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-                      Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 4.2.0
+                      Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 4.3.0
                            The XFree86 Project, Inc
-January 2002
+February 2003
                                    Abstract
       This document contains some information about features present in
-      XFree86 4.2.0 and their status.
+      XFree86 4.3.0 and their status.
 .  Introduction to the 4.x Release Series
  XFree86 4.0 was the first official release of the new XFree86 4 series.  The
- current release (4.2.0) is the latest in that series.  XFree86 4 represents a
+ current release (4.3.0) is the latest in that series.  XFree86 4 represents a
  significant redesign of the XFree86 X server.  Not all of the hardware
- drivers from 3.3.x have been ported to 4.x yet, but conversely, 4.x has some
+ drivers from 3.3.x have been ported to 4.x yet, but conversely, 4.x has sup-
- hardware support not present in 3.3.x.  Our Driver Status document summarizes
+ port for a lot of hardware that is not supported in 3.3.x.  Our Driver Status
- how the hardware driver support compares between 3.3.6 and 4.2.0.  Please
+ document summarizes how the hardware driver support compares between 3.3.6
- check there first before downloading 4.2.0.
+ and 4.3.0.  Please check there first before downloading 4.3.0.
  The 4.0.1 release introduced a new graphical configuration tool, "xf86cfg",
- and a text mode interface was added to it for the 4.0.2 release.  It is work
+ and a text mode interface was added to it for the 4.0.2 release.  It is the
- in progress, but definitely worth trying out.  The trusty old text-based tool
+ preferred configuration tool provided by with XFree86.  The trusty old text-
- "xf86config" can also be used for generating X server config files.  In addi-
+ based tool "xf86config" can also be used for generating X server config
- tion to these tools, we've been working on a configuration tool that is
+ files.  In addition to these tools, the XFree86 server has some built in
- built-in to the X server.  It is included in the release, and it works well
+ capabilities for generating a base config file.  This works well for most
- for some hardware.  To try it out, just run (as root) "XFree86 -configure".
+ hardware, and in most cases is the easiest way to get an initial config file.
+ To try it out, just run (as root):
+      XFree86 -configure
  Each of these configuration options will give you a reasonable starting point
  for a suitable configuration file.  We've put some effort into documenting
- the 4.2.0 config file format, and you can find that information in the
+ the 4.3.0 config file format, and you can find that information in the
- XF86Config manual page. Check that, the driver manual pages and the related
+ XF86Config manual page.  Check there and the driver-specific manual pages and
- documentation for further information.
+ the related documentation for further information.  References to this
+ driver-specific information can be found in the tables below (section 3.,
+ page 1).
+ We have plans to make the configuration file optional in a future release.
+ The XFree86 server is close to being able to automatically determine a com-
+ plete base configuration for most popular hardware configurations.
  Before you go to download and install the binary distributions for this
  release, please have a quick read through the Installation Document.  It may
  save you some time and help you figure out which of the binary releases you
  need.
- The next section describes what is new in the latest version (4.2.0) compared
+ The next section describes what is new in the latest version (4.3.0) compared
- with the previous full release (4.1.0).  The other sections below describe
+ with the previous full release (4.2.0).  The other sections below describe
  some of the new features and changes between 3.3.x and 4.0.  There are lot's
  of new features, and we definitely don't have enough space to cover them all
  here.
-.  Summary of new features in 4.2.0.
+.  Summary of new features in 4.3.0.
 .1  Video Driver Enhancements
-    o  An s3 driver is added, which provides support for many of the older
+    o  ATI Radeon 9x00 2D support added, and 3D support added for the Radeon
-      non-ViRGE and non-Savage S3 chipsets.
+, 9000, 9100, and M9.  The 3D support for the Radeon now includes
+      hardware TCL.
-    o  Some vmware driver problems are fixed, and the driver is updated to
-      take advantage of VMWare Workstation 3.0 features.  These include
-      improved hardware cursor handling and support for 8 bit emulation.
-    o  Support added for Trident *BladeXP chipsets (currently not-acceler-
-      ated).
-    o  Xv support added for Trident TGUI series chips (not 9440 though).
-    o  Support added for the older Trident chipsets again for ISA/VLBus (not
-      tested)
-    o  Support added to the glint driver for 3DLabs Permedia4, GLINT R4 and
-      Gamma 2 chipsets.
-    o  Support added to the i810 driver for Intel i830 (tested on Linux only).
-    o  Support added to the ATI radeon driver for Radeon 7500 (2D and 3D),
+    o  Support added to the i810 driver for Intel 845G, 852GM, 855GM and 865G
-      Radeon 8500 (2D only), and Rage128ProII.
+      integrated graphics chipsets, including 2D, 3D (DRI) and XVideo.  Sup-
+      port for the 830M has been improved, and XVideo support added.
-    o  Support added for the Matrox G550 support.  This included dual-head
+    o  National Semiconductor SC1x00, GX1, and GX2 chipset support added with
-      support.
+      the "nsc" driver.
-    o  Support added for NVIDIA nForce integrated graphics.
+    o  Support added for the NVIDIA nForce2 integrated graphics, GeForce 4,
+      and GeForce FX.
-    o  The NVIDIA nv driver now has preliminary powerpc support for the NV11
+    o  Major SiS driver updates for some of the latest chipsets.  Unfortu-
-      and NV20.
+      nately the SiS 3D driver has had to be disabled because no one has yet
+      taken up the challenge to port it to Mesa 4.x.
-    o  Support added to the NVIDIA nv driver for interlaced modes on hardware
+    o  The s3virge driver now has support for double scan modes on the DX
-      that supports this, and support for resolutions higher than 1600x1200.
+      (with XVideo disabled).
-    o  Fixes for the savage driver on 64-bit platforms, XVideo support for the
+    o  Updates to the savage driver, including fixing problems with the
-      SuperSavage, and other savage driver updates.
+      TwisterK, and problems with incorrect memory size detection.
-    o  The ATI r128 driver now uses the CCE DMA engine for 2D acceleration
+    o  2D acceleration added for the Trident CyberBladeXP/Ai1 chipsets.
-      when direct rendering is enabled, which reduces context switching over-
-      head and improves stability and performance for XVideo and some 2D oper-
-      ations.
-    o  The fbdev driver now supports rotation.
+    o  Support for big endian architectures has been added to the C&T driver.
-    o  Various updates to the apm, ark, chips (C&T), cirrus, i128, neomagic,
+    o  Various updates and bug fixes have been made to most other drivers.
-      newport, s3virge, siliconmotion, sis, tdfx, tseng, vesa, and vga
-      drivers.
 .2  Input Driver Enhancements
-    o  The mouse driver now has support for mouse wheel emulation.
+    o  The mouse driver now has automatic protocol detection for PS/2 mice.
-    o  The mouse driver can now handle replug events on Linux for PS/2 mice.
+    o  Several new input drivers have been added, including tek4957, jamstudio
+      (js_x), fpit, palmax, and ur98 (Linux only).
-    o  The "Min/Max X/Y Position" options in the elographics and mutouch
-      drivers are changed to "Min/Max X/Y" to be consistent with the other
-      input drivers.
-    o  Linux USB keyboard access is fixed when no PS/2 controller is present.
-    o  Added calcomp input driver.
-    o  Added DMC input driver.
-    o  Added hyperpen input driver.
 .3  X Server and Extension Updates
-    o  Resynced with X.Org's X11R6.6.
+    o  Support for the RandR extension has been partially integrated into the
+      XFree86 server, providing support for resizing the root window at run-
-    o  Mesa updated to the post-3.4.2 3.4 branch version as of November 2001.
+      time.
-    o  DRI drivers resynced with the latest from the DRI project.
-    o  Various updates to the Xft library.
-    o  The DEC-XTRAP extension is now available.
-    o  The PEX and XIE extensions are no longer built/distributed by default.
-    o  A security problem related to glyph clipping for large origins is
-      fixed.
-    o  An i810 XvMC (motion compensation) driver is now available (Linux
+    o  The Mesa version used for OpenGL1.3 and DRI driver support has been
-      only).
+      updated to 4.0.4.
-    o  A fatal bug XVideo Xineramification bug is fixed.
+    o  The XFree86 server's hot keys (including those for switching modes and
+      virtual terminals) can now be configured via XKB.  Previously they were
+      hard coded.  An X server configuration option has been added to allow
+      the VT switching hot keys to be disabled.
 .4  Client and Library Updates
-    o  FreeType2 updated to version 2.0.6.
+    o  An Xcursor library providing support for alpha blended (ARGB) and ani-
+      mated cursors.  Two Xcursor themes are provided (redglass and white-
+      glass), as well as the default "core" theme (the traditional cursors).
-    o  Added libGL man pages.
+    o  Xterm updated to patch level 173, including the following bugfixes:
-    o  Xload now has support for displaying the load of remote hosts.
+         o  Fix two infinite loops (special cases of mouse hilite tracking,
+           DECUDK parsing).
