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- Release Notes for XFree86[TM] 3.2
- The XFree86 Project, Inc
-
- 29 October 1996
-
- This document describes the new features in XFree86 3.2 compared with
- the previous full release, 3.1.2. It also includes installation
- instructions for the binary distributions.
-
- 1. XFree86 and X11R6.1
-
- XFree86 releases starting with the 3.1.2D beta are based on the X
- Consortium's X11R6.1.
-
- 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. LBX has been dropped from R6.1, and as such, has been
- dropped from XFree86 too. It is expected that it will reappear in
- some form in a future release.
-
- 2. OS issues
-
- Always check the OS specific README files for special requirements or
- caveats.
-
- Users running Linux/Elf (on Intel platforms) should note that they
- will need ld.so-1.7.14. This can be found at
- tsx-11.mit.edu:pub/linux/packages/GCC
- <ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC>.
-
- 3. New Features in 3.2
-
- Note, items marked with `*' have been added since the last beta
- release (3.1.2G).
-
- 3.1. General
-
-
- o XFree86 3.2 includes the X Consortium's X11R6.1.
-
- o XFree86-3.2 includes a full distribution for Linux/m68k.
-
- o XFree86-3.2 includes a full distribution for Linux/Alpha.
-
- o XFree86-3.2 includes a full distribution for OS/2.
-
- 3.2. General X server changes
-
-
- o A `DefaultColorDepth' keyword has been added for the Screen
- section in XF86Config files to allow the default bpp to be
- specified.
-
- o A `-nolock' server command-line option has been added to allow
- the server's locking mechanism to be disabled.
-
- o All VGA cards with a set of discrete clocks (i.e. not a
- ClockChip or a ClockProg) can now also use all the clocks
- mentioned in the clocks line divided by 2. This presents the
- server with twice as many clocks to choose from. Add the option
- "clkdiv2" to the "Device" section of XF86Config to enable this.
-
- o Some cursor colouring bugs have been fixed for servers that use
- hardware cursors.
-
- o A security problem related to the X server's lock files has been
- fixed.
-
- o The VidMode extension (as used by xvidtune) now by default only
- allows changes to modes by clients using a local connection
- type. There is also an option to completely disable mode
- changes via this extension.
-
- o A new server extension called "XFree86-Misc" has been added.
- The primary purpose of this is to allow reconfiguration of some
- parameters while the server is running. Some functions
- previously in the VidMode extension (like screen save functions)
- have been moved to this new extension.
-
- o Support has been added for the ALPS GlidePoint. A tap on the
- pad is treated as a fourth button.
-
- o The XKEYBOARD extension is included in the servers as part of
- X11R6.1. It is enabled by default, but can be disabled either
- from the command line (see the Xserver man page) or from the
- XF86Config file (see XkbDisable in the XF86Config man page).
- With this extension enabled, you may see some differences in the
- keyboard mappings.
-
- o A new extension called XFree86-DGA is now provided. This allows
- a client program to get direct access to the video card's
- memory. This is implemented for most of the servers/drivers
- that can support it. Connections are only allowed from clients
- using a local connection type (e.g., DISPLAY=":0"). For details
- of the client-side API, see the XF86DGA(3) man page, and the
- file README.DGA.
-
- o An implementation of the XInput extension is now included. It
- has support for the following devices:
-
- + Joystick (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD only)
-
- + Wacom tablet (Wacom IV protocol only)
-
- + Elographics touchscreen
-
- + SummaSketch tablet
-
- + Mouse
-
- Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) manual page and the xinput document
- for configuration details.
-
- o The default black and white pixel values are now black = 0 and
- white = 1 for all servers. This may be swapped with the
- `-flipPixels' command-line option.
-
- o Underscore characters are now ignored in Options and keywords in
- the XF86Config file.
-
- o The built-in X server malloc is used by default.
-
- o A problem that can cause the X server to crash when running
- xvidtune has been fixed.
-
- o Bitmap fontpath elements can have ":unscaled" appended to
- prevent the fonts from being treated as scalable. This works
- with the fontserver (xfs) too.
