README for XFree86[TM] 3.1.2 The XFree86 Project, Inc 24 July 1995 XFree86 is a port of X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel- based Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This release consists of new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures. 1. What's new in XFree86 3.1.2 The following items have been added since XFree86 3.1.1 was released in January 1995: 1. XFree86 3.1.2 includes the X Consortium's recently released public patch (fix-12). 2. Support for the S3 968 and 868 chipsets. 3. Support in the S3 server for the IBM RGB 5xx series RAMDACs. 4. Support in the S3 server for the STG1703 RAMDAC. 5. Support in the S3 server for the SC1148{2,3,4,5,7,9} RAMDACs at 15bpp. 6. XGA-2 support for the AGX server. 7. 16bpp support for the AGX server. 8. Bug fixes and enhancements to the Mach64 server. 9. Bug fixes for the Mach32 server. 10. Improved performance for the P9000 server. 11. Bug fixes for the VGA16 and Mono servers. 12. A new Xserver extension (and client) to allow interactive video mode tuning. 13. Improved VESA DPMS screensaver support for some servers. 14. New chipset support for the SVGA server. This includes the ARK Logic ARK1000PV and ARK2000PV and RealTek RTG3106. 15. Support for the WD90C24 series of laptop chipsets. 16. Updates to the SVGA vgawonder driver. 17. Improved 3 Button mouse emulation. 18. Support for LynxOS AT versions 2.2.1 and 2.3. 19. Support for Unixware 2.0. 20. Support for BSD/OS 2.0. 21. Support for Linux/ELF. 22. Workarounds for some NumLock problems. 23. Cyrillic fonts (using KIO8-R encoding) from Cronyx Ltd. Plus a lots of other small items. Refer to the CHANGELOG file in the source distribution for full details. 2. What's new in XFree86 3.1.1 The following items have been added since XFree86 3.1 was released in October 1994: 1. XFree86 3.1.1 includes the X Consortium's recently released public patches (up to fix-11). The XFree86 Project, Inc has worked with the X Consortium to have much of XFree86 3.1.1 included in the X Consortium's fix-11. 2. A new accelerated server for Mach64 boards. 3. Support for the S3 Trio32 and Trio64 chipsets. 4. Support in the S3 server for the Chrontel 8391 clock chip. 5. Support for SPEA Mercury P64 and MIRO Crystal 40SV. 6. Bug fixes and some performance improvements for most of the accelerated servers. 7. Support for `double scan' video modes (most servers). 8. New chipset support for the SVGA server. This includes the Avance Logic 2228/2301, Chips & Technology 655xx, Cirrus Logic 6440, and Oak OTI-087. Accelerated support is included for the OTI-087. 9. Support for FreeBSD 2.0. 10. Preliminary support for OS/2 (client-only at this stage; this is still under development). 11. Linear aperture access when running on BSD/386. 12. 16bpp and 32bpp support for more S3 boards (refer to README.S3 for details). 13. Support for ISC's SVR3 (only tested for 3.x and 4.x). 14. The `xf86config' utility for generating XF86Config files has been improved and now uses a database of video cards. 15. The X server LinkKit has been updated to include support for LBX. 16. The slow X server startup time on machines without hardware floating point has been improved. Plus a number of other small items. Refer to the CHANGELOG file in the source distribution for full details. 3. Systems XFree86 has been tested on SVR4.0: o Esix: 4.0.3A, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1 o Microport: 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2 o Dell: 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1 o UHC: 2.0, 3.6 o Consensys: 1.2 o MST: 4.0.3 (Load 2.07 and Load 3.02) o ISC: 4.0.3 o AT&T: 2.1, 4.0 o NCR: MP-RAS o SunSoft: Solaris x86 2.1, 2.4 SVR4.2: o Consensys o Novell UnixWare SVR3: o SCO: 3.2.2, 3.2.4 o ISC: 3.0, 4.0, 4.1 Others: o NetBSD 1.0 o FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5 o BSD/386 1.1, BSD/OS 2.0 o Mach 386 o Linux o Amoeba o Minix-386 o LynxOS AT 2.2.1, 2.3 4. Supported video-card chip-sets At this time, XFree86 3.1.2 supports the following accelerated chipsets: 8514/A (and true clones) ATI Mach8, Mach32, Mach64 Cirrus CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434 S3 86C911, 86C924, 86C801, 86C805, 86C805i, 86C928, 86C864, 86C964, 86C732, 86C764, 86C868, 86C968 Western Digital WD90C31, WD90C33, WD90C24A Weitek P9000 IIT AGX-014, AGX-015, AGX-016 IBM XGA-2 Tseng ET4000/W32, ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p The Cirrus, Western Digital and Oak accelerators are supported in the