Testing cgit
Loading the gitweb.freedesktop.org front page takes about 10 seconds, and it annoys me whenever I load that page. I typically only load it once and then keep it open in a tab. This prompted me to set...
View Articlei830 Update
Since my previous post about the intel X.org driver and the i830 chipset, Keith has fixed the remaining issues and as far as I can tell, everything is working as expected. Specifically, the load...
View ArticleVersion Control
Everybody is blogging about SCM tools, and since I have this soapbox at my disposal I might as well too. I've been using git for over a year now, and I think I've earned the right not to have my...
View ArticleSetting up a cloned git repo
I was going to set up a clone of the xserver git repo in my people.freedesktop.org home directory and I figured I'd document the steps. If you want the cheat sheet just skip to the last couple of...
View ArticleDeath to xfs
That's xfs the X font server, I have no beef with the xfs filesystem. We've been using xfs for core fonts[1] since Red Hat 6, mainly because we've had the chkfontpath tool for editing the xfs config...
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Redirected direct rendering
Also known as AWESOME. Normally, when an application renders to an X window, the contents appear in the framebuffer immediately. The COMPOSITE extensions lets an application, typically the compositing...
View ArticleCompiz and Fedora
There was a big discussion about enabling compiz by default in Fedora on fedora-devel list a couple of days ago. Reading through the thread I realized that we never really communicated our plans here...
View ArticleGit survey
The git developers are doing a git survey again, follow this link to take it.
View ArticleI'm in ur X server adding visuals!
Maybe you've wondered why, when you run xdpyinfo, the X server reports a bunch of identical looking visuals. And in fact, for all xdpyinfo and X cares, they are identical. However, to GLX, the visuals...
View ArticleNew version of cgit
Lars Hjemli recently released a new version of cgit, the unbelievably fast web front-end for git. I just updated the cgit installation on cgit.freedesktop.org and the end result is pretty nice. It...
View ArticleAwesome prize of the day...
goes to Dan Nicholson for adding autoconf support to mesa. For the first time, mesa can now pick up libdrm from a non-standard location (say, ~krh/install/lib/libdrm.so) automatically through...
View ArticleBuilding and installing the DRM/DRI/X stack
When I work on the X stack I typically compile and install all the packages into an install prefix in my home directory, typically $HOME/install. That way I can keep my system packages intact and even...
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DRI2 Direct Rendering
I just committed the last bit of DRI2 work for now to the xserver, mesa and xf86-video-intel repos. This work enables direct rendering to redirected windows:So what's going on in this screenshot? Totem...
View ArticleUgh
Ok, I went through my old post and deleted blog spam and closing old post for comments and now all these posts appear brand new. Sorry about the noise.
View ArticlePremature publicity is better than no publicity
I guess. Maybe. At any rate, my latest secret project, is no longer secret: Phoronix ran an article about Wayland and slashdot in turn picked it up. They got the headline wrong, though, it's not a new...
View ArticleGit is better than X
I found this link over on the github.com blog:http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/Of course, git is awesome and doesn't need selling, but if it did, that page does a pretty good job at it.
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Wayland gets a terminal
Still hacking on the Wayland project. I've spent some time getting the repaint loop and repaint notifications right, which is surprisingly tricky if you want to sync to vblank and make sure every...
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Two X servers and a microphone
Oh, ok, so getting X.org running under Wayland was easier than expected. Or I guess, it was as easy as expected, which is usually never the case.What's running here are two X.org servers, side by side...
View ArticleGit day minus 1
Tomorrow, Thursday April 16th, is the big flag day for the GNOME repositories. We've moved over quite a few repositories from SVN, GitHub, freedesktop.org and other places that people have put GNOME...
View ArticleGit day plus a week
Woo, the GNOME git migration is complete. We got the bulk of the repos converted Thu-Fri last week, but it took a little longer than estimated because of an update to the the commit message rewriting...
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