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authorEgbert Eich <eich@suse.de>2004-01-29 08:08:57 +0000
committerEgbert Eich <eich@suse.de>2004-01-29 08:08:57 +0000
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parent2ec70aa70133190ad31a83114fdb9a218e6aa8e6 (diff)
Importing vendor version xf86-012804-2330 on Thu Jan 29 00:06:33 PST 2004xf86-012804-2330
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/xfree86/doc')
-rw-r--r--hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts37
-rw-r--r--hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG204
-rw-r--r--hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml6
3 files changed, 226 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts b/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts
index 230e29c78..2fe8dfaac 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts
@@ -987,23 +987,28 @@ earlier in this document.
The `X-TrueType' backend is a backend based on version 1 of the FreeType
library. X-TrueType doesn't use the `fontenc' layer for managing font encod-
-ings, but instead uses its own database of encodings. Since the functionali-
-ties for CJKV support introduced by X-TT have been merged into the new
-FreeType backend, the X-TT backend will be removed from XFree86's tree near
-the future. Therefore, the use of FreeType backend is preferred over the X-
-TT backend. General information on X-TrueType may be found at ."
+ings, but instead uses its own database of encodings.
+
+Since the functionalities for CJKV support introduced by X-TT have been
+merged into the new FreeType backend, the X-TT backend will be removed from
+XFree86's tree near the future. Therefore, the use of FreeType backend is
+preferred over the X-TT backend.
+
+General information on X-TrueType may be found at the After X-TT Project page
+<URL:http://x-tt.sourceforge.jp/>.
4.2.3 Delayed glyph rasterisation
-When loading a large character set, the old FreeType delayed glyph rasterisa-
-tion until the time at which the glyph was first used. The new FreeType
-(libfreetype-xtt2) has an improved `very lazy' metric calculation method to
-speed up the process when loading TrueType or OpenType fonts. Although the
-X-TT module also has this method, the "vl=y" TTCap option must be set if you
-want to use it. This is the default method for FreeType when it loads multi-
-byte fonts. Even if you use a unicode font which has tens of thousands of
-glyphs, this delay will not be worrisome as long as you use the new FreeType
-backend -- its `very lazy' method is super-fast.
+When loading a proportional fonts which contain a huge number of glyphs, the
+old FreeType delayed glyph rasterisation until the time at which the glyph
+was first used. The new FreeType (libfreetype-xtt2) has an improved `very
+lazy' metric calculation method to speed up the process when loading TrueType
+or OpenType fonts. Although the X-TT module also has this method, the
+"vl=y" TTCap option must be set if you want to use it. This is the default
+method for FreeType when it loads multi-byte fonts. Even if you use a uni-
+code font which has tens of thousands of glyphs, this delay will not be wor-
+risome as long as you use the new FreeType backend -- its `very lazy' method
+is super-fast.
The maximum error of bitmap position using `very lazy' method is 1 pixel, and
is the same as that of a character-cell spacing. When the X-TT backend is
@@ -1176,7 +1181,7 @@ The IANA RFC documents, available from a number of sites throughout the
world, often provide interesting information about character set issues; see
for example RFC 373.
- Generated from XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.23 dawes Exp $
+ Generated from XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/fonts.sgml,v 1.24 dawes Exp $
-$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts,v 1.27 2003/11/24 01:57:56 dawes Exp $
+$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/README.fonts,v 1.28 2003/12/20 19:47:28 dawes Exp $
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG b/hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG
index 3e6f9d210..347e49274 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,204 @@
-XFree86 4.3.99.903 (xx December 2003)
+XFree86 4.3.99.903 (xx January 2004)
+ 775. Fix a timing problem in the nsc driver that prevents the display from
+ working in some cases (Bugzilla #840, Hansruedi Glauser, Alan Hourihane).
+ 774. Via driver workaround to handle setting WC for the video memory when
+ initially only part of it has WC set (Bugzilla #1010 Thomas Hellström).
+ 773. Fix the XAA clipping flags for the via driver, which fixes a line
+ drawing problem seen with OpenOffice Calc (Bugzilla #1026,
+ Thomas Hellström).
+ 772. HKSCS and GB18030 support for luit (Bugzilla #1048, Zarick Lau).
+ 771. Fix some remaining memory allocation related problems with the via
+ driver (Bugzilla #998, Thomas Hellström).
+ 770. Add a UseRpath build switch to allow the use of -rpath to be enabled
+ or disabled from the host.def file. Implemented for *BSD, Hurd, Linux.