SVGA server; the other chipsets each have their own server. A list of some cards which the accelerated servers have been tested is included in the files AccelCards, Devices, the xf86config utility's Cards database, and some of the chipset-specific README files. They may well work on other cards, but we cannot guarantee it. In addition, the following SVGA chipsets are supported: Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX, ET4000/W32 Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1 Western Digital WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C24, WD90C24A, WD90C30, WD90C31,WD90C33 Genoa GVGA Trident TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000, TVGA9000i, TVGA9100B, TVGA9200CX, TVGA9320, TVGA9400CX, TVGA9420 ATI 18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6, 68800-3, 68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX, 88800CX, 88800GX NCR 77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+ Cirrus Logic CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434, CLGD6205, CLGD6215, CLGD6225, CLGD6235, CLGD6410, CLGD6412, CLGD6420, CLGD6440 Compaq AVGA OAK OTI067, OTI077, OTI087 Avance Logic ALG2101, ALG2228, ALG2301, ALG2302, ALG2308, ALG2401 Chips & Technology 65520, 65530, 65540, 65545 MX MX68000, MX680010 Video 7/Headland Technologies HT216-32 ARK Logic ARK1000PV, ARK2000PV RealTek RTG3106 All of the above are supported in both 256 color and monochrome modes, with the exception of the Advance Logic, MX, Chips & Technology, Video 7, ARK, RealTek chipsets, which are only supported in 256 color mode. Refer to the chipset-specific README files (currently for Cirrus, Tseng, Western Digital, ATI, ARK, Trident, Oak and Video 7) for more information about using those chipsets. The monochrome server also supports generic VGA cards, using 64k of video memory in a single bank, the Hercules monochrome card, the Hyundai HGC1280, Sigma LaserView, Visa and Apollo monochrome cards. On the Compaq AVGA, only 64k of video memory is supported for the monochrome server, and the GVGA has not been tested with more than 64k. The VGA16 server supports memory banking with the ET4000, Trident, ATI, NCR, OAK and Cirrus 6420 chipsets allowing virtual display sizes up to about 1600x1200 (with 1MB of video memory). For other chipsets the display size is limited to approximately 800x600. Note: The Diamond SpeedStar 24 (and possibly recent SpeedStar+) boards are NOT supported, even though they use the ET4000. The Stealth 32 which uses the ET4000/W32p is also not fully supported. The Weitek 9100 and 9130 chipsets are not supported (these are used on the Diamond Viper Pro and Viper SE boards). Most other Diamond boards will work with this release of XFree86. Diamond is now actively supporting The XFree86 Project, Inc. The Trident TGUI9440 series of chips is not yet supported, but we are working on this. 5. Important Changes between version 2.1.1 and 3.1 There are a number of important user-visible changes between XFree86 2.1.1 and XFree86 3.1. The first is the default install location. The XFree86 distribution is now installed by default under /usr/X11R6 instead of /usr/X386. This moves away from the now out-dated "X386" name, and it also makes it possible for both versions to co-exist. The next major change is related to the server configuration file. The old Xconfig file has been replaced in XFree86 3.1 by an XF86Config file. This is more than just a name change. The new XF86Config file uses a format that is quite different from the old Xconfig file. The new format is more structured, logical, and extensible than the old format. We realise that the transition to this new format won't be without problems. To help in this transition we have provided a program (`reconfig') to convert the old Xconfig format into the new XF86Config format. This doesn't provide a perfect conversion mostly because the new format contains more information than the old format. Some manual editing will always be required. One of the new types of information the XF86Config contains is a description of the monitor(s) you are using. This addition allows the servers to check that the video modes are within the specifications of the monitor. For information about the new config file format and how to use it, refer to the XF86Config(4/5) and reconfig(1) manual pages, and the README.Config file which can be found in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc. Another change related to the config file is the locations the servers look for it