-
-
-
- o *The PEX and XIE server extensions can now be dynamically loaded
- for Linux/ELF, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
-
- 3.3. XF86Setup
-
-
- o 3.2 includes a new, graphical utility for X server configuration
- called `XF86Setup'. NOTE: this utility requires that you have
- the VGA16 server installed, as well as the server specific to
- your video card.
-
- 3.4. PC98 Support
-
-
- o Support has been added for PC98 machines. These are Intel based
- machines which are common in Japan.
-
- o Support has been added for the PANIX-PC98 SVR4.0 OS.
-
- o The following PC98-specific X servers are included:
-
- + XF98_NECS3 PC98 NEC(S3) server.
-
- + XF98_PWSKB SKB-PowerWindow(S3) server.
-
- + XF98_PWLB PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server.
-
- + XF98_GA968 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968).
-
- + XF98_TGUI Cyber9320 and TGUI9680.
-
- + XF98_NKVNEC NKV-NEC(cirrus) server.
-
- + XF98_WABS WABS(cirrus) server.
-
- + XF98_GANBWAP GANB-WAP(cirrus) server.
-
- + XF98_WABEP WAB-EP(cirrus) server.
-
- + XF98_WSNA WSN-A2F(cirrus) server.
-
- + XF98_EGC EGC(generic vga16) server.
-
- + XF98_NEC480 PEGC-480(generic vga256) server.
-
- 3.5. XInput Extension
-
-
- o Motion history support is included for XInput devices.
-
- o XInput drivers are now dynamically loadable for Linux/ELF,
- FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
-
- o Multiple instances of XInput devices may be specified.
-
- 3.6. S3 server
-
-
- o Support for the S3 Trio64V+.
-
- o *New server (XF86_S3V) for the S3 ViRGE and ViRGE/VX. Note that
- this server is very new, and is considered "beta". Please
- report any problems with it.
-
-
-
- o Support in the S3 server for the AT&T 20C409 and 20C499 RAMDACs.
-
- o Some potential problems with the way the accelerator is used
- have been fixed.
-
- o A new driver has been added for the 868/968/Trio64V+ which uses
- the new MMIO mode available with these chips. This new driver
- is used by default for these chips on Intel platforms, but not
- yet on Alpha platforms. It can be enabled for Alpha platforms
- by specifying:
-
- Chipset "NewMMio"
-
-
-
- If you see any problems with the new driver, please let us know.
- It is possible to disable this new driver and use the old one by
- specifying:
-
- Chipset "mmio_928"
-
-
-
- in the Device section. Please test the new driver before disabling
- it, and for any problem you see, also check if it happens with the
- old driver, and let us know (even if the old driver fixes the prob-
- lem!).
-
- o An initialisation problem with some VideoLogic cards has been
- fixed.
-
- o Support for the ELSA Winner 2000PRO/X rev G and ELSA Gloria-8
- (except the GLint 300SX 3D chip) has been added.
-
- o Problems with S3 dashed lines are fixed.
-
- o Added options "slow_dram" and "slow_edodram" to avoid pixel
- errors on the display for some broken cards.
-
- o A Ti3026 clock problem that appears on some SPEA cards has been
- fixed.
-
- o Code has been added to automatically detect the Trio32 bug that
- causes font cache problems. When detected, a workaround is
- activated..
-
- o Framebuffer address problems with some 1MB Trio64 VLB cards
- should be fixed.
-
- o The low ICS5342 clock limit has been removed.
-
- o Detection of Diamond S3 cards has been improved. If you've
- needed to use the "diamond" option to avoid screen wrapping in
- previous releases, try removing it and let us know if there are
- any problems.
-
- o Memory parameter calculations for 2MB Trio64 cards have been
- fixed. If you've needed to add something like "S3MClk 170" to
- your XF86Config with previous versions, you should remove it
- now.
-
- o The handling of the S3RefClk XF86Config setting has been fixed
- for cards with an IBM Ramdac.
-
-
-
- o Support for S3 and Bt485 HW cursor in doublescan modes.
-
- o Fix positioning of IBM RGB Ramdac HW cursor in interlace and
- doublescan modes (the cursor shape still isn't correct).
-
- o Improved linear fb detection for PCI cards. In particular this
- should allow most Trio64V+ cards to use the linear fb, which
- seems to prevent a lot of the lockups that have been reported.
