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- From: obz@sisd.kodak.com (Orest Zborowski COMP)
- Subject: Re: X11 - what's the proverbial "Latest", and what to do...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.192219.3543@sisd.kodak.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 19:22:19 GMT
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- Craig Metz (cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu) wrote:
- >
- > Ok, well I have run on my machine before (incessant flamers,
- >skip here - I have an ET4000 board and I've run it before) through
- >all the versions released to the public of the "Linux X11". Now, my
- >problme is that I want a reasonably fast server (ie, XFree86 - the
- >ET4000 speedups and such will really impact performance in a positive
- >way for my system!). I guess things can be summed up in two questions:
- >
- > 1. What's the timetable for "Linux X11" 2.0?
-
- i hope to have it released by the end of the month, but it may be sooner.
-
- >
- > - Last I heard was a chicken and egg problem between X11
- > and GCC...
-
- not really true. i needed the newest gcc changes from hlu to get any sort
- of x11 shared libs working. with his latest set, i have a running version
- of x386 1.2e 1.0.2 (yes, note the name).
-
- >
- > 2. If "Linux X11" 2.0 isn't coming too soon, what do I need to
- > build an XFree86 server that is Linux-aware (what is
- > needed patch-wise to do such things as handling VCs in
- > the "right" way and restoring video mode, all that...).
- >
- > - I've seen one X3861.2E server binary out on sunsite,
- > and it looks like it will work, but there's a big
- > difference in my book between working and working
- > CORRECTLY (handling Linux-isms right).
-
- last night i finished upgrading my 1.2e to xfree86 1.0X, with the intention
- of incorporating the linux defines into the next release of xfree86 (so
- everyone can compile their own :-). no really, they are much better at
- tracking the mit changes than i am, and with hlu feeling better about
- the jump tables, and the kernel stabilizing, things are ripe to be
- included in xfree86.
-
- there are many neat things in xfree86, like a mono driver which works on
- any kind of vga, linkable servers, speedo and type1 fonts, etc. i have
- also included everything but the kitchen sink for server additions (all
- except pex - i need a 1gb drive for that!). i have also compiled it with
- true tcp connections (yes, you'll be able to run it without).
-
- hopefully this weekend i can pack things up, and then i'm gonna go into
- a tiny alpha, to make sure the tcp stuff works, ati cards, etc. this is
- to avoid a x11v2.1 right away. hence the release by month end.
-
- after that, we should be in step with xfree86, which is *a good thing*.
-
- >
- > Any helps would be appreciated, preferably in mail unless it
- >would be of benefit to the world. The S/N ratio around here is enough
- >to make me stop reading the group. And no, for the "xjxtirn handles all
- >that for you" crowd, I can't do killfiles - reading e digests here.
- >
- > -Craig
- >
- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
- >Where nothing works, nothing is up, and everything is late.
-
- p.s. if you are interested in playing with the server, keep tabs on the
- x11 mailing list and i'll tell people when its available. btw - don't
- bother doinng too much development work with x11v1.1 - xfree86 (and x11v2.0)
- is much different (should be easier to work with).
-
- zorst
- [obz@raster.Kodak.COM]
- --
- zorst (orest zborowski)
- [obz@raster.Kodak.COM]
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