


Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2





		      Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2


			   The XFree86 Project, Inc


			       28 February 1998



				   Abstract

     This document describes the bugs fixed and the features added in
     XFree86 3.3.2 compared with the 3.3.1 release, It also includes
     installation instructions for the binary distributions.



1.  XFree86 and X11R6.3

XFree86 releases starting with the 3.2A beta are based on the X Consortium's
X11R6.3 (the final release from the X Consortium).

R6.3 is an update to R6.1, and is intended to be compatible with R6.1 and R6 at
the source and protocol levels.  Binaries should be upward-compatible.	X11R6.3
includes some new Xserver extensions: SECURITY, XC-APPGROUP, XpExtension (print
extension), and an updated, and standardised version of LBX.  X11R6.3 also has
new standards, including RX (X Remote Execution MIME type), and a proxy manage-
ment protocol.	X11R6.3 includes support for gzipped fonts.

R6.1 is an update to R6, and is intended to be compatible with R6 at the source
and protocol levels.  Binaries should be upward-compatible.  X11R6.1 includes
some new Xserver extensions: DOUBLE-BUFFER, XKEYBOARD and RECORD.

What about R6.2?  X11R6.2 is the name given to a subset of X11R6.3, which has
only the print extension and the Xlib implementation of vertical writing and
user-defined character support in addition to those features included in R6.1.


2.  OS issues

Always check the OS specific README files for special requirements or caveats.

Users running Linux should note that Elf is now the only binary type supported
for Linux OSs.	This means that binaries for ix86/a.out and AXP/ECOFF are not
available with this release.


3.  What's new in 3.3.2?





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Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2



3.1  Security fixes

   o Several buffer overrun problem discovered since the release of
     XFree86-3.3.1 have been fixed

   o Several insecure X server command line options have been removed

   o The X servers now run the xkbcomp program under the user's real uid

   o Additionally, a wrapper program for the X servers has been added which
     eliminated the need for the servers to be installed SUID root

3.2  Bug fixes

   o A black screen problem in the Tseng driver has been fixed.

   o Several drawing problems in the Tseng driver have been corrected.

   o Timeouts to all routines waiting for the accelerator have been added.

   o DPMS has been fixed in the Tseng driver.

   o The memory clock for the Matrox Millennium II is now set correctly.

   o Several drawing bugs in the MGA driver have been fixed.

   o The problem with some Millennium II cards in higher resolutions and 24bpp
     is fixed.

   o Some problems with 24 and 32bpp in the Trident driver have been fixed.

   o Some problems in the C&T driver with the TMED DSTN dithering scheme for
     the 65555 and 68554 have been fixed.

   o The C&T driver now adheres much more strictly to the clock limits.

   o Allow DacSpeed command to work correctly in more servers.

   o Several small bugs for Cirrus Laguna chipsets have been fixed.

   o Fixes to the Wacom driver.

   o The Cyrillic fonts have been updated.

   o BSDI is supported again.

   o Several XAA problems have been fixed.

   o XKB for PC98 has been updated.

   o S3 Aurora64V+ now works with 16bpp.

   o cursor offset for some S3 cards has been fixed.









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   o S3 server support for STG 1700 ramdac has been fixed.

   o imake correctly works on Linux glibc-2 systems now.

3.3  New Features

   o Support for ET6100 has been added to the Tseng driver.

   o Acceleration has been added for W32 and W32i.

   o Text performance has been improved for the Tseng driver.

   o Support for new RAMDACs, including the ch8398, the ch8391 and the MUSIC
     MU9C4910 has been added to the Tseng driver.

   o Accelerated support for the AT3D and AT25 has been added to the APM
     driver.

   o Support for accelerated NV1 and accelerated Riva128 has been added to the
     NV driver.

   o Support for the Matrox Millennium II AGP has been included into the MGA
     driver.

   o New support for several Trident chips has been added, including Cyber9397,
     3DImage975 and 3DImage985 (unaccelerated and not completed, yet),
     TGUI9685.

   o CrealTV support has been added for the TGUI9685.

   o Acceleration of all TGUI chipsets has been improved.

   o Support for Rage Pro based PCI and AGP cards has been added.

   o Maximum dotclock for newer Mach64 cards has been increased.

   o Support for 1600x1200 and 1600x1280 mode has been added for VT and newer
     Mach64 chips.

   o Support for the auxiliary register aperture for newer Mach64 cards has
     been added.

   o Support for the I128 Revolution (T2R) has been added.

   o Additional acceleration for the I128 server has been added.

   o Support for sw cursor, pci_retry, 24bpp HW cursor has been added to cirrus
     Laguna chipsets.

   o S3 ViRGE/MX and ViRGE/GX2 support has been added (SVGA server only!).

   o support for S3 ViRGE hardware cursor added in SVGA server.










