Re: Netbooks... really slow with OGL... can someone help me with a solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, > I am a game programmer, and I live in a country where normal computer has > configurations that remember netbooks (like having VIA or SIS chipsets...). > Because of that I started making a game using memory blitting instead of > OpenGL, but I found that on X it runs really slow without OpenG

Re: Nomination period for X.Org Foundation Board Election extended

2009-10-29 Thread Marc Balmer
Bart, Am 28.10.2009 um 23:40 schrieb Barton C Massey: > We currently don't have quite as many nominees as we would > like for the X.Org Foundation Board, so we have voted to > extend the nomination deadline by one week in the hopes that > qualified folks who have so far declined will consider > s

Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Markus Brunner
Hi, from the announce mail of xorg-server 1.5.99.1: Death to mfb. ... and stay dead. This is a clear statement, but I'm a bit surprised X won't support a whole class of devices, which are still in use in embedded devices. What's the right way of implementing a monochrome framebuff

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 21:56:15 29.10.2009 UTC+01 when super.firetwis...@googlemail.com did gyre and gimble: MB> What's the right way of implementing a monochrome framebuffer MB> driver? Using 8bpp with fbdev and do the mapping in the kernel, or MB> write an x driver? 8bpp and mapping in kernel for

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Markus Brunner wrote: > Hi, > > from the announce mail of xorg-server 1.5.99.1: > > Death to mfb. > ... and stay dead. > > This is a clear statement, but I'm a bit surprised X won't support a whole > class of devices, which are still in use in embedded devices. My understanding is

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:56 +0100, Markus Brunner wrote: > Hi, > > from the announce mail of xorg-server 1.5.99.1: > > Death to mfb. > ... and stay dead. > > This is a clear statement, but I'm a bit surprised X won't support a whole > class of devices, which are still in use in embe

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 17:02:31 29.10.2009 UTC-04 when a...@nwnk.net did gyre and gimble: >> What's the right way of implementing a monochrome framebuffer >> driver? Using 8bpp with fbdev and do the mapping in the kernel, or >> write an x driver? AJ> fbScreenInit(bpp = 1) Btw, does it work (or at

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 03:06 +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Twas brillig at 17:02:31 29.10.2009 UTC-04 when a...@nwnk.net did gyre and > gimble: > > >> What's the right way of implementing a monochrome framebuffer > >> driver? Using 8bpp with fbdev and do the mapping in the kernel, or > >> wri

Re: Monochrome framebuffer driver

2009-10-29 Thread Keith Packard
Excerpts from Mikhail Gusarov's message of Thu Oct 29 14:06:26 -0700 2009: > Btw, does it work (or at least is it supposed to work) for 2 or 4 bits > per pixel? X doesn't support 2bpp devices. We could add 2bpp support to fb and expose that as 4bpp for images. Adding 2bpp drawing code to fb would

Re: Nomination period for X.Org Foundation Board Election extended

2009-10-29 Thread Barton C Massey
In message you wrote: > Am 28.10.2009 um 23:40 schrieb Barton C Massey: > > ...please don't hesitate to send a nomination (name and > > email address) to elections at foundation.x.org . > > I cliked the foundation.x.org link, but I got only a website saying > "It works". "elections at foundati

Re: Nomination period for X.Org Foundation Board Election extended

2009-10-29 Thread Benjamin Close
On 30/10/09 08:37, Barton C Massey wrote: > In message you wrote: > >> Am 28.10.2009 um 23:40 schrieb Barton C Massey: >> >>> ...please don't hesitate to send a nomination (name and >>> email address) to elections at foundation.x.org . >>> >> I cliked the foundation.x.org link, b

Nomination-Carl Worth

2009-10-29 Thread 周非凡
>We currently don't have quite as many nominees as we would >like for the X.Org >Foundation Board, so we have voted to >extend the nomination deadline by one >week in the hopes that >qualified folks who have so far declined will consider >>standing for election. > >If you are actively involve