Please read over this ticket (text also below [1]): https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?28169
And tell me if you see any errors or room for improvement, and also if you can help with any of it. BTW has anyone actually gotten X11 working well under squeeze on the yeeloong? By default it errors out on boot; I'll get a paste of the exact errors to the ticket soon. Thanks to philv, nyu, and bernie on #gnewsense-dev for providing most of the below information / content; I'm just trying to summarize so we know what to do next. Cheers, -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny [1] gNewSense GNU/Linux - Bugs: bug #28169: X11 is too slow Here is a plan for people to comment on based on IRC conversations. First, the problem statement: (a) There are changes in the version of X in debian squeeze / xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion that fix a lot of problems / allow the accelerated graphics to work. People feel that this change is required for the yeeloong to be really usable. (b) There are changes specific to lemote in the older version of xorg on the dev.lemote.com/debian repository that make xv work. xv is an X extention that makes video playback nicer by allowing a defined part of the screen to be used with a different color depth and type. This xv support should be forward ported to the X from debian squeeze using quilt, dpatch or simular to do the actual change in the source package). This change is nice to have, but lower priority than just having accelerated X graphics work. Suggested steps towards a solution: (a) Install Debian Squeeze on a yeeloong to verify that xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion does in fact work well. Torture test in various ways (xperf, changing between X and VTs a lot, etc.) (b) If (a) goes well, backport the squeeze packages to gnewsense metad, using the gentoo patches at (1) http://qurl.com/ztrlk (2) http://qurl.com/q1v63 (3) http://qurl.com/lzfhd to make it work under mipsel. (c) Forward port xv patches to squeeze version of xorg packages in the most expediant way possible / include in .debs with quild / dpatch / whatever. (d) Forward port xv patches to squeeze version of xorg packages in a way that is likely to be included by upstream xorg developers, and then work to do that. Status: djbclark and bernie working on (a) at the moment. Please coordinate in #gnewsense-dev or via this ticket if you can help.
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