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 <title>README for XFree86&tm; 3.1.1
 <author> The XFree86 Project, Inc
 <date>15 January 1995


<abstract>

  XFree86 is a port of X11R6 that supports several versions of Intel-based
Unix and Unix-like operating systems.  This release consists of many new
features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes.  The
release is available as source patches against the X Consortium X11R6 code,
as well as binary distributions for many architectures.
</abstract>



<toc>



<sect> What's new in XFree86 3.1.1
<p>

The following items have been added since XFree86 3.1 was released in
October 1994:
<enum>
    <item> XFree86 3.1.1 includes the X Consortium's recently released
	public patches (up to fix-11).  The XFree86 Project, Inc has
	worked with the X Consortium to have much of XFree86 3.1.1
	included in the X Consortium's fix-11.
    <item> A new accelerated server for Mach64 boards.
    <item> Support for the S3 Trio32 and Trio64 chipsets.
    <item> Support in the S3 server for the Chrontel 8391 clock chip.
    <item> Support for SPEA Mercury P64 and MIRO Crystal 40SV.
    <item> Bug fixes and some performance improvements for most of the
	accelerated servers.
    <item> Support for `double scan' video modes (most servers).
    <item> New chipset support for the SVGA server.  This includes the
	Avance Logic 2228/2301, Chips &amp; Technology 655xx, Cirrus Logic
	6440, and Oak OTI-087.  Accelerated support is included for the
	OTI-087.
    <item> Support for FreeBSD 2.0.
    <item> Preliminary support for OS/2 (client-only at this stage; this
	is still under development).
    <item> Linear aperture access when running on BSD/386.
    <item> 16bpp and 32bpp support for more S3 boards (refer to <url
	url="S3.html" name="README.S3"> for details).
    <item> Support for ISC's SVR3 (only tested for 3.x and 4.x).
    <item> The `xf86config' utility for generating XF86Config files has
	been improved and now uses a database of video cards.
    <item> The X server LinkKit has been updated to include support for LBX.
    <item> The slow X server startup time on machines without hardware
	floating point has been improved.
</enum>
Plus a number of other small items.  Refer to the CHANGELOG file in the
source distribution for full details.

<sect> What's new in XFree86 3.1?
<p>

The following items have been added since XFree86 2.1.1 was released in
May 1994:
<enum>
   <item>XFree86 is now based on X11R6, including shared library support for
       SVR4, Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
   <item>New configuration file format. One of the biggest changes that you
       	will notice with the new XFree86 version is that the old
	<tt>Xconfig</tt> file has been replaced by an
	<tt>XF86Config</tt> file.For further details,
       	see the section <ref id="Changes" name ="Important Changes" >
	below.
   <item>Support is included for the X Image Extension (XIE).
   <item>A new accelerated server for boards based on the Weitek P9000
       chipset.
   <item>A new accelerated server for boards based on the AGX chipsets.
   <item>A new accelerated server for boards based on the Tseng ET4000/W32
       series of chipsets.
   <item>Support for the S3 Vision 864 and 964 chipsets (including boards
       like the ELSA Winner 1000Pro and 2000Pro, Number Nine GXE64 and
       GXE64Pro, Miro Crystal 20SV).
   <item>16bpp support for some Mach32 boards.
   <item>16bpp and 32bpp support for P9000 boards.
  <item>16bpp and 32bpp support for some S3 boards.
  <item>Improved Cirrus accelerated support (including 5434), and 16bpp and
       32bpp support for some Cirrus boards.
  <item>Accelerated support for Western Digital WD90C33 boards.
  <item>Support for the S3 GENDAC, S3 SDAC, AT&amp;T 20C498, STG1700 and TI3025
       RAMDACS in the S3 server.
  <item>Support for the S3 GENDAC, S3 SDAC, ICS2595, and TI3025 programmable
       clocks in the S3 server.
  <item>New SVGA drivers for the AL2101, MX68000/MX68010, Video7, Cirrus
       CL6420 chipsets.
  <item>Significantly updated ATI vgawonder driver, including unaccelerated
       support for Mach64 boards.
  <item>A generic VGA driver for the SVGA server (fixed 320x200 at 8bpp).
  <item>Dual-headed vga2/mono and vga16/mono servers.
  <item>Significant updates to the VGA16 code, including a wider range of
       banking support.
  <item>Incorporated the Screen Saver extension into the base server.
  <item>Support for "green" monitor screen savers in S3 and SVGA servers.
  <item>Support for the "experimental" LBX code included with X11R6.
</enum>    
Plus a number of other small things.  Refer to the CHANGELOG file in the
source distribution for full details.