-    o  Xterm updated to patch level 165.
+         o  Make repainting of the 256-color example work properly.
-    o  SuperProbe is removed.
+         o  Modify parser tables to improve detection of malformed control
+           sequences, making xterm behave more like a real DEC terminal.
-    o  Sample xtrap clients added.
+         o  Fix a problem with the blinking cursor which occasionally caused
+           xterm to pause until a key was pressed.
-.5  I18N and Font Updates
+         o  Fix improper parsing of multiple items in the ttyModes resource.
-    o  New Luxi scalable fonts (TrueType and Type 1) from Bigelow & Holmes.
-      These fonts are original designs by Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow.
-      See below (section 4.22, page 1) for further information.
-    o  More locale/international keyboards supported.
+      and the following improvements:
-    o  Modularized I18N support in Xlib is included from X11R6.6.
+         o  Modify xterm to invoke luit.
-    o  A problem that caused bdftopcf to sometimes write corrupted fonts is
+         o  Add simple session management client capabilities.
-      fixed.
-    o  Some problem with Xlib's handling of CTEXT and multi-byte characters
+         o  Add a modifyCursorKeys resource to control how the shift- and sim-
-      are fixed.
+           ilar modifiers are used to make a cursor escape sequence.
-    o  The fontenc layer is updated, and the fontenc library is now installed
+         o  Check if the printerCommand resource string is empty, and use this
-      and available for other applications.
+           to allow the user to disable printer function.
-    o  Improvements to the input method framework in Xlib for UTF-8 locales.
+         o  Sort the options list which is displayed in help- and syntax-mes-
+           sages at runtime to simplify maintenance.
-    o  A filter called ``luit'' is added, which provides locale and ISO 2022
+.5  I18N and Font Updates
-      support to any Unicode terminal, notably xterm.  Use of luit is still
-      experimental in this release.
-.6  OS Support Updates
-    o  Build problems on both QNX4 and QNX6 are fixed.
-    o  VT switching problems with the i810 driver on FreeBSD are worked
-      around.
-    o  Problems building modules with some enhanced versions of gcc are fixed.
-    o  Lots of updates for Darwin/Mac OS X, including:
+    o  FreeType2 updated to version 2.1.1.
-         o  On Mac OS X, a new rootless mode is added to the XDarwin X server.
+    o  The "freetype" X server font backend has undergone a partial rewrite.
-           This allows X clients to display windows on the Aqua desktop.
+      The new version is based on FreeType 2, and handles TrueType (including
+      OpenType/TTF), OpenType/CFF and Type 1 fonts.  The old "type1" backend
+      is now deprecated, and is only used for CIDFonts by default.
+    o  A new utility called "mkfontscale", which builds fonts.scale files, has
+      been added.
+    o  The Xft library has undergone a major restructuring, and is now split
+      into fontconfig (which deals with font discovery and configuration and
+      is independent from X), and Xft itself (which uses fontconfig and deals
+      with font rasterisation and rendering.  The format of the Xft font con-
+      figuration files has changed in an incompatible manner.
+    o  Support has been added to the Xft library to do rendering with the core
+      X11 protocol.  This allows clients using this library to render to X
+      servers that don't have support for the RENDER extension.
+    o  There has been a significant reworking of the XKB support to allow
+      multi-layout configurations.  Multi-layout configurations provide a
+      flexible way of supporting multiple language layouts and switching
+      between them.
-         o  Xinerama support added to XDarwin
+.6  OS Support Updates
-         o  With XDarwin in full screen mode, the depth, size, and refresh
+    o  Updates for Darwin/Mac OS X, including:
-           rate can now be chosen to be different from the settings used by
-           Aqua.
-         o  GLX support added for Darwin and Mac OS X with software rendering.
+         o  Indirect GLX acceleration added.
-         o  Keymap setup in XDarwin is improved, particularly for interna-
+         o  Smaller memory footprint and faster 2-D drawing in rootless mode.
-           tional keyboards.
-         o  In addition to English and Japanese, the XDarwin user interface is
+         o  Full screen mode now uses shadowfb for much faster 2-D drawing.
-           now localized in Dutch, French, German, Spanish, and Korean.
-    o  Lots of Cygwin support updates.
+         o  Native fonts can be used on MacOS X.
-    o  Support added for OpenBSD/powerpc.
+    o  Various Cygwin support updates, including an experimental rootless X
+      server for Cygwin/XFree86.
-    o  Build support added for Linux on IBM S/390.
+    o  AMD x86-64 support (primarily for Linux so far) has been added.
