What's happening to X at SuSE/Novell ?
A while ago someone at Novell/SuSE said that the next version of SuSE (i.e. 10) would have a great new graphics system with cool things possible which would be comparable to OSX & Longhorn(Vista) (or maybe even better) as far as I remember. What's happening to X @ SuSE/Novell ? Happened to this cool X - thing ? Anyone know? ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On 15/09/05, Winston Graeme <winstongraeme@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
A while ago someone at Novell/SuSE said that the next version of SuSE (i.e. 10) would have a great new graphics system with cool things possible which would be comparable to OSX & Longhorn(Vista) (or maybe even better) as far as I remember.
Well transparency was in 9.3, it wasn't particulary good, ie it slowed things down a lot and crashed whenever I turned it on when I had the ATI driver loaded. Also it caused firefox to crash whenever I went to a web page with flash in it. Apart from the slowing things down these issues might not have been caused by transparency. I should have logged these as bugs but didn't know how to at the time.
What's happening to X @ SuSE/Novell ?
Happened to this cool X - thing ?
Anyone know?
I don't know if that is what you are refering to. have fun Marcus -- Photos : www.flickr.com/photos/marcusc Blog : marcusbrain.blogspot.com `The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.' HST
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Winston Graeme wrote:
A while ago someone at Novell/SuSE said that the next version of SuSE (i.e. 10) would have a great new graphics system with cool things possible which would be comparable to OSX & Longhorn(Vista) (or maybe even better) as far as I remember.
In case you're refering to Xgl, I only know what was in the news: http://lwn.net/Articles/149783/ More on Xgl is here: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Xgl cheers, Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh@suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH
Answering myself: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:29:56AM +0200, Sonja Krause-Harder wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Winston Graeme wrote:
A while ago someone at Novell/SuSE said that the next version of SuSE (i.e. 10) would have a great new graphics system with cool things possible which would be comparable to OSX & Longhorn(Vista) (or maybe even better) as far as I remember.
In case you're refering to Xgl, I only know what was in the news:
After talking to a few more people: Novell is still working on it, but there's nothing that can be announced right now. Development is happening in public CVS (linked from the freedesktop.org page), so everybody who wants to follow the development can do that there. Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh@suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think he means Composite, which is in Xorg 6.8.X but still experimental. It is only included in the stable release of Xorg for developers. AFAIK Composite will be stable in Xorg 6.9 and 7.0, which is scheduled for December 2005. If you want to test it. http://wiki.cynapses.org/index.php/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency Remeber: It is slow, it is experimental, it will crash your X Server! -- andreas Sonja Krause-Harder wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:15:42AM +0100, Winston Graeme wrote:
A while ago someone at Novell/SuSE said that the next version of SuSE (i.e. 10) would have a great new graphics system with cool things possible which would be comparable to OSX & Longhorn(Vista) (or maybe even better) as far as I remember.
In case you're refering to Xgl, I only know what was in the news:
http://lwn.net/Articles/149783/
More on Xgl is here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Xgl
cheers,
Sonja
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On Thursday 15 September 2005 01:15, Winston Graeme wrote:
What's happening to X @ SuSE/Novell ?
rpm -q -i xglx [...] Summary: This package contains an Xserver that uses OpenGL for its drawing operations. [...] Note that this is highly experimental code, it has been tested only on few hardware platforms, and depending on driver state it may even crash your computer. [...] Xglx is created mainly by David Reveman (Novell), with some additions from Dave Arlie, Matthias Hopf (SuSE), and Adam Jackson (NWNK). It uses the glitz API as an abstraction layer, which has been designed and implemented by David Reveman and Peter Nilsson (UMU). [...] -- Marcus
This link was in a post a few weeks back. It is very interesting reading for anybody interested in xglx. Dave http://dri.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html On 9/15/05, Marcus Camen <mcamen@mcamen.de> wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 01:15, Winston Graeme wrote:
What's happening to X @ SuSE/Novell ?
rpm -q -i xglx
[...] Summary: This package contains an Xserver that uses OpenGL for its drawing operations. [...] Note that this is highly experimental code, it has been tested only on few hardware platforms, and depending on driver state it may even crash your computer. [...] Xglx is created mainly by David Reveman (Novell), with some additions from Dave Arlie, Matthias Hopf (SuSE), and Adam Jackson (NWNK). It uses the glitz API as an abstraction layer, which has been designed and implemented by David Reveman and Peter Nilsson (UMU). [...]
-- Marcus
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