-
- o Support for the ELSA Elsa Winner2000PRO/X-2,4 Rev.G which uses
- an ICS9161A clock chip as well as the Ti3026 RAMDAC (clock
- doubling not supported yet).
-
- o The default InvertVCLK settings have been changed for #9 Motion
- 771 cards and Hercules Terminator 64 Pro cards. If you have
- needed to add Invert_VCLK lines to your XF86Config file to avoid
- screen wrapping with version 3.1.2, please remove them when
- testing this version. If there are problems with the new
- defaults, please report them to us.
-
- o *Text clipping performance has been improved.
-
- 3.7. Mach64 server
-
-
- o Most problems in the handling of block_write have been fixed.
- Nevertheless, you still might need to add the "no_block_write"
- option to your XF86Config if the BIOS doesn't correctly
- initialise the chip.
-
- o Screen blanking for some Mach64 CT cards running at 16bpp and
- 32bpp has been fixed. Problems remain for some revisions of the
- CT chip.
-
- o The Mach64 server supports the VT and GT chipset. The GT is
- also known as "3D Rage". The newer 3D Rage II is not yet
- supported.
-
- o A problem with olvwm icons has been fixed.
-
- o A problem with ghostview scrollbars has been fixed. This may
- also fix some Netscape font problems that have been reported.
-
- o The Mach64 CT (also known as the 264CT or 215CT22200) chip is
- now supported. This chip has a integrated RAMDAC and clockchip,
- and is used on some Graphics Xpression and WinBoost cards.
-
- o The Mach64 GX-F (GX rev 3) is now supported.
-
- o The IBM RGB514 RAMDAC is now supported (as used on the ATI
- Graphics Turbo Pro 1600).
-
- o The memory base should now be correctly detected for VLB cards.
- If you've needed to add a `MemBase' line to the XF86Config for
- previous versions, please try removing it, and let us know if
- there are any problems.
-
- o Cursor colour problems at 16bpp/32bpp mode with some RAMDACs
- have been fixed.
-
- o Errors in detecting some RAMDACs (like the CH8398) should now be
- fixed.
-
- o 8 bit-per-RGB mode (when running at 8bpp) is now the default for
- RAMDACs that support it.
-
- o Hardware cursor mask problem has been fixed.
-
- o Support for the AT&T 20C408 RAMDAC/Clockchip has been added.
-
- o Arbitrary clocks can be used on most cards with supported clock
- chips.
-
- o Hardware cursor color problem on Mach64 CT, VT and GT chips at
- 16bpp and 32bpp has been fixed.
-
- o Doublescan mode is supported on VT and GT chipsets. The
- hardware cursor is not correctly displayed in doublescan modes,
- but functions correctly. No other Mach64 chipsets can support
- an accelerated doublescan mode.
-
- o Video noise on certain CT, VT and GT chips has been eliminated
- (on nearly all cards) or reduced as much as possible (on certain
- CT based cards).
-
- o Clock chip programming accuracy has been greatly improved on CT,
- ET, VT and GT based cards. This may result in modes that were
- set up for a previous release not being displayed as before.
- With the xvidtune program, you can adjust the screen to work
- with the now correct clock programming.
-
- o *The reliability of the Mach64 detection code has been improved.
-
- 3.8. Mach32 server
-
-
- o Hardware cursor mask problem has been fixed.
-
- o *16bpp support has been added for the AT&T 20C490 and Bt481
- RAMDACs.
-
- o *Some VT switching problems have been fixed.
-
- 3.9. W32 server
-
-
- o Support has been added for the ET6000
-
- o Support has been added for the ICD2061A clock chip (which is
- used on the Diamond Stealth 32).
-
- o The server's reporting of bits/RGB resolution has been fixed.
-
- o Support for the STG1703 RAMDAC/clock has been added. Clocks up
- to 135MHz should be OK. To use the programmable clock add the
- following line to the Device section of the XF86Config:
-
-
- ClockChip "stg1703"
-
-
-
-
-
- o Options have been added to allow PCI burst mode and W32
- interleaving to be turned on or off. The XF86Config Device
- section entries for these are:
-
-
-
-
-
- Option "pci_burst_on"
- Option "pci_burst_off"
- Option "w32_interleave_on"
- Option "w32_interleave_off"
-
-
-
-
-
- o Support has been added for the ICS5341 programmable clock. To
- enable this, add the following lines to the Device section of
- your XF86Config file:
-
-
- Ramdac "ics5341"
- ClockChip "ics5341"
-
-
-
-
-
- o Problems that could cause the W32 server to crash at startup or
- get stuck in a loop at exit have been fixed.
