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

2009-12-06 Thread Jud Craft
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Mat Booth wrote: > Orca then, whatever. Point is, it's possible without compiz. Isn't Orca's magnifier getting phased out? Yeah. And whenever GNOME Shell rolls out their new accessibility magnifier...well, it's gonna need compositing. Like everything else. Not

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

2009-12-05 Thread Mat Booth
2009/12/5 Sir Gallantmon : > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Kevin Kofler 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 >> compo

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 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. > >Kevin Kofle

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: 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

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 wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:20:20 +1000 > Dave Airlie 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

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 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 radeonhd right now

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

2009-12-02 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:04 +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote: > 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

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 U

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: 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 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 we're trying >

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? -- f

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 woul

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 w

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 wh

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 ri

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 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 all. > > What i

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

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 som

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

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 Jeff Spaleta
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Haïkel Guémar 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 all. What is your definition of hacker? Is he contributing to X.org upstream d

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: 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 b

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 an

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, hibern

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 links

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

2009-11-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/30/2009 05:05 PM, Peter Jones wrote: 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

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 u

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 ?

2009-11-29 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 foll

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

2009-11-29 Thread Bojan Smojver
Rudolf Kastl 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 system to g

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: http://cgit.freedesk

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 t

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 f

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 > t

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 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

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 ef

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

2009-11-28 Thread nodata
Am 2009-11-28 13:55, schrieb 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

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=54187

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 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'

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 horri

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 syst

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 ma

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

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11/27/09, Adam Williamson 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 gnome-shell working w

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 > wrote: > On 11/28/2009 03:26 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > > 3D requires more dead dinosaurs, coal and/or other sources > of > > electrical energy than

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 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Felix Miata > 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,

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 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. > > Good thing al

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 wrote: > 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 than necessary will r

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 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 s

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

2009-11-27 Thread Debayan Banerjee
2009/11/28 Felix Miata : > 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 Banerjee -- fedora

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/Xo

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

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 n

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 02:21 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 i

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 il

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

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 a

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 1

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 13:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 08:12:05 +1000, > Dave Airlie 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 t

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: > > > >

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 : > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: >> On 2009/11/27 10:28 (GMT+0100) drago01 composed: >> >>> 3

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 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 > provides two d

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 decep

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, t

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

2009-11-27 Thread Terry Barnaby
On 11/27/2009 07:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: 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

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 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 documentation again. I was

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 o

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 sh

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 Barnaby wrote: I really want to help and

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 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

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 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 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. > >

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

2009-11-26 Thread Alex Hudson
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 do this, please consider having a radeonhd->radeon testing day

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

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Airlie
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 08:07 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Rahul Sundaram 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 availabl

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

2009-11-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Rahul Sundaram 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 my machi

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

2009-11-26 Thread 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 I've read mostly positive feedback about

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

2009-11-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Miller wrote: > On the other hand, having a release which emphasizes stability over new > features is an idea that's been around for a while. That's actually mostly what F12 has been, partly due to RHEL scheduling, partly due to the shortened release schedule to realign with our target d

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

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11/26/09, Terry Barnaby wrote: > 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

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

2009-11-26 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 05:09:14PM +, Terry Barnaby wrote: > 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 t

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

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Airlie
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 Barnaby wrote: > > >> I really want to help and get a stable release and p

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

2009-11-26 Thread Dave Airlie
> 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 more > users over more time with many

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 Barnaby wrote: > >> I really want to help and get a stable release and present bug reports and > >> even fix them if I can. But, the cur

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 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 development in the >

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 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 focu

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 Barnaby 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 grap

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 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 https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

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 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 me > with confi

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 ea

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 wrote: On 11/26/2009 05:05 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Nov 26, 2009, at 6:01, 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

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 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 prob

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 rele

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 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. I stil

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 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. I stil

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