Google Summer of Code: we got in / call for mentors!

2010-03-18 Thread Stephane Marchesin
Hi, Good news, X.Org just got accepted into the Google Summer of Code program! Now we need mentors. If you are a developer and would like to possibly mentor Summer of Code projects, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Stephane ___

Re: The State of The X.Org Foundation 2010

2010-02-20 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 15:38, Tomas Carnecky t...@dbservice.com wrote: On 2/21/10 12:01 AM, Barton C Massey wrote:      The Google/X.Org Summer of Code 2009 was successful,      with three of four accepted projects completing and      contributing to X.Org development, as well as helping to  

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-18 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:44, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... but i did not at all feel comfortable doing so. While we did start to get some insights in the Boards doings of the past year, these insights are very

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-18 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 13:59, Peter Winston pe...@ics.com wrote: The thing that suprises me is that there has been no discussion of how do we update the vision and goals of x.org The fact that we might be spending too much for hosting, or doing a poor job of accounting for expences is

Re: Board voting ends today, but...

2010-02-18 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 13:45, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote: Hi, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:33:36PM -0800, Stephane Marchesin wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:44, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: There is little to no information about the X.org Foundation Boards financial

Re: X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

2010-02-10 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 13:12, Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@sun.com wrote: Daniel Stone wrote: Bear in mind though that the channel is open and meetings are held at a regular time, so everyone has as much opportunity to find out what goes on during the meetings as me. :) I don't think

Re: Intel - Dithering on a 6 bit panel

2009-03-11 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 23:34, Adam Jackson a...@nwnk.net wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 18:28 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Anholt wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 23:57 +, James Legg wrote: Hello, I have an Asus X58L laptop,

Re: Xinerama like behavior with xrandr

2009-03-11 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 14:30, Daniel Gultsch dan...@gultsch.de wrote: Hi, I've finaly decided to get myself a new external Monitor for my Thinkpad. I want to use it like xinerame does. (different resolutions for internal and external and different screens and apps like the kicker under kde

Re: general question: xorg Nvdriver

2009-01-28 Thread Stephane Marchesin
2009/1/28 Florian Lier f...@icram.de: Okay, new problem: I tried to insmod the nvdriver...this is the result: insmod: error inserting 'drm/linux-core/nv.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module Any suggestions? There is no nv.ko module. There is a nouveau.ko module, an nvidia.ko proprietary

Re: general question: xorg Nvdriver

2009-01-28 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 23:43, Maarten Maathuis madman2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Stephane Marchesin marche...@icps.u-strasbg.fr wrote: 2009/1/28 Florian Lier f...@icram.de: Okay, new problem: I tried to insmod the nvdriver...this is the result: insmod: error

Re: Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

2009-01-15 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21, Albert Vilella avile...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, What is the current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching in Xorg? There is no support, and AFAIK no roadmap either. There are many technical reasons why this is not possible today. In

Re: Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

2009-01-15 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 15:13, Alan Cox a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: Right, which reduces it to a simple power management issue akin to powering down the 3D core on any modern chipset when you're not doing any rendering. Adding different devices with separate drivers is another matter

Re: How to write an X driver..?

2009-01-12 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 14:06, John Tapsell johnf...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/12 Florian Echtler f...@butterbrot.org: Hello everyone, as posted previously, I'm on the way to writing a driver for DisplayLink devices. Unfortunately, I'm a bit at a loss on where to start. I've noticed that it

Re: How to write an X driver..?

2009-01-12 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 14:35, Florian Echtler f...@butterbrot.org wrote: I think that this is generally done by having the framebuffer driver allocate the screen to be as large as possible. Then in the xserver you know that offscreen memory address is simply from the end of the visible

Re: EXA and migration [was: shrink xrender featureset]

2008-11-26 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:09, Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 06:48 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: Yeah I'm with this, EXA really needs optimisations that know you have composite, and just to render the stuff with the CPU and composite it on. Generally it does