Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-03-28 Thread Brice Goglin
tags 412069 +wontfix thank you Trying to summarize: About Composite, upstream just got a commit saying Enable Composite by default now that it disables itself in the known bad cases. (and it has been said that fglrx disables the DRI when Composite is enabled.) About XAANoOffScreenPixmap,

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-03-28 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:23:20AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: tags 412069 +wontfix thank you Trying to summarize: [...] So I would personally not enable any of these options by default (hence tagging as wontfix). It is already very late in the release cycle, changing the default

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-03-28 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:41:32 +0200, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: Ok. Can we add hooks to permit that unofficial beryl packages for etch add the missing bits in xorg.conf without breaking the debconf-based generation? See attached patch. Not going to happen for etch, sorry.

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-28 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:26:45PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:33:12AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: My point is that if we don't figure that out satisfactorily in time, we could just

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-28 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:25:51PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:02:02PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: I haven't decided if enabling composite by default is a wise move yet. No one in

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:26:45PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:33:12AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: My point is that if we don't figure

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:45 +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: That sounds more like an upstream solution. IMHO, in Debian we should do it in the conffile because: - It's more transparent. User can tell this is enabled without going

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-28 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:39:13AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:25:51PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:02:02PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: I haven't

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:02:02PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: I haven't decided if enabling composite by default is a wise move yet. No one in Debian has done a real analysis as to what the downsides of such a decision are. While compiz and beryl may be very sexy, I don't want to break or

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 13:12 +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:39:45PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:44 +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: My intel card can do without either XAANoOffscreenPixmaps or AddARGBGLXVisuals. No

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: My point is that if we don't figure that out satisfactorily in time, we could just enable the Composite extension, which sounds fairly safe, and seems to be enough for Intel cards. And Intel happens to be the card brand we

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-27 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:26:09AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:02:02PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: I haven't decided if enabling composite by default is a wise move yet. No one in Debian has done a real analysis as to what the downsides of such a

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-27 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:33:12AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: My point is that if we don't figure that out satisfactorily in time, we could just enable the Composite extension, which sounds fairly safe, and seems

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:44:36AM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Oh, not really. Screw nVidia. Beryl is only for faithful followers of the one true Intel card brand. :-) So which lines are we going to add, if

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Oh, not really. Screw nVidia. Beryl is only for faithful followers of the one true Intel card brand. :-) So which lines are we going to add, if any? I can test which lines can Intel do without, but not till monday. My

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:44 +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: My intel card can do without either XAANoOffscreenPixmaps or AddARGBGLXVisuals. No difference can be found on first sight (and I tested most basic stuff: cube, skydome, etc). nVidia doesn't need AddARGBGLXVisuals, but it

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:39:45PM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:44 +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: My intel card can do without either XAANoOffscreenPixmaps or AddARGBGLXVisuals. No difference can be found on first sight (and I tested most basic stuff:

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:18:06PM +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: Package: xserver-xorg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I know it's too late for Beryl to make it into etch, but can we at least ship an xorg.conf that is frendly to Beryl ? With this patch, only installing the beryl

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
Package: xserver-xorg Severity: wishlist Tags: patch I know it's too late for Beryl to make it into etch, but can we at least ship an xorg.conf that is frendly to Beryl ? With this patch, only installing the beryl packages will be enough to get it working with no further setup (provided that

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Brice Goglin
Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: + Option AddARGBGLXVisuals On I thought this option was nVidia specific. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan [ackstorm]
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:54:58PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: + Option AddARGBGLXVisuals On I thought this option was nVidia specific. According to the wiki [1], it is optional if NVIDIA drivers are used. On my Intel chipset, this line didn't

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Brice Goglin
Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:54:58PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote: Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: + Option AddARGBGLXVisuals On I thought this option was nVidia specific. According to the wiki [1], it is optional if NVIDIA drivers are used. This comment is for

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan
This comment is for XAANoOffscreenPixmaps. I could say ok to adding this option since I remember seeing improvement in Compiz when enabling it on my Radeon. But, I don't know what its drawbacks are. About being nVidia specific, I was talking about the other line, AddARGBGLXVisuals, I have

Bug#412069: patch for beryl support

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: About being nVidia specific, I was talking about the other line, AddARGBGLXVisuals, I have no idea what this option does. Neither me, I just got them from the wiki. I just tried on an nVidia, and it turns out