I would add a precision : currently, IronHide supports only Ubuntu, but
in fact MrMEEE also dropped support from himself to IronHide. Nothing
done on twitter, his blog, github (either code and issues) since one
month, and in fact before the little update done at this time, there
wasn't anything in the former month too...
So, you could either choose nouveau/xorg developement, but that's very
low level, retro-engineering, so as a first project, I think that it is
too hard, however, that's only my opinion, you're free to decide.
Anyway, we would be very happy to count one more developers in the whole
group.
Le 21/12/2011 22:02, Lekensteyn a écrit :
Hello Daniel,
It's a great thing that you want to contribute! Remember that you're
not limited
to a single project, you can take part in multiple ones. Contribution
does not
only mean code, it also means helping others, writing documentation,
artwork,
etc. Since you're a programmer, I guess that the code part will suit
the best for
you.
As for the mentioned projects, TBP/Bumblebee and MrMEEE/ironhide are both
forks of MrMEEE/bumblebee. Since Martin Juhl has dropped support for other
Linux distributions, it's not really helpful to all people since there
is more than
Ubuntu out of here. TBP/Bumblebee currently has developers with varying
developers. The most active ones use Ubuntu and Arch Linux.
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee
Bumblebee is a temporary (1-2y?) "solution" until the Xorg developers
have a
real solution. So, if you want to help with the graphics stack, I suggest
you reading the stuff on
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Development. I've
no idea whether that is fully up-to-date, for that I recommend joining
the IRC
channel #nouveau.
Communication mostly go through mailing lists and IRC on Freenode.
Bumblebee users: #bumblebee
Bumblebee development: #bumblebee-dev
Nouveau: #nouveau
Xorg Development: #xorg-devel
Regards,
Peter
Bumblebee Developer
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Daniel Marth <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi!
A few months ago I bought a Dell XPS 17 L702X (i7-2720QM, NVIDIA
GT 550M). I always trusted in the NVIDIA drivers, although closed
source I never had problems in the past few years. Unfortunately I
was unaware of Optimus...
Now I want to tell you a bit about my person. I'm 18 years old and
I have been programing C/C++ for 5 years and know several other
languages (Java, Perl, Python). Another thing I already used is
NASM on x86/x64-Linux. Linux (mostly Ubuntu/Kubuntu) has been
running on my machines for 3 years now. I know that this isn't
much compared to other people, but I'm permanently learning more
and improving my skills.
What now? I want to contribute! Of course I'm aware that it will
take me several months or even years to produce anything useful.
So does it make sense to start working on Bumblebee or IronHide or
is this just a temporary solution until the Nouveau driver and X
server get ready for this? Can you recommend me any good
literature/tutorials? Any hints where to start?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel Marth
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