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- Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.3.1
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- The XFree86 Project, Inc
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- 30 December 1998
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- Abstract
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- This document describes the bugs fixed and the features added in
- XFree86 3.3.3.1 compared with the 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 release, It also
- includes installation instructions for the binary distributions. It
- is strongly recommended that anyone using XFree86 update to version
- 3.3.3.1.
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- 1. XFree86 and X11R6.3
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- XFree86 releases starting with the 3.2A beta are based on the X Consortium's
- X11R6.3 (the final release from the X Consortium).
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- R6.3 is an update to R6.1, and is intended to be compatible with R6.1 and R6 at
- the source and protocol levels. Binaries should be upward-compatible. X11R6.3
- includes some new Xserver extensions: SECURITY, XC-APPGROUP, XpExtension (print
- extension), and an updated, and standardised version of LBX. X11R6.3 also has
- new standards, including RX (X Remote Execution MIME type), and a proxy manage-
- ment protocol. X11R6.3 includes support for gzipped fonts.
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- R6.1 is an update to R6, and is intended to be compatible with R6 at the source
- and protocol levels. Binaries should be upward-compatible. X11R6.1 includes
- some new Xserver extensions: DOUBLE-BUFFER, XKEYBOARD and RECORD.
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- What about R6.2? X11R6.2 is the name given to a subset of X11R6.3, which has
- only the print extension and the Xlib implementation of vertical writing and
- user-defined character support in addition to those features included in R6.1.
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- 2. X11R6.4
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- In September 1998 The Open Group changed the copyright of X11R6.4 from the non-
- free copyright used for the initial release of X11R6.4 back to the old free X
- Consortium style copyright. Given the fact that our main development focus is
- on XFree86-4.0 and that the 3.3.3 release was intended mostly to fix some bugs
- and get out new drivers to the public, we opted not to include X11R6.4 in
- XFree86-3.3.3. Since XFree86-3.3.3.1 is merely a quick bug fix release to
- XFree86-3.3.3, the same applies here as well.
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- XFree86-4.0 will be X11R6.4 based.
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- Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.3.1 1
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- 3. OS issues
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- Always check the OS specific README files for special requirements or caveats.
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- Users running Linux should note that Elf is now the only binary type supported
- for Linux OSs. This means that binaries for ix86/a.out and AXP/ECOFF are not
- available with this release.
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- Users running FreeBSD 3.0 should note that only ELF binaries are provided with
- this release. a.out shared libraries are also included for compatibility pur-
- poses.
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- 4. What's new in 3.3.3.1?
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- o A system clock slowdown caused by 3Dlabs driver has been fixed.
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- o Drawing bugs with C&T HiQV chips have been fixed.
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- o Drawing problems in the Cyrix driver have been fixed.
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- o The Matrox G100/G200 PCI versions should now be fully supported.
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- o The Mach64 server now supports gamma correction.
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- o Open Source NVIDIA driver has been provided.
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- o I128 Rev IV support has been added.
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- o Another S3V lockup has been fixed.
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- o A drawing bug in cfb24 has been fixed.
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- o A problem causing lockups with some Trident cards has been fixed.
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- o Updates for SCO, FreeBSD, Linux glibc OS support.
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- o DG/ux support has been added.
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- o GNU/Hurd support has been added.
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- o Several XINPUT problems have been addressed.
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- o DGA relative mouse movement events when XINPUT is defined have been fixed,
- as have DGA-related problems with the NVIDIA and S3V drivers.
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- o The X server now reads Xauthority files using the real user id.
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- o Several small fixes to core clients.
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- o A bug in Xlib's handling of KOI8-R has been fixed.
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- o PC98 cards database, sample config file and XKB handling have been fixed.
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- 5. What's new in 3.3.3?
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- 5.1 Security fixes
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- o Several buffer overrun problem discovered since the release of
- XFree86-3.3.2 have been fixed
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- o Sanity checks on DISPLAY variable
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- o Attempt to stop X connection hijacking (sticky bit for /tmp/.X11-unix)
- Note that this is only a short-term partial solution, and it is doesn't
- help at all for some SYSV based OSs (like Solaris 2.x).
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- 5.2 Bug fixes
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- o Fix a serious LBX bug using uninitialized variables.
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- o Fix some Xlib bugs that cause problems when using XKB in some locales
- (like latin2), add support for iso8859-15, and include a couple of basic
- fonts for iso8859-15
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- o Fix xf86config to handle more than 10 modes and to be prepared for XFCom /
- XBF servers.
