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BarTab :: keep firefox tabs unloaded out of memory

Thu, 06 May 2010 12:59:00 GMT

BarTab :: keep firefox tabs unloaded out of memory (link)

Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking (Android memory pressure)

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:31:00 GMT

Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking (Android memory pressure) (link)

Poulsbo on Mandriva with X server 1.7

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The "psb" Poulsbo driver from Intel was broken on X server 1.7, because of API changes notably.

But after some love, here it is, starting your X again!

First, upstream Xorg removed some stubs in server 1.7 (xfree86: Remove loader symbol list ABI stubs), and the psb driver was still calling them. Just removing the calls from the psb driver was enough about that.

The Fedora package ships a patch for server 1.7 that contains fixes about includes and libpciaccess, which I reused.

After this, it built fine, but the psb driver could not be loaded from X, because it was not linked with the internal "libmm" library, and failed finding its symbols. Building without -Wl,--as-needed made it link fine with libmm.so, but it is just a workaround.

In addition, some non-existent functions like mmListEmpty() were called from the internal libmm library. Previously, this has been workarounded by passing -Wl,--no-undefined as linker flags so that the library can be linked fine, and everything was fine at runtime as long as nothing used the symbol. But now, it seems libmm can't be loaded this way by dlopen(), even with lazy binding, it complains about the undefined symbols. So, I finally fixed it the proper, by adding back -Wl,--no-undefined, and removing the code calling the non-existent functions, which was unused anyway.

It also exposed an undefined assert() symbol as well, caused by a missing assert.h include...

Then, X still failed loading because it couldn't find mmCreateDRM(), which should be in libmm. That's because we build our Xorg with "hidden" visibility. It was enough patching and fixing libmm already, so a quick fix was to build with -fvisibility=default. This also fixes the linking of psb_drv.so with libmm.so, and allows to use -Wl,--as-needed again when linking the driver.

The final touch is the make the Xpsb proprietary extension usable again. The only issue was that the empty xf86AddModuleInfo() function has been removed upstream. Adding this empty function back in psb_driver.c directly is dirty, but makes it usable again :)

As bonus, I also fixed my patch setting MigrationHeuristic option to "greedy" by default, as it seems to lower the odds of a random crash.

There are still some unrendered pixmaps issue, and segfaults when playing with libva, but at least X is starting fine now, and 3D as well as accelerated video are working :)

(in recent Mesa releases, another issue appears in the proprietary dri driver, because of _glapi_set_warning_func() removal upstream, calling for another workaround /o\)

Enjoy this in Mandriva Cooker, it's already available in our contrib packages!

Other distros, you're welcome in cherry-picking our psb patches.

Linux on the iPhone

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:18:00 GMT

Linux on the iPhone (link)

Synaptics Gesture Suite™ Linux for TouchPads

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:44:00 GMT

Synaptics Gesture Suite™ Linux for TouchPads (link)

How to Combine Multiple PDF Files With pdftk

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:15:00 GMT

How to Combine Multiple PDF Files With pdftk (link)

Bustle - D-Bus profiler

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:14:00 GMT

Bustle - D-Bus profiler (link)

Workarounding the drag'n'drop freeze in Firefox

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Sometimes, Firefox freezes when drag'n'dropping a tab. The mouse cursor keeps the drag'n'drop icon, and the Firefox window becomes unresponsive, as well as my desktop.

To escape from this trap, a way is to enter the Firefox menu, by typing Alt+F \o/

(this also occurs in epiphany and galeon, and pterjan can confirm the workaround works as well for galeon)

Pont de Tancarville

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:21:00 GMT

Pont de Tancarville (Wikipedia): a red bridge in Normandie, next to Le Havre, seen on "Le Cerveau" (with Bourvil and Belmondo)

GitCheatSheet - Git SCM Wiki

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:51:00 GMT

GitCheatSheet - Git SCM Wiki (link)

Acheter une voiture - Conseil d' achat et de vente

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:20:00 GMT

Acheter une voiture - Conseil d' achat et de vente (link)

Quake II ported to use HTML5 technologies - The H Open Source: News and Features

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:58:00 GMT

Quake II ported to use HTML5 technologies - The H Open Source: News and Features (link)

Feedbooks | A place to discover and publish e-books

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:21:00 GMT

Feedbooks | A place to discover and publish e-books (link)

Cooperative Linux: port of the Linux kernel on Windows

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:09:00 GMT

Cooperative Linux: port of the Linux kernel on Windows (link)

Global private DNS

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:43:00 GMT

I was wondering why going to suzuki.fr opened my local webpage. Looks we have a little DNS issue:

$ host suzuki.fr
suzuki.fr has address 192.168.0.1
suzuki.fr has address 82.67.155.173
suzuki.fr mail is handled by 10 bow.rain.fr.
suzuki.fr mail is handled by 0 mail.suzuki.fr.

Carte grise : Comment l'obtenir ? (préfecture de Paris)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:14:00 GMT

Carte grise : Comment l'obtenir ? (préfecture de Paris) (link)

Le stationnement résidentiel sur voirie à Paris

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:12:00 GMT

Le stationnement résidentiel sur voirie à Paris (link)

kwaak3: Port of Quake3 to Android

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:20:00 GMT

kwaak3: Port of Quake3 to Android (link)

TooManyTabs: multi-rows, put idle tabs aside

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:58:00 GMT

TooManyTabs: multi-rows, put idle tabs aside (link)

Adblock Plus

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:00 GMT

Adblock Plus (link)

Mozilla Labs Jetpack: write Firefox add-ons using Javascript

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:55:00 GMT

Mozilla Labs Jetpack: write Firefox add-ons using Javascript (link)

Firebug: web development tool for Firefox

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:52:00 GMT

Firebug: web development tool for Firefox (link)

MR Tech Toolkit :: Add-ons for Firefox

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:51:00 GMT

MR Tech Toolkit :: Add-ons for Firefox (link)

HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on Nokia N900

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:45:00 GMT

HOWTO Install Fedora 12 on Nokia N900 (link)

163 Million Smartbooks Expected to Ship in 2015 | Press Release | ABI Research

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:30:00 GMT

163 Million Smartbooks Expected to Ship in 2015 | Press Release | ABI Research (link)

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:40:00 GMT

GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual (link)

EmacsWiki: Elisp Cookbook

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:00 GMT

EmacsWiki: Elisp Cookbook (link)

Programming in Emacs Lisp

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:13:00 GMT

Programming in Emacs Lisp (link)

x2x: a software alternative to a KVM switch (linux.com)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:37:00 GMT

x2x: a software alternative to a KVM switch (linux.com) (link)

VirtualBox user manual

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:33:00 GMT

VirtualBox user manual (link)

Grub VGA Modes

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:37:00 GMT

Grub VGA Modes (link)

Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:36:00 GMT

Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape: Google Maps Navigation For Android 2.0 (link)

Elance: freelance, consulting, outsourcing

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:45:00 GMT

Elance: freelance, consulting, outsourcing (link)

oDesk, outsource to freelancers

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:45:00 GMT

oDesk, outsource to freelancers (link)

Rent a coder

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:44:00 GMT

Rent a coder (link)

(get a) freelancer

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:43:00 GMT

(get a) freelancer (link)

China: Purple Mangosteen

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Sweet fruit from China, with white flesh (wikipedia)

China: Pitaya

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Red-skinned fruit with white flesh and black seeds (wikipedia)

skyscanner: cheap flights

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:03:00 GMT

skyscanner: cheap flights (link)

Wizz Air: low-cost flights in Europe

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:02:00 GMT

Wizz Air: low-cost flights in Europe (link)