Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-04 Thread Bill Nottingham
Hans Ulrich Niedermann (h...@n-dimensional.de) said: The big issue is with KMS on using radeonhd is like shooting yourself in the face. Either we need to patch radeonhd in Fedora to not start with KMS enabled or remove it from the distro. I am working on such a patch to radeonhd

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: How about visually impaired people? Compiz and the zoom plugin *are* essential to them. They can use the plain old KMag which doesn't require any sort of compositing at all. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-04 Thread Sir Gallantmon
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: How about visually impaired people? Compiz and the zoom plugin *are* essential to them. They can use the plain old KMag which doesn't require any sort of compositing at all.

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-03 Thread Hans Ulrich Niedermann
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:12:00 +0100 Hans Ulrich Niedermann h...@n-dimensional.de wrote: On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:20:20 +1000 Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: The big issue is with KMS on using radeonhd is like shooting yourself in the face. Either we need to patch radeonhd in Fedora to

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Ikem Krueger
Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever come out of Ubuntu is a quirk table. (yippee.) Did you chatted with Bryce? --

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-02 Thread Hans Ulrich Niedermann
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:35:52 -0500 Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: [ radeonhd vs radeon ] So, if our X maintainers won't handle bugs with it, we have a working default alternative that is maintained upstream, and it's *known* to be broken in the default configuration, why ship it? If

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matěj Cepl (mc...@redhat.com) said: Moreover, I don't know what's your problem with radeonhd driver in Fedora. Hanz does IMHO excellent job on maintaining it and it doesn't drag much additional resources on anybody (except on me, perhaps, because I triage bugs for him as well, which is the

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-12-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:01 +, Ikem Krueger wrote: Nope, Bryce doesn't get to work on upstream in any significant way as part of his Ubuntu work. I was chatting with Dave about this on IRC the other day. The most significant submission to upstream X.org that's ever come out of Ubuntu

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-02 Thread Hans Ulrich Niedermann
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:20:20 +1000 Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: The big issue is with KMS on using radeonhd is like shooting yourself in the face. Either we need to patch radeonhd in Fedora to not start with KMS enabled or remove it from the distro. I am working on such a patch to

Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Dave Airlie (airl...@redhat.com) said: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 08:07 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: Well, here's one graphics regression: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540476 radeon.modeset=0 worked around the problem. (I'm not sure if it's filed against the right

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-01 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 12/01/2009 09:35 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: So, if our X maintainers won't handle bugs with it, we have a working default alternative that is maintained upstream, and it's *known* to be broken in the default configuration, why ship it? If we're trying to focus on quality, I'm not sure why

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Ian Pilcher (arequip...@gmail.com) said: On 12/01/2009 09:35 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote: So, if our X maintainers won't handle bugs with it, we have a working default alternative that is maintained upstream, and it's *known* to be broken in the default configuration, why ship it? If we're

Re: Blocking radeonhd (was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?)

2009-12-01 Thread Matěj Cepl
Dne 1.12.2009 21:43, Bill Nottingham napsal(a): If the e1000 driver is broken in the kernel for some people, we don't support shipping an alternate driver. If a new version of the intel graphics driver is broken for some people, we don't support shipping a pre-KMS version of the driver. Why

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Peter Jones
On 11/27/2009 04:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Physics don't. A two dimensional screen will never be able to more than simulate 3D. 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources of electrical energy than 2D to produce. This isn't necessarily the case, in theory or in practice. I

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 wrote: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for- Desktop-Help They did exactly what some people suggested we do in this thread: stick with an old X.org X11 release and try to fix its bugs on their own. You can see the result in the article and its

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Jud Craft
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Bojan Smojver wrote: Rudolf Kastl writes: intel (i965) works fine... You are lucky. Major regressions there in F-12. On my hardware, this used to work when nomodeset was passed to kernel. Now, it doesn't any more. With KMS, on the other hand,

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 30/11/2009 19:24, Jud Craft a écrit : On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Bojan Smojver wrote: Rudolf Kastl writes: intel (i965) works fine... You are lucky. Major regressions there in F-12. On my hardware, this used to work when nomodeset was passed to kernel. Now, it doesn't any more.

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:01 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-Desktop-Help Let's see if I can summarize this article: - we're getting too many bugs - more testing will find more bugs - therefore we should test more so we have fewer

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 30/11/2009 18:01, Linuxguy123 a écrit : http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-X.org-Guru-Calls-for-Desktop-Help Instead of whining, he should ask his employer to hire more X hackers, one guy is obviously not *enough*. This has nothing to do with our issue and Fedora at all.