in. In previous releases the servers would look in places which could be specified by the user. This raised a number of security concerns. To address these, the server now only looks in places which are normally under the control of the system administrator. For further details, refer to the XFree86(1) manual page. 6. Where to get more information Additional documentation is available in the XFree86(1), XF86Config(4/5), XF86_SVGA(1), XF86_Mono(1), XF86_VGA16(1), XF86_Accel(1) and xvidtune(1) manual pages. In addition, several README files and tutorial documents are provided. These are available in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc in the binary distributions, and in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc in the source distribution. The files README.Config and VideoModes.doc should be consulted for information on how to set up the XFree86 servers. All supplied documents and manual pages should be read before contacting the XFree86 team for assistance. Documentation on SVGA driver development can be found in the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/VGADriverDoc in the binary distribution, and in the directory xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/VGADriverDoc in the source distribution. If you are totally at a loss, you can contact the XFree86 Support Team at . Before doing so, please make sure that you are using the latest release of XFree86. Check the versions listed on ftp.xfree86.org:/pub/XFree86 . There is a Usenet news group comp.windows.x.i386unix that contains mostly discussions about XFree86 and related topics. Many questions can be answered there. The answers to common questions are found in the corresponding FAQ. 7. Credits XFree86 was originally put together by: o David Dawes o Glenn Lai o Jim Tsillas o David Wexelblat XFree86 support was integrated into the base X11R6 distribution by: o Stuart Anderson o Doug Anson o Gertjan Akkerman o Mike Bernson o Robin Cutshaw o David Dawes o Marc Evans o Pascal Haible o Matthieu Herrb o Dirk Hohndel o David Holland o Alan Hourihane o Jeffrey Hsu o Glenn Lai o Ted Lemon o Rich Murphey o Hans Nasten o Mark Snitily o Randy Terbush o Jon Tombs o Kees Verstoep o Paul Vixie o Mark Weaver o David Wexelblat o Philip Wheatley o Thomas Wolfram o Orest Zborowski 386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD support by: o Rich Murphey NetBSD support by: o Matthieu Herrb Original 386BSD port by: o Pace Willison, o Amancio Hasty Jr Mach 386 support by: o Robert Baron Linux support by: o Orest Zborowski SCO Unix support by: o David McCullough Amoeba support by: o Kees Verstoep Minix-386 support by: o Philip Homburg OSF/1 support by: o Marc Evans BSD/OS support by: o Hans Nasten , o Paul Vixie Solaris support by: o Doug Anson , o David Holland ISC SVR3 support by: o Michael Rohleder LynxOS AT support by: o Thomas Mueller Linux shared libraries by: o Orest Zborowski , o Dirk Hohndel Original accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Jon Tombs S3 accelerated code by: o Jon Tombs , o Harald Koenig , o David Wexelblat , o David Dawes , o Robin Cutshaw , o Amancio Hasty , o Norbert Distler , o Leonard N. Zubkoff , o Bernhard Bender Mach32 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Mike Bernson , o Mark Weaver , o Craig Groeschel Mach64 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , Mach8, 8514 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Tiago Gons , o Hans Nasten , o Scott Laird Cirrus accelerated code by: o Simon Cooper , o Harm Hanemaayer , o Bill Reynolds Western Digital accelerated code by: o Mike Tierney , o Bill Conn P9000 accelerated code by: o Erik Nygren , o Harry Langenbacher o Chris Mason o Henrik Harmsen AGX accelerated code by: o Henry Worth , ET4000/W32 accelerated code by: o Glenn Lai , Oak Technologies Inc. accelerated code by: o Jorge Delgado , 16 color VGA server by: o Gertjan Akkerman 2 color VGA and non-VGA mono servers by: o Pascal Haible ATI SVGA driver by: o Per Lindqvist and Doug Evans . o Ported to X11R5 by Rik Faith . o Rewritten by Marc La France WD90C24 support by: o Brad Bosch Trident SVGA driver by: o Alan Hourihane NCR SVGA driver by: o Stuart Anderson with the permission of NCR Corporation Cirrus SVGA driver by: o Bill Reynolds , o Hank Dietz , o Simon Cooper , o Harm Hanemaayer , Cirrus CL64xx driver by: o Manfred Brands o Randy Hendry o Jeff Kirk Compaq SVGA driver by: o Hans Oey Oak SVGA driver by: o Steve Goldman o Jorge Delgado ARK Logic SVGA driver by: o Harm Hanemaayer , AL2101 SVGA driver by: o Paolo Severini Avance Logic ``ali'' SVGA driver by: o Ching-Tai Chiu Chips & Technology SVGA driver by: o Regis Cridlig o Jon Block o Mike Hollick MX SVGA driver by: o Frank Dikker Video7 SVGA driver by: o Craig Struble RealTek SVGA driver by: o Peter Trattler Apollo Mono driver by: o Hamish Coleman XFree86-VidModeExtension and xvidtune client by: o Kaleb S. Keithley o David Dawes o Jon Tombs o Joe Moss Other contributors: o Joerg Wunsch (ET3000 banked mono), o Eric Raymond (new video mode documentation), o and an entire horde of beta-testers around the world! 