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- From: ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer 99)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: X11R4 fixes available
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.030712.20@isc-br.isc-br.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 03:07:12 GMT
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- The patches and executables for the Amiga Unix X11R4 server should now
- be available on wuarchive.wustl.edu in "/systems/amiga/incoming/unix".
- I included tar files containing both color versions of the server
- and source patches. Here is an extract from the README file:
- ========================================================================
- This README file is included with the 3 compressed tar files available
- for Amiga Unix X11R4 patches. I decided to go with 3 files so that folks
- can get just the parts that they need.
- 1. amixX4-2410.tar.Z
- This one contains the source patches PLUS the A2410 X server binary.
- 2. amixX4-dmi.tar.Z
- This one contains the source patches PLUS the DMI X server binary.
- 3. amixX4-ponly.tar.Z
- This one contains ONLY the source patches and README.
-
- After unpacking and un-tarring, the directory will contain patch files
- and a binary executable for the X11R4 server for Amiga Unix SVR4
- version 2.1. The server *should* work for the 2.03 Amiga Unix release
- as well, although I have not tested that.
-
- Because I didn't feel that people would want to have to download 2 rather
- large files for the server binary, there are two different tar files which
- contain this README. One contains a server binary for the A2410 color card,
- and the other contains a server binary for the DMI Resolver. Either server
- should work for monochrome-only systems. The servers are built from the
- same sources, so the patch files are the same on both.
-
- The following is a list of the bugs fixed in this distribution:
-
- o Cursor allocation problems which caused the server to fail
- after 4 or 5 applications were started. NOTE: this patch
- was included in the "official" 2.1p2a patch disk so, if you
- have already applied those patches, don't apply the patch
- contained in the "patch1.opt2" file.
-
- o Memory leaks. The server was allocating lots of memory for
- various purposes that was never freed. Caused problems with
- swap space, amoung other things. I *think* that I got all
- of the leaks but you never know :-)
-
- o The server would crash when doing certain kinds of spanned fills.
- It was overflowing an allocated area. This one also sometimes
- caused display anomalies because the problem was that these
- fills weren't getting clipped.
-
- o Pattern fill operations would usually get munged. This problem
- was especially noticable in "tgif" when creating pattern filled
- objects. Many other applications would appear to put black blobs
- on the screen.
-
- o Using "xfontsel" (or any other program) to display large (> 24 pixel)
- fonts would totally hose the display. There were some "backwards"
- shifts in "tigtext.c". The actual problem was that values which were
- supposed to be in 32 bits were getting their high-order 16 bits zeroed
- out.
-
- ........stuff left out
-
- PosterNotes
- -----------
-
- Many thanks to Keith Gabryelski for his help in finding and fixing these
- bugs! Hopefully, everyone will be able to install this stuff and it'll
- just work. If not, I can be reached by email, phone, or snail :-) Also,
- there are still a few bugs lurking in the server...I am aware of some
- of them but probably not *all* of them! If you have a fix, or a
- reproducible scenario, send me email.
-
- Rick Schaeffer
- E. 13611 26th Ave.
- Spokane, Wa. 99216
- Phone: (509) 928-3533
- email: ricks@isc-br.isc-br.com
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