Special keys on Dell XPS L502X

2012-03-12 Thread My Th
Hi! I have Dell XPS L502X laptop and it has three special keys, but they are not working out-of-the-box. I wanted to assign functions to them (e.g. toogle LCD backlight) so I used xev to look for their keycodes as described at http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/keys.htm But these special keys behave d

Mouse buttons/scroll directions swapped with recent Xorg

2012-03-12 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hello, Recently (beginning of February), I performed the following upgrades: xf86-input-evdev (2.6.0-4 -> 2.6.99.901-1) xf86-input-synaptics (1.5.0-1 -> 1.5.99-0.1) xorg-server (1.11.4-1 -> 1.11.99.903-1) xorg-xinput (1.5.3-2 -> 1.5.99.1-1) (Some of these packages have since been updated to their

libXft 2.3.0 not so good

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Distro makers probably want to hold off on packaging the 2.3.0 upgrade until we get a 2.3.1 release out to fix: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47178 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47196 (I guess no one noticed during the months the broken commits were

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-vmware 12.0.0

2012-03-12 Thread Jakob Bornecrantz
- Original Message - > On Thursday 08 of March 2012, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote: > > Full release of the new vmwgfx enabled driver bringing 3D > > to Linux guest on VMware products. > > > > Mostly this contains ABI fixes for X server 1.12. > > AC_CONFIG_FILES([ >

libXt 1.1.2 has regressions too

2012-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[Bug 47203] libxt 1.1.2 breaks xscreensaver https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47203 [Bug 47216] upgrade to libxt 1.1.2 breaks "windowless" applications https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47216 Package builders may want to watch out from those if they're considering an upgrad

Re: Desktop flash sometimes.

2012-03-12 Thread Weedy
On 08/03/12 01:40 AM, qasdfgtyuiop wrote: > Hi, > I'm using Lenovo Ideapad Y460 laptop. My computer performs well at > most time. But sometimes my screen flashs about every 1 seconds. > Each flash will interrupt pull down menu and ibus IME input window. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVID

Special keys on Dell XPS L502X

2012-03-12 Thread My Th
Hi! I used "showkey" from console to get scancodes and keycodes for the three buttons. Also used "dumpkeys" to look up the keycodes. But these results are different from the ones I got using "xev" (see previous mail). Key I: -- scancode 0xe0 0x5b 0x2d 0xad 0xe0 0xdb keycode 125 press keycod

Re: libXt 1.1.2 has regressions too

2012-03-12 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
I reverted the commit which caused the regressions in libXt-1.1.2. The issue was that libXt was retrying when it got a POLLHUP rather than passing it along to Xlib which would handle it with XIOError. After investigating this issue, I'm not sure that the original patch that caused this actuall