System compositor progress

Christopher James Halse Rogers raof at ubuntu.com
Thu Jul 12 04:58:33 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 18:04 +1200, Robert Ancell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're now at the point where the system compositor [1] is starting to
> work. Any brave souls who want to start playing with this can have a
> look at the instructions in the blueprint. Obviously THIS IS HIGHLY
> EXPERIMENTAL, so play at your own risk! In saying that, early feedback
> is most welcome and anyone who wants to hack on this contact Chris
> (RAOF) and I and we can point you at code to play with.
> 

This is now ready to roll, for intel, nouveau, and radeon. Intel is most
tested, and should essentially work; nouveau and radeon are less tested.

amd64 packages of weston are still publishing: you need at least
0.89.0~system-compositor4-0~raof3.

Other than that, go to town!

Chris




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