Hydravision problem?

Hydravision problem?

[Inskeep, Peter]

Hi,

I am trying to run cywin X on an IBM T41p laptop with an
extra display connected.  IBM uses ATI and Hydravision for
their laptops.  The dual display seems to work fine in windows
mode.  The external display is an WXGA (1280x768) although
the ati card will only support 1024x768.  The main lcd display
of the note book is 1400x1050.

So I am trying to run X in multiwindow mode.  I have tried it
with and without -screen 0 -screen1 options.

In all cases the xterm seems to want to be in both displays
kinda flashing around on both.

Any ideas, or known problems?

Thanks
Pete

Re: Hydravision problem?

[Takuma Murakami]

Peter,

> I am trying to run cywin X on an IBM T41p laptop with an
> extra display connected.  IBM uses ATI and Hydravision for
> their laptops.  The dual display seems to work fine in windows
> mode.  The external display is an WXGA (1280x768) although
> the ati card will only support 1024x768.  The main lcd display
> of the note book is 1400x1050.
> 
> So I am trying to run X in multiwindow mode.  I have tried it
> with and without -screen 0 -screen1 options.
> 
> In all cases the xterm seems to want to be in both displays
> kinda flashing around on both.
> 
> Any ideas, or known problems?

Please try to use -multimonitors option.

Takuma Murakami

RE: Hydravision problem?

[peter.inskeep]

Thank you!

I tried setting the two displays to the same
resolution and it worked! Then I added two -screen
options with the correct native resolutions and it
works perfectly! Very nice too.

Thank you all again.

Pete

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Howdy,

At 10:05 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, Pete Inskeep wrote: 
On the secondary display the xterm seems fine. No
immediate issures.
On the primary display the refresh does not seem to work
correctly.
The window seems to have some smaller portion on the left hand side
that works correctly. The size seems to vary from a sliver on the left
barely visable to about half the xterm. I can't seem to tell
whats determining the size.
The part that does not refresh is black or white. Even the pointer
(which is a }{ symbol) seems to stop where the refresh stops.
Note that it will go up and down and you can still see part of it
on the edge of the refresh area.

Does Hydravision expose two separate displays in the Display control
panel, Advanced tab (i.e. numbered 1 and 2 in the dialog)? If so,
what is the orientation of these displays? relative to the one
you have defined as the "main" screen ("use this device as
primary monitor")? Can you click-and-drag both displays and report
the (x,y) coordinate of each one's upper-left corner (shows in
a balloon help window when you draw a monitor in the dialog)?
And are the X/Y pixel dimension of each monitor the same?


It looks like what's going on is the X/Y dimensions of the X root
window aren't matching the X/Y dimensions of the Win32 desktop for
some reason. The same thing happens if you use multiwindow
w/o the multiplemonitors option on a 2- or 3-head box...


-Earle F. Philhower, III

RE: Hydravision problem?

[Earle F. Philhower III]

Howdy,

At 10:05 PM 3/24/2004 -0500, Pete Inskeep wrote:
>On the secondary display the xterm seems fine.  No
>immediate issures.
>On the primary display the refresh does not seem to work
>correctly.
>The window seems to have some smaller portion on the left hand side
>that works correctly.  The size seems to vary from a sliver on the left
>barely visable to about half the xterm.  I can't seem to tell
>whats determining the size.
>The part that does not refresh is black or white.  Even the pointer
>(which is a }{ symbol) seems to stop where the refresh stops.
>Note that it will go up and down and you can still see part of it
>on the edge of the refresh area.

Does Hydravision expose two separate displays in the Display control
panel, Advanced tab (i.e. numbered 1 and 2 in the dialog)?  If so,
what is the orientation of these displays? relative to the one
you have defined as the "main" screen ("use this device as
primary monitor")?  Can you click-and-drag both displays and report
the (x,y) coordinate of each one's upper-left corner (shows in
a balloon help window when you draw a monitor in the dialog)?
And are the X/Y pixel dimension of each monitor the same?

It looks like what's going on is the X/Y dimensions of the X root
window aren't matching the X/Y dimensions of the Win32 desktop for
some reason.  The same thing happens if you use multiwindow
w/o the multiplemonitors option on a 2- or 3-head box...

-Earle F. Philhower, III
  earle@ziplabel.com
  cdrlabel - ZipLabel - FlpLabel
  http://www.cdrlabel.com

RE: Hydravision problem?

[peter.inskeep]

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion.

I have updated to 4.3.0-59 and 4.3.0-60.
It is a little bit different behavior than the earlier version
I had.

On the secondary display the xterm seems fine.  No
immediate issures.
On the primary display the refresh does not seem to work
correctly.
The window seems to have some smaller portion on the left hand side
that works correctly.  The size seems to vary from a sliver on the left
barely visable to about half the xterm.  I can't seem to tell
whats determining the size.
The part that does not refresh is black or white.  Even the pointer
(which is a }{ symbol) seems to stop where the refresh stops.
Note that it will go up and down and you can still see part of it
on the edge of the refresh area.

Thanks again for your help.

Pete Inskeep

Re: Hydravision problem?

[Takuma Murakami]

Peter,

I'm afraid if you are using older versions of Cygwin/X.  Please
confirm its version by 'cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv' and upgrade
if it is older than 4.3.0-59.

Takuma Murakami


> Here is what I have used:
> REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window manager.
> start XWin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard
> 
> REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
> run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
> 
> I have also tried it with the -screen 0 -screen 1 options, and with just the screen
> options.
> 
> -multiplemonitors seems to work best but I still have problems.
> The xterm window is partially blanked out with white. When I drag
> the window it flashes on both screens completely whiting out the xterm
> window. When I drop it, the xterm is just where it should be but
> the xterm window is still at least partially blanked out with white.
> 
> Any ideas?

Hydravision problem?

[peter.inskeep]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.
I should have been more explicit.

Here is what I have used:
REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window manager.
start XWin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard

REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash

I have also tried it with the -screen 0 -screen 1 options, and with just the screen
options.

-multiplemonitors seems to work best but I still have problems.
The xterm window is partially blanked out with white. When I drag
the window it flashes on both screens completely whiting out the xterm
window. When I drop it, the xterm is just where it should be but
the xterm window is still at least partially blanked out with white.

Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.

Pete
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Peter,

> I am trying to run cywin X on an IBM T41p laptop with an
> extra display connected. IBM uses ATI and Hydravision for
> their laptops. The dual display seems to work fine in windows
> mode. The external display is an WXGA (1280x768) although
> the ati card will only support 1024x768. The main lcd display
> of the note book is 1400x1050.
> 
> So I am trying to run X in multiwindow mode. I have tried it
> with and without -screen 0 -screen1 options.
> 
> In all cases the xterm seems to want to be in both displays
> kinda flashing around on both.
> 
> Any ideas, or known problems?

Please try to use -multimonitors option.

Takuma Murakami