Michael, Though probably too late for this cycle it would be great to get Phoronix to gather ideas foe google summer of Code ideas.
On 20-Mar-09, at 11:54 PM, Joseph Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I'm Joey Adams, and I'm interested in participating as a > student in Google Summer of Code with X.Org. I hope to learn how to > develop for and contribute to Xorg, and GSoC is just the thing to get > me started. > > I'm particularly interested in working in the area of drivers, though > working anywhere on Xorg will be just as rad. I envision buying a new > computer with a video card that needs attention, then spending my > summer unlocking its (and my) potential. > > I'd like to discuss what would be a good project. I'm leaning toward > picking up a recent nvidia card and doing one of the items mentioned > at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo . > > > Primary reasons I'm interested in Google Summer of Code with X.Org > (not necessarily in order): > > Power > Money > C > Community > > Power- Coming through Google Summer of Code successfully should give > me a much more intimate understanding of the X.Org internals. Having > this will enable me to improve the drivers I want to use, which will > help out others as well. > > Money- Who doesn't want $4,500? :) Money will be a major motivation > for me, as it will help me get a car and a faster computer, both of > which I sorely need :) > > C- Ever since I learned C, I have not been very inclined to learn > scripting languages like Python, Perl, PHP, etc. They're not fast. C > is fast :) Unfortunately for me, a lot of major upstream projects are > using the three Ps. I should probably learn them, but I suppose the > C-less years of my youth (Hypertalk, Visual Basic 5, TI-BASIC) were > too much for me :) The fact that Xorg is in C increments my desire to > work with it. > > Community- I'm not very active as a contributor in any specific > programming community. Learning X and becoming a regular contributor > would be really neat. > > > My X background: > > No real programming successes, yet. I have had multiple forays into > the code, but nothing major has come of it. I tried to get the Cirrus > 7543 chipset on my really old Pentium 1 laptop to work on a recent > Xorg (support for it was dropped in XFree86 4 after stuff got > reorganized) by looking at the XFree86 3 driver and shotgun-changing a > more current version. I succeeded in getting the gray background and > cursor, but it freezes after that. I really didn't know what I was > doing. I also looked into speeding up a Radeon 9250 card on my PC, > but I was clueless. > > I bought an eMac G4 late last year to test PowerPC stuff, and X didn't > work. I shot an e-mail to this list, and Alex Deucher came to the > rescue (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02854.html > to read the unabridged epic). He asked me to do tests with the > connector table. In the end, it worked fantastically. Plus, I > learned I could set my eMac's monitor to arbitrary resolutions (e.g. > 1920x1200, well beyond the advertised 1280x960) using custom modelines > generated with gtf. > > > Thanks for reading my rambling :) Hopefully it gives any potential > mentors a better idea of what I know. > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
