Technical Blog of Richard Hughes

Does anybody have an “Everything” install for Fedora Core 8 or rawhide? If you do, please email me as I need some desktop files from you for some stats. Many thanks.

I compiled the new mesa today, so I could try out the latest nouveau 3D stuff:

Some stuff rocks hard with the new stuff, in particular supertux runs really well now

Also, thanks to Stuart Bennett, My LCD panel now uses the same dithering as the binary blob. This means it looks as good with the free driver as with the blob. We're still thinking about how we can work out what bit corresponds to FPDither.

If you are coming to FOSDEM, make sure you add Stephane Marchesin and the other guys in #nouveau to your drinks list.

Today I released PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.1.6.

PackageKit release notes.
gnome-packagekit release notes.

Dear NVIDIA and LENOVO,

Please can you tell me what bit in your NV4x BIOS corresponds to if_is_18bit, i.e. if my LVDS panel supports 24 bit colour or not.
I do understand telling the nouveau developers such business-critical pieces of information could impact future profits, and I do understand that documenting magic numbers means that the numbers could be seen by both ATI and Intel robbing you of trade secrets and your interlectual property. Not.

Thanks.

In other news, Richard was annoyed by having to manually add Option “FPDither” in xorg.conf to stop his Lenovo LVDS display looking rubbish.

p.s. Does anyone happen to have a biosmod scp file for a NVIDIA nv40 bios? Beers a-plenty if you share.