[Xpert]Radeon 7000 TVout Modeline

2002-11-22 Thread Sebastien Devaux
Hi, I'm trying to build a DVD-Box from scratch. It's built over a Gigabyte motherboad, an Athlon 1700+, and a Radeon 7000 Graphic card (RV6S-TV, chipset radeon VE, TV output). I've just compiled a LFS-4.0 with XFree 4.2.1 and gatos radeon drivers. I use mplayer to play dvd. All works fine with VG

[Xpert]xfree and onboard vga

2002-11-22 Thread Robby Russell
xfree86 and 2 video cards My girlfriend is trying to get mandrake 9 working on her dell pc. It has an onboard video card (intel 810) and she has a 2nd video card (ati rage 128 pci) that she added after she got the machine. Should be simple enough to get her machine to work with the ati rather than

[Xpert]Re: Linux input nightmare.

2002-11-22 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:08:03AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > The current state of affairs as far as being able to use > /dev/input/event directly is, exceedingly suboptimal. > > To be blunt, under 2.4.x kernels the interface lacks ANY way to > determine which device you have if you have t

Re: [Xpert]AdjustFrame in XFree86-drivers

2002-11-22 Thread Olexiy Avramchenko
Kral Stefan wrote: Hello, At the moment, some XFree86-drivers force synchronization with the vertical retrace of the CRT whenever AdjustFrame is called, whereas some drivers do not. I think that a uniform behaviour would be favorable. Tests have shown that the modifications necessary are triv

[Xpert]Re: Linux input nightmare.

2002-11-22 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:09:01AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:30:36AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:08:03AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > > > The current state of affairs as far as being able to use > > > /dev/input/event dire

[Xpert]Re: screen damage region extension

2002-11-22 Thread Tim Jansen
On Sunday 10 November 2002 20:22, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Here is a proof-of-concept rough cut at an extension to track "damage > regions" for the screen (notify clients about pixels that have > changed). Great! This can be really useful for me... > The damage extension will probably become obs

[Xpert]Re: mouse stuff

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Toomim
Rigel Freden wrote: I'm running RH 7.3 on an athlon xp 1900. I have a logitech (i think it's logitech protocol, bought it at walmart for $15) optical wheel mouse and a geforce 4 card, yada, yada. I think it's a logitech because the xf86config thinger uses it as IMPS/2. I'm playing Return to

[Xpert]Radeon 9000 Pro 128Mb

2002-11-22 Thread Aaron Day
I have read over the mailing list here archives back since august 2002. Problem: I am unable to get the card to work with X. A number of the suggestions listed before reccommend adding an: Option "ChipID 0x4966" or Option "ChipID 0x4243" to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file in the device section for

[Xpert]XF86 4.2.1 freezes after new FBSD 4.7 laptop install

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Gatsoulis
hi, also posted this to Freebsd Mobile list, pls reply also to me as i can't subscribe to the list currently to get your replies off of the list, thanx.jus finished putting the finishing touches on a new FreeBSD 4.7 install onto a TECRA 720CDT with XFree86

[Xpert]Radeon Mobility 7500 screen blank of death

2002-11-22 Thread Dax Kelson
XF86 Ver: Tested with 4.2.0-72 (RH8.0) and CVS (Nov8th), same result Hardware: - Dell Inspiron 4150 Laptop w/ A03 BIOS - i845 chipset - ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW rev 0 Problem PreReq: Only manifests when laptop is running on battery power. Problem: When X is running and the keyboard/mouse isn

[Xpert]Option "Rotate" doesn't work

2002-11-22 Thread Mark Vojkovich
Some drivers have Option "Rotate", they would swap the width and height passed to fbScreenInit, subsequently, this would result in the root window size being rotated. However, this no longer works. Swapping the width and height passed to fbScreenInit does not change the root window size in the C

[Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-22 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
This patch (attached) add support under Linux for talking to mice directly from the event interface, IE, /dev/input/event. It is stashed as a os specific protocol, evdev, the Device option is not a device, but instead is the device name, such as 'A4Tech USB Optical Mouse'. It has some limits, spe

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

2002-11-22 Thread Son of Zev
Hi Mark, Sorry about the late response. I did find this site...listed in earlier postings.. http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/ implying that it would be possible and had actually been done.. The included modeline does generate a response from the monitor (it flickers other than giving

[Xpert]cirrus on powerpc

2002-11-22 Thread Marc Dietrich
Hallo, I know that I reported this problem a few weeks ago, but I didn't had time to read the answer. Sorry, but I was not subscripted. Michael Dänzer asked that time: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:33, Marc Dietrich wrote: >> >> I have a cirrus gd5446 with 1 mb memory installed in a Motorola >>

[Xpert]Antialias with video overlay ?

2002-11-22 Thread David Balazic
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 , same or higher resolution than the display ) use the ov

[Xpert]Woody + XFree86_4_2_99_2 + i845G + KDE problem

2002-11-22 Thread Mihaly Zachar
Hi all, I have downloaded the XFree86 4.2.99.2 version from CVS.. (- cvs checkout -r xf-4_2_99_2 xc i think) I have built it, everything was goot during the compiling. I have done the instructions from http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html The i830.o and the agpgart module is l

Re: [Xpert]nv driver crash on nForce

2002-11-22 Thread Wheeler, Fred (Research)
I was experiencing this same lock up with XFree86 4.2.1, as shipped on the FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE CDs. I'm also using an Asus A7N266-VM with an Athlon XP1800+. The problem was fixed by changing my nv_drv.o to the one on Mark's web page (link is below). Thanks much for the fix. Here are my simple

[Xpert]Linux installation with Intel 82845G graphics controller on DellDimension 4500 PC

2002-11-22 Thread jitendra kulshreshtha
Hello.I need help on setting up Red Hat 7.3 in new Intel Pentium 4 PC. Its graphics chip is an Intel 82845G/GL, and looks like it is not among the supported graphics cards. I booted from CD and ran the Red Hat installation program all the way to where it tries to "probe" various video resolutions a

[Xpert]Woody + XFree86_4_2_99_2 + i845G + KDE problem

2002-11-22 Thread Mihaly Zachar
Hi all, I have downloaded the XFree86 4.2.99.2 version from CVS.. (- cvs checkout -r xf-4_2_99_2 xc i think) I have built it, everything was goot during the compiling. I have done the instructions from http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html The i830.o and the agpgart module is l

[Xpert]X consumes nearly 100% cpu

2002-11-22 Thread Sven.Sanwald
Hello! I compiled the XFree86 server 4.2.0 and I'm using the nv driver. When I start the X-server and change to the graphical display (KDE) then the X consumes about 100% of the cpu; going back to the non graphics console the X load on the cpu vanishes. Why consumes X so much cpu? Sven

[Xpert]No Video on LCD display even when trying 640x480

2002-11-22 Thread J. Sims
Hello All,   I built X back in July and got everything working fine with a CRT. I bought an LCD monitor (NEC1545v) and X worked great ... at first. Later I tried to update DRI and thats when things got rough. Now all I get are BLANK SCREENS even after reverting to a backup of the original bu

[Xpert]Request: implementing VLB bus support in 4.2.

2002-11-22 Thread Shaul Karl
Is someone interested in implementing VLB bus support for xfree v4? I have an S3 trio32 VLB card. The chipset is supported by xfree86 4.2.1 but the VLB bus is not. The card does work with 3.3.6. Can a VLB bus support be implemented in 4.2? Thank you. Please cc replies to me as I am not subscr

[Xpert]source of elographics_drv.o

2002-11-22 Thread Illegalum legaal
Hello , I own a IBM Thinkpad Transnote this is a very cool laptop an running mandrake 9.0 on it at the moment. the problem is that the machine has a touch screen. and I'm quite shure it is a touch screen of elo touch because i have found in the news section of elotouch that the had signed a co