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- o Lots of xterm changes, see xterm.log.html in the sources.
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- o Fix problems with high dot clocks in high color depths on Riva128.
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- o Fix problem in the S3 drivers with disabled onboard S3 chips when using S3
- cards.
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- o Fix problems with Cirrus 5480 at high resolutions and jitter that appeared
- with the 546x's using the BitBLT engine.
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- o Fix clock limits in some cases in Tseng driver.
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- o Fix some lockups with ViRGE chips.
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- o Improved timing calculations for video FIFO in the Mach64 X server.
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- o Fixed bug in font rendering code in the Mach64 X server.
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- o Fixed VGA font restoration bug when exiting the Mach64 X server.
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- o Several XF68_FBDev fixes.
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- o Fix wrong clock limits for S3 Trio64V+.
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- o Fix some generic rendering errors in cfb and vga code.
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- o Fix text restore problems and improve high res 32bpp modes in MGA driver;
- fix 24bpp and 32bpp display problems; disable probing for memory on some
- MGA chipsets; fix maximum blit size; fix sync on green for Mystique.
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- o Fix problems with Xnest crashing with too many visuals.
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- o Fixes for 64bit architectures.
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- o Fix cursor bug in S3V server.
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- o Fixes for memory probing, max dotclock probing and DPMS display off on C&T
- chipsets.
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- o Fix LCD detection for CLGD755x and the double mouse bug and the blanking
- bug in the cirrus driver.
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- o Fix some problems with -quiet flag (where some variables stayed uninitial-
- ized)
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- o SuperProbe can detect C&T HiQV chips now, with an exception in the case of
- No-PCI bus connected. The "-no_bios" option of SuperProbe solve this situ-
- ation.
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- o The C&T chipsets now use software cursors by default to avoid a number of
- minor problems in certain circumstances. Hardware cursors can still be
- used by adding the "hw_cursor" option to XF86Config.
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- o EGC server now works on Linux/98. XF98Setup also works with it.
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- o Fix VT switch problem with MGA server on Linux/98.
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- 5.3 New Features
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- o New driver for Cyrix MediaGX based motherboards.
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- o New driver for Rendition V1000 and V2x00 chipsets (not accelerated).
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- o New driver for Weitek P9100 based cards.
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- o New driver for SiS 5597/98 and SiS 6326; treat SiS 6215 and 6225 as 6205.
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- o New server for 3Dlabs based cards using GLINT 500TX and MX (with IBM RAM-
- DAC), Permedia (with IBM RAMDAC), Permedia 2 and Permedia 2v.
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- o Support for the Matrox G100 and G200 based cards to the MGA driver.
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- o Support for C&T 69000 and 32bpp on 65550 and later.
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- o Support for NeoMagic notebook chipsets.
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- o Support for EPSON SPC8110.
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- o Support for NVidia Riva TNT.
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- o Acceleration for Trident Image975, Image985, Cyber9397, Cyber9388.
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- o Support for the new ATI Rage Pro, VT4 and Rage IIC based cards has been
- added.
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- o 24-plane TGA support.
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- o Config support to build XFree86 on Linux with DECnet transport.
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- o Support to build XFree86 for FreeBSD/ELF.
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- o Support for vesafb on Linux/x86.
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- o LynxOS 3.0 support.
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- o Updates to SuperProbe.
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- o New XInput drivers for AceCad ADVANCEDigitizer, MicroTouch TouchPen, SGI
- dial box.
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- o Add local font directory.
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- 5.4 Known Problems
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- The problems listed here are those known at the time of the release. See the
- XFree86 FAQ for more up to date information.
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- o There are problems with some Cirrus laptop chipsets (75xx). The driver
- seems to work for some people, but not others. Until someone with the
- appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems are unlikely to be
- fixed. If you wish to work on this, please contact us. We don't need
- testers, we need people willing and able to fix the problems.
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- o There are problems with some of the Trident laptop chipsets. The driver
- seems to work in a limited way for some people, but not others. Until
- someone with the appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems
- are unlikely to be fixed. If you wish to work on this, please contact us.
- We don't need testers, we need people willing and able to fix the prob-
- lems.