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Jud Craft
For the Qt-demo rendering issue on intel, it is fixed by Qt 4.6. Good to hear! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Haïkel Guémar
Le 30/11/2009 20:28, Jeff Spaleta a écrit : What is your definition of hacker? Is he contributing to X.org upstream development or is he just pulling patchsets to be applied to distribution specific packages? Likely the second option, I'd expect from the company claiming leadership on the

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 09:23 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: That doesn't scale. There's lots of useful pages in the Wiki. We can't link to all of them from the front page. I was thinking of this more as a special Graphics debug push :) Special cases are never a good idea. and add some

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:03 +, Ikem Krueger wrote: The Bugzappers also always happy to have more people volunteer to help with X.org bug triage; it's a lot of work to keep on top of. I'd like to help. But the wikipage for testing Xorg issues* is a way to much to read, given the case

Re: Ubuntu Xorg Guru calls for help. Was Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:28 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Haïkel Guémar karlthe...@gmail.com wrote: Instead of whining, he should ask his employer to hire more X hackers, one guy is obviously not *enough*. This has nothing to do with our issue and Fedora at

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2009 10:26 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 07:31 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Some really useful info in How_to_debug_Xorg_problems. I couldn't easily find it from the main wiki home page however. Maybe a link to this page marked Graphics issues could be made on the

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Ikem Krueger
The Bugzappers also always happy to have more people volunteer to help with X.org bug triage; it's a lot of work to keep on top of. I'd like to help. But the wikipage for testing Xorg issues* is a way to much to read, given the case you follow all the links on the site and you need to do so to

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Dave Airlie
Which are the best Bugzilla components to register bugs against: X11 driver ATI: xorg-x11-drv-ati 3D driver: mesa DRM: kernel ??? Cheers Terry Where is the location of the DRM kernel module master git tree now ? It used to be at:

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Bojan Smojver
Rudolf Kastl che666 at gmail.com writes: intel (i965) works fine... You are lucky. Major regressions there in F-12. On my hardware, this used to work when nomodeset was passed to kernel. Now, it doesn't any more. With KMS, on the other hand, hibernate/thaw or suspend/resume causes the whole

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/30/2009 01:33 AM, Ikem Krueger wrote: The Bugzappers also always happy to have more people volunteer to help with X.org bug triage; it's a lot of work to keep on top of. I'd like to help. But the wikipage for testing Xorg issues* is a way to much to read, given the case you follow all

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-29 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: Well, a couple of Fedoras back, X didn't work except with radeonhd, but now radeon appears to support this one as well; I switched to it, and the CPU issue is gone even with KMS. Now fonts (esp small ones) look very smudgy though. But I suppose there are

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2009 07:31 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/27/2009 08:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:04 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I did take part in the Radeon test day. Unfortunately the tests did not really cover 3D and it was difficult to test this using the Live

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point as it makes things worse rather than better. remove your xorg.conf and turn modesetting on and if its still

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
Well, a couple of Fedoras back, X didn't work except with radeonhd, but now radeon appears to support this one as well; I switched to it, and the CPU issue is gone even with KMS.  Now fonts (esp small ones) look very smudgy though.  But I suppose there are already bug(s) open on this. Don't

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12?

2009-11-28 Thread nodata
Am 2009-11-27 04:53, schrieb Kevin Kofler: Terry Barnaby wrote: I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but also in 2D. That's surprising as

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12?

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. On 28.11.2009 12:29, nodata wrote: X is *really* slow to me until the desktop has finished loading. So slow I can't select a username from the login screen unless I wait for a while. This didn't happen in F11. Could that be the same as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541878

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rahul Sundaram wrote: You assume normal desktop users don't have requirement for 3D which is just plain wrong. Every modern desktop has made 3D a key part of the user interface. Even in Linux, this is increasingly the trend with Compiz and now GNOME Shell. And KWin compositing / desktop

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 13:17 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point as it makes things worse rather than better. remove

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/28/2009 08:36 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/28/2009 07:31 AM, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/27/2009 08:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:04 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I did take part in the Radeon test day. Unfortunately the tests did not really cover 3D and it

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 07:31 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Some really useful info in How_to_debug_Xorg_problems. I couldn't easily find it from the main wiki home page however. Maybe a link to this page marked Graphics issues could be made on the front page (focus users on improving the

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 07:18 +, Alex Hudson wrote: On 27/11/09 06:08, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point as it makes things worse rather than better. If you

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
On Thursday 26 November 2009 23:14:09 Dave Airlie wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 07:23 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:16 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 07:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 10:12 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: Yes, some graphics boards I am sure work well, although 3D should really be working on all cards in 2009 ... But this is the point, there are a lot of different graphics boards, and so a much wider scope for the testing is required here which requires

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread drago01
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: Yes, some graphics boards I am sure work well, although 3D should really be working on all cards in 2009 ... But this is the point, there are a lot of different graphics boards, and so a much wider scope for the testing