<sect> Systems XFree86 has been tested on
<p>

    <DESCRIP>
    <tag/SVR4.0:/
	<itemize>
	<ITEM>Esix: 4.0.3A, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1
	<ITEM>Microport: 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
	<ITEM>Dell: 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1
	<ITEM>UHC: 2.0, 3.6
	<ITEM>Consensys: 1.2
	<ITEM>MST: 4.0.3 (Load 2.07 and Load 3.02)
	<ITEM>ISC: 4.0.3
	<ITEM>AT&amp;T: 2.1, 4.0
	<ITEM>NCR: MP-RAS
	<ITEM>SunSoft: Solaris x86 2.1, 2.4
	</itemize>	

    <tag/SVR4.2:/
	<itemize>
	<ITEM>Consensys
	<ITEM>Novell UnixWare
	</itemize>	

    <tag/SVR3:/
	<itemize>
	<ITEM>SCO: 3.2.2, 3.2.4
	<ITEM>ISC: 3.0, 4.0, 4.1
	</itemize>	

    <tag/Others:/
	<itemize>	
	<ITEM>NetBSD 1.0,
	<ITEM>FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, 2.0
	<ITEM>BSD/386 1.1
	<ITEM>Mach 386
	<ITEM>Linux
	<ITEM>Amoeba
	<ITEM>Minix-386
	</itemize>	

    </DESCRIP>

<sect> Supported video-card chip-sets
<p>

At this time, XFree86 3.1.1 supports the following accelerated chipsets:

  <DESCRIP>
    <tag>8514/A </tag>
	(and true clones)
    <tag/ATI /
	 Mach8, Mach32, Mach64
    <tag/Cirrus /
	CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429,
           CLGD5430, CLGD5434
    <tag/S3 /
	86C911, 86C924, 86C801, 86C805, 86C805i, 86C928, 86C864, 86C964,
	86C732, 86C764
    <tag/Western Digital /
	WD90C31, WD90C33
    <tag/Weitek /
	P9000
    <tag/IIT /
	AGX-014, AGX-015, AGX-016
    <tag/Tseng /
	ET4000/W32, ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p 
 </DESCRIP>

The Cirrus, Western Digital and Oak accelerators are supported in the SVGA
server; the other chipsets each have their own server.  A list of some
cards which the accelerated servers have been tested is included in the
files AccelCards, Devices, and some of the chipset-specific <tt>README</tt> files.
They may well work on other cards, but we cannot guarantee it.
  
In addition, the following SVGA chipsets are supported:
  <DESCRIP>
    <tag/Tseng /
	ET3000, ET4000AX, ET4000/W32
    <tag>Western Digital/Paradise </tag>
	PVGA1 
    <tag/Western Digital /
	WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C24, WD90C30, WD90C31,WD90C33
     <tag/Genoa /
	GVGA 
    <tag/Trident /
	TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000,
	TVGA9000i, TVGA9100B, TVGA9200CX, TVGA9320, TVGA9400CX,
 	TVGA9420 
    <tag/ATI /
	18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6, 68800-3,
        68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX, 88800
    <tag/NCR /
	77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+ 
    <tag/Cirrus Logic /
	CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428,
	CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434, CLGD6205, CLGD6215,
	CLGD6225, CLGD6235, CLGD6410, CLGD6412, CLGD6420,
	CLGD6440
    <tag/Compaq /
	AVGA 
    <tag/OAK /
	OTI067, OTI077, OTI087
    <tag/Avance Logic /
	ALG2101, ALG2228, ALG2301, ALG2302, ALG2308, ALG2401
    <tag/Chips &amp; Technology /
	65520, 65530, 65540, 65545
    <tag/MX /
	MX68000, MX680010 
    <tag> Video 7/Headland Technologies </tag>
	HT216-32 
</DESCRIP> 

