1 What and Where is XFree86?

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XFree86 is a port of X11R6.1 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 X Consortium X11R6.1 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures.

See the Copyright Notice .

The sources for XFree86 are available by anonymous ftp from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current

Binaries for NetBSD 1.1, NetBSD 1.2 and NetBSD-current are available from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/NetBSD

ftp.laas.fr:/pub/ii/NetBSD

Binaries for OpenBSD are available from:

ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current/binaries/OpenBSD

Note: the OpenBSD binary distribution only support OpenBSD 2.0 and later snapshots where ttyC0 is used for the console device.

Other NetBSD versions:

These binaries are not compatible with earlier NetBSD versions. If you're still running NetBSD 0.9 or 1.0, you should think about upgrading to a newer version of NetBSD first.

If you don't upgrade, you'll have to build XFree86 from the sources. XFree86 3.2 should compile cleanly under earlier versions of NetBSD, although this has not been tested.

XFree86 3.2 also builds on NetBSD/sparc and OpenBSD/sparc. See section Building on NetBSD/sparc for details.

XFree86 has also been built on OpenBSD/mips. It has been tested on an Acer Mips system with a S3/928 board. Contact Per Fogelstrom (pefo@OpenBSD.org) for details.

XFree86 3.2 supports NetBSD on PC98 machines. Servers for these machines are available in the NetBSD-PC98 directory on the above FTP servers.

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