Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:01:31AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:44:33PM -0100, Carlos Silva wrote On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-05 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/03/13 08:01, Walter Dnes wrote: If user-space drivers are really that slow, we may as well stick with VESA as a fallback. You misunderstood something. «Please realize that this article describes the _in kernel_ interfaces, not the

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:47:09PM +0800, Greg KH wrote On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:01:31AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:44:33PM -0100, Carlos Silva wrote On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:39:16 -0600 Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:48:07PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I am sorry that this package has been such a headache for you, unfortunately binary drivers (especially) are often like that. Thanks for all your hard work keeping this usable. I'm not a C programmer, let alone a

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Carlos Silva
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to present a reasonably stable interface to binary video

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 11:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 10:48:07PM -0500, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina wrote I am sorry that this package has been such a headache for you, unfortunately binary drivers (especially) are often like that. Thanks for all your hard work keeping

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:44:33PM -0100, Carlos Silva wrote On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm not a C programmer, let alone a developer, so this may be a stupid question, but here goes... has anyone ever tried doing a HAL (Hardware Abstraction

[gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-03 Thread Doug Goldstein
One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my involvement in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers. As a result someone will need to work

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 3. März 2013, 15:39:16 schrieb Doug Goldstein: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my involvement in

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am doing with my

Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers

2013-03-03 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2013 04:39 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering, gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am