Comments on: “news from the bling-brigade”

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:21:24 +0000

(whoa, that’s a rather unforgiving captcha thingy you have there — a simple disagreement over a few misplaced pixels and it throws out my entire comment!)

8776 may be old but it’s what Edgy Eft gives me.

Feisty Fawn should be out soon so I hope to give glitz-test another try within a month or two.

Thanks for the help so far

By: Steveway

Steveway — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:57:18 +0000

Yes, but the 9746 only adds support for the 88** cards and there are some posts about problems with them on beryl-project.org wich got fixed by using the 9631.
BTW, How is lowfat going? Will we see a glimpse today?

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:37:37 +0000

@ Peter Lund, Steveway: 1.0-9746 even -> http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

By: Steveway

Steveway — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:05:20 +0000

Peter, you should use the 9631 driver.
The 8776 is pretty outdated.

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:56:59 +0000

Non-composited. I use the closed-source nvidia driver and — this might be important — I enable RandR rotation because I prefer portrait over landscape when I read/write code.

Here’s a portion of the glxinfo output:

OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 6600 GT/AGP/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 2.0.2 NVIDIA 87.76

Keep the beautiful bling coming

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:34:52 +0000

@ Peter Lund: Hm… sounds like a GL-driver issue. While it worked on one machine it did not work on another. Main difference was gfx-chip and driver. Did you try it under a composited or non-composited environment? The stacking of widgets on top of a GL-context, which is created implicitly if you use the glitz-backend, currently cannot play well with gtk+. And the culprit of this is… ehm… gtk+. But this is a known issue and will be worked on afaik.

@ Stefan Schwarzburg: I hope to get things going before the weekend.

By: Stefan Schwarzburg

Stefan Schwarzburg — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:07:45 +0000

Hi,
just because I don’t want to have a look at your site every 10minutes:
When will lowfat so the light of the open source world?
Just a hint, please

By: Peter Lund

Peter Lund — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:56:18 +0000

The glitz-test didn’t work well for me (Ubuntu Edgy Eft + self-compiled cairo 1.2.6 w/glitz enabled).

The animation itself is smooth and beautiful but the background is more or less random (but changes a bit once in a while) and the GTK+ buttons blink so I guess it’s because some of the double-buffering stuff got out of synch.

By: MacSlow

MacSlow — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:17:01 +0000

@ David Nielsen: Yes this is perfectly possible. The needed functionality is in place. If I’m not mistaken one could even make a border of a metacity-theme now blurred (thanks to the new window-type matching code in compiz). But a bit cooler would be a dedicated decorator for compiz, that does all drawing with cairo/vector-graphics instead of metacity’s bitmap-based system. FOSDEM was great and the audience made me enjoy giving the talk, despite the fact I was slightly anxious.

@ Stack, Tobias: Yes that’s Candara.

@ erik: I record single frames with xvidcap and encode the results with a set of scripts I wrote. The scripts are included in this file here: http://macslow.thepimp.net/projects/encode-commands.sh you will need mplayer/mencoder, ffmpeg and ffmpeg2theora to be installed on your system for this to work. I should one day convert that to gstreamer.

@ lagorgy: It will not be a release (it is far from done!), but it will start it’s life in the open. Preparation is still taking some more time as I am also in the middle of organizing stuff for my internship and another talk I was asked to do at CeBIT this months. And on top of that having a new girl-friend does not help common time-allocation-procedures

By: lagorgy

lagorgy — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:30:54 +0000

those videos look great.

is it true ur going to release low fat soon?