-
- o *Some drawing bugs have been fixed.
-
- 3.10. AGX server
-
-
- o Fix for clock probing with AGX-010 chips.
-
- 3.11. I128 server
-
-
- o A new server for the Number Nine Imagine 128 card is included.
- This server is currently not accelerated.
-
- o Support has been added for the Series 2 cards.
-
- o Support has been added for 8MB cards.
-
- 3.12. TGA server
-
-
- o *A new server for the DEC 21030 (TGA) is included. This is only
- available for Alpha machines. This server is currently not
- accelerated.
-
- 3.13. SVGA/VGA16/Mono servers
-
-
- o A PCI probe has been added to these servers. If it causes
- problems, it can be disabled by adding the line:
-
- Option "no_pci_probe"
-
-
-
- to the Device section in your XF86Config file.
-
- 3.14. VGA16 server
-
-
- o A problem preventing the StaticGray visual from working has been
- fixed.
-
- 3.15. ET3000 driver (VGA16 server)
-
-
- o VGA16 support has been added to the ET3000 driver.
-
- 3.16. Trident driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o TGUI9440 is now fully supported by the SVGA server.
-
- o Major updates for most of the trident family of chips.
-
- o TGUI9660/9680 chipsets are now fully supported
-
- o Check README.trident distributed with this release for full
- details.
-
- 3.17. Ark driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o The Ark driver will now detect the ARK2000MT, but it is treated
- as an ARK2000PV.
-
- o A problem which caused the server to crash when no Ramdac was
- given in the XF86Config file has been fixed.
-
- o ICS5342 clock support (required for the Diamond Stealth64
- Graphics 2001 series) has been added. To enable this, add the
- following lines to the Device section of your XF86Config file:
-
-
- Ramdac "ics5342"
- ClockChip "ics5342"
-
-
-
-
-
- Do not include any Clocks lines in your XF86Config file.
-
- o Panning has been fixed for ARK2000PV cards with 2MB of video
- memory.
-
- o *Some basic BitBlt acceleration has been added.
-
- o *24bpp packed pixel support has been added for some
- cards/RAMDACs.
-
- o *Memory bandwidth problems have been fixed.
-
- o *Hardware cursor support has been added.
-
- 3.18. ET6000 driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o *This driver includes support for linear memory and 16bpp, 24bpp
- and 32bpp operation. Note, this support isn't currently present
- in the W32 accelerated server.
-
- 3.19. Alliance ProMotion driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o A driver for the Alliance ProMotion 6442 has been added (from
- Alliance Semiconductor). This has not been thoroughly tested.
-
-
- 3.20. NVidia NV1 / SGS Thomson STG2000 driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o *A driver for the NV1/STG2000 has been added. This chipset is
- used on the Diamond Edge 3D card. This is a very new driver,
- and is considered "beta". It includes support for 8bpp and
- 16bpp.
-
- 3.21. Matrox Millennium driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o *A driver for the Matrox Millennium (mga2064w) has been added.
- This is a very new driver, and is considered "beta". It
- includes support for 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp. The
- acceleration capabilities of this chipset are only used to a
- very limited extent at this stage.
-
- 3.22. Cirrus driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o Support has been added for the CL-GD5446, CL-GD5462 and CL-
- GD5464.
-
- o Support has been added for the CL-GD7543.
-
- o Support for the CL-GD754x series of laptop chips is included,
- but it appears to be broken in this release.
-
- o The programmable clock code has been improved to avoid unstable
- settings.
-
- o *Some FIFO setting problems have been fixed.
-
- o *Packed 24bpp support has been added for the 54xx.
-
- o *Some problems with 16bpp for a 1MB 5434 have been fixed.
-
- 3.23. SiS driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o Support is included for the SiS 86C201 PCI graphics card.
-
- o 256 colour support has been added.
-
- o SiS 86c202 and 86c205 somewhat work when "sis86c201" is
- specified as chipset.
