README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 The XFree86 Project, Inc 1 June 1997 Abstract XFree86 is a port of X11R6.3 that supports several Unix and Unix-like operating systems on Intel and other platforms. This release con- sists of new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes. The release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6.3 code, as well as binary distributions for many architectures. 1. What's new in XFree86 3.3 For a summary of new features in this release, please refer to the RELNOTES file. For a detailed list of changes, refer to the CHANGELOG file in the source dis- tribution. 2. Systems XFree86 has been tested on Note: Not all systems listed here have been tested with the current release. 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 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o NCR: MP-RAS o SunSoft: Solaris x86 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1 o PANIX 5.0 for AT SVR4.2: o Consensys o Novell UnixWare SVR3: o ISC: 3.0, 4.0, 4.1 Others: o NetBSD 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1 o OpenBSD 2.0, 2.1 o FreeBSD 2.0.5, 2.1, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.7.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 3.0-current o Linux (Intel x86, DEC Alpha/AXP and m68k) o LynxOS AT 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.5.0 o LynxOS microSPARC 2.4.0, 2.5.0 o LynxOS PowerPC 2.4.0, 2.5.0 o OS/2 Warp 3 FP5/17/22, Warp 4 -/FP1 PC98: o FreeBSD(98) 2.0.5, 2.1, 2.1.5, 2.2, 2.2.1 o NetBSD/pc98 (based on NetBSD 1.2) o PANIX 5.0 for 98 3. Supported video-card chip-sets At this time, XFree86 3.3 supports the following chipsets: Ark Logic ARK1000PV, ARK1000VL, ARK2000PV, ARK2000MT README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 Alliance AP6422, AT24 ATI 18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6, 68800-3, 68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX, 88800GX-C, 88800GX-D, 88800GX-E, 88800GX-F, 88800CX, 264CT, 264ET, 264VT, 264VT2, 264GT (this list includes the Mach8, Mach32, Mach64, 3D Rage and 3D Rage II) Avance Logic ALG2101, ALG2228, ALG2301, ALG2302, ALG2308, ALG2401 Chips & Technologies 65520, 65530, 65540, 65545, 65520, 65530, 65540, 65545, 65546, 65548, 65550, 65554 Cirrus Logic CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434, CLGD5436, CLGD5440, CLGD5446, CLGD5462, CLGD5464, CLGD5465, CLGD5480, CLGD6205, CLGD6215, CLGD6225, CLGD6235, CLGD6410, CLGD6412, CLGD6420, CLGD6440, CLGD7541, CLGD7543, CLGD7548, CLGD7555 Digital Equipment Corporation TGA Compaq AVGA Genoa GVGA IBM 8514/A (and true clones), XGA-2 IIT AGX-014, AGX-015, AGX-016 Matrox MGA2064W (Millennium), MGA1064SG (Mystique) MX MX68000, MX680010 NCR 77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+ Number Nine I128 (series I and II) NVidia/SGS Thomson NV1, STG2000 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 OAK OTI067, OTI077, OTI087 RealTek RTG3106 S3 86C911, 86C924, 86C801, 86C805, 86C805i, 86C928, 86C864, 86C964, 86C732, 86C764, 86C765, 86C775, 86C868, 86C968, 86C325, 86C375, 86C385, 86C988, 86CM65 SiS 86C201, 86C202, 86C205 Tseng ET3000, ET4000AX, ET4000/W32, ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p, ET6000 Trident TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000, TVGA9000i, TVGA9100B, TVGA9200CXR, TVGA9320, TVGA9400CXi, TVGA9420, TGUI9420DGi, TGUI9430DGi, TGUI9440AGi, TGUI9660XGi, TGUI9680, Pro- Vidia 9682, ProVidia 9685, ProVidia 9692, Cyber 9382, Cyber 9385 Video 7/Headland Technologies HT216-32 Weitek P9000 Western Digital/Paradise PVGA1 Western Digital WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C24, WD90C24A, WD90C30, WD90C31, WD90C33 All of the above are supported in both 256 color, and some are supported in mono and 16 color modes, and some are supported an higher color depths. Refer to the chipset-specific README files (currently for TGA, Matrox, Mach32, Mach64, NVidia, Oak, P9000, S3 (except ViRGE), S3 ViRGE, SiS, Video7, Western Digital, Tseng (W32), Tseng (all), AGX/XGA, ARK, ATI (SVGA server), Chips and Technologies, Cirrus, Trident) for more information about using those chipsets. The monochrome server also supports generic VGA cards, using 64k of video mem- ory in a single bank, the Hercules monochrome card, the Hyundai HGC1280, Sigma LaserView, Visa and Apollo monochrome cards. 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 some SpeedStar+) boards are NOT README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 supported, even though they use the ET4000. The Weitek 9100 and 9130 chipsets are not supported (these are used on the Dia- mond Viper Pro and Viper SE boards). The chips used on the FireGL boards are not currently supported. Most other Diamond boards will work with this release of XFree86. Diamond is actively supporting The XFree86 Project, Inc. 4. 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), XF86Setup(1) and xvidtune(1) manual pages. In addition, several README files and tutorial docu- ments 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 QuickStart.doc and README.Config should be consulted for information on how to set up the XFree86 servers. All supplied documents, manual pages, and the XFree86 FAQ should be read before con- tacting 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 distribu- tion. 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://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86. There is a Usenet news group comp.windows.x.i386unix that contains mostly dis- cussions about XFree86 and related topics. Many questions can be answered there. 