+ The default settings remains as before (David Dawes).
+ 769. Add a root window property called XFree86_VT that holds the VT number
+ that the XFree86 server is running on (Andrew Aitcheson, suggested by
+ Samuel Thibault).
+ 768. Fix a problem where root window properties registered with
+ xf86RegisterRootWindowProperty() are not re-registered after server
+ regeneration (David Dawes, reported by Samuel Thibault).
+ 767. Fix xtest failures for the savage driver's zero width lines by
+ removing the TwoPointLine and using only the Bresenham version
+ (reported by Nicolas Joly).
+ 766. Fix refresh rate setting for 845G/856G systems that don't support the
+ Intel-specific refresh rate BIOS calls (Bugzilla #1106, David Dawes,
+ reported by Lucian Precup).
+ 765. Fixes/build updates for BSD/OS 5.1 and 4.3.1 (Bugzilla #1111, Kurt Lidl).
+ 764. Fix a problem in libXmu's FindChildren() that can cause a crash by
+ copying memory from outside the bounds of an array (Bugzilla #1109,
+ John Tillman).
+ 763. Add missing TimerCallback in trident_video.c to shutdown the video.
+ This could account for many peoples lockups with video on Trident chips.
+ Also, add a Wait for vsync when programming video modes to avoid lockups.
+ (Yukun Chen, Alan Hourihane).
+ 762. Fix a lockup problem on Trident Blade3D engines by permanently turning
+ on PCI Retry. Also sync the engine on CloseScreen and LeaveVT.
+ (Yukun Chen, Alan Hourihane).
+ 761. Fix getaddrinfo() return value check in SmsGenerateClientID() that was
+ causing a crash when the current hostname is unresolved, and returning
+ a NULL id otherwise (Bugzilla #1096, David Dawes).
+ 760. Support automatic configuration of the X server on OpenBSD with
+ wsmouse-supported mices. (Matthieu Herrb).
+ 759. Updates for XKB keyboard maps:
+ - Add Tibetan/Dzongkha keyboard layout (Bugzilla #1082, Gregory Mokhin).
+ - Add three new Internet/multimedia keyboard descriptions
+ (Bugzilla #1088, Radics Laszlo).
+ 758. Add overlooked SecondaryColor entries to AppleDRI indirect dispatch
+ table (Torrey T. Lyons).
+ 757. Allocate pBIOSInfo->UserSetting in the via driver, which fixes a crash
+ (James Harris).
+ 756. Fix Linux drm kernel modules to handle the nopage() prototype change in
+ Linux 2.6.1 (Michel Dänzer, from DRI CVS).
+ 755. Fix use of dynamic xcursors on OS/2 (Bugzilla #1087, Frank Giessler).
+ 754. Fix the fbdev driver so that it allows 24-bit pixel size, and disable
+ the RandR extension when rotation is enabled (Jonathan Thambidurai).
+ 753. Rendition driver fixes:
+ - Fix the mode size limits so that the set of modes that the driver
+ accepts isn't unnecessarily restricted.
+ - Fix color palette refreshing after VT switching.
+ - Fix a core dump at server exit with the hardware cursor was enabled.
+ - Add checking for supported depths. Without this the server could
+ crash if an unsupported depth was specified.
+ (Eric Wittry)
+ 752. Update XKB registry file rules/xfree86.xml (Sergey Oudaltsov).
+ 751. Fix some rules in en_US.UTF-8 Compose file (Bugzilla #1071,
+ Matthew Fischer).
+ 750. Add some content (supported hardware and driver options) to the tdfx(4)
+ man page (Bugzilla #1068, Nicolas Joly).
+ 749. Make '-pn' (partial network) the default for all X servers, and document
+ the '-nopn' option (David Dawes).
+ 748. Allow rstartd.real to be installed into a location other than LIBDIR
+ (#6034, Luke Mewburn).
+ 747. Allow xdm's chooser to be installed into a directory other than LIBDIR
+ (#6033, Luke Mewburn).
+ 746. Add XKB description for the Logitech Access keyboard (#6026,
+ Michael Geddes).
+ 745. Fix typo in computing xterm's relative font size (Jess Thrysoee).
+ 744. Fix typo in savage man page (Bugzilla #1065, Nicolas Joly).
+ 743. Fix for xf86Msg() call with swapped arguments (Bugzilla #1064,
+ Nicolas Joly).
+ 742. Set the dependencies correctly for SCO shared libraries, and use gcc
+ for linking instead of ld (Bugzilla #1045, Kean Johnston).