-
- 3.24. Chips and Technologies driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o This driver has been significantly reworked.
-
- o Support has been added for the 65546, 65548, 65550 and 65554.
-
- o Linear addressing support for the 65530 and above.
-
- o 16bpp and 24bpp (packed) support for the 65545 an above.
-
- o BitBLT and some other acceleration for the 65545, 65546, 65548
- and 65550.
-
- 3.25. ALI driver (SVGA server)
-
-
-
-
- o Interlaced modes now work with this driver.
-
- 3.26. ATI driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o Mach64 support has been improved.
-
- o The driver name has been changed back from "vgawonder" to "ati".
-
- o Support is included for most recent Mach64 cards.
-
- o The "undoc_clocks" option has been removed. If you had been
- using it, remove it from your XF86Config file.
-
- o A colourmap problem with VGA Wonder V3 boards has been fixed.
-
- 3.27. WD90C24 driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o A problem with snow at high clocks has been fixed.
-
- 3.28. Compaq AVGA driver (SVGA server)
-
-
- o The Compaq AVGA driver has been disabled in this release because
- it doesn't work, and nobody seems interested in fixing it.
-
- 3.29. Hercules mono driver
-
-
- o The Hercules mono driver has been disabled in this release
- because it has problems, and isn't likely to be fixed soon.
-
- 3.30. Client/Library changes
-
-
- o Support for most vt220/vt320 escape sequenced has been added to
- xterm.
-
- o Support for ddterm's escape sequences has been added to xterm.
-
- o The termcap and terminfo entries for xterm have been updated in
- line with the new features present. These entries are not
- completely compatible with earlier versions of xterm.
-
- o xdm's session handling on BSD OSs has been fixed.
-
- o Some buffer overrun problems which can lead to security problems
- have been fixed in libXt and libX11. At least one of these
- problems has been used to exploit the setuid xterm.
-
- o POSIX termios support has been added for xterm on most BSD
- systems. This removes the need for the BSD kernel to built with
- the COMPAT_43 option.
-
- o As part of the change to X11R6.1, the shared library revisions
- for libX11, libXaw, libXext, and libXtst have been incremented
- to 6.1.
-
- o The client-side library code for the XFree86 extensions and the
- ScreenSaver extension has been moved into separate libraries.
- The old libXExExt has been removed.
-
- o Colour support is now included by default in xterm. It isn't
- enabled by default, but can be enabled with the +cm command line
-
- flag, or by setting the `colorMode' resource to `true'. I18N
- support in xterm has been improved (as part of X11R6.1). If
- you've previously been using one of the many "color_xterm"
- variants, try this and let us know if you have any problems.
-
- o xdpyinfo has been updated to provide more detailed information
- about the XInput extension and the XFree86 extensions.
-
- o The setting/examining of extended screen saver parameters has
- been added to xset (was in xvidtune). xset can now also be used
- to set the keyboard repeat parameters.
-
- o The following new clients have been added:
-
- + dga -- a test program for the XFree86-DGA extension.
-
- + xsetmode, xsetpointer -- programs for use with the XInput
- extension.
-
- o The xdm security fix from the X Consortium's R6 fix-13 is
- included.
-
- o xconsole has been updated for Unixware 2.x.
-
- o XNLS support has been added for KOI8-R.
-
- o xrdb dynamically allocates string space to avoid overruns.
-
- o A memory overrun problem in xterm has been fixed.
-
- o An "AllowNullPasswd" resource has been added to xdm.
-
- o libXt bug fix from the X Consortium's R6 fix-13.
-
- 3.31. xf86config utility
-
-
- o Incorrect handling of IBM RGB Ramdacs has been fixed.
-
- 3.32. SuperProbe
-
-
- o Added detection for C&T 65548, Cirrus CL-GD7543/1, AT&T 20C409,
- AT&T20C499, and fixed an incorrect ET4000/W32 probe problem.
-
- o Much improved detection for Mach64 cards.
-
- o Improved detection for Trident cards.
-
- o Added detection of SiS, ARK, S3 ViRGE cards.
-
- 3.33. Fonts
-
-
- o The Cyrillic fonts have been updated.
-
-
- 4. Installing the XFree86 3.2 Release
-
- The XFree86 3.2 binary release is distributed as a full release, not
- as an upgrade.
