X.org 7.3 was released earlier today, but because the X.org website was unreachable, we bring you this news a bit late. X.org 7.3 includes RandR 1.2, input hotplug (both enable hotplugging of devices), improvements in KDrive, DTrace support, and more.
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I thought so too till I went to the main article and saw that it linked to the same pair of empty pages. Presumably someone will flesh them out soon?
Edit: I have tremendous respect for the X.org team but the wiki is far from comprehensive. There are a lot of links to pages not made yet or with very minimal information.
Edited 2007-09-07 02:46
RE[2]: When did OSNEWS stoop so low?
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Mate, you came onto this board trolling; you weren't marked down because of 'crushed ego' but because of a stupid demark that was so offtopic it was in a league of its own. Nothing to do with being precious.
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RE[4]: When did OSNEWS stoop so low?
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Lower the viewing threshold and you'll see it (probably sitting at -5) - its not funny, its pathetic. I love a bit of humour that tickles my funny bone and takes the piss, but it wasn't even funny in the romotest sense.
Heck, I love weird and worderful things like "Trigger Happy TV" and the likes, and it doesn't even sit in that realm of weirdness. It was a pathetic troll, plain and simple. Accusing contributors of being anti-linux and dishonest, its pathetic.
Maybe he would be good for a guest on David Letterman to suit his line up of non-humourous antics which are so painful to watch they would make you eyes and ears bleed.
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Well, this is weird. I have my threshold to -5 (I always do). I've tried every single view as well (expanded, threaded, collapsed, whatever option is there) and still can't see it.
To kawai: At least now I know that it wasn't me who put the trolling remark, even though for some reason you accused me of doing it... Surely you should apologise for that, at least?
EDIT: Found it sitting at -17... The option to see comments below my threshold doesn't appear on my Mac, I'll sort that out later!
It wasn't "that" bad what villagerman, just childish...
Edited 2007-09-09 12:37
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Will Ubuntu still ship with 1.3 xserver? (7.3 comes with 1.4). I'm not sure that ATI and Nvidia binary blobs will be compatible, probably not. Though this IS official xorg release unlike 1.3.
xserver 1.4 for example breaks video driver ABI again, converting (some?) drivers to a new PCI access stuff.
Btw. they modularised everything, so packages can be released independently (there are interdependencies of course). Unfortunately it is a bit painful to download and build each package, though distribution packagers should handle it. Xorg release is a snapshot of certain versions of (most) packages.
Edited 2007-09-07 07:56
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Does this new PCI access stuff include support for multi-domain PCI?
I have a SPARC server running Slackware 12.0 but cannot use Xorg 7.2 because the Xserver can't initialise either the Tech Source GFX (Permedia 2) graphics adapter with the "glint" driver or a PC Radeon 9250 with the "ati" driver.
Edited 2007-09-07 14:28 UTC
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Looks like a question for Xorg esperts (->xorg mailing list). I guess the answer depends if card(s) is programmable enough to turn off VGA stuff and able to handle remapped IO regions, but also I'm not sure if libpciaccess and kernel stuff is already capable of supporting two video devices at the same time.
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While we're on the subject of X, maybe you guys could offer some help on a problem i've recently encountered:
I've been playing about with dual monitors on my nVideo card using SVideo out to my TV. The problem I've had is that I can't get applications (VLC specifically) to full screen display on the TV if the application is running on the monitor and running applications on the TV isn't practical as the screen definition is too poor to make out the fine text in the X11 applications.
So what I'm after is either an easy way to either move application from one XScreen to anthoer (perhaps in a simular way to how you move applications from one Desktop to another?) or to fix applications so they can display on multiple different XScreens at the same time.
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I tried Xinerama but that just ground KDE to a snails pace and c*cked up the wallpaper (though this is just minor 'picky' issue).
I'll read up some-more on Xinerama as maybe i set something wrong (I really wasn't sure what i was doing when i enabled it) and have a play with twin view tonight.
thanks for you help mate
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"The problem I've had is that I can't get applications (VLC specifically) to full screen display on the TV if the application is running on the monitor and running applications on the TV isn't practical as the screen definition is too poor to make out the fine text in the X11 applications."
I ran into this awhile ago. This is purposely locked out due to legal restrictions. I found this information on the VLC website somewhere about 9 months ago or so. Thank the movie industry folks, as this is to supposedly prevent people from pirating movies.
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hehehe that's just madness.
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X configuration has been the last place on my Linux machines that I have still had problems getting a decent configuration. The steps toward automagic have made this worse as I have had to disable EDID support on a couple of systems with 6-year-old CRT's. I hope to finally see a system that won't screw up if you boot with the monitor off.
I'm also excited for the implications for multiple monitors. I hope this doesn't come across as negative. There have been (and may yet be) some real growing pains as xorg 7 has matured, but It had a long was to go from where Xfree86 was forked, to where it needed to go
KUDOS on this important milestone
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I've been busting for this release for forever. Everything seems to be falling into place for Desktop GNU.
What I've noticed on the release page is that xf86-video-ati has been dropped altogether. When initially it said keep the 11 month old 6.6.3 or release with the 6.7 branch.
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Unfortunately, it seems that the new Xorg no longer respects the DisplaySize directive when using Intel drivers and the DPI comes out wrong unless you later set it correctly using xrandr. My monitor has 85x85 DPI at 1024x768 (i.e., it's 15 inch) and fonts are too big at 96x96, which is the default.
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