All of the above are supported in both 256 color and monochrome modes, with
the exception of the Advance Logic, MX, Chips &amp; Technology and Video 7
chipsets, which are only
supported in 256 color mode.

Refer to the chipset-specific <tt>README</tt> files (currently for Cirrus,
Tseng, Western Digital, ATI, Trident, Oak and Video 7) for more
information about using those chipsets.

The monochrome server also supports generic VGA cards, using 64k of video
memory in a single bank, the Hercules monochrome card, the Hyundai HGC1280,
Sigma LaserView, Visa and Apollo monochrome cards.  On the Compaq AVGA, only
64k of video memory is supported for the monochrome server, and the GVGA has
not been tested with more than 64k.

The VGA16 server supports memory banking with the ET4000, Trident, ATI,
NCR, OAK and Cirrus 6420 chipsets allowing virtual display sizes up to
about 1600x1200 (with 1MB of video memory).  For other chipsets the display
size is limited to approximately 800x600.


<bf>Note:</bf>
      The Diamond SpeedStar 24 (and possibly recent SpeedStar+) boards are
      NOT supported, even though they use the ET4000.  The Stealth 32 which
      uses the ET4000/W32p is also not supported.  Most other Diamond boards
      will work with this release of XFree86.  Historically the
      information required for this support was only available under
      non-disclosure.  As of September 27, 1994, Diamond has verbally
      agreed to provide The XFree86 Project, Inc. with detailed information
      about Diamond products.  This should permit us to better support
      these in future versions of XFree86.


<sect><heading><label id="Changes">Important Changes</>
<p>

  There are a number of important user-visible changes between
XFree86 2.1.1 and XFree86 3.1.  The first is the default install location.
The XFree86 distribution is now installed by default under <tt>/usr/X11R6</tt>
instead of <tt>/usr/X386</tt>.  
This moves away from the now out-dated "X386" name,
and it also makes it possible for both versions to co-exist.

The next major change is related to the server configuration file.  
The old <tt>Xconfig</tt> file has been replaced in XFree86 3.1 by an 
<tt>XF86Config</tt> file.
This is more than just a name change.  
The new <tt>XF86Config</tt> file uses a format that is quite different
from the old <tt>Xconfig</tt> file.   
The new format is more structured, logical, and extensible than the
old format.  
We realise that the transition to this new format won't be without
problems.  
To help in 
this transition we have provided a program (`reconfig') to convert the old
<tt>Xconfig</tt> format into the new <tt>XF86Config</tt> format.  
This doesn't provide a
perfect conversion mostly because the new format contains more information
than the old format.  Some manual editing will always be required.  One of
the new types of information the <tt>XF86Config</tt> contains is a description of
the monitor(s) you are using.  This addition allows the servers to check
that the video modes are within the specifications of the monitor.

For information about the new config file format and how to use it, refer
to the <em>XF86Config(4/5)</em> and  <em>reconfig(1)</em> manual
pages, and the <tt>README.Config</tt> file which can be found in
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc</tt>. 

Another change related to the config file is the locations the servers look
for it in.  In previous releases the servers would look in places which
could be specified by the user.  This raised a number of security concerns.
To address these, the server now only looks in places which are normally
under the control of the system administrator.  For further details, refer
to the <em>XFree86(1)</em> manual page.



<sect> Where to get more information
<p>

Additional documentation is available in the <em>XFree86(1)</em>,
<em>XF86Config(4/5)</em>, <em>XF86_SVGA(1)</em>,
<em>XF86_Mono(1)</em>, <em>XF86_VGA16(1)</em> and
<em>XF86_Accel(1)</em> manual pages. 
In addition, several <tt>README</tt> files and tutorial documents are provided.
These are available in <tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc</tt> in the binary
distributions, and in  <tt>xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc</tt> in
the source distribution. 

