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mlankhorsthey00:25
mlankhorstanyone at uds/00:26
tjaaltonmlankhorst: sure thing, just got back from a shopping spree01:13
mlankhorstim below, still need to go to a computer store this week01:29
Sarvattbuy from newegg or amazon, get it shipped to the hotel :)01:31
tjaaltonhmm something weird happened, compiz is dog slow01:38
tjaaltonha, fast again01:40
tjaaltonI spent a couple of hours yesterday walking around trying to find a grocery store and a decent pub. today I noticed they were both on the block next door..01:49
mlankhorstno us credit card sadly02:29
tjaaltonaren't they all :)02:43
tjaaltonha, got the xserver crash with sigabrt in raise17:13
broder...isn't that where sigabrts always come from?17:14
tjaaltonmight well be :)17:14
jcristaugetting a signal is kind of the point of raise()17:14
brodersounds like an assertion failure17:14
tjaaltonresume from suspend, mouse works but nothing else doesn't, then when I kill the session I got this crash popup17:15
tjaaltonnice thing is that this should be backtraceable from a virtual console..17:17
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LLStarkstjaalton, i'll be attending the hybrid graphics meeting remotely. i don't intend to say much aside from the current state of 3rd party solutions. just want to take notes and report them to the hybrid graphics mailing list.20:05
LLStarksis that cool?20:06
tjaaltonLLStarks: sure20:09
LLStarkstjaalton, thanks. will there be a transcript and recording of the audio available afterwards?20:50
LLStarks*chat transcript20:50
jcristauthere's a hybrid graphics mailing list?20:53
tjaaltonLLStarks: not sure, could be21:11
tjaaltonoh, nice https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-session-management21:49
LLStarksjcristau, yeah: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux21:52
LLStarkspage needs to be cleaned up, but the list is at the bottom: https://lists.launchpad.net/hybrid-graphics-linux/21:53
tjaaltonLLStarks: the session concentrates on the work airlied has been leading upstream, and for 12.10 the blocker seems to be whether xserver 1.13 will get drvmodelv3 or not, since kernel 3.5 appears to be ready on the drm front21:57
jcristauseems rather unlikely21:58
tjaaltonand wth, I thought the session was on friday, but now it's scheduled for wednesday morning..21:58
tjaaltonjcristau: yeah, WIP all over the place on the branch21:59
LLStarkstjaalton, drvmodelv3 is the first branch to build successfully in months. i think it has a chance.22:34
LLStarksbut it's worthless without the i915 uxa and nouveau ddx patches22:34
LLStarksthe i915 ddx is problematic since airlied is only interested in uxa. ickle is committed to sna.22:35
LLStarksalso, there are no proposals for acpi management of prime. right now, the card is always on unless explicitly disabled through pci and acpi calls22:37
tjaaltonLLStarks: thanks for the info22:37
tjaaltonsomehow had overlooked the ddx support, duh22:55
LLStarksthe ddx won't build against the drvmodelv3 xserver. months ago, i got nouveau to build, but never i915. iirc, there was a special abi needed. other than airlied, i'm probably the person who has tried to compile everything. it was really mindblowing to see the xorg.0.log that was produced.23:00
tjaaltonLLStarks: any other stuff missing from the blueprint blurp?23:00
LLStarksi'd recommend talking to lekensteyn about adopting or upstreaming bbswitch for power management23:01
LLStarksbumblebee is not worth the time or effort, but bbswitch is essential for power saving23:01
tjaaltonright23:01
tjaaltonit would work with hw that don't have the bios options?23:02
LLStarksyes23:02
tjaaltongreat23:02
LLStarksthe card will run with full fans unless the nvidia/nouveau module is active23:02
tjaaltonheh, ok23:03
LLStarksalso, canonical should harass nvidia to resubmit their proposal for blob drivers to use dma-buf prime23:03
LLStarksit was narrowly shut down for the 3.3 window and nvidia never bothered with it again23:03