-    o  Removed stale support for Amoeba and Minix.
+    o  Support added for OpenBSD/sparc64.
-    o  Client-side support added for sparc64 on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
+    o  Major OS/2 support updates.
-    o  Support added for building the X server on Linux/m68k.
+    o  Major SCO OpenServer updates.
-    o  Support added for building on Linux/arm32.
+    o  Multi-head support has been added for 460GX-based Itanium systems, and
+      for ZX1-based Itanium2 systems.
-    o  Updates to Linux/mips support.
+    o  Experimental support for SunOS/Solaris on UltraSPARC systems.
  A more complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGELOG that is part of
  the XFree86 source tree.  It can also be viewed online at our CVSweb server
-Line 227  grams/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG?rev=H
+Line 208  grams/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG?rev=H
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 .1  Video Drivers
- XFree86 4.2.0 includes the following video drivers:
+ XFree86 4.3.0 includes the following video drivers:
- +--------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
+ +--------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
- |Driver Name   | Description              | Further Information              |
+ |Driver Name   | Description              | Further Information                         |
- +--------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
+ +--------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
- |apm           | Alliance Pro Motion      | README.apm                       |
+ |apm           | Alliance Pro Motion      | README.apm                                  |
- |ark           | Ark Logic                |                                  |
+ |ark           | Ark Logic                |                                             |
- |ati           | ATI                      | README.ati, README.r128, r128(4) |
+ |ati           | ATI                      | README.ati, README.r128, r128(4), radeon(4) |
- |chips         | Chips & Technologies     | README.chips, chips(4)           |
+ |chips         | Chips & Technologies     | README.chips, chips(4)                      |
- |cirrus        | Cirrus Logic             |                                  |
+ |cirrus        | Cirrus Logic             |                                             |
- |cyrix (*)     | Cyrix MediaGX            | README.cyrix                     |
+ |cyrix (*)     | Cyrix MediaGX            | README.cyrix                                |
- |fbdev         | Linux framebuffer device | fbdev(4)                         |
+ |fbdev         | Linux framebuffer device | fbdev(4)                                    |
- |glide         | Glide2x (3Dfx)           | glide(4)                         |
+ |glide         | Glide2x (3Dfx)           | glide(4)                                    |
- |glint         | 3Dlabs, TI               | glint(4)                         |
+ |glint         | 3Dlabs, TI               | glint(4)                                    |
- |i128          | Number Nine              | README.I128, i128(4)             |
+ |i128          | Number Nine              | README.I128, i128(4)                        |
- |i740          | Intel i740               | README.i740                      |
+ |i740          | Intel i740               | README.i740                                 |
- |i810          | Intel i810               | README.i810, i810(4)             |
+ |i810          | Intel i8xx               | README.i810, i810(4)                        |
- |imstt         | Integrated Micro Solns   |                                  |
+ |imstt         | Integrated Micro Solns   |                                             |
- |mga           | Matrox                   | mga(4)                           |
+ |mga           | Matrox                   | mga(4)                                      |
- |neomagic      | NeoMagic                 | neomagic(4)                      |
+ |neomagic      | NeoMagic                 | neomagic(4)                                 |
- |newport (-)   | SGI Newport              | README.newport, newport(4)       |
+ |newport (-)   | SGI Newport              | README.newport, newport(4)                  |
- |nv            | NVIDIA                   | nv(4)                            |
+ |nsc           | National Semiconductor   | nsc(4)                                      |
- |rendition     | Rendition                | README.rendition, rendition(4)   |
+ |nv            | NVIDIA                   | nv(4)                                       |
- |s3            | S3 (not ViRGE or Savage) |                                  |
+ |rendition     | Rendition                | README.rendition, rendition(4)              |
- |s3virge       | S3 ViRGE                 | README.s3virge, s3virge(4)       |
+ |s3            | S3 (not ViRGE or Savage) |                                             |
- |savage        | S3 Savage                | savage(4)                        |
+ |s3virge       | S3 ViRGE                 | README.s3virge, s3virge(4)                  |
- |siliconmotion | Silicon Motion           | siliconmotion(4)                 |
+ |savage        | S3 Savage                | savage(4)                                   |
- |sis           | SiS                      | README.SiS                       |
+ |siliconmotion | Silicon Motion           | siliconmotion(4)                            |
- |sunbw2 (+)    | Sun bw2                  |                                  |
+ |sis           | SiS                      | README.SiS, sis(4)                          |
- |suncg14 (+)   | Sun cg14                 |                                  |
+ |sunbw2 (+)    | Sun bw2                  |                                             |
- |suncg3 (+)    | Sun cg3                  |                                  |
+ |suncg14 (+)   | Sun cg14                 |                                             |
- |suncg6 (+)    | Sun GX and Turbo GX      |                                  |
+ |suncg3 (+)    | Sun cg3                  |                                             |