The files <tt>README.Config</tt> and <tt>VideoModes.doc</tt> should be
consulted for 
information on how to set up the XFree86 servers.  All supplied
documents and manual pages should be read before contacting the
XFree86 team for assistance.

Documentation on SVGA driver development can be found in the directory
<tt>/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/VGADriverDoc</tt> in the binary
distribution, and in the directory
<tt>xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/VGADriverDoc</tt> in the source
distribution.  

If you are totally at a loss, you can contact the XFree86 Support Team at
<it/&lt;XFree86@XFree86.Org&gt;/.

There is a Usenet news group comp.windows.x.i386unix that contains
mostly discussions about XFree86 and related topics. Many questions can
be answered there. The answers to common questions are found in the
corresponding FAQ.


<sect>Credits
<p>

XFree86 was originally put together by:
<itemize>
       <item>David Dawes <it>&lt;dawes@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>Glenn Lai <it>&lt;glenn@cs.utexas.edu&gt;</it>
       <item>Jim Tsillas <it>&lt;jtsilla@ccs.neu.edu&gt;</it>
       <item>David Wexelblat <it>&lt;dwex@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
</itemize>

XFree86 support was integrated into the base X11R6 distribution by:
<itemize>
 <item>      Stuart Anderson <it>&lt;Stuart.Anderson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM&gt;</it>
 <item>      Doug Anson <it>&lt;danson@lgc.com&gt;</it>
 <item>      Gertjan Akkerman <it>&lt;akkerman@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl&gt;</it>
 <item>      Mike Bernson <it>&lt;mike@mbsun.mlb.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Robin Cutshaw <it>&lt;robin@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      David Dawes <it>&lt;dawes@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Marc Evans <it>&lt;marc@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Pascal Haible <it>&lt;haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de&gt;</it>
 <item>      Matthieu Herrb <it>&lt;Matthieu.Herrb@laas.fr&gt;</it>
 <item>      Dirk Hohndel <it>&lt;hohndel@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      David Holland <it>&lt;davidh@use.com&gt;</it>
 <item>      Alan Hourihane <it>&lt;alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk&gt;</it>
 <item>      Jeffrey Hsu <it>&lt;hsu@soda.berkeley.edu&gt;</it>
 <item>      Glenn Lai <it>&lt;glenn@cs.utexas.edu&gt;</it>
 <item>      Ted Lemon <it>&lt;mellon@ncd.com&gt;</it>
 <item>      Rich Murphey <it>&lt;rich@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Hans Nasten <it>&lt;nasten@everyware.se&gt;</it>
 <item>      Mark Snitily <it>&lt;mark@sgcs.com&gt;</it>
 <item>      Randy Terbush <it>&lt;randyt@cse.unl.edu&gt;</it>
 <item>      Jon Tombs <it>&lt;tombs@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Kees Verstoep <it>&lt;versto@cs.vu.nl&gt;</it>
 <item>      Paul Vixie <it>&lt;paul@vix.com&gt;</it>
 <item>      Mark Weaver <it>&lt;Mark_Weaver@brown.edu&gt;</it>
 <item>      David Wexelblat <it>&lt;dwex@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
 <item>      Philip Wheatley <it>&lt;Philip.Wheatley@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM&gt;</it>
 <item>      Thomas Wolfram <it>&lt;wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de&gt;</it>
 <item>      Orest Zborowski <it>&lt;orestz@eskimo.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>