tjaaltonI think there was some concensus in allowing that23:03
LLStarksthere was, but nvidia has proactive about it.23:04
LLStarks*has to be23:04
tjaaltonright23:04
LLStarksdo you know what's going on with the EA and valve stuff for UDS? i would hope that the x team wouldn't be blindsided by anything crazy23:06
tjaaltondunno about any valve stuff, and wouldn't worry too much about EA either :)23:07
tjaaltonwednesday will tell23:07
LLStarksif its origin, i'll be shocked23:07
LLStarksi could live with a random game or two, but not the flood gates of a desura competitor on linux23:08
tjaaltonwouldn't steam be a competitor as well?-)23:16
LLStarkswell yeah, but gabe plays around with linux for servers and left 4 dead 2. steam is inevitable.23:18
LLStarksea is just the evil empire23:18
tjaaltonheh, ok23:20
tjaaltonI've not used any of these :)23:20
LLStarksa good graphics stack and gaming options are the key to the linux desktop23:23
LLStarksi just hope the linux ecosystem is ready23:23
tjaaltonwell, if nothing else, having more of the prime/blah stuff for 12.10 will make it somewhat easier to test and work on the hybrid stuff23:23
LLStarksit'll make the buffer sharing possible, but there'd still need to be a way to display everything23:24
tjaaltonI will be testing it for sure, since I have the hw and should have the time as well this cycle23:24
LLStarks3.5 is a definite for 12.10, right?23:25
tjaaltoneven 3.6 is on the table, right now on the session :)23:25
LLStarkskernel session right now?!?!23:26
tjaaltonyes23:26
tjaaltongrand ballroom a23:27
LLStarksis the woman ogasawara?23:31
tjaaltonyep23:31
LLStarks3.6 would be cutting things really close. is there anything in particular that 3.6 would bring ?23:31
LLStarksi don't think it's even been defined23:31
tjaaltonhw enablement, and yes 3.6 would be released roughly by late october/early november23:34
tjaaltonthere were other features as well, didn't catch what it was23:34
tjaaltonkernel freeze is oct 4th, so they'll re-evaluate once 3.5 is released late august23:35
RAOFThere'll be improvements in 3.6, most interestingly in haswell support23:36
LLStarkskernel releases usually don't line favorably for ubuntu+1 to be kernel+3 wrt current ubuntu release. 23:36
LLStarks*kernel+423:36
tjaaltonthey'd probably be able to pull the final release as an sru23:37
LLStarksbut that assumes release is an rc5 or something23:38
LLStarkssomething stable enough23:38
LLStarksand it wouldn't be zero-day23:38
tjaaltondon't know really23:39
RAOFWhy couldn't it be a zero-day?23:39
tjaaltonbut yes it would be rcsomething23:39
LLStarkslet's say 12.10 ships with rc5. linus says we need another week or two due to an unforeseen circumstance but everything is stable.23:40
LLStarks*week or two for the next rc23:40
LLStarks3.3 went all the way to rc723:41
RAOFOh, it wouldn't *necessarily* be a zero-day.23:41
tjaaltonso zero-day would be another rc and then another one few weeks later the final release23:41
RAOFBut the obvious precondition in going 3.6 is that it be (a) sufficiently stable, and (b) sufficiently early.23:42
LLStarksthat makes sense, but i don't remember any precedent for deciding a kernel so late and shipping with an rc.23:43
LLStarkshaswell would be nice, but aren't most of the bits landing in 3.4 and 3.5?23:44
tjaaltontrue, never done that before23:44
LLStarksreleases after lts tend to be wacky23:45
LLStarksso i dunno23:45
tjaaltonheh23:47
tjaalton"rolling release" :)23:47
tjaaltonalways usable23:48
tjaaltonor u(n)s(t)able, depending who you ask23:48
LLStarksif my hearing was correct, i heard the term come up during the chatter23:52
LLStarksi've come to dislike uds though. they never revisit stuff that people keep asking for. where are delta debs, systemd, btrfs, and a sid-synced repo?23:53
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tjaaltonsystemd won't happen (got blogged about), btrfs is unstable, dunno about the rest23:59

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