- |sunffb (+)    | Sun Creator/3D, Elite 3D |                                  |
+ |suncg6 (+)    | Sun GX and Turbo GX      |                                             |
- |sunleo (+)    | Sun Leo (ZX)             |                                  |
+ |sunffb (+)    | Sun Creator/3D, Elite 3D |                                             |
- |suntcx (+)    | Sun TCX                  |                                  |
+ |sunleo (+)    | Sun Leo (ZX)             |                                             |
- |tdfx          | 3Dfx                     |                                  |
+ |suntcx (+)    | Sun TCX                  |                                             |
- |tga           | DEC TGA                  | README.DECtga                    |
+ |tdfx          | 3Dfx                     | tdfx(4)                                     |
- |trident       | Trident                  | trident(4)                       |
+ |tga           | DEC TGA                  | README.DECtga                               |
- |tseng         | Tseng Labs               |                                  |
+ |trident       | Trident                  | trident(4)                                  |
- |vesa          | VESA                     | vesa(4)                          |
+ |tseng         | Tseng Labs               |                                             |
- |vga           | Generic VGA              | vga(4)                           |
+ |vesa          | VESA                     | vesa(4)                                     |
- |vmware        | VMWare guest OS          | vmware(4)                        |
+ |vga           | Generic VGA              | vga(4)                                      |
- +--------------+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
+ |vmware        | VMWare guest OS          | vmware(4)                                   |
+ +--------------+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
  Drivers marked with (*) are present in a preliminary form in this release,
  but are not complete and/or stable yet.
-Line 281  Drivers marked with (-) are for Linux/mi
+Line 263  Drivers marked with (-) are for Linux/mi
 Line 281  Drivers marked with (-) are for Linux/mi
 Line 263  Drivers marked with (-) are for Linux/mi
  Darwin/Mac OS X uses IOKit drivers and does not use the module loader drivers
  listed above. Further information can be found in README.Darwin.
- XFree86 4.2.0 includes the following input drivers:
+ XFree86 4.3.0 includes the following input drivers:
 .2  Input Drivers
-           +------------+--------------------+---------------------+
+    +------------+----------------------------------+---------------------+
-           |Driver Name | Description        | Further Information |
+    |Driver Name | Description                      | Further Information |
-           +------------+--------------------+---------------------+
+    +------------+----------------------------------+---------------------+
-           |calcomp     | Calcomp            |                     |
+    |calcomp     | Calcomp                          |                     |
-           |citron      | Citron             | citron(4)           |
+    |citron      | Citron                           | citron(4)           |
-           |digitaledge | DigitalEdge        |                     |
+    |digitaledge | DigitalEdge                      |                     |
-           |dmc         | DMC                | dmc(4)              |
+    |dmc         | DMC                              | dmc(4)              |
-           |dynapro     | Dynapro            |                     |
+    |dynapro     | Dynapro                          |                     |
-           |elographics | EloGraphics        |                     |
+    |elographics | EloGraphics                      |                     |
-           |hyperpen    | HyperPen           |                     |
+    |elographics | EloGraphics                      |                     |
-           |keyboard    | generic keyboards  | keyboard(4)         |
+    |fpit        | Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PCs     | fpit(4)             |
-           |microtouch  | MicroTouch         |                     |
+    |hyperpen    | HyperPen                         |                     |
-           |mouse       | most mouse devices | mouse(4)            |
+    |js_x        | JamStudio pentablet              | js_x(4)             |
-           |mutouch     | MicroTouch         |                     |
+    |kbd         | generic keyboards (alternate)    | kbd(4)              |
-           |penmount    | PenMount           |                     |
+    |keyboard    | generic keyboards                | keyboard(4)         |
-           |spaceorb    | SpaceOrb           |                     |
+    |microtouch  | MicroTouch                       |                     |
-           |summa       | SummaGraphics      |                     |
+    |mouse       | most mouse devices               | mouse(4)            |
-           |void        | dummy device       | void(4)             |
+    |mutouch     | MicroTouch                       |                     |
-           |wacom       | Wacom tablets      | wacom(4)            |
+    |palmax      | Palmax PD1000/PD1100             | palmax(4)           |
-           +------------+--------------------+---------------------+
+    |penmount    | PenMount                         |                     |
+    |spaceorb    | SpaceOrb                         |                     |
+    |summa       | SummaGraphics                    |                     |
+    |tek4957     | Tektronix 4957 tablet            | tek4957(4)          |
+    |ur98(*)     | Union Reality UR-F98 headtracker | ur98(4)             |
+    |void        | dummy device                     | void(4)             |
+    |wacom       | Wacom tablets                    | wacom(4)            |
+    +------------+----------------------------------+---------------------+
+ Drivers marked with (*) are available for Linux only.