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- o SuperProbe command fails to detect some newly supported chips. Currently,
- the probing result with Xserver itself with appropriate setting in
- XF86Config (and maybe option "-probeonly") can be more relied on than the
- result from SuperProbe for newer chips. If you are interested in improv-
- ing the design of SuperProbe's code, let's come and join as the member of
- the XFree86 ``developer team''.
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- 6. XFree86 and Open Source Software
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- XFree86 public releases in general follow the Open Source Software definition
- as set forth at http://www.opensource.org/osd.html. This definition is actu-
- ally a subset of our requirements.
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- All code in XFree86 3.3.3.1 satisfies the Open Source Software definition.
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- 7. Installing the XFree86 3.3.3.1 Release
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- The XFree86 3.3.3.1 binaries are distributed as a full release.
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- NOTE: the X servers are no longer installed setuid root. If you are starting
- your X servers with startx/xinit, or something similar, you will need a copy of
- the setuid Xwrapper, and an updated xinit. These can be found in Xbin.tgz.
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- What follows is a list of the XFree86 3.3.3 components. There may be some
- variations in this for some OSs.
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- The following are required for all new installations, or when upgrading from a
- version older than 3.3:
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- preinst.sh Pre-installation script
- postinst.sh Post-installation script
- extract XFree86 extraction utility
- Xbin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
- Xdoc.tgz Documentation
- Xfnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
- Xlib.tgz Data files required at run-time
- Xman.tgz Manual pages
- Xset.tgz XF86Setup utility
- Xjset.tgz XF86Setup utility (if you prefer the Japanese version)
- XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
- Xcfg.tgz sample config files for xinit, xdm
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- The following are required when upgrading from version 3.3 or later:
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- preinst.sh Pre-installation script
- postinst.sh Post-installation script
- extract XFree86 extraction utility
- Xbin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
- Xdoc.tgz Documentation
- Xlib.tgz Data files required at run-time
- Xman.tgz Manual pages
- Xset.tgz XF86Setup utility
- Xjset.tgz XF86Setup utility (if you prefer the Japanese version)
- XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
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- While it isn't essential to update the standard fonts, this version does
- include some minor fixes to some of them, as well as the addition of two basic
- ISO 8859-15 fonts. If you want to upgrade the standard fonts you will also
- need:
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- Xfnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
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- NOTE: Be very careful about installing Xcfg.tgz over an existing installation
- if you have customised your xinit and/or xdm config files. Installing Xcfg.tgz
- will overwrite any existing files. If you do have customised files, there is
- no need to install Xcfg.tgz.
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- NOTE: The bitmap fonts distributed with this release are compressed using gzip
- rather than compress. This means that you will probably want to remove the old
- versions (after backing them up). The Xservers and font server in releases
- prior to 3.2A cannot read gzipped fonts, so keep a copy of the old fonts if you
- wish to run older servers.
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- The following X servers are for PC/AT based hardware (i.e., typical Intel ix86
- based PCs). Choose at least one which matches your hardware, as well as the
- VGA16 server. The VGA16 server is required by the new configuration utility
- (XF86Setup). A list showing which X server is required for a range of video
- cards can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html.
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- X3DL.tgz 3Dlabs server
- X8514.tgz 8514/A server
- XAGX.tgz AGX server
- XI128.tgz I128 server
- XMa32.tgz Mach 32 server
- XMa64.tgz Mach 64 server
- XMa8.tgz Mach 8 server
- XMono.tgz Mono server
- XP9K.tgz P9000 server
- XS3.tgz S3 server
- XS3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
- XSVGA.tgz SVGA server
- XVG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
- XW32.tgz ET4000/W32, ET6000 server
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- The following X servers are available for Alpha hardware:
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- XMa64.tgz Mach 64 server
- XMono.tgz Mono server (generic driver only)
- XP9K.tgz P9000 server
- XTGA.tgz DEC 21030 (TGA) server
- XS3.tgz S3 server
- XS3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
- XSVGA.tgz SVGA server (Matrox Millennium and S3 ViRGE drivers only)
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- The following X servers are for PC98 hardware. Note that PC98 is a Japanese
- computer standard and has nothing to do with Win98, or the Intel and Microsoft
- PC98 specification. If you have a PC98 machine, choose one which suits your
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- hardware. If you don't know what a PC98 machine is, you don't need any of
- these. These servers will not run on "normal" PCs, so don't even try them if
- you don't have a Japanese PC98 machine. A list showing which X server is
- required for a range of PC98 video cards and computers can be found at
- http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist98.html.