+ 741. Some cleanups for the SCO support, and a few changes required for
+ compilation on UnixWare (Bugzilla #1045, Kean Johnston).
+ 740. Make the X server lock file code treat the display string in the same
+ way as the local listener code (i.e., convert it to an integer then back
+ to a string). This fixes a problem where an non-numeric display
+ argument could cause a second server to be started on display :0,
+ replacing the local listener nodes for the original server.
+ (Bugzilla #1056, David Dawes, reported by Robin Schoonover).
+ 739. Fix xfs and xdm core dumps in BecomeOrphan(), and rework/simplify
+ the BecomeDaemon() code (Bugzilla #1060, #1074, David Dawes,
+ reported by Martin Birgmeier).
+ 738. Add a "VBERestore" option for the i830 part of the i810 driver, to
+ allow the VBE restore bug workaround to be disabled. This is needed
+ for correct text mode restoration on some 830M-based machines
+ (David Dawes, reported by Martin van Es).
+ 737. Fix memory leak when list of registered renderers are cleared at the
+ start of each new server generation (Kevin Martin and Rik Faith).
+ 736. Fix memory double freeing at XIM destroying in imLcIm.c (Ivan Pascal,
+ reported: Bugzilla #1015).
+ 735. Add xkb keymap for Microsoft Mutimedia Keyboard keys (Bugzilla #1052,
+ Jacques Legare).
+ 734. Update Compose file for en_US.UTF-8 locale (Bugzilla #1053,
+ Matthew Fischer) and fix wrong comment signs there (Ivan Pascal).
+ 733. VIA driver fixes:
+ - Restructure the via driver's cache allocation to work with both
+ the VIA and new open DRI module, and remove the now unneeded
+ version check (Thomas Hellström, Alan Cox, bugzilla #998).
+ - Remove special case lindvd hack (Alan Cox)
+ - Add support for Xv when unaccelerated (Thomas Hellström)
+ (Bugzilla #998, #1020, #1021).
+ 732. Check for a NULL argument in XSetICFocus() before dereferencing it.
+ This fixes crashes with some XIM software (see
+ http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=2961#c19).
+ 731. Improve the i810 bitblt bug workaround, and re-enable the pixmap cache
+ at depth 24 (David Dawes).
+ 730. Workaround for lockup at mode switch with an i810 (David Dawes).
+ 729. Fix transparent mono 8x8 pattern fills for the i810 (David Dawes).
+ 728. Disable XKB by default in XDarwin (Torrey T. Lyons).
+ 727. Fix manpage build warnings on Panther (Matthieu Herrb).
+ 726. Make sure that the ring buffer is flushed in I810CloseScreen(). This
+ fixes unpredictable behaviour that sometimes shows up after server
+ exit/restart or server reset, including memory corruption, spontaneous
+ reboots, etc, and some odd xtest behaviour (David Dawes).
+ 725. Xdmcp fixes for IPv6 and mixed IPv6/IPv4 operation. (Mario Klebsch,
+ Matthieu Herrb).
+ 724. Update rman by merging XFree86 changes to rman 3.2 (Thomas Dickey).
+ 723. Create fonts.scale and fonts.dir files in the target directories at
+ 'make install' time. This fixes several problems where some font
+ entries get left out (David Dawes).
+ 722. Add the Bitstream Vera fonts (Bitstream, Inc and The Gnome Project).
+ 721. Xterm patches #183, #184 (Thomas Dickey).
+ 720. Build fix for the Chips driver on Linux/arm (#6011, Michel Dänzer and
+ Othmar Pasteka).
+ 719. Change v4l "norm" names to the bttv versions (#5993,
+ Marco Antonio Alvarez).
+ 718. Fix for symbols/hr map (#5991, Vlatko Kosturjak).
+ 717. The current VIA DRI driver isn't remotely compatible with the current
+ code, so make sure it isn't loaded by requiring version 2.0.0 or later
+ (Alan Cox).
+ 716. Fix VIA KM400 memory detection (Luc Verhaegen, Bugzilla #813).
+ 715. Fix a long standing VIA Xv problem with totem/xine and YUV surface
+ types (Uberto Barbini).
+ 714. VIA driver updates/fixes:
+ - Remove HARDWARE_NEEDS_PROGRAMMED_ORIGIN (Bugzilla #1011).
+ - Allocate the UserSetting structure and use it. Changed the names so
+ its uses can be tracked through the tree (Bugzilla #1006, #1014).
+ - Remove dead FIFO handling code.