<DESCRIP>
<tag/386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD  support by: /
<itemize>
       <item> Rich Murphey <it>&lt;Rich@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/NetBSD  support by: /
<itemize>
       <item> Matthieu Herrb <it>&lt;Matthieu.Herrb.@laas.fr&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Original 386BSD port by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Pace Willison,
       <item> Amancio Hasty Jr <it>&lt;hasty@netcom.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Mach 386 support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Robert Baron <it>&lt;Robert.Baron@ernst.mach.cs.cmu.edu&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Linux support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Orest Zborowski <it>&lt;orestz@eskimo.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/SCO Unix support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> David McCullough <it>&lt;davidm@stallion.oz.au&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Amoeba support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Kees Verstoep <it>&lt;versto@cs.vu.nl&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Minix-386 support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Philip Homburg <it>&lt;philip@cs.vu.nl&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag>OSF/1 support by:  </tag>
<itemize>
       <item> Marc Evans <it>&lt;Marc@Synergytics.Com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag>BSD/386 support by:  </tag>
<itemize>
       <item> Hans Nasten <it>&lt;nasten@everyware.se&gt;</it>,
       <item> Paul Vixie <it>&lt;paul@vix.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Solaris support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Doug Anson <it>&lt;danson@lgc.com&gt;</it>,
       <item> David Holland <it>&lt;davidh@use.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/ISC SVR3 support by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Michael Rohleder <it>&lt;michael.rohleder&percnt;iktffm.uucp@germany.eu.net&gt</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Linux shared libraries by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Orest Zborowski <it>&lt;orestz@eskimo.com&gt;</it>,
       <item> Dirk Hohndel <it>&lt;hohndel@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
</itemize>

<tag/Original accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Kevin Martin <it>&lt;martin@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Rik Faith <it>&lt;faith@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Jon Tombs <it>&lt;tombs@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/S3 accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Jon Tombs <it>&lt;tombs@XFree86.org&gt;</it>,
       <item> David Wexelblat <it>&lt;dwex@XFree86.org&gt;</it>,
       <item> David Dawes <it>&lt;dawes@XFree86.org&gt;</it>,
       <item> Robin Cutshaw <it>&lt;robin@XFree86.org&gt;</it>,
       <item> Amancio Hasty <it>&lt;hasty@netcom.com&gt;</it>,
       <item> Norbert Distler <it>&lt;Norbert.Distler@physik.tu-muenchen.de&gt;</it>,
       <item> Leonard N. Zubkoff <it>&lt;lnz@dandelion.com&gt;</it>,
       <item> Harald Koenig <it>&lt;koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt;</it>,
       <item> Bernhard Bender <it>&lt;br@elsa.mhs.compuserve.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Mach32 accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Kevin Martin <it>&lt;martin@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Rik Faith <it>&lt;faith@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Mike Bernson <it>&lt;mike@mbsun.mlb.org&gt;</it>,
       <item> Mark Weaver <it>&lt;Mark_Weaver@brown.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Craig Groeschel <it>&lt;craig@metrolink.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Mach64 accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Kevin Martin <it>&lt;martin@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
</itemize>
<tag/Mach8, 8514 accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Kevin Martin <it>&lt;martin@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Rik Faith <it>&lt;faith@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Tiago Gons <it>&lt;tiago@comosjn.hobby.nl&gt;</it>,
       <item> Hans Nasten <it>&lt;nasten@everyware.se&gt;</it>,
       <item> Scott Laird <it>&lt;lair@midway.uchicago.edu&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Cirrus accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Simon Cooper <it>&lt;scooper@vizlab.rutgers.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Harm Hanemaayer <it>&lt;hhanemaa@cs.ruu.nl&gt;</it>,
       <item> Bill Reynolds <it>&lt;bill@goshawk.lanl.gov&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Western Digital accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Mike Tierney <it>&lt;floyd@pepsi.eng.umd.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Bill Conn <it>&lt;conn@bnr.ca&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Oak Technologies Inc. accelerated code by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Jorge Delgado <it>&lt;ernar@dit.upm.es&gt;</it>,
</itemize>

<tag/16 color VGA server by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Gertjan Akkerman <it>&lt;akkerman@dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl&gt;</it>
</itemize>

<tag/2 color VGA and non-VGA mono servers by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Pascal Haible <it>&lt;haible@izfm.uni-stuttgart.de&gt;</it>
</itemize>
      