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- X9NS3.tgz PC98 NEC(S3) server
- X9SPW.tgz PC98 PCSKB-PowerWindow(S3) server
- X9LPW.tgz PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server
- X9EGC.tgz PC98 EGC(generic) server
- X9GA9.tgz PC98 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968) server
- X9GAN.tgz PC98 GANB-WAP(cirrus) server
- X9480.tgz PC98 PEGC-480(generic) server
- X9NKV.tgz PC98 NKV-NEC(cirrus) server
- X9WS.tgz PC98 WABS(cirrus) server
- X9WEP.tgz PC98 WAB-EP(cirrus) server
- X9WSN.tgz PC98 WSN-A2F(cirrus) server
- X9TGU.tgz PC98 TGUI server
- X9MGA.tgz PC98 MGA server
- X9SVG.tgz PC98 CLGD755x server
- X9set.tgz PC98 XF98Setup utility
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- The following are optional.
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- Xf100.tgz 100dpi fonts
- Xfcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts
- Xfnon.tgz Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
- Xfscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
- Xfsrv.tgz Font server and config files
- Xprog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs
- Xnest.tgz Nested X server
- Xvfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server
- Xprt.tgz X Print server
- Xps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation
- Xhtml.tgz HTML version of the documentation
- Xjdoc.tgz Documentation in Japanese (for version 3.2)
- Xjhtm.tgz HTML version of the documentation in Japanese (3.2)
- Xlkit.tgz X server LinkKit
- Xlk98.tgz X server LinkKit for PC98 servers
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- If you already have a version of XFree86 installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF /usr/X11R6
- BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. The standard installation procedure will overwrite
- your existing version of XFree86.
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- If you are installing from scratch, create a directory called /usr/X11R6, then
- extract the required .tgz files. If you don't have enough space in /usr for
- this, create a directory elsewhere and create a symbolic link to it. E.g., if
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- mkdir /home/X11R6
- ln -s /home/X11R6 /usr
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- The next step is to run the pre-installation script. This script makes some
- preliminary checks of your system. For some OSs, it may tell you to install
- new versions of some system components before proceeding with the installation.
- This script may also remove some outdated files and symbolic links from a pre-
- vious installation that could cause problems.
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- For the purposes of these installation instructions, it is assumed that you
- have downloaded all the files to the /var/tmp directory. If you've put them in
- another directory, that's fine -- just replace all occurrences of ``/var/tmp''
- with the name of that directory.
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- To run the pre-installation script, go to /usr/X11R6 and run it:
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- cd /usr/X11R6
- sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
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- The next step is to make the installation utility executable. To do this, make
- sure the `extract' file is in the same directory as all the X*.tgz files, and
- run the following from that directory:
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- chmod 755 extract
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- The installation utility ``extract'' is used to unpack the .tgz files that make
- up the XFree86 distribution. The .tgz files are gzipped tar files. However,
- ``tar'' in its standard form on most OSs is not well-suited to the task of
- installing XFree86. The extract utility is a modified version of GNU tar 1.12
- built with the options required to make it suitable for installing XFree86.
- The source for extract is available from the same place you got the XFree86
- distribution.
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- It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to unpack
- the XFree86 distribution. If you choose to ignore this and use something else,
- we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems. It is also important
- that you do not rename the extract utility. If renamed, it behaves just like
- the normal GNU tar.
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- To extract the XFree86 binaries, run the following as root:
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- cd /usr/X11R6
- /var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X*.tgz
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- Once the required .tgz files have been extracted, run the post installation
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- cd /usr/X11R6
- sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh
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- For OSs which use ldconfig, you may need to run ldconfig or reboot to complete
- the installation. The postinst.sh script should run ldconfig correctly for you
- if you are using Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. For other OSs that use
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- 1. XFree86 and X11R6.3 ...................................................... 1
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- 2. X11R6.4 .................................................................. 1
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- 3. OS issues ................................................................ 2
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- 4. What's new in 3.3.3.1? ................................................... 2
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- 5. What's new in 3.3.3? ..................................................... 3
- 5.1 Security fixes ....................................................... 3
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- 5.3 New Features ......................................................... 4
- 5.4 Known Problems ....................................................... 5
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- 6. XFree86 and Open Source Software ......................................... 5
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- 7. Installing the XFree86 3.3.3.1 Release ................................... 6
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