Re: Project suggestion

I started working on making hw/xfree86 compile/work in xserver,
if anyone feels like joining in do email me:)

Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Ely Levy wrote:

> You are right,
>
> While talking to keithp he came up with a much better idea,
> creating a branch of xserver that uses the XFree86 DDX code,
> and then originizing it with the extentions and releasing it.
> I think it's a great idea that would be much more helpfull for xserver.
> so I think that's the direction I would go.
>
> Another important thing would be to get a community around it,
> to get it into distributions to get nvidia and ati compile their drivers
> to fit it and so on.
>
> so I'm going to read about the DDX code if anyone got pointer it would be
> appriciated:)
>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
>
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Peter "Firefly" Lund wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ely Levy wrote:
> >
> > > The idea behind it is to let people who need a sort of stable server
> > > the ability to use the new extentions and the like.
> >
> > So you want to add support for COMPOSITE, DAMAGE and the new version of
> > XFIXES to XFree86?
> >
> > And your rationale is that the XFree86 server is stable whereas the fd.o
> > server isn't?
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > 1) the extensions are not finalized yet.  Nobody is sure about what they
> > will end up looking like.  They will most certainly maintain their current
> > spirit but details may change.
>
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