<tag/ATI SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Per Lindqvist <it>&lt;pgd@compuram.bbt.se&gt;</it> and Doug Evans
       <it>&lt;dje@cygnus.com&gt;</it>. 
       <item> Ported to X11R5 by Rik Faith <it>&lt;faith@cs.unc.edu&gt;</it>.
       <item> Rewritten by Marc La France <it>&lt;tsi@ualberta.ca&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Trident SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Alan Hourihane <it>&lt;alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/NCR SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Stuart Anderson <it>&lt;Stuart.Anderson@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM&gt;</it>
		with the permission of NCR Corporation
</itemize>
<tag/Cirrus SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Bill Reynolds <it>&lt;bill@goshawk.lanl.gov&gt;</it>,
       <item> Hank Dietz <it>&lt;hankd@ecn.purdue.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Simon Cooper <it>&lt;scooper@vizlab.rutgers.edu&gt;</it>,
       <item> Harm Hanemaayer <it>&lt;hhanemaa@cs.ruu.nl&gt;</it>, 
</itemize>
<tag/Cirrus CL64xx driver by: /
<itemize>
       <item> Manfred Brands <it>&lt;mb@oceonics.nl&gt;</it>
       <item> Randy Hendry <it>&lt;randy@sgi.com&gt;</it>
       <item> Jeff Kirk <it>&lt;jeff@bambam.dsd.ES.COM&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Compaq SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Hans Oey <it>&lt;hans@mo.hobby.nl&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Oak SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Steve Goldman <it>&lt;sgoldman@encore.com&gt;</it>
       <item> Jorge Delgado <it>&lt;ernar@dit.upm.es&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/AL2101 SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Paolo Severini <it>&lt;lendl@dist.dist.unige.it&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Avance Logic ``ali'' SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Ching-Tai Chiu <it>&lt;cchiu@netcom.com&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/MX SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Frank Dikker <it>&lt;dikker@cs.utwente.nl&gt;</it>
</itemize>
<tag/Video7 SVGA driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Craig Struble <it>&lt;cstruble@acm.vt.edu&gt;</it>
</itemize>

<tag/Apollo Mono driver by:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Hamish Coleman <it>&lt;hamish@zot.apana.org.au&gt;</it>
</itemize>

<tag/Other contributors:  /
<itemize>
       <item> Joerg Wunsch <it>&lt;joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de&gt;</it> (ET3000 banked mono),
       <item> Eric Raymond <it>&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</it> (new video mode documentation),

       <item> and an entire horde of beta-testers around the world!
</itemize>
</descrip>

<sect>Contact information
<p>

Ongoing development planning and support is coordinated by the XFree86
Core Team.  At this time the Core Team consists of (in alphabetical order):
<itemize>
       <item>Robin Cutshaw <it>&lt;robin@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>David Dawes <it>&lt;dawes@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>Marc Evans <it>&lt;marc@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>Dirk Hohndel <it>&lt;hohndel@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>Rich Murphey <it>&lt;rich@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>Jon Tombs <it>&lt;tombs@XFree86.org&gt;</it>
       <item>David Wexelblat <it>&lt;dwex@XFree86.org&gt;</it> 
</itemize>
Mail sent to <it>&lt;Core@XFree86.org&gt;</it> will reach the core team.
Please note that support questions should be sent to
<it>&lt;XFree86@XFree86.org&gt;</it>.

<sect>The XFree86 Project, Inc.
<p>

The XFree86 Project, Inc, has been founded to accomplish two major goals:
<enum>
	<item> 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.
	<item> To provide some basic funding for acquisition of facilities for
	   ongoing XFree86 development, largely to consist of new video
	   hardware and basic computing facilities.
</enum>
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 core
release.  The version of XFree86 in the initial X11R6 core is 3.0.  The
version of XFree86 in the current X11R6 patched release is 3.1.1.  As time
goes on, XFree86 will be involved with more of the development of The X
Window System, as a full Consortium member.  How exactly this will evolve
is still being determined.

