[ANNOUNCE] xcalc 1.0.5

2013-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xcalc is a scientific calculator X11 client that can emulate a TI-30 or an HP-10C. This minor maintenance release includes a couple years of build improvements, cleanups, and bug fixes. Alan Coopersmith (3): Add const to parse_double() args to fix gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings Strip tr

[ANNOUNCE] beforelight 1.0.5

2013-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The beforelight program is a sample implementation of a screen saver for X servers supporting the MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension. It is only recommended for use as a code sample, as it does not include features such as screen locking or configurability. This minor maintenance release cleans up the b

[ANNOUNCE] bdftopcf 1.0.4

2013-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
bdftopcf converts fonts from the BDF format (used in source packages) to the PCF format (used by the X server). This minor maintenance release includes several years of build improvements, cleanups, and bug fixes; including making the build configuration scripts compatible with automake-1.13. Al

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> When RHEL6.4 is released it would probably be more worth doing, as its > planned to have a newer Mesa. Ah well .. I'll should just await the 6.4 release. I figure it can't be far down the road from this : $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.3 (Santiago)

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> > Has anyone done this sort and thing AND written a blog somewhere >> about it ? >> > >> >Just looking for pointers in the right direction, along with "be >> careful of .." type stuff. >> >> you can install a second X server from

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your > existing one: > http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/testing-x-servers-from-git.html side question, who in your opinion makes the absolute best graphics hardware avail for the niX and X world ? Seriously, your opinion.

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> > Has anyone done this sort and thing AND written a blog somewhere > about it ? > > > >Just looking for pointers in the right direction, along with "be > careful of .." type stuff. > > you can install a second X server from git (or anywhere) next to your > existing one: > http://who

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:09:26PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Dear X folks : > > One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the ground up > and replace the > version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended by the > Red Hat folks > as I am using RHEL 6

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Dennis Clarke > wrote: > > > > Dear X folks : > > > > One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the > ground up and replace the > > version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended > by the Red Hat folks > > as I am usi

Re: Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Dear X folks : > > One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the ground up > and replace the > version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended by the > Red Hat folks > as I am using RHEL 6 workstat

Updating my Xorg on RHEL 6 etc

2013-01-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear X folks : One of the things I have long wanted to do is build X from the ground up and replace the version running on my workstation. This probably is not recommended by the Red Hat folks as I am using RHEL 6 workstation and I am sure that future updates from them would mess with any

[ANNOUNCE] xvidtune 1.0.3

2013-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xvidtune is a client interface to the XFree86-VidModeExtension. This minor maintenance release includes several years of build improvements, cleanups, and bug fixes; including making the build configuration scripts compatible with automake-1.13. Alan Coopersmith (3): config: Add missing AC