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Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID   Linux Gaming   2024-05-14
Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver   Valve   2024-04-22
udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware   Hardware   2024-04-22
Ubuntu's Mir 2.14 Released With Wayland Drag & Drop, Screen Locker Support   Ubuntu   2023-07-18
3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired   X.Org   2023-04-24
Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend   X.Org   2022-07-11
Sony Publishes An Official Linux Driver For PlayStation 5 DualSense Controllers   Hardware   2020-12-24
VIRTIO 1.1 Released With 2D Graphics Support, Evdev Input Device   Virtualization   2019-04-19
KDE Applications 19.04 To Support eBook Thumbnails, Allow Ripping CDs To Opus   KDE   2019-02-10
Linux Patches Working On High Resolution Scrolling For Logitech Mice   Hardware   2018-08-30
Making Use Of Chrome's Ozone-GBM Intel Graphics Support On The Linux Desktop   Intel   2018-06-22
Libinput 1.11 Released With Record & Replay Capabilities, New Acceleration Code   Wayland   2018-06-05
Evdev Driver Updated, Libinput 1.11 Prepares For Rollout With Record & Replay Support   X.Org   2018-05-29
SC-Controller 0.4.3 Released, Support Steam Controller & Sony DS4 Over Bluetooth   Linux Gaming   2018-05-25
Several DDX Drivers Aren't Yet Ready For X.Org Server 1.20   X.Org   2018-05-12
Input Drivers Are Being Prepped For Year 2038 Safety   Linux Kernel   2018-01-07
DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD, Moving Away From Old OpenSolaris Code   BSD   2017-12-08
Chrome's Ozone Adds Gamepad Support   Linux Gaming   2017-05-07
X.Org Server 1.19.1 For Testing On Arch, Libinput X.Org Driver To Be Used By Default   X.Org   2017-01-14
A Detailed Look At The Evdev Protocol   Hardware   2016-09-19
GNOME 3.20 To Have Better Support For Airplane/WiFi Hot Keys   GNOME   2016-01-10
Clutter 1.25.2 Brings The Wayland GDK Support On Par With X11   GNOME   2015-12-17
Linux 4.4 To Support Google Fiber TV Remote Controls & More   Hardware   2015-11-06
Mir Is Making Measurable Progress On Using Libinput   Ubuntu   2015-09-24
Mir Working On Evdev Device Detection   Ubuntu   2015-09-08
Qt Gamepad: Adding Gamepad Support To The Toolkit   Qt   2015-05-14
Clutter Now Supports Quad-Buffer Stereo Displays, Mir Backend   GNOME   2015-03-03
F22 Switch From Evdev & Synaptics To Libinput   Fedora   2015-02-23
Switching From Evdev/Synaptics Drivers To Libinput On X.Org   Fedora   2015-01-19
Intel Works On Ozone-GBM For Full-Screen Chromium w/ Hardware Acceleration   Google   2014-10-09
Canonical Has Yet To Land X.Org Server 1.16 For Ubuntu 14.10   Ubuntu   2014-08-30
Synaptics 1.8.0 X.Org Driver Released   X.Org   2014-05-12
X.Org's Evdev Driver Shows Off Improvements   X.Org   2014-04-29
Clutter 1.18 Released With Many New Features   GNOME   2014-03-19
X.Org's Synaptics Driver Gets Big Changes, New Laptop Support   X.Org   2014-03-17
Wayland's Weston Can Now Be Built With A Libinput Back-End   Wayland   2014-03-13
Features Coming To Wayland, Weston 1.4   Wayland   2013-12-25
A Common Input Device Library For Wayland   Wayland   2013-11-12
Raspberry Pi Support Added To SDL2 Library   Raspberry Pi   2013-09-30
Systemd Gets Generic Multi-Session, Session Devices   systemd   2013-09-17
Wayland's Weston 1.2.2 Incorporates Some Bug Fixes   Wayland   2013-08-30
Sony Clickpad Support Comes To Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2013-08-05
Weston 1.1.1 Release Brings Bug-Fixes   Wayland   2013-06-07
The Focus Of Wayland's Weston Compositor   Wayland   2013-04-19
X.Org Servers Updated To Fix Security Flaw   Linux Security   2013-04-17
Atari, Amiga Improvements For X.org Xfbdev   X.Org   2013-03-28
Android Support Removed From Wayland's Weston   Wayland   2013-01-24
An FBDEV Compositor Back-End For Wayland/Weston   Wayland   2013-01-17
Enlightenment E17 Goes Into Beta   Free Software   2012-12-07
X.Org Joystick Driver Support Has Been Improving   X.Org   2012-09-20
An Overview Of Qt 5.0 Features   Free Software   2012-06-25
The Synaptics Driver That Does Multi-Touch, ClickPads   X.Org   2012-03-14
New evdev Handles Multi-Touch, Smooth Scrolling   X.Org   2012-03-08
Fedora 17 Will Feature Multi-Touch Excitement   Fedora   2011-12-19
Multi-Touch Patches Already Come To Wayland   Wayland   2011-12-17
X.Org Multi-Touch Support Finally Set To Land   X.Org   2011-12-14
A Number Of X.Org Input Drivers Get Updated   X.Org   2011-06-28
X Input 2.1 Not Coming Until X.Org Server 1.12   X.Org   2011-05-12
The New X Stack Is Going Into Ubuntu 11.04   X.Org   2011-01-26
The Fourth Version Of X.Org Multi-Touch Support   X.Org   2010-12-28
Clutter Picks Up An EvDev Input Back-End, Helps Wayland   Wayland   2010-12-19
Wayland Demonstration At XDS 2010   Wayland   2010-09-18
What Is The Wayland Display Server & Its Protocol?   Wayland   2010-09-14
Multi-Touch Support For X.Org Evdev Driver   X.Org   2010-06-02
A Video To Show Off X.Org's Multi-Touch Support   X.Org   2009-12-19
Nearly Two Dozen X.Org Drivers Get Updated   X.Org   2009-07-30
Ubuntu Picks Up X Input 2 Support In PPA   X.Org   2009-05-25
Synaptics X.Org Driver Reaches Version 1.0.0   X.Org   2009-02-02
Updated X.Org, X Server Packages Hit Ubuntu 9.04   Ubuntu   2008-12-16
Dual X Servers Running Side-By-Side With Wayland   Wayland   2008-12-10
X.Org EvDev 2.1 Driver Released, New Features   X.Org   2008-11-19
X Input 1.5 Gets Device Properties   X.Org   2008-09-23
Coming To A Desktop Near You: X.Org 7.4   X.Org   2008-06-11
Linux Joystick Driver Gets EvDev Support   X.Org   2007-12-06