An additional benefit of this incorporation is that The XFree86 Project,
Inc has obtained outside financial support for our work.  This will
hopefully give us the freedom to be more pro-active in obtaining new
video hardware, and enable us to release better products more quickly,
as we will be able to go and get what we need, and get it into the hands
of the people who can do the work.

The current Board of Directors and Officers of the The XFree86 Project,
Inc, are:
<itemize>
       <item> David Dawes, President and Secretary
       <item> Dirk Hohndel, Vice-President
       <item> Glenn Lai, Director
       <item> Rich Murphey, Treasurer
       <item> Jim Tsillas, Director
       <item> Jon Tombs, Director
       <item> David Wexelblat, Director
</itemize>
Email to <it>&lt;BOD@XFree86.org&gt;</it> reaches the board of directors. 
       
Our bylaws have been crafted in such a way to ensure that XFree86 is and
always will be a free software project.  There is no personal financial
benefit to any member of the Core Team or any other XFree86 participant.
All assets of the corporation remain with the corporation, and, in the
event of the dissolution of the corporation, all assets will be turned over
to the X Consortium, Inc.  It is hoped that by doing this, our corporation
will be merely a formalization of what we have been doing in the past,
rather than something entirely new.

Here is a list of the organizations and individuals who have provided
sponsorship to The XFree86 Project, Inc, either by financial contribution
or by the donation of equipment and resources.  The XFree86 Project, Inc
gratefully acknowledges these contributions, and hopes that we can do
justice to them by continuing to release high-quality free software for
the betterment of the Internet community as a whole.
<itemize>
	<item> <url url="http://www.uu.net/" 
	name = "UUNET Communications Services, Inc.">
</itemize>
UUNET Communications Services, Inc, deserves special mention.  This
organization 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.
<itemize>
  <item>  <url url="ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/AIB/" 
	name="AIB Software Corporation">, Dulles, VA
  <item>  Roland Alder, Armin Fessler, Patrick Seemann, Martin Wunderli
  <item>  American Micro Group
  <item>  <url url="http://www.ncr.com/"  
	name="AT&amp;T Global Information Services"> (formerly NCR)
  <item>  Andrew Burgess
  <item>  <url url="http://www.bsdi.com/"  
	name="Berkeley Software Design, Inc">, Falls Church, VA
  <item>  <url url="http://www.destek.net/Destek/"  
	name="The Destek Group, Inc.">, Pelham, NH (formerly Synergytics)
  <item>  <url url="http://www.digital.com/"  
	name="Digital Equipment Corporation">
  <item>  Elsa GmbH, Aachen, Germany
  <item>  Dirk Hohndel
  <item>  Frank &amp; Paige McCormick
  <item>  <url url="http://www.infomagic.com/"  
	name="InfoMagic">, Rocky Hill, NJ
  <item>  LunetIX Softfair, Berlin, Germany
  <item>  MIRO Computer Products AG, Braunschweig, Germany
  <item>  Rich &amp; Amy Murphey
  <item>  Brett Neumeier
  <item>  Number Nine, Lexington, MA
  <item>  Kazuyuki Okamoto, Japan
  <item>  Prime Time Freeware, San Bruno, CA
  <item>  Red Hat Software, Chapel Hill, NC
  <item>  SPEA Software AG, Starnberg, Germany
  <item>  Clifford M Stein
  <item>  Joel Storm 
  <item>  S.u.S.E, GmbH, Fuerth, Germany
  <item>  Tekelec Airtronic GmbH, Muenchen, Germany
  <item>  Jim Tsillas
  <item>  Trans-Ameritech Enterprises, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
  <item>  Unifix Software GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
  <item>  <url url="http://www.vix.com/"
	       name="Vixie Enterprises">, La Honda, CA
  <item>  <url url="http://www.cdrom.com/"  
	name="Walnut Creek CDROM">, Concord, CA
  <item>  Xtreme s.a.s., Livorno, Italy
</itemize>
The XFree86 Project, Inc, welcomes the additional contribution of funding
and/or equipment.  Such contributions should be tax-deductible; we will
know for certain when the lawyers get finished with the papers.  For more 
information, contact The XFree86 Project, Inc, at
<it>&lt;BOD@XFree86.org&gt;</it> 