5. Thanks The XFree86 Project wants to express a special thanks to S.u.S.E. GmbH, Fürth, Germany, for hiring our Core Team member and Vice President Dirk Hohndel as an employee and allowing him to work more or less full time on XFree86 for the past 5 months. Without this significant investment from S.u.S.E. into XFree86 the 3.3 release would not have been possible in this form and at this time, and the work on our 4.0 branch wouldn't be where it is today. 6. Credits XFree86 was originally put together by: o David Dawes README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 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 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o David Wexelblat o Philip Wheatley o Thomas Wolfram o Orest Zborowski 386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD support by: o Rich Murphey NetBSD, OpenBSD 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: README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Doug Anson , o David Holland ISC SVR3 support by: o Michael Rohleder LynxOS support by: o Thomas Mueller OS/2 support by: o Holger Veit o Sebastien Marineau Linux shared libraries by: o Orest Zborowski , o Dirk Hohndel PC98 support by: o Toyonori Fujiura , o Hiroyuki Aizu , o Tetsuya Kakefuda , o Takefumi Tsukada , o H.Komatsuzaki, o Naoki Katsurakawa , o Shuichiro Urata , o Yasuyuki Kato , o Michio Jinbo , o Tatsuya Koike , o Koichiro Suzuki , o Tsuyoshi Tamaki , o Isao Ohishi , o Kohji Ohishi , README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Shin'ichi Yairo , o Kazuo Ito , o Jun Sakuma , o Shuichi Ueno , o Ishida Kazuo , o Takaaki Nomura , o Tadaaki Nagao , o Minoru Noda , o Naofumi Honda , o Akio Morita , o Takashi Sakamoto , o Yasuhiro Ichikawa , o Kazunori Ueno , o Yasushi Suzuki , o Masato Yoshida (Contributor of PW805i support) Original accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Jon Tombs XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) by: o Harm Hanemaayer , S3 accelerated code by: o Jon Tombs , o Harald Koenig , o David Wexelblat , o David Dawes , o Robin Cutshaw , README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Amancio Hasty , o Norbert Distler , o Leonard N. Zubkoff , o Bernhard Bender , o Dirk Hohndel , o Joe Moss S3V accelerated code by: o Harald Koenig , o Kevin Brosius o Berry Dijk o Dirk Hohndel o Huver Hu o Dirk Vangestel Mach32 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Mike Bernson , o Mark Weaver , o Craig Groeschel o Bryan Feir Mach64 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , Mach8, 8514 accelerated code by: o Kevin Martin , o Rik Faith , o Tiago Gons , o Hans Nasten , README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Scott Laird Cirrus accelerated code by: o Simon Cooper , o Harm Hanemaayer , o Bill Reynolds , o Corin Anderson 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 , Number Nine I128 driver by: o Robin Cutshaw , ET4000/W32 accelerated code by: o Glenn Lai , ET6000 SVGA and accelerated support (both based on the existing W32 code) by: o Koen Gadeyne , 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: README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 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 SiS SVGA driver by: o Alan Hourihane o Xavier Ducoin DEC 21030 (TGA) server by: o Alan Hourihane o Harald Koenig 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 , o Corin Anderson Cirrus CL64xx driver by: o Manfred Brands o Randy Hendry README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Jeff Kirk Compaq SVGA driver by: o Hans Oey o Ming Yu o Gerry Toll Oak SVGA driver by: o Steve Goldman o Jorge Delgado ARK Logic SVGA driver by: o Harm Hanemaayer o Leon Bottou AL2101 SVGA driver by: o Paolo Severini Avance Logic ``ali'' SVGA driver by: o Ching-Tai Chiu Chips & Technologies SVGA driver by: o Regis Cridlig o Jon Block o Mike Hollick o Nozomi Ytow o Egbert Eich o David Bateman o Xavier Ducoin MX SVGA driver by: o Frank Dikker Video7 SVGA driver by: o Craig Struble README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 RealTek SVGA driver by: o Peter Trattler Apollo Mono driver by: o Hamish Coleman Matrox SVGA driver by: o Guy Desbief o Radoslaw Kapitan o Andrew Vanderstock o Angsar Hockmann o Michael Will o Andrew Mileski o Stephen Pitts o Dirk Hohndel o Leonard N. Zubkoff ViRGE SVGA driver by: o Sebastien Marineau , o Harald Koenig Linux/m68k Frame Buffer Device driver by: o Martin Schaller o Geert Uytterhoeven o Andreas Schwab o Guenther Kelleter Tseng ET4000 and ET6000 SVGA driver by: o [Unknown authors] o Dirk Hohndel o Koen Gadeyne o ... and others README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 XFree86-VidModeExtension and xvidtune client by: o Kaleb S. Keithley o David Dawes o Jon Tombs o Joe Moss XFree86-Misc extension by: o Joe Moss o David Dawes XFree86-DGA extension by: o Jon Tombs o Mark Vojkovich o Harm Hanemaayer , o David Dawes XInput integration, devices and clients by: o Frederic Lepied (XInput integration, Wacom tablet, Joystick and extended mouse devices, xsetpointer and xsetmode clients) o Patrick Lecoanet (Elographics touch- screen device) o Steven Lang (Summagraphics tablet device) Other contributors: o Joerg Wunsch (ET3000 banked mono), o Thomas Dickey (xterm "new" model ANSI col- ors and VT220, VT520 emulation). o Eric Raymond (new video mode documen- tation), o and an entire horde of beta-testers around the world! 7. 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): README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Robin Cutshaw o David Dawes o Marc Evans o Harm Hanemaayer o Dirk Hohndel o Harald Koenig 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 . 8. The XFree86 Project, Inc. The XFree86 Project, Inc, was 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 discussions 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 Consortium 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 and X11R6.1 core release. The version of XFree86 in the initial X11R6 core is 3.0. The version of XFree86 in the current X11R6.3 release is 3.2. 