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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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The XFree86 Project, Inc
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28 February 1998
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Abstract
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This document describes the bugs fixed and the features added in
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XFree86 3.3.2 compared with the 3.3.1 release, It also includes
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installation instructions for the binary distributions.
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1. XFree86 and X11R6.3
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XFree86 releases starting with the 3.2A beta are based on the X Consortium's
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X11R6.3 (the final release from the X Consortium).
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R6.3 is an update to R6.1, and is intended to be compatible with R6.1 and R6 at
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the source and protocol levels. Binaries should be upward-compatible. X11R6.3
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includes some new Xserver extensions: SECURITY, XC-APPGROUP, XpExtension (print
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extension), and an updated, and standardised version of LBX. X11R6.3 also has
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new standards, including RX (X Remote Execution MIME type), and a proxy manage-
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ment protocol. X11R6.3 includes support for gzipped fonts.
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R6.1 is an update to R6, and is intended to be compatible with R6 at the source
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and protocol levels. Binaries should be upward-compatible. X11R6.1 includes
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some new Xserver extensions: DOUBLE-BUFFER, XKEYBOARD and RECORD.
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What about R6.2? X11R6.2 is the name given to a subset of X11R6.3, which has
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only the print extension and the Xlib implementation of vertical writing and
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user-defined character support in addition to those features included in R6.1.
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2. OS issues
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Always check the OS specific README files for special requirements or caveats.
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Users running Linux should note that Elf is now the only binary type supported
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for Linux OSs. This means that binaries for ix86/a.out and AXP/ECOFF are not
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available with this release.
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3. What's new in 3.3.2?
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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3.1 Security fixes
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o Several buffer overrun problem discovered since the release of
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XFree86-3.3.1 have been fixed
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o Several insecure X server command line options have been removed
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o The X servers now run the xkbcomp program under the user's real uid
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o Additionally, a wrapper program for the X servers has been added which
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eliminated the need for the servers to be installed SUID root
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3.2 Bug fixes
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o A black screen problem in the Tseng driver has been fixed.
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o Several drawing problems in the Tseng driver have been corrected.
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o Timeouts to all routines waiting for the accelerator have been added.
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o DPMS has been fixed in the Tseng driver.
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o The memory clock for the Matrox Millennium II is now set correctly.
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o Several drawing bugs in the MGA driver have been fixed.
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o The problem with some Millennium II cards in higher resolutions and 24bpp
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is fixed.
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o Some problems with 24 and 32bpp in the Trident driver have been fixed.
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o Some problems in the C&T driver with the TMED DSTN dithering scheme for
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the 65555 and 68554 have been fixed.
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o The C&T driver now adheres much more strictly to the clock limits.
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o Allow DacSpeed command to work correctly in more servers.
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o Several small bugs for Cirrus Laguna chipsets have been fixed.
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o Fixes to the Wacom driver.
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o The Cyrillic fonts have been updated.
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o BSDI is supported again.
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o Several XAA problems have been fixed.
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o XKB for PC98 has been updated.
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o S3 Aurora64V+ now works with 16bpp.
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o cursor offset for some S3 cards has been fixed.
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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o S3 server support for STG 1700 ramdac has been fixed.
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o imake correctly works on Linux glibc-2 systems now.
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3.3 New Features
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o Support for ET6100 has been added to the Tseng driver.
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o Acceleration has been added for W32 and W32i.
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o Text performance has been improved for the Tseng driver.
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o Support for new RAMDACs, including the ch8398, the ch8391 and the MUSIC
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MU9C4910 has been added to the Tseng driver.
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o Accelerated support for the AT3D and AT25 has been added to the APM
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driver.
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o Support for accelerated NV1 and accelerated Riva128 has been added to the
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NV driver.
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o Support for the Matrox Millennium II AGP has been included into the MGA
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driver.
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o New support for several Trident chips has been added, including Cyber9397,
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3DImage975 and 3DImage985 (unaccelerated and not completed, yet),
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TGUI9685.
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o CrealTV support has been added for the TGUI9685.
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o Acceleration of all TGUI chipsets has been improved.
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o Support for Rage Pro based PCI and AGP cards has been added.
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o Maximum dotclock for newer Mach64 cards has been increased.
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o Support for 1600x1200 and 1600x1280 mode has been added for VT and newer
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Mach64 chips.
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o Support for the auxiliary register aperture for newer Mach64 cards has
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been added.
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o Support for the I128 Revolution (T2R) has been added.
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o Additional acceleration for the I128 server has been added.
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o Support for sw cursor, pci_retry, 24bpp HW cursor has been added to cirrus
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Laguna chipsets.
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o S3 ViRGE/MX and ViRGE/GX2 support has been added (SVGA server only!).
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o support for S3 ViRGE hardware cursor added in SVGA server.
