Re: FW: A request from the Hackintosh community

2011-03-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:32:48PM -0300, Felipe Ribba wrote: I'm forwarding this mail trough my Gmail account in case you miss the previous one (I didn't get any replies so far) We did get the original one... But I'm sorry to tell you that this is not the kind of request that is likely

Re: Where input (hotplugging) methods might go - highly speculative

2010-08-27 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:31:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: [...] Such a Console Set combines a number of connected input and output devices Sounds like focus groups in KGI... Too bad the KGI project killed itself with a stupid let's reinvent half the kernel approach :-) There

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.8.1

2010-05-13 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 07:56:35AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: The first stable release of the 1.8 series is now available. Only two changes over RC2 (Julien's EXTRA_DIST patch and Adam's VNC patch), so you get the full changelog to 1.8.0 to make this email look more interesting. Hehe

Re: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:22:06PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: [...] since we always end up with more proposals than Google has funding to cover. Mmm, that sounds like you might not be aware of this: the number of slots assigned to each organisation is first an formost a function of

Re: xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

2009-12-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:55:22AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: If you don't want a session manager or you prefer a different desktop environment - you're on your own. Let me remind you that GNOME is not an operating system. It is just a frontend. It is nice if it provides a nice shiny

local junk and .gitignore (was: [ANNOUNCE] xeyes 1.0.991)

2009-10-31 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:45:45PM -0400, James Cloos wrote: Add *~ to .gitignore to skip patch/emacs droppings As such things are inherently local and specific to your own workflow, IMHO they shouldn't go in the .gitignore in the repository. Luckily -- unlike CVS -- Git offers

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cursor's update inside kernel only

2009-01-30 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:28:37PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: Consider a case where user space is stalled due to excessive load, and let's think about usability. Much of usability comes from feedback given to a user. If cursor updates are done completely inside the kernel, the mouse

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Cursor's update inside kernel only

2009-01-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 06:55:50PM -0200, Tiago Vignatti wrote: Under KMS, we can build a feature to update the cursor directly to screen without the continuous intervention of the userspace application (X server, wayland, etc). It's a fastpath for DRM based cursors obtained by

Re: Draft: License policy for contributors

2008-12-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:28:17AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: GFDL is out as DFSG-incompatible. I thought GFDL is fine DFSG-wise as long as there are no invariant sections/cover texts?... (Disclaimer: Not advocating GFDL use here; only pointing out.) -antrik-

Re: modular: Changes to 'master'

2008-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 09:51:45AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 18:15 +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote: Is there a single technical reason why shipping both is a problem? For the same reason the kernel avoids shipping multiple drivers for the same hardware -- we want a

Re: xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2.2 Release

2008-10-14 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:03:43PM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote: Version 1.2.2 improvements: - Added DRI support (R5xx and RS6xx). - Added support for RV770, RS780, M82, M86, and M88. - Added XVideo support. - Added CP based 2D acceleration (R5xx and RS6xx). - Added EXA

Re: Poll: Should Xorg change from using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to something harder for users to press by accident?

2008-10-03 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:52:53PM +0930, Peter Hutterer wrote: driver kbd: hardcodes Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. (IMHO that's a bug anyway) driver evdev: the XKB map decides what happens. I don't know whether this is really related (I'm pretty sure I experienced that with kbd driver as

Re: Building X

2008-09-22 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: Right then. -br is now the default. -retro gives you the old school root window and cursor behavior. I don't understand why you don't leave the default as it was. Sureley the only situation where it is inconvenient to have to