I've noticed a few old video chipsets are dropping off the edge of Xorg. This is entirely understandable - Xorg has too few developers desperately trying to drag the 1990s code base into the twenty-first century and there are very few testers for the ancient chips. So many of them have broken, and no-one much notices until the distros release that version of X. No-one wants this to happen, but it does.
e.g. Ubuntu 9.10 is fantastic on current chips. (Typing this on my new work Portege R600. Wobbly windows a go go!) But old stuff is showing breakage, and it's unlikely to be fixed. The one thing that occurs to me is: make testing of git head much easier. Much, much easier. 1. Nightly builds. Did wonders for Mozilla. Binary of main supported architectures (linux/i386, opensolaris, whatever someone will be able to commit to build nightly). Download and run. Report bugs. 2. Make the source build easier, so people will build and run it from source for the more obscure platforms. 1. requires build server, web server and bandwidth resources. 2. requires polishing and debugging and making it very easy for people to just keep up with X with a git pull. Ideas? Is this pointing toward something useful? (I'm not a coder myself or I'd be bashing on 2., but I do like reviving crusty old machinery.) - d. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg