Who wants to test MIR?

[EgoGratis]

Based on current info Xorg compatibility is based on XWayland but toolkit support will not use Waylands work and for mobile devices it will use some of the concepts of Android display server for probably better current Android hardware/driver support... I would say it's made from scratch. But yes i could be wrong.

[sgage]

Article on Slashdot re: Mir:

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/0...x11-or-wayland

Lots of comments, some cogent, some not so much.

[ventrical]

We at U+1 love times such that. Don't we?

Right on.. I hope that this 'Mir' actually does sumthing!! I mean all I have heard is talk about wayland, etc... compiz is , compiz is not .. on and on ... either it will fall back or fall apart .. whatever .. let's just roll!

[alphacrucis2]

It's vapourware at this point isn't it?

[ventrical]

No, we like rock-solid stability at all times, and no surprises.... NOT!

+1

We can't test a wholly dysfunctional video interface. Watching verbose characters roll across the screen is not a functioning system. All I hear about Unity is that it is a 'graphical' interface that is sexy, punchy .. etc... and with the way the recent isos have been going it looks anything but sexy or punchy. Here we go again ... just throw *current* up agaist the wall and lets try somthing new. I busted one machine already today and borked 3 installs. I earned my keep ! But these days remind of the olde snail-mail days and I guess wehave to take the good with the bad.

case in point .. I saved one of my Brand New Nvidia cards GeForce210/210. It had a MSI heat sync on it. Nvidia settings reported 69C!! Thats cooking .. so I built my own fan. Now 39C. Kewl.

[ventrical]

Could someone please direct me to the link (or code) to install the 'Mir' ppa??

[alphacrucis2]

There is this ppa. No idea if it is right

https://launchpad.net/~mir-team/+archive/staging

[ventrical]

ventrical@ventrical-P4M266A-8237:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mir-team/staging

Got it!

edit:

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libopenvg1-mesa libxatracker1
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mir-team/staging/ubuntu/ raring/main libgl1-mesa-dri i386 9.1~rc2-0ubuntu0+mir1 [49.0 MB]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mir-team/staging/ubuntu/ raring/main libopenvg1-mesa i386 9.1~rc2-0ubuntu0+mir1 [14.0 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mir-team/staging/ubuntu/ raring/main libxatracker1 i386 9.1~rc2-0ubuntu0+mir1 [4,412 kB]
Fetched 58.2 MB in 3min 48s (255 kB/s)

[cole.mickens]

Mir hasn't been built for raring yet, AFAICT.

[ventrical]

I'm ready for it now.