[Xpert]XFree86 4.2.1-9 and ATI Radeon Mobility 7500

2002-11-22 Thread Raphael.Maree.
Hello, Mike A. Harris from Redhat suggests me to write an e-mail to you. I installed Redhat 8.0 on a Compaq EVO N800C with a ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 card. The graphic card is recognized but it seems that the radeon driver is not working well: the image is stripped (kind of vertical bars) and un

[Xpert]ATI Radeon IGP 320M and XFree86

2002-11-22 Thread Martin Litzenberger
Hello i have a laptop with a ATI radeon IGP 320M chip installed. According to the ATI homepage it is 100% software compatible to the Radeon 9000 card for desktops. The xfree 4.1.0 log reports a ChipID of 0x4336 for this card. I have tried to configure it as a radeon VE (by specifiying a ChipID o

Re: [Xpert]ATI r128 and documentation

2002-11-22 Thread Aymeric Vincent
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Son, 2002-11-03 at 17:03, Aymeric Vincent wrote: > > > > Actually, I would like to understand how the r128 chip reads the video > > memory and sends it to the CRTC, because when I use 15/16 or 24 bit > > modes, the display on the CRT monitor (throug

[Xpert]xfree86 4.2.0

2002-11-22 Thread thaz
hi ... just installed mandrake 8.1 and was wondering if this is compatible with 8.1 ... and if it is how to install   thanks  

[Xpert]artX Drivers required

2002-11-22 Thread Ranga Subasinghe
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Re: [Xpert]Trio 64 3D

2002-11-22 Thread Frank v Waveren
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:11:35PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote: > Have you tried depth 16 and a larger mode, say 800x600? Not that depth > 8 shouldn't work, but I'm curious. Also, does your XF86Config file > contain a 'set_mclk' parameter (or variant with mclk in it)? Nope, doesn't work either :-(

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Xpert]Re: But *why* no vblank?

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:46, Elladan wrote: > could be wrong about that, but I think you'd need rtlinux style > extensions to the kernel to achieve direct interrupt deliveries to > user-space (and you'd need to be root, and such). You cannot deliver interrupts directly to user space without proces

[Xpert]Black on Black Terminal after quitting X (not really a repeat)

2002-11-22 Thread poff
I see other people have been having the following problem (me included): load up xwindows, everything fine logout of xwindows; go back to terminal ok BUT the text is very dark grey and the background black: can't read it (hardly) some people think it's crashed (you can still execute "reboot" and

Re: [Xpert]ATI r128 and documentation

2002-11-22 Thread Aymeric Vincent
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's also my impression that dualhead support shouldn't be hard to add > looking at the radeon driver. In fact, it might be doable without docs, > someone even posted a quick'n'dirty but untested patch here. If you > absolutely need to consult documentat

[Xpert]S3 Trio 3d

2002-11-22 Thread Jørn Christensen
Hi I have a Trio 3d vidoe card (4mb) and really really want to get a higher resolution than 1024x768. I've just upgraded to XFree86 4.2.1. The problem is that when I try to set a higher ersolution (16bpp) it only draws a correct width at 1024. The rest (from 1025 to e.g. 1152) is copied from the

[Xpert]DRI on i815 chipset

2002-11-22 Thread Alessio Orlandi
Hello, I'm experiencing various problems while getting DRI work on my Acer Travelmate 612TX. This laptopt is equipped with a i815 chipset with shared memory + 11 mb on board. I'm running a linux-from-scratch distribution. Initially I used XFree 4.2-release. Hope, I'm writing to the

[Xpert]Colormap issues with 24bpp on big-endian system

2002-11-22 Thread q
Hi, I submitted a bug report to the xdvi team about problems with wrong colors on my PowerBook G4 (PowerPC platform). After some testing Paul Vojta suggested the below: > At this point I suspect a server bug. I've enclosed a test program, > pmtest.c, with Makefile. When I run it on a Sun Ultra

[Xpert]Linux HID for mouse input.