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 10:14 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 07:23 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:16 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 07:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/27 10:28 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed: 3D shouldn't be considered as nice to have but an essential feature that should be working. You can't be serious. 3D is an illusion. A computer display screen only provides two dimensions. 3D is bling that I have 0 use for. -- The husband

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 09:35 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Also mentioned then I thought it would be good to have a basic, and simple for users, graphics testing system to easily allow users to test and feedback issues. Even if this is simply a short list of 2D/3D applications and a list of

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:12:05 +1000, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: Why do you think 3D should be working in 2009 as opposed to any previous years btw? I'm interested in the logic that leads to this point. I think one thing that is changing expectations is ATI providing

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:04 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I did take part in the Radeon test day. Unfortunately the tests did not really cover 3D and it was difficult to test this using the Live system. I did feed back this. Right...that is mainly a product of what Dave mentioned, that

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/27/2009 11:38 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have. I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point That makes sense. Why don't we drop this from Rawhide? Shipping unsupported drivers like this is

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2009/11/27 10:28 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed: 3D shouldn't be considered as nice to have but an essential feature that should be working. You can't be serious. 3D is an illusion. A computer display screen only

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread stefan riemens
Not that i'm unhappy about the way things are going forward (my intel gfx are working great!), but gnome 3 isn't going to be much useful without 3d support... 2009/11/27, drago01 drag...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2009/11/27 10:28

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:02 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: On Thursday 26 November 2009 23:14:09 Dave Airlie wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 07:23 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:16 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 07:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 13:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:12:05 +1000, Dave Airlie airl...@redhat.com wrote: Why do you think 3D should be working in 2009 as opposed to any previous years btw? I'm interested in the logic that leads to this point. I think

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 21:24 +0100, stefan riemens wrote: Not that i'm unhappy about the way things are going forward (my intel gfx are working great!), but gnome 3 isn't going to be much useful without 3d support... Note that gnome-shell working was quite high in Dave's priority list (within

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 21:24 +0100, stefan riemens wrote: Not that i'm unhappy about the way things are going forward (my intel gfx are working great!), but gnome 3 isn't going to be much useful without 3d support... 3D driver for r600 is 35,000 lines just the chipset specific code, Another

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:13 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: We (Red Hat or Fedora) currently don't have access to any sort of conformance suite for our GL though Intel and VMware have started at least doing more and more regression test work lately so less and less crap is making it way into the mainline and

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 02:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/28/2009 02:13 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: We (Red Hat or Fedora) currently don't have access to any sort of conformance suite for our GL though Intel and VMware have started at least doing more and more regression test work lately

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/27 21:21 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:52:25 -0500 Felix Miata composed: On 2009/11/27 10:28 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed: 3D shouldn't be considered as nice to have but an essential feature that should be working. You can't be serious. 3D is an illusion. A

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:21 AM, Felix Miata wrote: What makes your statement invalid is your use of the word essential. Bling and essential are mutually exclusive characteristics WRT to normal desktop users. I didn't use the word useless. And yes, 3D is way more - way more overhead, way more

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/28 02:53 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: On 11/28/2009 02:21 AM, Felix Miata wrote: What makes your statement invalid is your use of the word essential. Bling and essential are mutually exclusive characteristics WRT to normal desktop

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:49 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/11/28 02:53 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: On 11/28/2009 02:21 AM, Felix Miata wrote: What makes your statement invalid is your use of the word essential. Bling and essential are mutually exclusive characteristics WRT to normal desktop

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/28 03:37 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Compositing is sooner or later going to be enabled by default everywhere. Somehow those niche users managed 10-20 years ago before there was such a thing as 3D support in XFree86/Xorg. Times and expectations change. Physics don't. A

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/11/28 03:37 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Compositing is sooner or later going to be enabled by default everywhere. Somehow those niche users managed 10-20 years ago before there was such a thing as 3D support in XFree86/Xorg.

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Debayan Banerjee
2009/11/28 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: Physics don't. A two dimensional screen will never be able to more than simulate 3D. 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources of electrical energy than 2D to produce. lol. That was truly funny (and true)! -- Regards, Debayan

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/28 03:01 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Huh? Your perspective just seems very odd. In a year, if we don't have a composited desktop by default in Fedora, I would be very very surprised. Just watch. Good thing all puters don't depend on batteries for power. -- The husband

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
3D cannot be essential to users of older hardware, since it turns their hardware into unresponsive mush. How about visually impaired people? Compiz and the zoom plugin *are* essential to them. A friend of mine has an old computer, which is « turned into unresponsive mush » by 3D, as you say.

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Sir Gallantmon
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources of electrical energy than 2D to produce. I don't expect that to change, and even if it does, using more

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread drago01
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2009/11/28 03:01 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Huh? Your perspective just seems very odd.  In a year, if we don't have a composited desktop by default in Fedora, I would be very very surprised. Just watch.

