WAS Re: Re: Fresh lunar install IS Auke offtopic spam

Auke Kok sofar at foo-projects.org
Sat Jun 1 22:54:01 CEST 2013


On 06/01/2013 02:45 AM, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> On Monday 20 of May 2013 21:00:45 Auke Kok wrote:
>> On 05/19/2013 01:35 PM, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
>>> On Saturday 18 of May 2013 17:39:13 Jean-Michel Bruenn wrote:
>>>>> vdpauinfo | grep string
>>>>> Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  319.17  Thu
>>>>> Apr 25 21:07:58 PDT 2013
>>>>>
>>>>> vdpauinfo command comes from vdpauinfo module.
>>>>
>>>> wdp at vulkan ~ $ vdpauinfo | grep string
>>>> Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  319.17  Thu
>>>> Apr
>>>> 25 21:44:27 PDT 2013
>>>>
>>>> and i said "yes" to mesa-lib's vdpau. So it looks like it is safe to
>>>> say yes. Can you verify that?
>>>
>>> Looks good. But building mesa's vdpau and using nvidia driver together
>>> makes no sense.
>>>
>>>>> If you see something like this you use optimal nvidia's vdpau. If
>>>>> you
>>>>> see something else like gallium or mesa the worse vdpau from mesa is
>>>>> active.>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do we need the vdpau module at all in linux, if nvidia ships with
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> own?
>>>>>
>>>>> Do not know vdpau module.
>>>>
>>>> I was refering to "libvdpau". I thought "nvidia" might provide that.
>>>
>>> No. libvdpau is universal for every gpu driver - that is why it is
>>> standalone. gpu driver package provides hw dependent part for vdpau.
>>> Nvidia binary provides vdpau for geforces, S3 graphics has vdpau for
>>> its chrome gpus. New opensource Radeon driver provides vdpau for
>>> radeons because they understood that XvBA is dead. Finally mesa-lib
>>> has shader accelerated vdpau. Intel has stated they are considering
>>> VDPAU.
>> Our gfx team is at this point only still supporting libVA, and other
>> graphics vendors have joined. I'm unsure where the market will go, but
>> it's unlikely that this will go one way drastically any time soon. More
>> likely is that both will coexist for a longer time until either
>> something better comes around or people stop backing one technology.
>>
>> Auke
>
> This is off topic spam.
>
> Enough is enough. This time will ignore this off topic and will not feed
> the troll. Thanks to your mail cancelled upgrade to Intel Haswell. This
> would be my first Intel since Pentium 75 from 1995. But no. Will wait and
> buy AMD again and make sure none of Intel components will be there. I hope
> Intel will understand someday that ML jabbers/trolls do more bad than good
> to company's brand. Hoped something changed for better since my last
> unsubscribe but no. Unsubscribing again. If someone needs my help or
> advice do it prv please.

To be sure that you never made it back, I have added you to a blacklist 
on doppio.

Please go ruin some other open source project with your poisonous attitude.

Auke


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