X.Org News Archives

While there's been no new communication about X.Org Server 1.19, the X.Org Server 1.18.4 release is now available.

Half-way through the year, the X.Org Server has seen just over 300 commits, well down compared to a few years ago around this time where it would see about three times as many commits.

For those making use of DRI PRIME for multi-GPU systems (mainly in the context of iGPU + dGPU notebooks), the xorg-server's PRIME code now has synchronization support and double buffering.

This summer there has been two summer projects being worked on under the X.Org Foundation via this year's Google Summer of Code.

The X.Org Foundation has begun their search for a host willing to organize to the XDC 2017 conference in the Americas.

Researchers and scientists appear up in arms this week over the state of Indirect GLX (IGLX) in the X.Org Server and the potential they'd lose the remote OpenGL rendering support they've been accustomed to using for seeing visualizations from clusters / super-computers on their workstations.

The X.Org Server Git code finally has the threaded input support that's long been a work-in-progress.

Martin Peres, the organizer of this year's annual X.Org Developers' Conference, has issued a call for papers (CFP) for those wishing to present at this conference.

Going back six years has been work on bringing threaded input to the X.Org Server whereby the input event code would run on its own CPU thread. The work has yet to be merged in full, but Keith Packard has now revised the patches.

The results just are in of the 2016 X.Org Foundation elections and the members have voted to become part of the SPI. The foundation thus is basically becoming dissolved to become part of Software in the Public Interest.

In continuation of yesterday's article about the Radeon vs. Modesetting X.Org DDX drivers when tested from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, here are the 2D performance benchmark results for those interested when it comes down to the xf86-video-ati's EXA acceleration versus its GLAMOR option as well as the only 2D acceleration offered by xf86-video-modesetting via GLAMOR.

If you are a member of the X.Org Foundation and haven't voted already in this year's board elections, you darn well better put it on your TODO list this Sunday as the voting process is ending soon.

For those that are members of the X.Org Foundation, the elections commenced this morning so it's time to cast your vote!

Michel Dänzer of AMD today announced the xf86-video-ati 7.7 DDX driver release with improvements for those using the open-source AMD Linux driver stack.

In addition to the X.Org Server still seeing DRI3 and Present extension fixes, the xf86-video-intel and xf86-video-ati DDX drivers for X.Org have also been seeing more DRI3/Present fixes recently.

There still isn't any word on making the X.Org Server 1.19 release but xorg-server 1.18.3 was tagged this afternoon with a few fixes, including an important fix for DRI3's Present extension.

If you are interested in getting involved in Linux graphics driver development outside of initiatives like Outreachy and GSoC, here are some resources.

The GLX_EXT_libglvnd extension for the X.Org Server's GLX is now within the xorg-server code-base for the upcoming 1.19 release series.

Following a two week delay to the schedule, the list of nominees for the X.Org 2016 Board of Directors elections was published this morning.

Red Hat's Adam Jackson has taken to working on X.Org Server patches for supporting GLVND within a GLX world (rather than just EGL) via the GLX_EXT_libglvnd extension. GLVND, of course, is NVIDIA's OpenGL Vendor Neutral Dispatch Library.

New Linux kernel patches were posted today for introducing a "tinydrm" module for making it simpler to write DRM drivers against simplified displays.

The X.Org Board of Directors has needed to delay the X.Org 2016 elections by another two weeks.

There is still time if you wish to nominate yourself or someone else to run in the elections for this year's X.Org Foundation Board of Directors.

While there is nothing to report yet on the release of X.Org Server 1.19 even though we're nearing a half-year since the 1.18.0 debut, the latest xorg-server 1.18 point release is now available.

X.Org Server 1.18 is now available via the Xenial Xerus archive for users of the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04.

The xf86-video-ati DDX driver's TearFree option will work for rotated and reflected display outputs.

The latest X.Org Server code's XWayland support path now is able to run some older Linux games.

Version 1.5.0 of the XRandR (X11 Resize and Rotate) CLI utility for interfacing with the server's RandR extension has been released.

The X.Org Foundation is set to hold elections beginning next month for four new board of directors as well as the adoption of changes to the foundation's by-laws for allowing it to become part of SPI.

We now have some official information about X.Org going down, as in the project's one-letter domain.

Upstream projects associated with the X.Org Foundation should begin thinking of possible summer project ideas for GSoC 2016 while students can begin figuring out their proposals if wanting to get involved with open-source graphics/compute development over the summer.

The X.Org project has its latest server embarrassment.

To complement the xf86-video-ati vs. xf86-video-modesetting benchmarks from quite a while ago, here are some tests of the 3D performance in seeing any performance differences between the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX for the GCN 1.2 GPUs versus using the generic xf86-video-modesetting driver.

GLAMOR, the X.Org means of doing 2D acceleration over OpenGL, is going through a period of more clean-ups as Broadcom's Eric Anholt looks to further boost its performance on the Raspberry Pi VC4 driver.

A number of GLAMOR commits landed today within the X.Org Server Git repository.

One year after X.Org members voted to join the SPI, which failed over not enough votes, that vote is expected to come up again next month.

Whenever posting news items about the X.Org Foundation, it's common to routinely see a few comments about "let X.org die already!", "Wayland is the future!", and other similar remarks.

David Airlie's latest interesting Linux graphics patch series is about GLAMOR, the means of providing 2D acceleration in a hardware-independent manner over OpenGL.

It looks like a miracle happened just in time for X.Org.

With the recent news of X.Org possibly losing its valuable domain, many have commented in our forums and elsewhere how this could have possibly happened... However, in reality, it is sadly not much of a surprise.

Unless there's a miracle, the X.Org Foundation stands to lose one of its biggest assets: its single-letter domain name.

The maturing of Wayland (and Mir) as well as external projects like libinput have clearly had an impact on the X.Org Server's development... In 2015 there were fewer xorg-server commits than any year since 2003. Other indicators also point to dramatically slower X Server development.

Laércio de Sousa has published the seventh revision of patches to X.Org's KDrive and Xephyr for finishing up support for having full single-GPU, multi-seat capabilities in Xephyr.

Five years ago was work on threaded input for the X.Org Server, but it never ended up being merged. Now, Keith Packard has revised the patches and is looking to land the support.

It looks like the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 1 (DRI1) might have met its death sentence in the X.Org Server.

A lot of new code was pushed into X.Org Server Git today.

Intel's X.Org DDX driver has now been patched with the PCI IDs for Kabylake, the successor to Skylake that's due out in 2016.

The X.Org Foundation Board of Directors decided at yesterday's bi-weekly board meeting to go ahead with a plan to host XDC2016 in Helsinki, Finland.

X.Org Server 1.18 was supposed to be a quick release but ended up being drawn out into a longer release cycle than normal. However, today xorg-server 1.18.0 is now available under the "Moussaka" codename.

With X.Org Server 1.18 RC2 finally shipping yesterday, it's partially due to a revised policy around commit rights to the X.Org Server.