Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 12:40:45AM -0400, Gary Gatling wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.netwrote: My plan is to retire these two xorg input drivers in rawhide in a week or two. They are superseded by the evdev driver which is the default driver

Re: bumblebee reviewer needed (Was: Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard)

2014-04-03 Thread Simone Caronni
On 3 April 2014 06:50, Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com wrote: Just another note that due to my knowledge on optimus I decide to drop the review of bumblebee[1], and someone told me it's just a dirty hack. I personally think it as a hack as well. Problems with Nouveau performance and

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-03 6:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net: This _will_ break some setups. If you have AutoAddDevices off in your xorg.conf then this will break. The main question to ask here is: do these setups still exist and if so why do you have that option set and can we fix the

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 16:35 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: If fixes the problem but that doesn't tell the whole story. You have a conf that implicitly says load the mouse driver and then fails because you didn't have the mouse driver installed. Which is fair enough, the question here is why is

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: I think the goal _is_ to not add any devices, yes. Bumblebee is basically a second X server to run on the nvidia gpu and pipe the pixels off that to the integrated gpu. So input only ever happens on the integrated gpu's

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Gary Gatling gsgat...@ncsu.edu wrote: Thanks a lot for the feedback. I have asked the developers for input. I opened a issue of the github issue tracker here: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/568 After further experimentation it

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:58:59AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 16:35 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: If fixes the problem but that doesn't tell the whole story. You have a conf that implicitly says load the mouse driver and then fails because you didn't have the mouse

Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-02 Thread Peter Hutterer
My plan is to retire these two xorg input drivers in rawhide in a week or two. They are superseded by the evdev driver which is the default driver for input devices in Linux. Both drivers are still maintained upstream to get them to work you have to use custom xorg.conf files that disable other

Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard

2014-04-02 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.netwrote: My plan is to retire these two xorg input drivers in rawhide in a week or two. They are superseded by the evdev driver which is the default driver for input devices in Linux. Speak up now, or forever hold yada

bumblebee reviewer needed (Was: Re: Heads up: retiring xorg-x11-drv-mouse and xorg-x11-drv-keyboard)

2014-04-02 Thread Christopher Meng
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Gary Gatling gsgat...@ncsu.edu wrote: Just wanted to mention this in case other fedora users have optimus laptops they use with the nvidia drivers? bumblebee is a solution that has been invented for hybrid graphics laptops with intel and Nvidia GPUs. It runs