 .  Overview of XFree86 4.x.
  Unlike XFree86 3.3.x where there are multiple X server binaries, each of
- which drive different hardware, XFree86 4.2.0 has a single X server binary
+ which drive different hardware, XFree86 4.3.0 has a single X server binary
  called XFree86.  This binary can either have one or more video drivers linked
  in statically, or, more usually, dynamically load the video drivers and other
  modules that are needed.
- XFree86 4.2.0 has X server support for most UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating
+ XFree86 4.3.0 has X server support for most UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating
  systems on Intel/x86 platforms, plus support for Linux on Alpha, PowerPC,
  IA-64, Sparc, and Mips platforms, and for Darwin on PowerPC.  Work on support
  for additional architectures and operating systems is in progress, and is
-Line 336  they do not need to be recompiled for ev
+Line 327  they do not need to be recompiled for ev
 Line 336  they do not need to be recompiled for ev
 Line 327  they do not need to be recompiled for ev
  the future we plan to take advantage of this to provide more frequent driver
  module updates in between major releases.
- The loader in version 4.2.0 has support for Intel (x86), Alpha and PowerPC
+ The loader in version 4.3.0 has support for Intel (x86), Alpha and PowerPC
  platforms.  It also has preliminary support for Sparc platforms.
  The X server makes use of modules for video drivers, X server extensions,
-Line 442  ual page for more comprehensive informat
+Line 433  ual page for more comprehensive informat
 Line 442  ual page for more comprehensive informat
 Line 433  ual page for more comprehensive informat
       The new option AllowDeactivateGrabs allows deactivating any active grab
       with the key sequence Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Divide and the new option Allow-
-      ClosedownGrabs allows closing the conection to the grabbing client with
+      ClosedownGrabs allows closing the connection to the grabbing client with
       the key sequence Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Multiply. Note that these options are
       off by default as they allow users to remove the grab used by screen
       saver/locker programs.
-Line 517  ual page for more comprehensive informat
+Line 508  ual page for more comprehensive informat
 Line 517  ual page for more comprehensive informat
 Line 508  ual page for more comprehensive informat
                     Option      "BlankTime"  "5"
                 EndSection
-      See the XF86Config man page for a more detailed explanation of the for-
+      See the XF86Config(5) man page for a more detailed explanation of the
-      mat of the new ServerLayout section.
+      format of the new ServerLayout section.
  The config file search patch has been extended, with the directories /etc/X11
  and /usr/X11R6/etc/X11 being added.  The full search path details are docu-
-Line 684  Known problems:
+Line 675  Known problems:
 Line 684  Known problems:
 Line 675  Known problems:
 .7  DGA version 2
- DGA 2.0 is included in 4.2.0, but is not implemented by all drivers.  Prelim-
+ DGA 2.0 is included in 4.3.0, but is not implemented by all drivers.  Prelim-
  inary documentation for the client libraries can be found in the README.DGA
  document.  A good degree of backwards compatibility with version 1.0 is pro-
  vided.
-Line 753  anti-aliased text and geometric objects
+Line 744  anti-aliased text and geometric objects
 Line 753  anti-aliased text and geometric objects
 Line 744  anti-aliased text and geometric objects
  overlays and other image operations not possible with the core X rendering
  system.
- XFree86 4.2.0 provides a partial implementation of Render sufficient for
+ XFree86 4.3.0 provides a partial implementation of Render sufficient for
  drawing anti-aliased text and image composition.  Still to be implemented are
  geometric primitives and affine transformation of images.
-Line 784  XFree86 to use an existing FreeType inst
+Line 775  XFree86 to use an existing FreeType inst
 Line 784  XFree86 to use an existing FreeType inst
 Line 775  XFree86 to use an existing FreeType inst
  The Xft library uses a configuration file, XftConfig, which contains informa-
  tion about which directories contain font files and also provides a sophisti-
  cated font aliasing mechanism.  Documentation for that file is included in
- the Xft man page.