8. Contact information Ongoing development planning and support is coordinated by the XFree86 Core Team. At this time the Core Team consists of (in alphabetical order): o Robin Cutshaw o David Dawes o Marc Evans o Dirk Hohndel o Rich Murphey o Jon Tombs o David Wexelblat Mail sent to will reach the core team. Please note that support questions should be sent to . 9. The XFree86 Project, Inc. The XFree86 Project, Inc, has been founded to accomplish two major goals: 1. To provide a vehicle by which XFree86 can be represented in X Consortium, Inc, the organization responsible for the design, development, and release of The X Window System. 2. To provide some basic funding for acquisition of facilities for ongoing XFree86 development, largely to consist of new video hardware and basic computing facilities. The first of these was the primary motivation. We have held discus- sions with the X Consortium on and off for many months, attempting to find an avenue by which our loosely-organized free software project could be given a voice within the X Consortium. The bylaws of the Consortium would not recognize such an organization. After an initial investigation about funding, we decided to form our own corporation to provide the avenue we needed to meet the requirements of the X Consor- tium bylaws. By doing this, we were able to be involved in the beta-test interval for X11R6, and have contributed the majority of XFree86 to the X11R6 core release. The version of XFree86 in the initial X11R6 core is 3.0. The version of XFree86 in the current X11R6 patched release is 3.1.1. As time goes on, XFree86 will be involved with more of the development of The X Window System, as a full Consortium member. An additional benefit of this incorporation is that The XFree86 Project, Inc has obtained outside financial support for our work. This will hopefully give us the freedom to be more pro-active in obtaining new video hardware, and enable us to release better products more quickly, as we will be able to go and get what we need, and get it into the hands of the people who can do the work. The current Board of Directors and Officers of the The XFree86 Project, Inc, are: o David Dawes, President and Secretary o Dirk Hohndel, Vice-President o Glenn Lai, Director o Rich Murphey, Treasurer o Jim Tsillas, Director o Jon Tombs, Director o David Wexelblat, Director Email to reaches the board of directors. Our bylaws have been crafted in such a way to ensure that XFree86 is and always will be a free software project. There is no personal financial benefit to any member of the Core Team or any other XFree86 participant. All assets of the corporation remain with the corporation, and, in the event of the dissolution of the corporation, all assets will be turned over to the X Consortium, Inc. It is hoped that by doing this, our corporation will be merely a formalization of what we have been doing in the past, rather than something entirely new. Here is a list of the organizations and individuals who have provided sponsorship to The XFree86 Project, Inc, either by financial contribution or by the donation of equipment and resources. The XFree86 Project, Inc gratefully acknowledges these contributions, and hopes that we can do justice to them by continuing to release high- quality free software for the betterment of the Internet community as a whole. o UUNET Communications Services, Inc. UUNET Communications Services, Inc, deserves special mention. This organization stepped forward and contributed the entire 1994 X Consor- tium membership fee on a moment's notice. This single act ensured XFree86's involvement in X11R6. o GUUG -- 1st German Linux Congress Also deserving of special mention are the organizers and attendees of the 1st German Linux Congress in Heidelberg. Significant funding to The XFree86 Project has been provided from its proceeds. o AIB Software Corporation , Herndon, VA o Roland