Mailing List Archive: X drivers up for grabs

X drivers up for grabs

Dec 3, 2007, 6:29 PM

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Hi all,

Now that X is modular, we have the opportunity to do something really
cool -- let people who actually own the hardware maintain the drivers!
Almost all of the open-source drivers are currently maintained by
x11@gentoo.org (currently just me).

I need to lower my maintenance burden a bit, and it makes sense to do
this by handing off things I don't have hardware for anyway. I only use
these drivers:

input: keyboard, mouse
video: ati, mga

Reasonably popular drivers that need a maintainer:

evdev input driver
vmmouse input driver (For X inside VMWare)
fbdev
i810 (a.k.a. Intel)
newport (MIPS people, take note)
nv (Nvidia)
savage
sis
tdfx
via
vmware (For X inside VMWare)
voodoo

Also, all the other drivers with the exception of keyboard/mouse and
ati/mga.

Who wants 'em?

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

peper at gentoo

Dec 3, 2007, 11:20 PM

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On Tuesday 04 of December 2007 02:29:20 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> evdev input driver
I can take it unless someone else wants it more :)

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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

remi at gentoo

Dec 3, 2007, 11:31 PM

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> i810 (a.k.a. Intel)

I can help with this one.

Rémi
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

gentoofan23 at gmail

Dec 4, 2007, 6:29 AM

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On Monday 03 December 2007 20:29:20 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> via

While I can't maintain this(no gentoo-x86/ access) I can test it if no one is
able to.
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

dberkholz at gentoo

Dec 5, 2007, 2:07 PM

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On 07:20 Tue 04 Dec , Piotr JaroszyÅ„ski wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 of December 2007 02:29:20 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > evdev input driver
> I can take it unless someone else wants it more :)

It's yours. I'll start reassigning bugs over the next couple of days.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

dberkholz at gentoo

Dec 5, 2007, 2:07 PM

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On 07:31 Tue 04 Dec , Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > i810 (a.k.a. Intel)
>
> I can help with this one.

It's yours. I'll start reassigning bugs over the next couple of days.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

cardoe at gentoo

Dec 5, 2007, 2:20 PM

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 07:20 Tue 04 Dec , Piotr JaroszyÅ„ski wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 04 of December 2007 02:29:20 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>
>>> evdev input driver
>>>
>> I can take it unless someone else wants it more :)
>>
>
> It's yours. I'll start reassigning bugs over the next couple of days.
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
(Nelson impression...) haha, peper!

Start checkin out Ubuntu... compnerd says they apply 120 patches to this
driver..

Also, start fixing the issues it has with HAL 0.5.10 since that's going
to hit the tree for real shortly. If you need a version to test against,
try Gentopia's overlay.
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

peper at gentoo

Dec 6, 2007, 2:37 PM

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> (Nelson impression...) haha, peper!
>
> Start checkin out Ubuntu... compnerd says they apply 120 patches to this
> driver..
>
> Also, start fixing the issues it has with HAL 0.5.10 since that's going
> to hit the tree for real shortly. If you need a version to test against,
> try Gentopia's overlay.

mmm fun. I will look into all that during the weekend and at least I know who
to harass :)

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Piotr JaroszyÅ„ski
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

cardoe at gentoo

Dec 6, 2007, 3:18 PM

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Piotr JaroszyÅ„ski wrote:
>> (Nelson impression...) haha, peper!
>>
>> Start checkin out Ubuntu... compnerd says they apply 120 patches to this
>> driver..
>>
>> Also, start fixing the issues it has with HAL 0.5.10 since that's going
>> to hit the tree for real shortly. If you need a version to test against,
>> try Gentopia's overlay.
>>
>
> mmm fun. I will look into all that during the weekend and at least I know who
> to harass :)
>
>
Actually, I am no longer involved with HAL and am currently in the
process of removing all traces of it off my system.
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

dev-zero at gentoo

Dec 10, 2007, 2:07 PM

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> vmmouse input driver (For X inside VMWare)
> vmware (For X inside VMWare)
I can take those two if nobody else wants them.

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Re: Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

dberkholz at gentoo

Dec 10, 2007, 2:25 PM

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On 22:07 Mon 10 Dec , Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>
> > vmmouse input driver (For X inside VMWare)
> > vmware (For X inside VMWare)
> I can take those two if nobody else wants them.

They're all yours. Thanks! The nice thing about them is that there
aren't any open bugs. It's just been bumps so far.

Thanks again,
Donnie
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Re: X drivers up for grabs [ In reply to ]

vapier at gentoo

Dec 16, 2007, 2:18 PM

Post #12 of 12 (226 views)

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On Monday 03 December 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> I need to lower my maintenance burden a bit, and it makes sense to do
> this by handing off things I don't have hardware for anyway.

you didnt list it, but i can help with the sisusb driver ... i have one of
those neat dongles
-mike

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