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rippsWow, have to give the ati gallium devs credit, they're quickly approaching performance parity with the catalyst drivers. Now all we need is some form Video Acceleration for r300-r500 and I'll be a very happy camper.04:51
RAOFripps: I'd try a little reverse-engineering if I were you; the gallium VA architecture is starting to materialise, so there'd be something to hook in to :)04:54
bjsniderripps, yes but the tests were conducted with extremely old hardware.05:01
rippsbjsnider: like mine. I have an rv350 radeon 9600 pro05:01
rippsThis is very good news for me05:02
bjsniderit would be helpful if the code also worked for the newer stuff too05:02
rippsat least r600g has xvmc, I'm still wallowing in xv only. I'd really like to offload just a small bit of video decoding to the gpu05:03
bjsniderthere's no video decoding hardware on an old thing like that05:04
rippsshouldn't matter, from what I can tell, the upcoming gallium va architecture will shaders, not custom the uvd stuff in the catalyst anyway.05:05
bjsniderit would be most important to have help decoding h.264, and i seriously doubt an old gpu would help much05:06
bjsnideran old system like you undoubtedly have would not be much good for h.264 video05:06
rippsany help, no matter how small would be help greatly05:06
bjsnideryou know what would be a better solution though...05:07
bjsnidernew equipment05:19
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rippsActually, I've been looking at an upgrade soon. And I was planning to get an nvidia geforce gt 240. Mostly because I wanted access to a decent gpu that allowed for hd playback, and vdpau looked appealing.05:21
rippsHowever, seeing how much progress ati gallium is making, I'm kinda of two minds about it.05:22
bjsniderthat has vdpau feature set c, which means it decodes just about everything05:23
bjsniderbut hte gt 210 can come without a fan, has the same vdpau features, and makes no noise05:23
rippsactually, which is better? gt 240 or fermi 430? Both are bout the same in price, but the gt240 has gddr5, so shouldn't it be faster?05:24
bjsnideryeah, although the fermi has a more advanced gpu, with opengl 405:24
bjsniderthey both have feature set c05:25
bjsnidera more powerful card will be louder, which is a personal pet peeve, and i don't see how you take advantage of the speed on linux05:25
rippsit seems fermi is more target toward the htpc crowd, while gt is more focused toward gamers. Now I hardly ever play PC games, but it be nice to know I could If I ever wanted to.05:26
bjsnideryou can't play them on linux though05:26
bjsniderunless you dual-boot it's irrelevant05:26
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rippsI'm not opposed to dual-booting05:30
rippsBut, the last time I had a windows partition, I hadn't boot into it in over a year. Then I erased the drive it was on a few months ago, and I haven't found the need to reinstall windows on it yet.05:31
bjsniderhas that computer got a pci-express slot? it sounds like you've got an agp card now05:32
rippsbjsnider: my current computer doesn't, but I got an old mobo and cpu from dad recently, I just need a decent pci-e video card and a cpu fan.05:32
rippsmy current computer is very old, so I'm looking forward to the new one. Unfortunately, the new cpu isn't that much faster than my current one, it's just 64-bit05:34
rippsbjsnider: so, you think I'd like the fermi 430 better because it would produce less heat, and therefore less noise?05:43
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evilvishlastlog jbs06:29
evilvishhmm, is jbs a bot or ..? looks like he isnt active he except for the nickchange spam06:31
evilvishactive here*06:32
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runekshello ubuntu-x13:24
runekshow are we today?13:24
runeksok, not a lot happening in here I can see. i'll just let my question linger then: i can see from old IRC logs that the llvmpipe driver was once included in the xorg-edgers PPA, is there any chance it will be that again in the future? i would really like to try it out, but I must admit that compiling mesa (and all the other things necessary) are too much for me right now, so it'd be perfect if xorg-edgers packaged this. any chance13:28
runeksof this happening in the future? running the Gallium drivers for my RV670 now BTW, runs *perfectly* (and quicker than mesa classic!). thanks for this awesome PPA!13:28
shadeslayer\o14:34
shadeslayerhttp://imagebin.org/133512 is some weird stuff happening with a friends install14:34
shadeslayerhe has ubuntu 10.10 ...14:35
shadeslayerAlso bug 702341 << some weird stuff with his synaptics touchpad ( Cross posted from #ubuntu-kernel since i dont know which channel this should go in )14:36
ubot4Launchpad bug 702341 in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) "synaptics touchpad does not work (affects: 1) (heat: 416)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/70234114:36
evilvishshadeslayer: did you try kicking the friend? (not the install) 14:36
* evilvish hides..14:36
shadeslayerheh 14:37
shadeslayerevilvish: didnt work :P14:37
shadeslayerhe's new to this ;)14:37
* evilvish smiles at the scan! and wonders what bollywood has to do with capacitors ;p14:39
shadeslayerlol :14:40
shadeslayerevilvish: http://imagebin.org/13351114:40
shadeslayernot limited to a particular area14:40
shadeslayerand is completely randomn14:40
shadeslayerMobility Radeon HD 5000 Series << Graphics Card14:42
evilvishshadeslayer: hey, so your exams are over now?14:46