+ - Clean up formatting in via_bios.h, via_driver.h.
+ - via_tuner module (1/2 of Bugzilla #1012, #1013):
+ + Add via_tuner structures and methods.
+ + Handle the back end work for boards with Philips SAA71xx
+ devices on the I2C bus providing one or two TV overlays.
+ + Handle CXA2104S audio decoder if present.
+ + Handle FI1236 TV tuners if present.
+ - Remove bogus DriverVersion, DriverName stuff.
+ - Xv updates (Bugzilla #1013):
+ + Remove DDR mode tables and compute supported overlay modes properly.
+ + Remove various bits of dead code.
+ + Probe for Tuners in the Xv setup.
+ + Don't advertise XvImageMask on the tuner overlays - they can't do it.
+ + Clean up tuner channel computation.
+ + Make the property setting code use the via_tuner backend.
+ + Fix formatting of the various YUV copying loops.
+ (Alan Cox).
+ 713. Add a missing code for jisx0208.1990-0.enc (Chisato Yamauchi).
+ 712. Xtt2 update: Restore the behaviour of "bw" TTCap option for Netscape 4.x.
+ (Chisato Yamauchi).
+ 711. Fix neomagic driver default mode selection to match the detected
+ panel size. This allows it to work correctly with automatic
+ configuration (David Dawes).
+ 710. Fixes and updates for XKB keyboard maps:
+ - Fix Armenian phonetic keymap (Bugzilla #1016, Ani).
+ - Fix rules for Brasilian ABNT2 keyboard (Ricardo Y. Igarashi).
+ - Add Shift+CapsLock group switcher (Ivan Pascal, see Bugzilla #1025).
+ - Update rules/xfree86.lst with missing descriptions (Ivan Pascal).
+ 709. Build fix for Solaris Express (Bugzilla #1032, Alan Coopersmith).
+ 708. Fix warning in lib/Xt/Alloc.c (Bugzilla #1035, Nicolas Joly).
+ 707. Fix short overflow problem with box clipping in fb/fbcopy.c
+ (Bugzilla #978, Stephen McCamant).
+ 706. Fix logic in xterm's get_pty() for platforms where old-style pty's are
+ preferred to /dev/ptmx (Bugzilla #997, Kean Johnston, Thomas Dickey).
+ 705. Fix handling of eightBitInput for UTF-8 locales in xterm (Thomas Dickey).
+ 704. Merge recent cygwin-related changes from freedesktop.org's config/cf
+ (Thomas Dickey).
+ 703. Disable Xv in the via driver when acceleration is disabled (Alan Cox).
+ 702. Fix bugs caused by empty PCI buses on ZX1-based systems (Marc La France).
+ 701. Fix optional save/restore of BIOS area data in int10 module
+ (Marc La France).
+ 700. Update Swedish localization of XDarwin GUI (Patrik Montgomery).
+ 699. Fixes to build/run on cygwin (Thomas Dickey). This includes a workaround
+ for _XtInherit by Ralf Habacker, needed to run applications such as xman.
+ 698. Warning fixes for gcc 3.3.2 (Marc La France).
+ 697. Fix file descriptor leaks in xdm (Marc La France).
+ 696. Fix memory leaks in libFS (Marc La France).
+ 695. Security fix: change xdm to use mkstemp(), where available, instead of
+ mktemp() (Marc La France).
+ 694. Update XKB registry file rules/xfree86.xml (Sergey Oudaltsov).
+ 693. Fix for FreeType-related crash when attempting to draw a missing glyph
+ with constant-width fonts (Chisato Yamauchi).
XFree86 4.3.99.902 (18 December 2003)
672. Fixes for xterm (Thomas Dickey):
@@ -18391,7 +18591,7 @@ XFree86 3.0a (28 April 1994)
XFree86 3.0 (26 April 1994)
-$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG,v 3.3043 2003/12/19 04:52:08 dawes Exp $
+$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG,v 3.3118 2004/01/27 17:31:54 dawes Exp $
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml
index 365acaf1a..864b5c249 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@
<article>
-<title>XFree86 X server ``New Design'' (DRAFT)
+<title>XFree86 server 4.x Design (DRAFT)
<author>The XFree86 Project, Inc
-<date>Last modified 2003 January 22
+<date>19 December 2003
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
<ident>
-$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml,v 1.53 2003/08/23 14:10:14 dawes Exp $
+$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/DESIGN.sgml,v 1.54 2003/12/19 20:38:57 dawes Exp $
</ident>