<sect>Source and binary archive sites
<p>

Source patches are available to upgrade X11R6 PL11 from the X Consortium
to XFree86 3.1.1.  They and binaries for many OSs are available via anonymous
FTP from:

<itemize>
<item>       <url url="ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current"
	     name="ftp.XFree86.org:/pub/XFree86/current">
</itemize>

and the following mirror sites:
<itemize>
<item>       North America:  
<itemize>
<item>   <url url="ftp://xfree86.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86" 
	name="Xfree86.cdrom.com:/pub/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/contrib/X11/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.bsdi.com:/contrib/X11/XFree86">
	(source and BSD/386 binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ref.tfs.com/pub/mirrors/XFree86" 
	name="ref.tfs.com:/pub/mirrors/XFree86">
	(source and FreeBSD binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/netbsd/XFree86/XFree86-3.1.1" 
	name="ftp.iastate.edu:/pub/netbsd/XFree86/XFree86-3.1.1">
	(source and NetBSD binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/X11" 
	name="tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/X11">
	(Linux binaries and source diffs)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/BSD/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/BSD/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/X11/XFree86" 
	name="sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/X11/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://abode.ccd.bnl.gov/pub/XFree86" 
	name="abode.ccd.bnl.gov:/pub/XFree86">
	(Solaris, SVR4, SCO binaries)
</itemize> 

<item>      Europe:  
<itemize>
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.fee.vutbr.cz/pub/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.fee.vutbr.cz:/pub/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/Xfree86" 
	name="ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/Xfree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/X11/Xfree86" 
	name="ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/X11/Xfree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/XFree86/3.1.1" 
	name="fvkma.tu-graz.ac.at:/pub/X11/XFree86/3.1.1">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.funet.fi:/pub/X11/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.laas.fr/pub/NetBSD/XFree86-3.1.1" 
	name="ftp.laas.fr:/pub/netbsd/XFree86-3.1.1">
	(NetBSD binaries only)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.unipi.it/pub/mirrors/XFree86-3.1.1"
	name="ftp.unipi.it:/pub/mirrors/XFree86-3.1.1">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://nova.pvv.unit.no/pub/XFree86/current" 
	name="nova.pvv.unit.no:/pub/XFree86/current">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/Xwindows/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/Xwindows/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
</itemize>

  
<item>     Middle East:  
<itemize>
<item>   <url url="ftp://orgchem.weizmann.ac.il/pub/XFree86" 
	name="orgchem.weizmann.ac.il:/pub/XFree86">
	(sources and FreeBSD binaries)
</itemize>

<item>   Asia/Australia:
<itemize>
<item>   <url url="ftp://x.physics.su.oz.au/pub/XFree86" 
	name="x.physics.su.oz.au:/pub/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.iij.ad.jp:/pub/X/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/XFree86" 
	name="ftp.nectec.or.th:/pub/mirrors/XFree86">
	(source and binaries)
<item>   <url url="ftp://ftp.edu.tw/X/XFree86/3.1.1" 
	name="ftp.edu.tw:/X/XFree86/3.1.1">
	(source and Linux binaries)
</itemize>

</itemize>



Refer to the <tt>README</tt> file under the specified directory for information on
which files you need to get to build your distribution.

Ensure that you are getting XFree86 3.1.1 - some of these sites may archive
older releases as well.  Each binary distribution will contain a <tt>README</tt>
file that describes what files you need to take from the archive, and which
compile-time option selections were made when building the distribution.

<verb>
$XConsortium: README.sgml,v 1.4 95/01/27 16:14:29 kaleb Exp $
$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/README.sgml,v 3.16 1995/01/25 11:51:37 dawes Exp $
</verb>

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