Newbyte activity https://gitlab.com/Newbyte 2026-02-12T14:17:40Z tag:gitlab.com,2026-02-12:5097717305 Newbyte pushed to project branch newbyte/force-software-rendering at Newbyte / Megapixels 2026-02-12T14:17:40Z Newbyte Newbyte

Newbyte (86bec120) at 12 Feb 14:17

Force software rendering on devices that need it

tag:gitlab.com,2026-02-12:5097704986 Newbyte opened merge request !62: Force software rendering on devices that need it at Megapixels-org / Megapixels 2026-02-12T14:15:06Z Newbyte Newbyte

This allows Megapixels to work again without any manual configuration on devices like the original Pine64 PinePhone and Samsung Galaxy Note II.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hansson [email protected]


Note that large part of the code is just copied from dcp.c. I tried to generalise it at first, but it ended up being non-trivial to make a generalised version of this code so I decided against it given the rule of three.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-02-12:5097697130 Newbyte pushed new project branch newbyte/force-software-rendering at Newbyte / Megapixels 2026-02-12T14:13:24Z Newbyte Newbyte

Newbyte (245bcc63) at 12 Feb 14:13

Force software rendering on devices that need it

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tag:gitlab.com,2026-02-12:5097692048 Newbyte created project Newbyte / Megapixels 2026-02-12T14:12:18Z Newbyte Newbyte tag:gitlab.com,2026-02-02:5057599506 Newbyte commented on issue #214535 at GitLab.org / GitLab 2026-02-02T09:43:15Z Newbyte Newbyte

Seems to still reproduce.

tag:gitlab.com,2026-01-26:5032169623 Newbyte commented on merge request !10 at Craig Comstock / shelli 2026-01-26T08:18:08Z Newbyte Newbyte

I had completely forgotten about this merge request 😅

tag:gitlab.com,2025-09-18:4630256953 Newbyte commented on issue #8 at Chris Talbot / geoclue-stumbler 2025-09-18T12:09:48Z Newbyte Newbyte

Even on immutable distributions, /etc is typically writeable.

tag:gitlab.com,2025-09-18:4629640597 Newbyte commented on issue #8 at Chris Talbot / geoclue-stumbler 2025-09-18T09:31:39Z Newbyte Newbyte

Only if configured that way, and that configuration does not have submissions enabled by default in most distros, and it also is not runtime configurable through e.g. D-Bus.

Couldn't the app encourage users to make this change themselves? Alternatively, I guess it could be written at runtime via pkexec? (of course with user consent)

tag:gitlab.com,2025-09-08:4598496509 Newbyte commented on merge request !77 at kupfer mobile linux / Packages / PKGBUILDs 2025-09-08T19:21:14Z Newbyte Newbyte

And now 0.20.1 is out to fix a terrible regression!

tag:gitlab.com,2025-09-08:4598396964 Newbyte commented on merge request !77 at kupfer mobile linux / Packages / PKGBUILDs 2025-09-08T18:40:40Z Newbyte Newbyte

0.20 is out which includes support for configuring the Android boot image name.