+ the Xft(3) man page.
 .11.2  FreeType support in Xft
- XFree86 4.2.0 includes sources for FreeType version 2.0.1, and, by default,
+ XFree86 4.3.0 includes sources for FreeType version 2.1.1, and, by default,
  they are built and installed automatically.
- If you prefer, you can configure XFree86 4.2.0 to use an existing Freetype2
- installation by telling XFree86 not to build the internal copy and indicating
- where that external version has been installed. Edit (or create) con-
- fig/cf/host.def to include:
-    o #define BuildFreetype2Library NO
-    o #define Freetype2Dir /usr/local
- Note that XFree86 assumes you'll be using a release FreeType no older than
- version 2.0.1.  Early FreeType version 2 releases used a different header
- file installation and aren't compatible with XFree86. Instructions for build-
- ing and installing FreeType can be found in the INSTALL file included with
- the FreeType release.
 .11.3  Application Support For Anti-Aliased Text
- Only three applications have been modified in XFree86 4.2.0 to work with the
+ Only three applications have been modified in XFree86 4.3.0 to work with the
  Render extension and the Xft and FreeType libraries to provide anti-aliased
  text.  Xterm, xditview and x11perf.  Migration of other applications may
  occur in future releases.
- By default, xterm uses core fonts through the standard core API.  It has two
+ By default, xterm uses core fonts through the standard core API.  It has a
- command line options and associated resources to direct it to use Xft
+ command line option and associated resource to direct it to use Xft instead:
- instead:
     o -fa family / .VT100.faceName: family.  Selects the font family to use.
-    o -fs pointsize / .VT100.faceSize: pointsize.  Selects the pointsize.
  Xditview will use Xft instead of the core API by default.  X11perf includes
  tests to measure the performance of text rendered in three ways, anti-
  aliased, anti-aliased with sub-pixel sampling and regular chunky text, but
-Line 840  The xgamma utility makes use of this fea
+Line 813  The xgamma utility makes use of this fea
 Line 840  The xgamma utility makes use of this fea
 Line 813  The xgamma utility makes use of this fea
  version of the extension is provided.  The missing parts of this extension
  and some new features should be completed in a future release.
-.13  Xaw
+.13  xedit
- Two versions of the Xaw library are provided with XFree86 4.x. A version with
- bug fixes and a few binary compatible improvements and a new version with
- several new features.
- New features:
-    o A displayList resource is available to all Xaw widgets. It basically
-      consists of a list of drawing commands, fully described in the Xaw(3)
-      manual page, that enables a integration of Xaw programs with the new
-      window/desktop managers that allows for configurable themes.
-    o Some new actions were added to all Xaw widgets, to allow more config-
-      urable control of the widgets, and to allow setting resources at run
-      time.
-    o Since Xpm was integrated into XFree86, programs linked with the new Xaw
-      library     will also link with Xpm. This allows for color background
-      pixmaps, and also for shaped widgets.
-    o The text widget is the widget that will present more changes. These
-      include:
-         o Block cursor.
-         o Compile time limit of 16384 undo/redo levels (that will automati-
-           cally grow if the text is not saved when this mark is reached).
-         o Overwrite mode.
-         o Text killed is inserted in a kill ring list, this text is not for-
-           gotten, pressing M-y allows traversing the kill ring list.
-         o International support for latin languages is available even if the
-           international resource is not set. Users will need to properly set
-           the locale environment to make complete use of this feature.
-         o A better multiply interface is provided. Pressing C-u,<number>
-           (where number can be negative) allows passing parameters for text
-           actions.
-         o Text can be formatted to have left, right, center or full justifi-
-           cation.
-         o Text indentation support is also available.
- Bug fixes:
-    o The simple menu widget geometry management code was improved to solve
-      problems with menu entries not visible in the screen.
-    o The form widget geometry code was changed to solve problems with integer
-      round problems in the child widgets geometry when resizing the parent
-      form widget.
-    o Several bugs were fixed in the text code, while some code was rewritten
-      from scratch.
-.14  Xpm
- Version 3.4k of the Xpm (X pixmap) library is now integrated into XFree86.
-.15  xedit
- Xedit have been changed to use most of the new features added to the new ver-
- sion of the Xaw library, and some xedit only features were added. Emacs users
- will find that several of the emacs key bindings work with the new version of
- xedit. These include:
-    o File name tab completion. Including a Emacs dired like window, that will
-      be shown when there are more than one match, when C-x,d is pressed, or
-      when a directory name is specified.