shadeslayerevilvish: yep :)14:46
shadeslayerwhy are you evil? :P14:46
evilvishshadeslayer: you use evilslayer too, right? ;)14:48
shadeslayernot right now :P14:48
bjsniderripps, it's tough to say. i use a graphics card that has feature set c, no fan, and the speed is fine for me, but i don't do any gaming or anything. it runs the composited desktop admirably. for me, graphics card noise is a huge annoyance. for you, it might not be14:57
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gordhi all, can anyone confirm that xorg edgers (and the new xorg) work with nvidia? would like to upgrade to do some testing with unity15:14
Sarvattnot with the proprietary drivers15:16
gordgreat, will hold off for a while then15:16
runeks_is there any chance that the llvmpipe driver will be included in xorg-edgers again any time soon? i can see from IRC logs that it once was.15:33
runeksjust testing IRC via Empathy15:43
runeksseems to work :)15:47
runeksi'm off for now. if anyone knows anything about when the llvmpipe driver might be available in xorg edgers PPA, please write an answer here. i'll just look in the IRC logs for the answer, when time permits. good day everyone!16:15
Sarvattbryceh: ugh what a mess in that bug you linked. looks like ati broke userspace and that commit was picked up in 2.6.35 stable?17:23
Sarvatthttp://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?h=7.9&id=773e8fadc8b19aaba5d13f75ac5810badb3968c4 (post 7.9.0...)17:27
bjsniderif a thin like that is in the stable kernel, that ought to make linus very happy17:51
Sarvatthttps://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2480217:54
Sarvattthats.. nasty17:54
ubot4bugzilla.kernel.org bug 24802 in Video(DRI - non Intel) "Graphics errors with Radeon KMS driver on RV770" [Normal,New]17:54
Sarvattmesa 7.9.1+ needs that kernel commit to work right, mesa 7.9.0 wont work right with that kernel commit17:55
brycehSarvatt, yeah ugh17:55
Sarvattwhat the heck do we do?17:57
tjaaltonpull the mesa patch, with versioned depends on the kernel? :P17:58
tjaaltonor drop the kernel commit17:59
Sarvattyeah its dropped, but newer kernels dont work right on maverick without updating mesa somehow now17:59
Sarvattat least its easy to use metacity in maverick (unlike natty) to work around it :)18:00
brycehhttp://www.bryceharrington.org/X/Reports/ubuntu-x-swat/totals-natty-workqueue.svg18:30
bryceh4 new bugs in xorg-server today18:31
bryceh3 of which are apport crash hook bugs18:31
brycehwhich is interesting because I thought hook was busted... did it suddenly start working again?18:32
Sarvattwhy pixman all the sudden? hmm18:32
Sarvattwow you're right, haha18:33
Sarvatthow the heck did that happen18:33
brycehhmm, I overheard someone else having trouble getting apport to capture crashes, I wonder if something got fixed?18:34
Sarvattdoesn't look like its working quite right though, hmm18:38
brycehoh?18:38
SarvattStacktraceTop:18:38
Sarvatt XISendDeviceHierarchyEvent (flags=0xbfcccf9c)18:38
Sarvatt DisableDevice (dev=0xaaa8e70, sendevent=1 '\001')18:38
Sarvatt ?? ()18:38
Sarvattthey're all that18:38
brycehhrm18:38
brycehSarvatt, speaking of apport, dunno if you noticed this change went in:18:38
Sarvattretracer isn't working right18:39
brycehrevno: 182218:39
brycehcommitter: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com>18:39
brycehbranch nick: trunk18:39
brycehtimestamp: Tue 2011-01-11 16:26:12 -060018:39
brycehmessage:18:39
bryceh  hookutils.py, attach_dmesg(): Do not overwrite already existing dmesg.18:39
brycehI chatted with pitti about our gpu freeze capture troubles last week18:39
brycehproblem was when the gpu freeze handler triggers, it *does* capture the dmesg and other stuff18:40
brycehbut after rebooting when apport fires up to report the bug, it RE-collected those files, overwriting the ones that had been captured earlier18:40
brycehnow it no longer does that18:40
Sarvatthttp://launchpadlibrarian.net/62489709/ThreadStacktrace.txt vs https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/705078/+attachment/1799814/+files/ThreadStacktrace.txt18:41
ubot4Sarvatt: Error: Bug #705078 is private.18:41
Sarvattahh cool18:41
Sarvattthe retraces aren't working for sure, darn18:41
brycehhrm18:42
brycehSarvatt, yeah you're right, the retracer is attaching something completely unrelated18:43
brycehSarvatt, I'll email pitti about this18:43
brycehactually I'll file an apport bug18:43
brycehSarvatt, hmm actually looking closer, all three bugs have the same stack up through #918:53
Sarvattthats where the real stack starts18:54
Sarvattrest just looks like cleaning up after the crash18:54
shadeslayerSarvatt: sorry to highlight you, but one of my friends has this http://imagebin.org/13351118:54
shadeslayerwith a radeon 5400...18:54
brycehSarvatt, ideas on what is in #4-9?18:54
shadeslayerany ideas would be helpful :)18:54
Sarvattshadeslayer: I dont see anything wrong there? :)18:56
shadeslayerSarvatt: the weird colors18:57
shadeslayeron the profile pic18:57
shadeslayerSarvatt: http://imagebin.org/133511 << 18:57
shadeslayererr18:58
shadeslayerhttp://imagebin.org/13351218:58
brycehSarvatt, bug #70557219:00
ubot4Launchpad bug 705572 in apport (Ubuntu) "retracer attaching incomplete backtrace (affects: 1) (heat: 6)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/70557219:00
shadeslayerSarvatt: whereas actually : http://imagebin.org/13358819:01
brycehSarvatt, notice the xorg.0.log.old's are filled with bo map failed: Cannot allocate memory messages19:14

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