-
- What follows is a list of the XFree86 3.2 components. There may be
- some variations in this for some OSs.
-
-
- The following are required for all installations:
-
-
- preinst.sh Pre-installation script
- postinst.sh Post-installation script
- X32bin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
- X32doc.tgz Documentation
- X32fnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
- X32lib.tgz Data files required at run-time
- X32man.tgz Manual pages
- X32set.tgz XF86Setup utility
- X32VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
-
-
-
-
- The following is required for new installations, and optional for
- existing installations:
-
-
- X32cfg.tgz sample config files for xinit, xdm
-
-
-
-
- NOTE: Be very careful about installing X32cfg.tgz over an existing
- installation if you have customised your xinit and/or xdm config
- files. Installing X32cfg.tgz will overwrite any existing files. If
- you do have customised files, there is no need to install X32cfg.tgz.
-
- The following X servers are for PC/AT hardware. 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).
-
-
- X328514.tgz 8514/A server
- X32AGX.tgz AGX server
- X32I128.tgz I128 server
- X32Ma32.tgz Mach 32 server
- X32Ma64.tgz Mach 64 server
- X32Ma8.tgz Mach 8 server
- X32Mono.tgz Mono server
- X32P9K.tgz P9000 server
- X32S3.tgz S3 server
- X32S3V.tgz S3 ViRGE server
- X32SVGA.tgz SVGA server
- X32VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
- X32W32.tgz ET4000/W32, ET6000 server
-
-
-
-
- The following X server is for Alpha hardware.
-
-
- X32TGA.tgz DEC 21030 (TGA) server
-
-
-
-
- The following X servers are for PC98 hardware. If you have a PC98
- machine, choose one which suits your hardware. If you don't know what
- a PC98 machine is, you don't need any of these.
-
-
-
- X329NS3.tgz PC98 NEC(S3) server
- X329SPW.tgz PC98 PCSKB-PowerWindow(S3) server
- X329LPW.tgz PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server
- X329EGC.tgz PC98 EGC(generic) server
- X329GA9.tgz PC98 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968) server
- X329GAN.tgz PC98 GANB-WAP(cirrus) server
- X329480.tgz PC98 PEGC-480(generic) server
- X329NKV.tgz PC98 NKV-NEC(cirrus) server
- X329WS.tgz PC98 WABS(cirrus) server
- X329WEP.tgz PC98 WAB-EP(cirrus) server
- X329WSN.tgz PC98 WSN-A2F(cirrus) server
- X329TGU.tgz PC98 TGUI server
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- X32f100.tgz 100dpi fonts
- X32fcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts
- X32fnon.tgz Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
- X32fscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
- X32fsrv.tgz Font server and config files
- X32prog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs
- X32lkit.tgz X server LinkKit
- X32lk98.tgz PC98 X server LinkKit
- X32nest.tgz Nested X server
- X32vfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server
- X32ps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation
- X32html.tgz HTML version of the documentation
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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 you create a directory in /home:
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- 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 also removes outdated
- files and symbolic links from a previous installation that may cause
- problems.
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- Copy the preinst.sh script to /var/tmp, then go to /usr/X11R6 and run
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- sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
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- The .tgz files are gzipped tar files. To extract them, go to
- /usr/X11R6, and run the following as root for each file you need:
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- On some OSs, you might get some "Broken Pipe" messages. Providing
- there are no other messages associated with this, they can be safely
- ignored. Note: You should not be running X while doing this installa-
- tion. Doing so may cause the installation to fail, or cause your X
- session to crash.
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- If you are using NetBSD or FreeBSD, a more reliable (and highly
- recommended) way of doing this is to extract the .tgz files with:
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- If you have GNU cpio (as Linux does) or SVR4 cpio, a more reliable
- (and highly recommended) way of doing this is to extract the .tgz
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- Once the required .tgz files have been extracted, copy the postinst.sh
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- For OSs which use ldconfig (like Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD), you
- should either run ldconfig or reboot to complete the installation. On
- FreeBSD and NetBSD, ldconfig takes arguments. In particular, you
- should at least include /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib on the command
- line. Check /etc/rc to see how ldconfig gets run at boot time.
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