-    o An unlimited number of files can be edited at the same time. Including
-      multiple views of the same or different files.
-    o The line number of the cursor position is always visible. It can also be
-      customized to show the column number, the position offset and the cur-
-      rent size of the file.
-    o There is an autoReplace resource, that enables automatic text replace-
-      ment at the time text is typed. This feature is useful to create simple
-      macros, or to correct common spelling errors.
-    o A fully featured ispell interface is also available. This interface is
-      expected to provide most of the features of the terminal interface of
-      the ispell program, with some extra features that include:
-         o A compile time limit of 16 undo levels.
-         o Terse mode switch.
+ Xedit has several new features, including:
-         o Dictionary change.
+    o An embedded lisp interpreter that allows easier extension of the editor.
-         o The interface also checks for repeated words.
+    o Several new syntax highlight modes, and indentation rules for C and
+      Lisp.
-    o A first tentative to add programming modes was done. Currently, there is
+    o Flexible search/replace interface that allows regex matches.
-      one mode:
-         o C-mode: this mode is expected to be stable, and fully usable.
+    o Please refer to xedit(1) for more details.
-.16  Font support
+.14  Font support
  Details about the font support in XFree86 4.x can be found in the
  README.fonts document.
-.17  TrueType support
+.15  TrueType support
  XFree86 4.x comes with two TrueType backends, known as `xfsft' (the
  "freetype" module) and `X-TrueType' (the "xtt" module).  Both of these back-
  ends are based on the FreeType library.
-.18  CID font support
+.16  CID font support
  Support for CID-keyed fonts is included in XFree86 4.x.  The CID-keyed font
  format was designed by Adobe Systems <URL:http://www.adobe.com> for fonts
-Line 961  with large character sets.  The CID-keye
+Line 845  with large character sets.  The CID-keye
 Line 961  with large character sets.  The CID-keye
 Line 845  with large character sets.  The CID-keye
  by SGI <URL:http://www.sgi.com>.  See the LICENSE document for a copy of the
  CID Font Code Public License.
-.19  Internationalisation of the scalable font backends
+.17  Internationalisation of the scalable font backends
  XFree86 4.x has a ``fontenc'' layer to allow the scalable font backends to
  use a common method of font re-encoding.  This re-encoding makes it possible
-Line 970  layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo ba
+Line 854  layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo ba
 Line 970  layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo ba
 Line 854  layer is used by the Type1 and Speedo ba
  TrueType backend.  The `X-TrueType' version of the TrueType backend uses a
  different re-encoding method based on loadable encoding modules.
-.20  Large font optimisation
+.18  Large font optimisation
  The glyph metrics array, which all the X clients using a particular font have
  access to, is placed in shared memory, so as to reduce redundant memory con-
  sumption.  For non-local clients, the glyph metrics array is transmitted in a
  compressed format.
-.21  Unicode/ISO 10646 support
+.19  Unicode/ISO 10646 support
  What is included in 4.x:
-Line 1010  What is included in 4.x:
+Line 894  What is included in 4.x:
 Line 1010  What is included in 4.x:
 Line 894  What is included in 4.x:
     o Both the xfsft (the "freetype" module) and the X-TrueType (the "xtt"
       module) TrueType font backends support Unicode-encoded fonts.
-.22  Luxi fonts from Bigelow and Holmes
+.20  Luxi fonts from Bigelow and Holmes
  XFree86 now includes the ``Luxi'' family of Type 1 fonts and TrueType fonts.
  This family consists of the fonts ``Luxi Serif'', ``Luxi Sans'' and
-Line 1035  as well as in the License document.  For
+Line 919  as well as in the License document.  For
 Line 1035  as well as in the License document.  For
 Line 919  as well as in the License document.  For
  <design@bigelowandholmes.com> or <info@urwpp.de>, or consult the URW++ web
  site <URL:http://www.urwpp.de>.
-.23  Directory rearrangements
+.21  Directory rearrangements
  Some changes to the installed XFree86 directory structure have been imple-
  mented for 4.x.  One important change is a modified search path for the X
-Line 1046  location pointing to the new location.
+Line 930  location pointing to the new location.
 Line 1046  location pointing to the new location.
 Line 930  location pointing to the new location.
  located under the appropriate subdirectories of /var, again with the relevant
  symbolic links in the old location.
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- $XFree86: xc/RELNOTES,v 1.6 2002/01/17 23:27:41 dawes Exp $
+ $XFree86: xc/RELNOTES,v 1.17 2003/02/27 01:44:02 dawes Exp $

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