Re: No mouse, no keyboard in X

2011-03-17 Thread jazzbo
walter s wrote: > > On 03/15/2011 06:46 PM, jazzbo wrote: > >> >> The Xserver doesn't find the mouse or keyboard unless keyboard and mouse >> are >> unplugged / plugged in. > > The X logfile should give you some messages about input devices when > the X server is starting up. When you un-plug

[ANNOUNCE] libX11 1.4.2

2011-03-17 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This bugfix release pulls in a ton of fixes for problems found by code static analysis tools. Many thanks to everyone who has helped find and fix these issues before they turned into nasty problems. Additionally, Jamey Sharp has provided some fixes f

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-ati 6.14.1

2011-03-17 Thread Alex Deucher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Major changes since 6.14.0 - - add cayman support (shadowfb, kms-only, requires kernel 2.6.39) - - fix build against xserver 1.10 - - big endian support for r6xx+ (kms) - - bug fixes Alex Deucher (34): Bump version post release UMS/DCE3.2:

[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.9.5

2011-03-17 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xorg-server-1.9.5 is the last planned service release of server-1.9-branch. With this release, the server-1.9-branch is open for commits to anyone with commit access to Xorg sources. Future stable releases will be based on the new server-1.10-branch.

Re: No mouse, no keyboard in X

2011-03-17 Thread walt
On 03/15/2011 06:46 PM, jazzbo wrote: The Xserver doesn't find the mouse or keyboard unless keyboard and mouse are unplugged / plugged in. The X logfile should give you some messages about input devices when the X server is starting up. When you un-plug/re-plug the devices you should see mor

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 03/17/11 10:52 AM, Chris wrote: > I want to write some strings that are rotated 90 degrees. If the solution > handles ASCII, then that's sufficient, but if it handles latin-1 then even > better, but I don't need any unicode or such. > So, can I do it in Xlib without writing the complete matric

Re: Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Harris
On 2011-03-17 13:52, Chris wrote: > I've had a look at freetype, but it seems like overkill for what I > need and also a dependency I'm not sure I can "afford" (and it seems > that then I also need fontconfig). So this is a last resort for me. You want to use ciaro/pango/fontconfig/freetype for th

Xlib and rotated text?

2011-03-17 Thread Chris
Hi all, not sure if this is the correct mailing list, buf please refer me to the correct list if this is the wrong place. I'm trying to learn to code for X by learning xlib. The application I'm writing must be able to run with as few dependencies as possible (I need to be able to build it on m