Re: [discuss] Xserver: HAL still needed ?

2025-06-20 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM Eric J Bowman wrote: > But the mouse and keyboard already don't work on new hardware, > particularly keyboard on AMD cpu's, login as root you see "R^O^O^T^" 95% of > the time. So maybe it's time to move on from HAL and fix what's broken with > illumos on UEFI-only

Re: [discuss] History repeats: Redhat censored me on freedesktop.org - Xlibre fork release coming in few days

2025-06-20 Thread Sad Clouds
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:00:07 +0200 "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" wrote: > > Yes it still works, but the concepts > > and the implementation are out of touch with today's use cases. > > How exactly "out of touch" ? > The only thing I don't have practical use anymore is xf86vidmode > extensio

Re: [discuss] History repeats: Redhat censored me on freedesktop.org - Xlibre fork release coming in few days

2025-06-20 Thread Sad Clouds
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:33:43 + (UTC) "Apostolos Syropoulos via illumos-discuss" wrote: > I am not really sure if these are limitations and issues of X11,but the > problem is: who is going to lift them. We can talk forhours but the problem > is whether someone will step in and implement the

Re: [discuss] History repeats: Redhat censored me on freedesktop.org - Xlibre fork release coming in few days

2025-06-20 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos via illumos-discuss
I am not really sure if these are limitations and issues of X11,but the problem is: who is going to lift them. We can talk forhours but the problem is whether someone will step in and implement the ideas. On the other hand, Wayland, which is supposed to be the future has tons of problems, issues