Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-13 Thread Romain Failliot
For my problem with the nouveau driver burning up my card, I'll take the simplest solution: get an ATI card (nVidia should have opened up their specs!). 2011/9/27 Eric Anholt : > I'd definitely recommend working on a texturing format extension for > your hardware as a great way to get started in M

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-10 Thread Ian Romanick
On 10/06/2011 11:46 AM, Romain Failliot wrote: 2011/10/6 Ian Romanick: You will have to *completely* uninstall the NVIDIA closed-source driver in order to use the Mesa driver. NVIDIA installs their own kernel module and their own libGL, so it is impossible for both to live on the same system.

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Romain Failliot
2011/10/6 Ian Romanick : > You will have to *completely* uninstall the NVIDIA closed-source driver in > order to use the Mesa driver.  NVIDIA installs their own kernel module and > their own libGL, so it is impossible for both to live on the same system. Well, last time I checked (2 months ago), n

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Kevin DeKorte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2011 11:02 AM, Romain Failliot wrote: > 2011/10/6 Heath Feather : >> Try seeing which libraries you're picking up , here my LD_LIBRARY_PATH >> was set to /home/hfeather/work/downloads/Mesa-7.0.1/lib64/ > > Thanks! > Actually I don't have a li

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Romain Failliot
2011/10/6 Heath Feather : > Try seeing which libraries you're picking up , here my LD_LIBRARY_PATH > was set to /home/hfeather/work/downloads/Mesa-7.0.1/lib64/ Thanks! Actually I don't have a lib64 directory, but just lib. What did you do to build for 64 bits? BTW I've got F15 64bits. ___

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Ian Romanick
On 10/05/2011 11:09 PM, Romain Failliot wrote: 2011/9/27 Romain Failliot: I'll get my hand in the code now. Be right back as soon as I can run my own mesa code :) Sorry for the delay, I lost my internet connection for a week... So I started compiling mesa thanks to the site Benjamin Bellec gav

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Heath Feather
at your're picking up Heath. -Original Message- From: mesa-dev-bounces+hfeather=tabula@lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:mesa-dev-bounces+hfeather=tabula@lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Brian Paul Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:43 AM To: Julian Adams Cc: mesa-dev@lists.fr

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Brian Paul
On 10/06/2011 06:44 AM, Julian Adams wrote: It's possible that the instructions will only switch you over to your locally built version version of Mesa if you are already running a shipped Mesa as your driver. It looks like you're running the Nvidia blob. Perhaps you need to switch to Mesa/Nouvea

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Romain Failliot
2011/10/6 Julian Adams : > It's possible that the instructions will only switch you over to your > locally built version version of Mesa if you are already running a shipped > Mesa as your driver. It looks like you're running the Nvidia blob. Perhaps > you need to switch to Mesa/Nouveau first? Wel

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Julian Adams
It's possible that the instructions will only switch you over to your locally built version version of Mesa if you are already running a shipped Mesa as your driver. It looks like you're running the Nvidia blob. Perhaps you need to switch to Mesa/Nouveau first? On 6 October 2011 07:09, Romain Fail

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-06 Thread Benjamin Bellec
Le 06/10/2011 08:09, Romain Failliot a écrit : > 2011/9/27 Romain Failliot : >> I'll get my hand in the code now. >> Be right back as soon as I can run my own mesa code :) > > Sorry for the delay, I lost my internet connection for a week... > So I started compiling mesa thanks to the site Benjamin

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-10-05 Thread Romain Failliot
2011/9/27 Romain Failliot : > I'll get my hand in the code now. > Be right back as soon as I can run my own mesa code :) Sorry for the delay, I lost my internet connection for a week... So I started compiling mesa thanks to the site Benjamin Bellec gave to me http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-27 Thread Romain Failliot
Hi Eric, I tried to email you to have more information about the VS5 task (dead code elimination), but your email address on your page (http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/EricAnholt) was wrong :/ > I'd definitely recommend working on a texturing format extension for > your hardware as a great way to

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-26 Thread Eric Anholt
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:25:39 +0200, Romain Failliot wrote: > Hi Tom, hi Christian, > > 2011/9/26 Tom Stellard > > Glad you're interested. We can always use more help. I think the > > best way to get started is to find something to work on that is > > interesting to you. So, I have two quest

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-26 Thread Romain Failliot
Great !! I'll read this right away! Thanks! 2011/9/26 Benjamin Bellec : > Le 26/09/2011 20:25, Romain Failliot a écrit : >> At first, it would be questions like how to run my own compiled mesa drivers? >> I should handle getting the code, compiling it and editing it. >> Things I've never done (or

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-26 Thread Benjamin Bellec
Le 26/09/2011 20:25, Romain Failliot a écrit : > At first, it would be questions like how to run my own compiled mesa drivers? > I should handle getting the code, compiling it and editing it. > Things I've never done (or almost never) is submitting a patch to a > floss project. I wrote some words o

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-26 Thread Romain Failliot
Hi Tom, hi Christian, 2011/9/26 Tom Stellard > Glad you're interested. We can always use more help. I think the > best way to get started is to find something to work on that is > interesting to you. So, I have two questions: What hardware do you > have, and why do you want to contribute to M

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-26 Thread Christian König
Hi Romain, Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 11:11 +0200 schrieb Romain Failliot: > Hi all! > > I'm an experienced programmer, but I've never touched the mesa code. > I desperately want to help, but for that, I need a "mentor" to teach > me the basics about the project, the good practices and eventuall

Re: [Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-25 Thread Tom Stellard
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Romain Failliot wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm an experienced programmer, but I've never touched the mesa code. > I desperately want to help, but for that, I need a "mentor" to teach me the > basics about the project, the good practices and eventually drive me through >

[Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

2011-09-25 Thread Romain Failliot
Hi all! I'm an experienced programmer, but I've never touched the mesa code. I desperately want to help, but for that, I need a "mentor" to teach me the basics about the project, the good practices and eventually drive me through the bugs and features. I'd be glad to begin with a simple, but long