Linux

Die FrOSCon ging heute zu Ende.

Von meinem OpenStreetMap-Talk gestern gibt's Folien (OpenDocument) und einen teilweisen Mitschnitt (Theora, aufgenommen mit Digikam, nur 20 Minuten, aber danach ging's nicht mehr so lang).

Bilder gibt's irgendwann hier, aber im Moment hab ich nur langsames Netz.

Heute ist der erste Tag auf der FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Conference), einem lokalen Free-Software-Event bei Bonn (Siegburg für die Ortskundigen). Vortragsprogramm ist umfangreich und interessant.

Werde um 19h noch einen kleinen Vortrag über OpenStreetMap halten. Mitschnitt wird versucht, ich kann aber noch nix versprechen.

Today I managed to map the last few streets missing in the »west«-part of my hometown. I was very active in the last days and it makes lot's of fun (and is good for my health, driving up and down the mountains).

Beside that osm can make you addicted, it also seems to be epidemic. A friend of mine started mapping the nice city Veringenstadt (ok, to be honest, I never was there) and another one can't wait to get his hands on an own gps-device to continue mapping Köchersberg.

My next plans for osm are
a) map the rest of Murrhardt (at least the inner part)
b) get some more gps/osm-related stuff into gentoo (josm, tiles@home)

I'm happy to announce that I mentored Christian Hoffmann to become a new Gentoo Developer.

Christian did some PHP-security work for Gentoo recently, which is very important due to the high amount of security issues php had recently. Welcome on board and continue your good work.

Maybe you've read that I did some coordination on relicensing the old GATOS TV-Out code to make inclusion into the radeon driver possible (gatos was gpl, while xorg uses mit-license).

Now, shortly after that Alex Deucher started implementing tv-out in the randr-1.2-branch of the ati driver based on that code. randr-1.2 is the new and shiny stuff that will make future versions of xorg manage resolutions and output connectors much better. As you can see on the picture, today I played around with the new code and got it working (get Gentoo git-ebuild here).

As a short howto, on some cards (including mine), autodetection of the connector status doesn't work yet. You'll have to manually force the connector:

xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600

This is especially exciting as it is the last features of my laptop that was missing for »full linux-compatibility« (some minor issues left, as the cardreader only reads sd at the moment, the modem needs a binary driver).