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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o An S3 driver has been added to the SVGA server.
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o S3 server and SVGA/S3 server now recognize some fake S3 chips and print
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out a warning message.
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o XAA has been extended to support hardware cursors and provide accelerated
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support dashed lines and trapezoid fills.
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o Several new mouse protocols have been added to all servers. They should
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now support Kensington ThinkingMouse, ALPS GlidePoint, Genius NetScroll,
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Genius NetMouse, Genius NetMouse, ASCII MieMouse, Logitech MouseMan+, Log-
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itech FirstMouse+. This includes all buttons on these mice as well as the
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wheels. The wheel can be used to either create additional buttons or for
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z-axis indication.
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o login.conf/setusercontext support to xdm for FreeBSD has been added.
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o XF86Setup now supports setting the default color depth and choosing the
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modes the user wants to use.
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o XF86Setup allows to select all the new mouse protocols (depending on the
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OS it is running on).
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o Japanization of XF86Setup has been added.
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o XF98_MGA server for Millennium and Mystique has been added. This server
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is very new and has some problems with Mystique support.
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o XF98_SVGA server for CLGD755x has been added. This server also is very new
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and has some problems.
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o Linux/98 support has been added. Linux/98 is very new and perhaps the
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servers also have some problems.
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o XF98_TGUI server now works on PANIX98.
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o XF98Setup(i.e. XF86Setup for PC98) has been added.
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o Many changes to xterm including support for double-size characters (posi-
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tioning), blinking characters (render in color), improvements to logging,
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transparent printing, delete/backspace toggle, and better support for Sun
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and PC keyboards.
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3.4 Known Problems
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o There are problems with some Cirrus laptop chipsets (75xx). The driver
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seems to work for some people, but not others. Until someone with the
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appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems are unlikely to be
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fixed. If you wish to work on this, please contact us. We don't need
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testers, we need people willing and able to fix the problems.
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o There are problems with some of the Trident laptop chipsets. The driver
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seems to work in a limited way for some people, but not others. Until
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someone with the appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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are unlikely to be fixed. If you wish to work on this, please contact us.
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We don't need testers, we need people willing and able to fix the prob-
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lems.
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4. Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release
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The XFree86 3.3.2 binaries are distributed as both a full release and as an
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upgrade to XFree86 3.3.1.
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NOTE: the X servers are no longer installed setuid root. If you are starting
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your X servers with startx/xinit, or something similar, you will need a copy of
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the setuid Xwrapper, and an updated xinit. These can be found in X332upd.tgz
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for those upgrading from 3.3.1, and in X332bin.tgz for those doing a full
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install.
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What follows is a list of the XFree86 3.3.2 components. There may be some
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variations in this for some OSs.
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The following are required for all new installations or upgrades from versions
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prior to 3.3.1:
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preinst.sh Pre-installation script
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postinst.sh Post-installation script
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extract XFree86 extraction utility
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X332bin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
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X332doc.tgz Documentation
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X332fnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
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X332lib.tgz Data files required at run-time
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X332man.tgz Manual pages
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X332set.tgz XF86Setup utility
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X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
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The following are required for an upgrade from XFree86 3.3.1:
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preinst.sh Pre-installation script
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postinst.sh Post-installation script
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extract XFree86 extraction utility
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X332upd.tgz Changes since 3.3.1 (except the servers)
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X332doc.tgz Documentation
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X332set.tgz XF86Setup utility
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X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
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The following is required for new installations, and optional for existing
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installations:
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X332cfg.tgz sample config files for xinit, xdm
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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NOTE: Be very careful about installing X332cfg.tgz over an existing installa-
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tion if you have customised your xinit and/or xdm config files. Installing
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X332cfg.tgz will overwrite any existing files. If you do have customised
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files, there is no need to install X332cfg.tgz.
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NOTE: The bitmap fonts distributed with this release are compressed using gzip
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rather than compress. This means that you will probably want to remove the old
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versions (after backing them up). The Xservers and font server in releases
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prior to 3.2A cannot read gzipped fonts, so keep a copy of the old fonts if you
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wish to run older servers.
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The following X servers are for PC/AT based hardware (i.e., typical Intel ix86
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based PCs). Choose at least one which matches your hardware, as well as the
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VGA16 server. The VGA16 server is required by the new configuration utility
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(XF86Setup).
