how exactly does X11 work with virtual terminals?

2011-12-19 Thread James Strother
Hello, I posted to this list a few days ago, and received enough help that I was able to push through to the next problem (thanks again). Briefly, I would like to have two separate monitors connected to the same machine, each running from a separate graphics card and a separate instance of Xorg.

Re: how exactly does X11 work with virtual terminals?

2011-12-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 12/19/11 14:20, James Strother wrote: Quite honestly, I have only a basic understanding for what the virtual terminals are and how they work, so I am baffled as to how I would resolve this issue. Does Xorg really need a virtual terminal, or can I start it without one? Is there another way to

[ANNOUNCE] libXi 1.4.5

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Hutterer
libXi 1.4.4 caused requests to fail if the library was built against 2.1 or 2.2 protocol headers. Instead of requiring 2.0 for XI2 requests, the library required the protocol version (2.1 or 2.2 depending on the proto) and failed if the server did not support that version. This again caused