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, README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 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. As of March 1997, The XFree86 Project has revised its source/binary access and release policy. The main points of the new policy are: o There will be no more time-limited public binary-only beta releases. Instead we plan to increase the frequency of full public releases to about four releases per year. o The source access/use is divided into three categories: o End users. End users have access to only the source of full public releases. The main reason for this restriction is that our develop- ment code often contains code from other sources which cannot be released to the public immediately. o Active developers (members of the XFree86 ``developer team''). Active developers must formally become non-voting members of the XFree86 Project, and have full access to our internal development source. They are permitted to make time-limited binaries (in coordi- nation with the Core Team) of the servers they are actively working on available to external testers for specific testing. o Commercial members. Commercial members are non-voting members of The XFree86 Project who donate US$5000/year to the Project. Addition- ally, companies who contribute significantly to the development effort of XFree86 can be awarded commercial membership by the Core Team on a yearly bases. Commercial members can use the internal XFree86 development source for derived binary-only products providing that they take full responsibility for supporting the product, and README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 don't call it ``XFree86'' (although the derivation of the product must be acknowledged in any accompanying documentation). Binary packages for the OSs we support which are simply compiled from our internal source without significant added value are explicitly NOT allowed. Here is a list of the organizations and individuals who have provided sponsor- ship 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 organiza- tion stepped forward and contributed the entire 1994 X Consortium 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 Pro- ject 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 ATI Technologies Inc o Andrew Burgess o Berkeley Software Design, Inc , Falls Church, VA o Caldera, Inc. o Delix Computer GmbH , Stuttgart, Germany o The Destek Group, Inc. , Nashua, NH (formerly Synergytics) o Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. o Digital Equipment Corporation o Elsa GmbH , Aachen, Germany o Genoa Systems Corporation README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o Helius, Inc. 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 MELCO, Inc o MIRO Computer Products AG, Braunschweig, Germany o Rich & Amy Murphey o NCR Corp 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 README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 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 informa- tion, contact The XFree86 Project, Inc, at 9. Source and binary archive sites Source patches are available to upgrade X11R6.3 PL1 from the X Consortium to XFree86 3.3. Binaries for many OSs are also available. o ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86 and the following mirror sites: o North America: o ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.gw.com/pub/unix/XFree86 (source and NetBSD binaries) o ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/mirrors/xfree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.thebandit.com/pub/XFree86 (Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD bina- ries) o Europe: o ftp://ftp.fee.vutbr.cz/pub/XFree86 (source patches and binaries) o ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/xfree86/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/X11/XFree86/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.pvv.unit.no/pub/XFree86 (source and binaries) README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 o ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/XFree86 (source and binaries) o Asia/Australia: o ftp://x.physics.usyd.edu.au/pub/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/XFree86/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.hk.super.net/mirror/XFree86 (source and binaries) o ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/XFree86 (source patches and bina- ries) Ensure that you are getting XFree86 3.3 - some of these sites may archive older releases as well. Check the RELNOTES to find which files you need to take from the archive. Generated from XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/README.sgml,v 3.75.2.16 1997/06/01 12:33:34 dawes Exp $ $XConsortium: README.sgml /main/31 1996/10/28 05:43:24 kaleb $ README for XFree86[tm] 3.3 CONTENTS 1. What's new in XFree86 3.3 ................................................ 1 2. Systems XFree86 has been tested on ....................................... 1 3. Supported video-card chip-sets ........................................... 2 4. Where to get more information ............................................ 5 5. Thanks ................................................................... 5 6. Credits .................................................................. 5 7. Contact information ..................................................... 15 8. The XFree86 Project, Inc. ............................................... 16 9. Source and binary archive sites ......................................... 20 i