Present Perfect

mach

Progressing steadily. Getting patches and comments from various people at this point, which are again holding me back from doing a release. Axel Thimm pointed me at the fact that since I now use rpm and apt on the host instead of inside the root, I no longer need to bootstrap everything up to apt anymore. Duh. He's right, and it should simplify the configuration file a lot.

Other people are starting to ask me questions about it, so that's a good sign. I need to get it out.

computer

To celebrate my redundancy, I bought two Compaq LCD flatscreens (they were on sale) and a Matrox 550 (I haggled). I have xinerama at (ex-)work, but I might make more use of it at home. I hope to somehow run X on one and DirectFB on the other, for example. Or GNOME CVS on the other. Will take some twiddling.

The motherboard I'm using is an SiS variant and apparently a lot of them trap Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and make it instantly stop the PC. I'm not sure I'll manage to unlearn muscle memory for "kill X" anytime soon.

Severn

Installed it on the new machine with the dualhead. It seemed to lock up at boot time, and it seems to lock up every other time too. When doing Xinerama, for some reason it has the heads the wrong way around, so that my second output always has XVideo and the other doesn't. I also have to switch around the Server Layout to fix the xinerama. Not sure what happens here.

DirectFB

Something must be wrong with the build system because none of the packages out there had working binaries; all of the packaged binaries were the libtool shell scripts. I hacked around it by manually copying libtool in my spec file, and showed it to Matthias when I was there, who didn't like the solution :) But I'm assuming he did the same as well anyway.

I have a largish patch for the directfb guys, but I'm not sure my mail got through. to them.

Unemployedness

I look forward so incredibly much to my self-imposed timeout from the working world. I have a ton of things I want to work on: mach, Dave/Dina, GStreamer, GNOME multimedia bits, a car GStreamer player, a python-based GStreamer-based Dave/Dina integrated player, ...

There's too much interesting stuff to do.

mach Progressing steadily. Getting patches and comments from various people at this point, which are again holding me back from doing a release. Axel Thimm pointed me at the fact...