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X3328514.tgz 8514/A server
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X332AGX.tgz AGX server
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X332I128.tgz I128 server
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X332Ma32.tgz Mach 32 server
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X332Ma64.tgz Mach 64 server
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X332Ma8.tgz Mach 8 server
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X332Mono.tgz Mono server
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X332P9K.tgz P9000 server
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X332S3.tgz S3 server
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X332S3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
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X332SVGA.tgz SVGA server
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X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
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X332W32.tgz ET4000/W32, ET6000 server
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The following X servers are available for Alpha hardware:
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X332Ma64.tgz Mach 64 server
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X332Mono.tgz Mono server (generic driver only)
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X332P9K.tgz P9000 server
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X332TGA.tgz DEC 21030 (TGA) server
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X332S3.tgz S3 server
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X332S3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
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X332SVGA.tgz SVGA server (Matrox Millennium driver only)
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The following X servers are for PC98 hardware. If you have a PC98 machine,
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choose one which suits your hardware. If you don't know what a PC98 machine
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is, you don't need any of these.
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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2
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X3329NS3.tgz PC98 NEC(S3) server
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X3329SPW.tgz PC98 PCSKB-PowerWindow(S3) server
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X3329LPW.tgz PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server
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X3329EGC.tgz PC98 EGC(generic) server
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X3329GA9.tgz PC98 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968) server
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X3329GAN.tgz PC98 GANB-WAP(cirrus) server
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X3329480.tgz PC98 PEGC-480(generic) server
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X3329NKV.tgz PC98 NKV-NEC(cirrus) server
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X3329WS.tgz PC98 WABS(cirrus) server
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X3329WEP.tgz PC98 WAB-EP(cirrus) server
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X3329WSN.tgz PC98 WSN-A2F(cirrus) server
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X3329TGU.tgz PC98 TGUI server
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X3329MGA.tgz PC98 MGA server
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X3329SVG.tgz PC98 CLGD755x server
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X3329set.tgz PC98 XF98Setup utility
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The following are optional.
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X332f100.tgz 100dpi fonts
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X332fcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts
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X332fnon.tgz Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
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X332fscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
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X332fsrv.tgz Font server and config files
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X332prog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs
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X332nest.tgz Nested X server
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X332vfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server
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X332prt.tgz X Print server
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X332ps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation
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X332html.tgz HTML version of the documentation
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X332jdoc.tgz Documentation in Japanese (for version 3.2)
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X332jhtm.tgz HTML version of the documentation in Japanese (3.2)
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X332lkit.tgz X server LinkKit
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X332lk98.tgz X server LinkKit for PC98 servers
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If you already have a version of XFree86 installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF /usr/X11R6
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BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. The standard installation procedure will overwrite
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your existing version of XFree86.
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If you are installing from scratch, create a directory called /usr/X11R6, then
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extract the required .tgz files. If you don't have enough space in /usr for
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this, create a directory elsewhere and create a symbolic link to it. E.g., if
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you create a directory in /home:
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mkdir /home/X11R6
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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
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preliminary checks of your system. For some OSs, it may tell you to install
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new versions of some system components before proceeding with the installation.
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This script may also remove some outdated files and symbolic links from a
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previous installation that could cause problems.
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For the purposes of these installation instructions, it is assumed that you
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have downloaded all the files to the /var/tmp directory. If you've put them in
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another directory, that's fine -- just replace all occurrences of ``/var/tmp''
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with the name of that directory.
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To run the pre-installation script, go to /usr/X11R6 and run it:
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cd /usr/X11R6
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sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
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The next step is to make the installation utility executable. To do this, make
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sure the `extract' file is in the same directory as all the X332*.tgz files,
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and run the following from that directory:
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chmod 755 extract
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The installation utility ``extract'' is used to unpack the .tgz files that make
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up the XFree86 distribution. The .tgz files are gzipped tar files. However,
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``tar'' in its standard form on most OSs is not well-suited to the task of
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installing XFree86. The extract utility is a modified version of GNU tar 1.12
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built with the options required to make it suitable for installing XFree86.
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The source for extract is available from the same place you got the XFree86
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distribution.
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It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to unpack
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the XFree86 distribution. If you choose to ignore this and use something else,
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we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems. It is also important
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that you do not rename the extract utility. If renamed, it behaves just like
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the normal GNU tar.
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To extract the XFree86 binaries, run the following as root:
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cd /usr/X11R6
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/var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X332*.tgz
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Once the required .tgz files have been extracted, run the post installation
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script:
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cd /usr/X11R6
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sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh
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For OSs which use ldconfig, you may need to run ldconfig or reboot to complete
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the installation. The postinst.sh script should run ldconfig correctly for you
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if you are using Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. For other OSs that use
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ldconfig, check how it normally gets run at boot time.
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CONTENTS
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1. XFree86 and X11R6.3 ...................................................... 1
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2. OS issues ................................................................ 1
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3. What's new in 3.3.2? ..................................................... 1
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3.1 Security fixes ....................................................... 2
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3.2 Bug fixes ............................................................ 2
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3.3 New Features ......................................................... 3
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3.4 Known Problems ....................................................... 4
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4. Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release ..................................... 5
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$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/RELNOTES,v 3.52.2.22 1998/02/28 13:05:36 dawes Exp $
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