2002-11-22 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
Has anyone done work in the way of using the Linux /dev/input/event* interface for getting mouse events? There are the obvious catches, such as the fact that the order of the files has been known to change.. Mostly, I'm asking because X hacking is not something I /really/ wish to do, but will end

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Nov 22, Keith Packard wrote: > A better name would use different units. I tend to think of "inches" as > an angular measurement now :-) Oh, I've got it. I measure Xft.dpi not by putting a ruler to my display, but by holding my fingers an inch apart in front of my face and counting the dots

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Owen Taylor wrote: > Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > my whish would be to have a key combo to hilihgt the cursor, something > > like pinpoint on macosx > > http://macchampion/pinpoiny_screenshots.shtml> > > There is an equivalent feature in GNOME-2.0. I just brok

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le ven 22/11/2002 à 17:06, Owen Taylor a écrit : > (You hit the key combo, you get a little animation around the mouse > cursor) The ctrl key, IIRC. ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

Re: [Xpert]xfree86 libint10 in non-x86 environments

2002-11-22 Thread Egbert Eich
John Dennis writes: > I'm trying to fix some bugs with XFree86 drivers in an Itanium (ia64) > environment. Many of the drivers seem to have a strong dependency on > libint10 for configuration, especially for getting monitor configuration > information via DDC/VBE which depends on int10. I don'

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Keith Packard
Around 10 o'clock on Nov 22, Carl Worth wrote: > Is the Xft.dpi resource intended to be the "logical dpi" as you > described: Yes, as noted: "Xft already uses a separately configurable value (Xft.dpi) that can be used to adjust the size of text on the screen." > If so, can we come up with a be

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Owen Taylor
Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Scott Lampert wrote: > > > Is there a simple way to get X to use larger or different mouse cursors? > > in current cvs tree you can set Xcursor.size to differents values. > > > I run at very high resolutions 1800x1440+ and it gets

Re: [Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-22 Thread Owen Savill
I couldn't agree more !!! I have an ATI Rage Mobility Pro chipset. This was 3D accelerated in 3.3.6 but not in 4.0. There seems to be so many ATI drivers / modules / kernel options / ATI's own stuff that the picture for me to try and resolve if any one is still looking at 3D on this chipset is

[Xpert]xfree86 libint10 in non-x86 environments

2002-11-22 Thread John Dennis
I'm trying to fix some bugs with XFree86 drivers in an Itanium (ia64) environment. Many of the drivers seem to have a strong dependency on libint10 for configuration, especially for getting monitor configuration information via DDC/VBE which depends on int10. I'll admit libint10 is one area of the

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-22 Thread George Staikos
On Friday November 22 2002 07:58, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Don, 2002-11-21 at 18:12, George Staikos wrote: > >Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based > > laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other chipsets > > that need this or not as this is t

Re: [Xpert]Save/restore mode issue

2002-11-22 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Frank Giessler wrote: > I need the opinion from Xpert. I'm running version 4.2.99.2 (CVS from > Nov.14) under OS/2 on a notebook with a Radeon Mobility 7500. When > switching from X to my OS/2 desktop or after terminating X, the > desktop is in most cases (but not always) corr

Nevermind (was Re: [Xpert]X Synchronization Extension alarms)

2002-11-22 Thread Mosfet
Never mind, reread the spec and I think I got it! :) ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert

[Xpert]X Synchronization Extension alarms

2002-11-22 Thread Mosfet
Hi! I did animated GIF/MNG support for a simple Xlib image viewer and would like to use the X Synchronization extension instead of signals to handle the delay between frames, mostly just because I think it would be neat and clean to have a timer event in the event loop >:) I'm creating an alar

[Xpert]Help please: How to draw lines (and posible Arcs,too) to the place of instance of coreWidgetClass

2002-11-22 Thread peter Fodrek
Dear Xlib experts, I am to write program which may to draw Lines and Arcs on the place where instance of coreWidgetClass is displayed ... I am not to find what I am doing wrong... Can Anyone help me,please? thank you for any help... yours faithfully Peter Fodrek P.S. source code of my faile

[Xpert]How are different ATI drivers related ?

