Reply With QuoteI am really looking forward to using Wayland on, my favorite, Ubuntu ASAP. I hope Canonical won't postpone it for after the next LTS. I want 12.04 with Unity + Wayland!
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Wayland Is Now Playing Well With NVIDIA, ATI Drivers
Phoronix: Wayland Is Now Playing Well With NVIDIA, ATI Drivers
For those of you interested in running the Wayland Display Server on your NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards, without running it nestled inside an X Server, it should work if you use the newest Linux kernel code...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTExMw
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I am really looking forward to using Wayland on, my favorite, Ubuntu ASAP. I hope Canonical won't postpone it for after the next LTS. I want 12.04 with Unity + Wayland!
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This is a bit off-topic but given Wayland and PulseAudio, does anybody else see Linux video/audio moving in opposite directions? Wayland is dropping network transparency for a lean n' mean graphics framework while PulseAudio stacks a network server on top of ALSA.
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Then don't use pulseaudio.Originally Posted by zoomblab
With this news though, I may just get motivation to properly setup switching between fglrx & r600g to start trying some of these things (i.e Wayland) out.
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aw, you had me going... from the article title i thought you meant that the binary drivers were playing well with wayland :P
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In wayland you will be able to do the same things you do with X but in a different way.
Its just that the functionality hasn't been added yet. Sadly only Kristian is working actively on it.
As for Pulseaudio the only thing that should be done is to be integrated in a single project with Jack in order to have only ONE server handling desktop and pro audio.
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If someone can piece together all the required pieces, it would be cool if they could produce a live CD for would-be testers...
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It is not ready yet. There are a lot of things to be done on the wayland side and also window managers must be ported. But before WM get ported the infrastructure must be there which is not the case yet.
If you want to try it i thing there are a few scripts/instructions floating around for various distros.
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Did you read what I said? I was talking about architecture. Plain Wayland drops the network transparency stuff from the core framework. Of course you will be able to optionally put an X server on top of it.
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
PulseAudio on the other side is designed as a server architecture much like X does. No?
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So what advantages does Wayland provide for the end user?
Is it really faster than X?
Or the only advantages come in the form of easier development (due to less code bloat)?
