From: rene.cougnenc@lill.frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Rene Cougnenc) Subject: Announcing the release of XFree86 1.2 Date: 16 Feb 1993 21:56:00 GMT
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1993 23:55:49 GMT
[ Yep, it's what you've all been waiting for. --mdw ]
Announcing XFree86 1.2
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February 15, 1993
Contents
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1) What is XFree86?
2) What's new in XFree86 1.2?
3) XFree86 features
4) Systems XFree86 has been tested on
5) Supported video-card chip-sets
6) Where to get more information
7) Credits
8) Contact information
9) Source and binary archive sites
1 - What is XFree86?
====================
XFree86 is a port of X11R5 that supports several versions of
Intel-based Unix. It is derived from X386 1.2, which was the X server
distributed with X11R5. This release consists of many new features
and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release
is available as source patches against the MIT X11R5 code, as well as
binary distributions for many architectures.
Note that while the server binaries and the source tree retain the
name X386 name (for simplicity of maintenance of the source tree), there
is no connection between XFree86 and the commercial X386 product sold
by SGCS. The XFree86 Core Team maintains technical contacts with SGCS
in an effort to keep user-affecting changes to the workings of the products
from diverging too radically. There is no direct involvement of either
group in the workings of the other.
For the statistics addicts amongst us:
Lines of code added/deleted/changed in XFree86 1.2 vs X11R5 PL22:
Added = 45228
Deleted = 840
Changed = 1809
Lines of code added/deleted/changed in XFree86 1.2 vs XFree86 1.1:
Added = 20755
Deleted = 2164
Changed = 1719
2 - What's new in XFree86 1.2?
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The following items have been added since XFree86 1.1 was released in
October 1992:
1) MIT public fixes to X11R5 up to fix-22 have been incorporated
2) The monochrome server has been enhanced to do bank-switching of
available SVGA memory to allow virtual screens up to 1600x1200
(see the X386(1) manual page for more information).
3) Support for the Hercules mono card has been added to the
monochrome server, and with it the ability to support a "two
headed" server - one VGA, and one Hercules. So far this has only
been tested on SVR4.
4) SVR3 shared libraries, tested under ISC SVR3 2.2 and 3.0.1.
5) Support for SVR4.2 (There are some special considerations to
consider, due to new USL bugs; see the README.SVR4 file for
more information.)
6) Support for the Trident TVGA9000 chip-set (this implementation is
not well tested yet, and is a bit idiosyncratic; see the
README.trident file for more information).
7) Support for PS/2 mice, and Logitech MouseMan/TrackMan (some
versions of these devices were not previously compatible).
8) Support for Holger Veit's enhanced console driver for 386BSD 0.1.
9) A new tutorial on how to develop correct video card and monitor
timing data, written by Eric Raymond (derived from previous
documentation and a lot of experimentation).
10) Greatly improved support for international keyboards, including
implementation of the Compose key functionality found on many
vendor servers (see the X386keybd(1) manual page for more
information).
11) The accuracy with which the server detects SVGA pixel clocks has
been improved, and the timings are now stored at accuracies of
0.1 MHz. Users may want to consider removing an existing Clocks
line from their Xconfig file and re-probing using the new server.
12) Many enhancements in error handling and parsing of the Xconfig
configuration file. Error messages are much more informative
and intuitive, and more validation is done. There are many new
options that can be enabled in the Xconfig file (see the X386(1)
manual page for more information on the format of this file).
Plus a number of other small things. Refer to the CHANGELOG file in
the source distribution for full details.
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