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:32:04 +0100 drago01 drag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2009/11/28 03:01 (GMT+0530) Rahul Sundaram composed: Huh? Your perspective just seems very odd.  In a year, if we don't have a composited

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:02 -0600, Sir Gallantmon wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources of

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11/27/09, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 21:24 +0100, stefan riemens wrote: Not that i'm unhappy about the way things are going forward (my intel gfx are working great!), but gnome 3 isn't going to be much useful without 3d support... Note that

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/27/2009 08:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 20:04 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Hi, I did take part in the Radeon test day. Unfortunately the tests did not really cover 3D and it was difficult to test this using the Live system. I did feed back this. Right...that is

Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but also in 2D. I still am using F8 on most of my systems as the Graphics

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:01:00PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: another set of problems. The new release speed also uses a lot of developer and user time in just managing to create a new release and updating systems to use it. This is the key flaw in your suggestion. Fedora developer effort

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rudolf Kastl
2009/11/26 Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but also in 2D. I still am

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 02:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:01:00PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: another set of problems. The new release speed also uses a lot of developer and user time in just managing to create a new release and updating systems to use it. This is the key flaw

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 07:54 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: That is true, but a major amount of work in getting a release out must be testing it. Those Fedora people involved in the testing, which are also user-testers, have their own systems with there own hardware and are fully conversant with delving

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 02:14 PM, Rudolf Kastl wrote: 2009/11/26 Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems)

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:09 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have not entered any bugzilla numbers as yet. I spent days with F11 and previous releases diagnosing reporting and attempting to fix bugs. No graphics updates were ever made available for F11 and still Fedora cannot run even Blender on most of

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:01 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but also in 2D.

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/11/26 14:39 (GMT) Terry Barnaby composed: ... The cards I have tried include: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller ATI Technologies Inc RV535 [Radeon X1650 Series] ATI Technologies Inc M22 [Mobility Radeon X300] ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 02:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/26/2009 08:09 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have not entered any bugzilla numbers as yet. I spent days with F11 and previous releases diagnosing reporting and attempting to fix bugs. No graphics updates were ever made available for F11 and

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Specific bug reports are definitely going to help. Here are 4 to start with: 1) Cronometer crashes KDE session. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504173 2) Display not operating properly

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:34 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: Yes, clear bug reports are needed but they also need the follow through to a fix and updated packages. Agreed. File specific bug reports and post the links here. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:04:43PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 02:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/26/2009 08:09 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have not entered any bugzilla numbers as yet. I spent days with F11 and previous releases diagnosing reporting and attempting to fix

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/26/2009 08:38 PM, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Specific bug reports are definitely going to help. Here are 4 to start with: 1) Cronometer crashes KDE session. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504173 Filed against wrong

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 03:11 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:04:43PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 02:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/26/2009 08:09 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote: I have not entered any bugzilla numbers as yet. I spent days with F11 and previous releases

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:08:27PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: As you obviously know tracking down and reporting bugs like these do take a lot of time and effort, quite often more than actually fixing them. At the moment with the frequency of Fedora releases and the lack of a push to testing

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:01, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:01, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system lockups and other problems) mainly in 3D but

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 04:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:08:27PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: As you obviously know tracking down and reporting bugs like these do take a lot of time and effort, quite often more than actually fixing them. At the moment with the frequency of Fedora

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 05:05 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:01, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All of these bar 1 has problems with the graphics (X11 lockups, system

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:27, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: On 11/26/2009 05:05 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:01, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: Ok, controversial title. I have just tried to test install F12 on some of my systems, (5 different ones). All

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Ben Boeckel
Linuxguy123 wrote: I have 4 bugs entered into bugzilla related to display problems and none of them get any attention. I even posted a warning to the group about this matter. (See November 16, Warning about possible display issues with F12 upgrade.) If these are the ones you linked to

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and even fix them if I can. But, the current short term release schedule, and no focus on testing and fixing graphics issues, does not inspire

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 13:46:54 -0600, Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to wrote: mesa-experimental-drivers and update xorg-x11-drv-ati. This won't get you That should be: mesa-dri-drivers-experimental -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/26/2009 07:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and even fix them if I can. But, the current short term release schedule, and no focus on

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Michal Schmidt
Dne Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:54 -0600 Bruno Wolff III napsal(a): On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and even fix them if I can. But, the current short term release schedule,

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 20:16:54 +, Terry Barnaby ter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I have tried out F12 on 4 different systems, 2 with different ATI graphics and two with different Intel based boards. Only the last one appears to be able to run Blender. You mention Airlie has continued

Re: Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Airlie
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:16 +, Terry Barnaby wrote: On 11/26/2009 07:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 17:09:14 +, Terry Barnabyter...@beam.ltd.uk wrote: I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and even fix them if I can. But,

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