2002-11-22 Thread David Balazic
Hi! As a future ATI Radeon 8500 owner :-) I wonder about the different available drivers : - xfree86 - dri - gatos - ati.com How are they related ? Do the serve the same purpose or every one does its own part ? ( read : do I install one of them or do I combine them ? ) Is there any overlap i

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-22 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2002-11-21 at 18:12, George Staikos wrote: >Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based > laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other chipsets > that need this or not as this is the only one I have, but it fixes things > for me. IMHO this ma

[Xpert]radeon driver & tv out

2002-11-22 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi! Does the Radeon driver have TV out support? -- Regards Abraham Hand, n.: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" __

[Xpert]Save/restore mode issue

2002-11-22 Thread Frank Giessler
Hi, I need the opinion from Xpert. I'm running version 4.2.99.2 (CVS from Nov.14) under OS/2 on a notebook with a Radeon Mobility 7500. When switching from X to my OS/2 desktop or after terminating X, the desktop is in most cases (but not always) corrupt in such a way that only the upper left

RE: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards

2002-11-22 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]Radeon driver and OEM cards > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone has tried the newly released Radeon driver > from ATI with OEM Radeon 9000 Pro cards.  If so, does it work? > > Thanks > Malay Shah No, the unified drivers do only work with "Built by ATI" cards, the FireGL

Re: [Xpert]KDrive on freebsd?

2002-11-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
YT> Is anybody working on porting Kdrive to FreeBSD? Not to my knowledge. The generic drivers will be difficult to port until FreeBSD get their act together and either document their VM86 calls or else implement a framebuffer device. Porting the KDrive core and the accelerated drivers should be

Re: [Xpert]Builtin font path fallback

2002-11-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
KP> Should I stick these into the regular server so that it will never again KP> fail to start due to a lack of fonts? Yes. Juliusz ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpe

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread John Tapsell
On Friday 22 November 2002 6:15 am, Keith Packard wrote: > Around 5 o'clock on Nov 22, John Tapsell wrote: > > Sorry for being slow, but why isn't the display dpi good? > > You could try to always make the cursor 1cm big for example - isn't that > > a good thing? > > Mostly what you need is bigger

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, George Staikos wrote: > Did you try adding your chip into the list of those excluded from the endian > swap? The patch only added the M9. no I don't. but while looking at the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon.h and sources under xc/* I didn't find any CHIP_

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-22 Thread George Staikos
On Friday November 22 2002 04:03, Eric Deveaud wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, George Staikos wrote: > >Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based > > laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other > > chipsets that need this or not as this is the only

Re: [Xpert]xdm questions

2002-11-22 Thread Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Catherine Luedecker wrote: > I have a few questions about xdm as a login manager. > > Is it possible to shutdown from xdm in the same way as kdm? If not, > what makes kdm or gdm so different? > > I would like to use xdm and not have to install the huge desktop kde > and gnome

Re: [Xpert][PATCH] Radeon M9 cursor fix

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, George Staikos wrote: > >Attached is a patch to uncorrupt the mouse pointer on PowerPC based > laptops with Radeon M9 chipsets. I'm not sure if there are other > chipsets that need this or not as this is the only one I have, but it > fixes things for me. yes I'm sorry to

Re: [Xpert]Mouse Cursors

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Scott Lampert wrote: > Is there a simple way to get X to use larger or different mouse cursors? in current cvs tree you can set Xcursor.size to differents values. > I run at very high resolutions 1800x1440+ and it gets > difficult to find the mouse cursor without whipping it

[Xpert]KDrive on freebsd?

2002-11-22 Thread Yury Tarasievich
Hello, Is anybody working on porting Kdrive to FreeBSD? ,Yury ___ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert