On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:07:11 -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> A) Get cairo-gl to only load libGL when an application requests it:
>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47480
I've hacked up a patch¹ to implement this because I think it's a good
idea regardless of the problem with
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 05:07:11PM -0400, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote:
>
> I suppose E would be get Nouveau, the open source Nvidia driver, to work
> well enough that the proprietary driver is completely unnecessary. That
> seems very challenging, with the complete lack of help from Nvidia.
In
On 03/27/2012 06:35 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
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1) prelink refused to work on ELF modules with text relocations,
which excluded the NVidia libs outright
I'm using the --reloc-only option, which works fine even on our non-PIC
x86 binaries.
Prelinking helps with load time processing, but
On terça-feira, 27 de março de 2012 18.00.55, Pierre-Loup A. Griffais wrote:
> Hi Thiago,
>
> Thanks for your interest in the NVIDIA driver; please allow me to try to
> clarify the situation. You're right that we're not building with -fPIC for
> performance reasons, but that only applies to the x86
Hi Thiago,
Thanks for your interest in the NVIDIA driver; please allow me to try to clarify
the situation. You're right that we're not building with -fPIC for performance
reasons, but that only applies to the x86 platform. No text relocations should
be present in our x86_64 libraries thanks to
On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 17.07.11, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> B) Get the Nvidia proprietary driver to reduce memory consumption.
>I haven't touched this one. All I have found is linux-b...@nvidia.com
>mentioned on
>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html
There are two major reasons the wayland backend for GTK+ can't currently
be enabled at all, not just by default, in a linux distribution:
1) Enabling both the x11 and wayland backends of GTK+ causes GTK to be
entirely unusable:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672361
2) The wayla