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   o An S3 driver has been added to the SVGA server.

   o S3 server and SVGA/S3 server now recognize some fake S3 chips and print
     out a warning message.

   o XAA has been extended to support hardware cursors and provide accelerated
     support dashed lines and trapezoid fills.

   o Several new mouse protocols have been added to all servers. They should
     now support Kensington ThinkingMouse, ALPS GlidePoint, Genius NetScroll,
     Genius NetMouse, Genius NetMouse, ASCII MieMouse, Logitech MouseMan+, Log-
     itech FirstMouse+. This includes all buttons on these mice as well as the
     wheels. The wheel can be used to either create additional buttons or for
     z-axis indication.

   o login.conf/setusercontext support to xdm for FreeBSD has been added.

   o XF86Setup now supports setting the default color depth and choosing the
     modes the user wants to use.

   o XF86Setup allows to select all the new mouse protocols (depending on the
     OS it is running on).

   o Japanization of XF86Setup has been added.

   o XF98_MGA server for Millennium and Mystique has been added.  This server
     is very new and has some problems with Mystique support.

   o XF98_SVGA server for CLGD755x has been added. This server also is very new
     and has some problems.

   o Linux/98 support has been added. Linux/98 is very new and perhaps the
     servers also have some problems.

   o XF98_TGUI server now works on PANIX98.

   o XF98Setup(i.e. XF86Setup for PC98) has been added.

   o Many changes to xterm including support for double-size characters (posi-
     tioning), blinking characters (render in color), improvements to logging,
     transparent printing, delete/backspace toggle, and better support for Sun
     and PC keyboards.

3.4  Known Problems

   o There are problems with some Cirrus laptop chipsets (75xx).  The driver
     seems to work for some people, but not others.  Until someone with the
     appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems are unlikely to be
     fixed.  If you wish to work on this, please contact us.  We don't need
     testers, we need people willing and able to fix the problems.

   o There are problems with some of the Trident laptop chipsets.  The driver
     seems to work in a limited way for some people, but not others.  Until
     someone with the appropriate hardware can look into this, these problems








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     are unlikely to be fixed.	If you wish to work on this, please contact us.
     We don't need testers, we need people willing and able to fix the prob-
     lems.


4.  Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release

The XFree86 3.3.2 binaries are distributed as both a full release and as an
upgrade to XFree86 3.3.1.

NOTE: the X servers are no longer installed setuid root.  If you are starting
your X servers with startx/xinit, or something similar, you will need a copy of
the setuid Xwrapper, and an updated xinit.  These can be found in X332upd.tgz
for those upgrading from 3.3.1, and in X332bin.tgz for those doing a full
install.

What follows is a list of the XFree86 3.3.2 components.  There may be some
variations in this for some OSs.

The following are required for all new installations or upgrades from versions
prior to 3.3.1:


	  preinst.sh	  Pre-installation script
	  postinst.sh	  Post-installation script
	  extract	  XFree86 extraction utility
	  X332bin.tgz	  Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files
	  X332doc.tgz	  Documentation
	  X332fnts.tgz	  75dpi, misc and PEX fonts
	  X332lib.tgz	  Data files required at run-time
	  X332man.tgz	  Manual pages
	  X332set.tgz	  XF86Setup utility
	  X332VG16.tgz	  16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)


The following are required for an upgrade from XFree86 3.3.1:


	  preinst.sh	  Pre-installation script
	  postinst.sh	  Post-installation script
	  extract	  XFree86 extraction utility
	  X332upd.tgz	  Changes since 3.3.1 (except the servers)
	  X332doc.tgz	  Documentation
	  X332set.tgz	  XF86Setup utility
	  X332VG16.tgz	  16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)


The following is required for new installations, and optional for existing
installations:


	  X332cfg.tgz	  sample config files for xinit, xdm










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NOTE: Be very careful about installing X332cfg.tgz over an existing installa-
tion if you have customised your xinit and/or xdm config files.  Installing
X332cfg.tgz will overwrite any existing files.	If you do have customised
files, there is no need to install X332cfg.tgz.

NOTE: The bitmap fonts distributed with this release are compressed using gzip
rather than compress.  This means that you will probably want to remove the old
versions (after backing them up).  The Xservers and font server in releases
prior to 3.2A cannot read gzipped fonts, so keep a copy of the old fonts if you
wish to run older servers.

The following X servers are for PC/AT based hardware (i.e., typical Intel ix86
based PCs).  Choose at least one which matches your hardware, as well as the
VGA16 server.  The VGA16 server is required by the new configuration utility
(XF86Setup).


	  X3328514.tgz	  8514/A server
	  X332AGX.tgz	  AGX server
	  X332I128.tgz	  I128 server
	  X332Ma32.tgz	  Mach 32 server
	  X332Ma64.tgz	  Mach 64 server
	  X332Ma8.tgz	  Mach 8 server
	  X332Mono.tgz	  Mono server
	  X332P9K.tgz	  P9000 server
	  X332S3.tgz	  S3 server
	  X332S3V.tgz	  old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
	  X332SVGA.tgz	  SVGA server
	  X332VG16.tgz	  16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server)
	  X332W32.tgz	  ET4000/W32, ET6000 server



The following X servers are available for Alpha hardware:


	  X332Ma64.tgz	  Mach 64 server
	  X332Mono.tgz	  Mono server (generic driver only)
	  X332P9K.tgz	  P9000 server
	  X332TGA.tgz	  DEC 21030 (TGA) server
	  X332S3.tgz	  S3 server
	  X332S3V.tgz	  old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server)
	  X332SVGA.tgz	  SVGA server (Matrox Millennium driver only)



The following X servers are for PC98 hardware.	If you have a PC98 machine,
choose one which suits your hardware.  If you don't know what a PC98 machine
is, you don't need any of these.













