Free Software. Free Speech. That’s the way it works.
pommed 1.24 is out; this is a maintenance release addressing the HID changes in the 2.6.28 kernel.
HID quirks have been split out into hardware/vendor-specific submodules; consequently the sysfs path for the fnmode parameter changed as it’s now handled by the hid_apple module and that needed to be accounted for.
No rush if you’re running an older kernel :)
I’m not saying it lightly: the end goal is censorship, no matter how nicely you try to put it.
The goal is to discourage people from posting. They call it “peer pressure”, which is nothing else but the politically correct equivalent expression for “intimidation”. The end result is censorship.
The idea of censoring the mailing lists has actually been mentioned very clearly in the recent discussions on -devel, and I never thought it would go past that, but it’s actually happening. By the way, this could actually morph into a shitty karma system that wouldn’t let you post past your monthly allowance and “credit” “earned”. How’s that for you?
You refer to those +1/-1 mails; I find them silly, annoying, useless and a waste of bandwidth and CPU time. That used to be called a “me too” and generally despised and frowned upon.
If you actually want to score posts or posters, get a decent MUA and set up its scoring system the way you like. But keep that to yourself.
As Aigars told, there are mail to web forum “gateways” (more like rendering engines for a mail archive, actually) that will present mails to a list in a crappy web forum of some sort that will come with all kind of crap like scoring, karma and whatever.
There’s an essential difference between web forums and our mailing lists, though: forums of this kind use nicknames all over the place, our mailing lists use real names. There are privacy issues involved, and I’m not giving up on that, either.
You want to stop flamewars? Stop replying, especially to tell how intolerable it is and other shit. Just let the damn thing die already. Funny how the well-meaning people are feeling “harassed” on the mailing lists when they, themselves, are harassing people they disagree with.
We don’t all have the same views, culture etc. We’re not all friends, and we probably never will be. Guess what? It’s OK! Get over it and work with each other, because that is what we are here for. If you (general) can’t get over it, I’m afraid this Project is not the appropriate place for you.
Imposing a monoculture of politically correct crap is not an answer to the perceived “problems”.
This proposal leaves me speechless. The replies even more. The sole fact that there are positive replies kills me.
I’m really starting to think that this Project could do a lot better without some people. Now if you’ll excuse me for a sec, I have a urgent need to vomit.
Reality check, people. Get back on the ground.
Christian notes, and rightly so, how much this vote sucks, for various reasons.
There are too many viable options (as far as releasing Lenny is concerned) and that makes it tricky to vote in a useful way. And Christian got bitten by it: do not vote by ranking all options 1 to 7, or this vote will end up being our most EPIC FAIL to date. With that many options, the votes will end up diluted and who knows what the result will be.
For this vote to succeed and be meaningful, it’s pretty much required to rank several options equally. That is, and provided it matches your views, ranking the “Let’s release Lenny and give the finger to the zealots” options at the same level.
Be careful when voting on this one. IT’S A TRAP.
pommed v1.23 is out, with full support for the late 2008 laptops.
The LCD backlight inner workings got figured out finally, but there’s a catch: the backlight won’t react to the settings when running X11 with the proprietary nVidia drivers on the MacBook5,1 and the MacBookAir2,1. It works fine on the MacBookPro5,1 and it works fine on all three machines with the opensource nouveau driver. Switching to the console before setting the backlight and then back to X does work as a workaround.
So there’s something up with the proprietary nVidia driver, and my uneducated guess is that the MacBook Pro may somehow be exempt from the issue due to its dual GPU config.
I’ve also switched the nVidia machines to using the generic sysfs backlight driver in pommed. This driver has been there for some time for the PowerPC machines, so now it’s part of the generic pommed code. You need the mbp_nvidia_bl driver in your kernel for this to work.
Don’t panic! If you don’t have it, pommed will fall back to the native driver (nv8600mgt) and everything will work just as before. Pommed will tell you if it has to fall back to the native driver, so check your logs if you want to know.
This release of pommed needs testing on all nVidia machines: MacBookPro3,1, MacBookPro4,1, MacBookPro5,1, MacBook5,1 and MacBookAir2,1. If anything doesn’t work, tell me about it and I’ll fix it.