Alder, Armin Fessler, Patrick Seemann, Martin Wunderli o American Micro Group o AT&T Global Information Services (formerly NCR) o Andrew Burgess o Berkeley Software Design, Inc , Falls Church, VA o Delix Computer GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany o The Destek Group, Inc. , Pelham, NH (formerly Synergytics) o Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. o Digital Equipment Corporation o Elsa GmbH, Aachen, Germany o Genoa Systems Corporation o Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. o Ralf Hockens o Dirk Hohndel o InfoMagic , Flagstaff, AZ o Daniel Kraemer o Frank & Paige McCormick o Linux International o Linux Support Team, Erlangen, Germany o LunetIX Softfair , Berlin, Germany o Morse Telecommunications , Long Beach, NY o MIRO Computer Products AG, Braunschweig, Germany o Rich & Amy Murphey o Brett Neumeier o Number Nine, Lexington, MA o Kazuyuki Okamoto, Japan o Prime Time Freeware , San Bruno, CA o Red Hat Software, Chapel Hill, NC o Norbert Reithinger o SPEA Software AG, Starnberg, Germany o STB Systems o Clifford M Stein o Joel Storm o S.u.S.E, GmbH, Fuerth, Germany o Tekelec Airtronic GmbH, Muenchen, Germany o Jim Tsillas o Trans-Ameritech Enterprises, Inc., Santa Clara, CA o Unifix Software GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany o Vixie Enterprises , La Honda, CA o Walnut Creek CDROM , Concord, CA o Xtreme s.a.s., Livorno, Italy The XFree86 Project, Inc, welcomes the additional contribution of funding and/or equipment. Such contributions should be tax- deductible; we will know for certain when the lawyers get finished with the papers. For more information, contact The XFree86 Project, Inc, at 10. Source and binary archive sites Source patches are available to upgrade X11R6 PL12 from the X Consortium to XFree86 3.1.2. They and binaries for many OSs are available via anonymous FTP from: o ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current and the following mirror sites: o North America: + ftp.bsdi.com:/contrib/X11/XFree86 (source and BSD/OS binaries) + XFree86.cdrom.com:/pub/XFree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.iastate.edu:/pub/XFree86/XFree86-3.1.2 (source patches and NetBSD binaries) (Also via AFS: /afs/iastate.edu/public/ftp/pub/XFree86/XFree86-3.1.2) + tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/X11/XFree86-3.1.2 (Linux binaries and source) + ref.tfs.com:/pub/mirrors/XFree86 (source patches and FreeBSD binaries) + ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/BSD/XFree86/current (source and binaries) + sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/X11/XFree86 (source patches and binaries) + abode.ccd.bnl.gov:/pub/XFree86 (Solaris, SVR4, SCO binaries) o Europe: + fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/X11/XFree86/3.1.2 (source and binaries) + ftp.switch.ch:/mirror/XFree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.fee.vutbr.cz:/pub/XFree86/3.1.2 (source patches and binaries) + ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/xfree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/Linux/MIRROR.xfree86/3.1.2 (source patches and Linux binaries) + ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/X11/Xfree86/3.1.2 (source and binaries) + ftp.funet.fi:/pub/X11/XFree86/3.1.2 (source and binaries) + anasgard.calvacom.fr:/pub/unix/X/XFree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/X11/XFree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.laas.fr:/pub/netbsd/XFree86-3.1.2 (NetBSD binaries only) + ftp.unipi.it:/pub/mirrors/XFree86-3.1.2 (source and binaries) + ftp.pvv.unit.no:/pub/XFree86/current (source and binaries) o Asia/Australia: + x.physics.usyd.edu.au:/pub/XFree86/3.1.2 (source and binaries) + ftp.hk.super.net:/mirror/XFree86 (source and binaries) + ftp.nectec.or.th:/pub/mirrors/XFree86/3.1.2 (source patches and binaries) + ftp.edu.tw:/X/XFree86/3.1.2 (source and binaries) Refer to the README file under the specified directory for information on which files you need to get to build your distribution. Ensure that you are getting XFree86 3.1.2 - some of these sites may archive older releases as well. Each binary distribution will contain a README file that describes what files you need to take from the archive, and which compile-time option selections were made when building the distribution. $XConsortium: README.sgml,v 1.4 95/01/27 16:14:29 kaleb Exp $ Generated from XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/README.sgml,v 3.27 1995/07/24 05:56:20 dawes Exp $