Recently, I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and found that my Thinkpad’s TrackPoint scrolling stopped working. While searching on the Internet, I found a post called Scrolling with the Thinkpad’s TrackPoint in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid by Phil Sung that explains in a clear and concise way how to enabling scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10 using [...]

Recently I stumbled on the Nouveau WiKi. Nouveau is a community-driven effort to develop open source X.org drivers for nVidia graphics cards:

“nouveau” [nuvo] is the french word for “new”.

The Nouveau community is reverse engineering the closed-source, privative nVidia driver. They claim that nothing currently works, but that’s not exactly true. For example, you can check [...]

I think that Ubuntu Edgy Knot 2 is the first Linux distribution that enables the Composite extension by default for X.org. While this is really exciting, unfortunately it seems to negatively affect DRI and 3D acceleration when using ATI’s closed-source drivers, fglrx.
I don’t know exactly the reasons of this, but enabling Composite extensions disables ATI’s [...]

The new nVidia GeForce FX5200 is an AGP 8X, 256MB DDR2, DVI-enabled speed-demon that, when used together with KDE 3.4 translucency effects, gives an incredible, nice-looking, awesome desktop full of window drop shadows, translucent windows and fadding effects.
However, in order to be able to get the last bit of performance out of it, I must [...]

Recently, I have been able to make the ALPS GlidePoint PS/2 Touchpad of my Packard Bell laptop to work properly under Linux and X.org X11R6 Server, including edge scrolling and tap-to-release drag lock.
The support for ALPS GlidePoint Touchpads seems a relatively recent addition, both to Linux kernels and X.org X11 servers. The first thing to [...]

Mac OS X X11 Server, called X11.app, is configured to open a new xterm on launch by default. This default behavior can be pretty annoying, but can be easily disabled.
In order to stop Mac OS X X11.app from launching a new and empty xterm when launched for the first time, one must install a customized [...]

Since X.org’s X server, I had been unable to use the left Win key to compose keyboard shortcuts. However, while Googling around, I learnt that adding the following line to the keyboard’s [InputDevice] section in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf will bring that support back:
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Keyboard0″
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