Excerpt from the XFree86 Changelog for 3.1.2G
The following is a list of things changed between 3.1.2F and 3.1.2G, as
a reference for you to check whether you need 3.1.2G at all. This is not
the complete changelog file. Note that no. 773 (OS/2 updates) is nothing
worth to have - these are actually the patches which were already applied to 3.1.2F
and submitted later into the official code base.
XFree86 3.1.2G (3 September 1996)
- 775. Fixes for some NECS3 server problems (Naofumi Honda).
- 774. Fix some XF86Setup typos.
- 773. OS/2 updates (Holger Veit).
XFree86 3.1.2Fc (3 September 1996)
- 772. XF86Setup updates (see XF86Setup/CHANGELOG for details) (Joe Moss).
- 771. PCI detection for the Alliance ProMotion 6422 (Kent Hamilton).
- 770. Documentation updates (Dirk Hohndel, Matthieu Herrb).
- 769. Updates for OpenBSD, including support for recent changes to the
console drivers (Matthieu Herrb).
- 768. Need rint() for ISC and Lynx (Michael Rohleder).
XFree86 3.1.2Fb (1 September 1996)
- 767. S3 support for the Diamond SS2410 RAMDAC (eriks).
- 746. Fix resize on Linux (for terminfo) (Rik Faith).
- 745. Updates to Cyrillic fonts (Andrey Chernov).
XFree86 3.1.2Fa (31 August 1996)
- 744. Fix xterm's handling of SGR 22, 24 and 25 in combination with colorUL
and colorBD resources. Also noted & fixed reset of colored
underline/bold with SGR 0 (Thomas E. Dickey).
- 743. Fix a typo in the xterm termcap (Thomas E. Dickey).
- 742. Don't allow the "fb_debug" option when newmmio is used (Harald Koenig).
- 741. Make sure s3Port59/s3Port5A are initialised before s3Init() is called
(Harald Koenig).
- 740. Force 64MB alignment of linear FB, even when MemBase is given in
the config file (Harald Koenig).
- 739. Disable newmmio when "nolinear" is specified, or when linear memory
mapping isn't available (Harald Koenig).
- 738. Fix C&T driver printing out a line in its probe in cases where a
C&T chip hasn't been detected.
- 737. Driver for the Alliance ProMotion 6422 (Alliance Semiconductor, and
Kent Hamilton).
- 736. Make the Ark SVGA driver detect the ARK2000MT, and treat it as an
ARK2000PV.
- 735. Updates for SCO OpenServer 5 support (J. Kean Johnston).
- 734. Fix for a buffer overflow problem in XOpenDislpay (libX11)
(X Consortium, Kaleb Keithley).
- 733. Some imake/config updates (Dirk Hohndel).
- 732. Add a '-nolock' server command line option to disable the X server
locking (Roger Wolff).
- 731. Scanpci updates: Check general pci-pci bridges, add some more
vendor and device IDs, and add a '-f' flag to print out the full
information -- otherwise just print the vendor/device name
(Mihoko Tanaka).
- 730. Updates for ISC (Michael Rohleder).
- 729. Fix typo in XF86Setup/mouse.tcl (Thomas Mueller).
- 728. Fix malloc problem in TLI xtrans code (Joe Moss).
- 727. Fix some WaitQueue problems with the S3 server (Naofumi Honda,
Takaaki Nomura, Harald Koenig).
- 726. Fix for display problem with Trio64V+ at 16bpp (Harald Koenig).
- 725. Fix clock limit arrays for Cirrus 754x chip (Corin Anderson).
- 724. Add a "DefaultColorDepth" keyword for the Screen section of the
XF86Config (Dirk Hohndel).
- 723. Fix problem using non-linear mode with TGUI chips (Alan Hourihane).
- 722. Turn off PCI burst write by default for TGUI chips.
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