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	  X3329NS3.tgz	  PC98 NEC(S3) server
	  X3329SPW.tgz	  PC98 PCSKB-PowerWindow(S3) server
	  X3329LPW.tgz	  PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server
	  X3329EGC.tgz	  PC98 EGC(generic) server
	  X3329GA9.tgz	  PC98 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968) server
	  X3329GAN.tgz	  PC98 GANB-WAP(cirrus) server
	  X3329480.tgz	  PC98 PEGC-480(generic) server
	  X3329NKV.tgz	  PC98 NKV-NEC(cirrus) server
	  X3329WS.tgz	  PC98 WABS(cirrus) server
	  X3329WEP.tgz	  PC98 WAB-EP(cirrus) server
	  X3329WSN.tgz	  PC98 WSN-A2F(cirrus) server
	  X3329TGU.tgz	  PC98 TGUI server
	  X3329MGA.tgz	  PC98 MGA server
	  X3329SVG.tgz	  PC98 CLGD755x server
	  X3329set.tgz	  PC98 XF98Setup utility



The following are optional.


	  X332f100.tgz	  100dpi fonts
	  X332fcyr.tgz	  Cyrillic fonts
	  X332fnon.tgz	  Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew)
	  X332fscl.tgz	  Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1)
	  X332fsrv.tgz	  Font server and config files
	  X332prog.tgz	  X header files, config files and compile-time libs
	  X332nest.tgz	  Nested X server
	  X332vfb.tgz	  Virtual framebuffer X server
	  X332prt.tgz	  X Print server
	  X332ps.tgz	  PostScript version of the documentation
	  X332html.tgz	  HTML version of the documentation
	  X332jdoc.tgz	  Documentation in Japanese (for version 3.2)
	  X332jhtm.tgz	  HTML version of the documentation in Japanese (3.2)
	  X332lkit.tgz	  X server LinkKit
	  X332lk98.tgz	  X server LinkKit for PC98 servers


If you already have a version of XFree86 installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF /usr/X11R6
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE.  The standard installation procedure will overwrite
your existing version of XFree86.

If you are installing from scratch, create a directory called /usr/X11R6, then
extract the required .tgz files.  If you don't have enough space in /usr for
this, create a directory elsewhere and create a symbolic link to it.  E.g., if
you create a directory in /home:

	  mkdir /home/X11R6
	  ln -s /home/X11R6 /usr

The next step is to run the pre-installation script.  This script makes some
preliminary checks of your system.  For some OSs, it may tell you to install
new versions of some system components before proceeding with the installation.
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previous installation that could cause problems.

For the purposes of these installation instructions, it is assumed that you
have downloaded all the files to the /var/tmp directory.  If you've put them in
another directory, that's fine -- just replace all occurrences of ``/var/tmp''
with the name of that directory.

To run the pre-installation script, go to /usr/X11R6 and run it:

	  cd /usr/X11R6
	  sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh

The next step is to make the installation utility executable.  To do this, make
sure the `extract' file is in the same directory as all the X332*.tgz files,
and run the following from that directory:

	  chmod 755 extract

The installation utility ``extract'' is used to unpack the .tgz files that make
up the XFree86 distribution.  The .tgz files are gzipped tar files.  However,
``tar'' in its standard form on most OSs is not well-suited to the task of
installing XFree86.  The extract utility is a modified version of GNU tar 1.12
built with the options required to make it suitable for installing XFree86.
The source for extract is available from the same place you got the XFree86
distribution.

It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to unpack
the XFree86 distribution.  If you choose to ignore this and use something else,
we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems.  It is also important
that you do not rename the extract utility.  If renamed, it behaves just like
the normal GNU tar.

To extract the XFree86 binaries, run the following as root:

	  cd /usr/X11R6
	  /var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X332*.tgz

Once the required .tgz files have been extracted, run the post installation
script:

	  cd /usr/X11R6
	  sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh

For OSs which use ldconfig, you may need to run ldconfig or reboot to complete
the installation.  The postinst.sh script should run ldconfig correctly for you
if you are using Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD.  For other OSs that use
ldconfig, check how it normally gets run at boot time.

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				   CONTENTS



1. XFree86 and X11R6.3 ...................................................... 1

2. OS issues ................................................................ 1

3. What's new in 3.3.2? ..................................................... 1
   3.1 Security fixes ....................................................... 2
   3.2 Bug fixes ............................................................ 2
   3.3 New Features ......................................................... 3
   3.4 Known Problems ....................................................... 4

4. Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release ..................................... 5









































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