying with this idea to use the video overlay feature as an efficient anti alias method. Is this doable ? Here is how it would work : set the display to some resolution ( higher is better ) render your

[Xpert]ServerLayout without keyboard input device

2002-11-12 Thread James Chin
Does anyone know if its possible to specify a ServerLayout section without a keyboard input device? Basically, I have a dual independent head setup with two mice and one keyboard and I want the keyboard to only apply to the left screen, while the right screen only has mouse input.

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group

Re: [Xpert]ServerLayout without keyboard input device

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:26 am, James Chin wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to specify a ServerLayout section without a keyboard input device? Basically, I have a dual independent head setup with two mice and one keyboard and I want the keyboard to only apply to the left

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread joe
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event queues, or a new parameter in the event queue to say which input group

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread John Tapsell
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without actually enabling anti-aliasing? While I'm generally pleased with my

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread joe
On Wednesday 13 November 2002 1:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:56 pm, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: I think it would need either two event

Re: [Xpert]About Ways to reduce the size of X

2002-11-12 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 10:09:27 at 10:09:27AM +0530, P.R. Patil wrote: I, too, would really like to know how you managed to make X that small. From /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib move all the files in some temp directory except your X server and startx script.Run startx. It will go

[Xpert]Touchscreen Driver Mod xf86Dyna.c

2002-11-12 Thread Caylan Van Larson
Hello, I wanted to modify a driver for a touchscreen input device. Namely: /usr/local/src/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/input/dynapro/xf86Dyna.c To build: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/dynapro_drv.o Maybe I am not editing the right source... but... It was my goal to remove the ability to

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
- On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without actually enabling anti-aliasing? While I'm generally

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity - WOW! Exp erts in deed.

2002-11-12 Thread Jim.Gettys
RH 8 has much of the right stuff, but not all. I don't think they shipped a Mozilla with Xft support, though I might be wrong. There is a set of RH8 Moz rpm's up in the experimental area of the mozilla.org web site with Xft/Fontconfig support of the latest beta test: I recommend those. One of

Re: [Xpert]FW: Lots of IP traffic, no screen activity

2002-11-12 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:36:48PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:00:44AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Xft based applications (e.g. Gnome 2 with Xft and KDE 2.2 or later with AA fonts turned on), may perform better Any way to get this benefit without

Re: [Xpert]two keyboards: Linux kernel patch and XInput driver

2002-11-12 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:27, John Tapsell wrote: On Tuesday 12 November 2002 10:35 am, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: Two input groups doesn't make sense unless you have two foci. That means the concept the window with focus becomes the list of

Re: [Xpert]ServerLayout without keyboard input device

2002-11-12 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:26, James Chin wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to specify a ServerLayout section without a keyboard input device? Section InputDevice Identifier idevname Driver void ... EndSection

Re: [Xpert]About Ways to reduce the size of X

2002-11-12 Thread P.R. Patil
This sounds like it could lead to an incomplete and unstable X? Wouldn't it be possible that there are libs or binaries that are not needed for startup but might be called later? As an analogy, I can build a car that can start up and run without any brake system but I don't think I'd take it