Gettys notes posted to wiki

2010-03-10 Thread Barton C Massey
Jim Gettys has kindly allowed me to post to the X.Org wiki a draft document he wrote a while back on the status of various X.Org technologies. Please see http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Obsolescence Enjoy. Bart Massey b...@cs.pdx.edu

neomagic and shadowfb

2010-03-10 Thread Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
i've tried to enable shadowfb on neomagic (nm2160) chipset, X start up, but there are no updates, just un-cleared buffer from last session is displayed. is this bug or feature? ad shadowfb option in general - is there any setting regarding frequency of shadow framebuffer being copied to video c

Re: X.Org Board Meetings: Mar. 2 Summary, Mar. 16 Agenda

2010-03-10 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:59:58PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:33:01AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > A summary and IRC log of the March 2 meeting of the X.Org Board of Directors > > are now posted at: > > > > http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries

Re: X.Org Board Meetings: Mar. 2 Summary, Mar. 16 Agenda

2010-03-10 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:33:01AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > A summary and IRC log of the March 2 meeting of the X.Org Board of Directors > are now posted at: > > http://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingSummaries/2010/03-02 > Thanks for posting the minutes, and btw, congratulations

X windows won't produce any displays on my Dell Latitude E6500

2010-03-10 Thread Sean McClain
Hello, I'm a long time lfs user who recently compiled CLFS, and was working through cblfs. Most of the advice I got on how to configure my kernel, video card, etc. came from the Gentoo instructions for my hardware, which can be found here en.gentoo.wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Latitude_E6x00 When I actua

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Octavio Rossell
I said the text may contain bugs. This is one of them and I have fixed it. Any Free Licence will work. The main problem here is a performance behaviour. Owain Ainsworth escribió: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: >> The idea of this wiki: >> http://gnu.org.ve/~oct

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread rixed
Apart from minor bugs that are already largely solved, Yeelong video driver suffers from performance issues related to video decoding. The main problem, as I understand it, appears to be that the LynxEM chipset can handle only packed YUV while most of the time frames are given as planar YUV (I'm

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: > > The idea of this wiki: > > http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver > > is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you hav

Re: Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

2010-03-10 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote: > The idea of this wiki: > http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver > is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info > or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) bu