Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread Gary Gatling
Sorry. Yeah. No matter what, bumblebee should be retired after PRIME comes out because that solution should be a lot faster. (less copying in RAM for one thing) bumblebee is intended as a better stopgap solution than "ironhide" for ubuntu. I admit I do use bumblebee a lot on both fedora and RHEL f

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread drago01
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Gary Gatling wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Simone Caronni > wrote: >> >> There's a total different approach slated for inclusion into newer >> xorg versions by Dave Airlie: >> >> http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item76078 >> >> That's something tha

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread Gary Gatling
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Simone Caronni wrote: > There's a total different approach slated for inclusion into newer > xorg versions by Dave Airlie: > > http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item76078 > > That's something that relies on deep changes in the xorg stack. > It allows card switching,

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-21 Thread Simone Caronni
There's a total different approach slated for inclusion into newer xorg versions by Dave Airlie: http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item76078 That's something that relies on deep changes in the xorg stack. It allows card switching, GPU offload, GPU hotswitching etc. All is controlled by xrandr to do

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-20 Thread Gary Gatling
Oh sure. I know Jack pretty well. We talk on IM almost every day. He actually suggested to me that I go this route about submitting it to fedora when I asked him for some advice about bumblebee. Cheers, On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Gary

Re: Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Gary Gatling wrote: > My name is Gary Gatling and I work at North Carolina State University > supporting Linux in the college of engineering. I mainly work with Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. Hi Gary, I co-maintain one or two packages Jack Neely @ ncsu.edu in RPM Fu

Introduction regarding VirtualGL and bumblebee review requests

2012-06-20 Thread Gary Gatling
Hello, As per the instructions at the web page at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers I wanted to give a brief introduction. My name is Gary Gatling and I work at North Carolina State University supporting Linux in the college of engineering. I mainly work with R