View All Attachments for Bug 999

Obsolete attachments are hidden. To view all attachments (including obsolete) click here.

Attachment #666
features + credit list	text/plain	2004-08-18 08:50:02 UTC	3.86 KB	no flags	Details

Attachment #670
xorg release notes	text/html	2004-08-18 13:57:05 UTC	9.36 KB	no flags	Details

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
 http-equiv="content-type">
  <title>X.org Release Notes</title>
</head>
<body>
For complete details you should read the Changelog<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">New Features</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
New extensions:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - <a href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/XDamage">DAMAGE</a>
(FIXME: There're TWO sites about damage -
http://freedesktop.org/Software/XDamage and
http://freedesktop.org/Software/DamageEXT)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - <a href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/FixesExt">XFIXES</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - <a
 href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/CompositeExt">COMPOSITE</a>
(default off)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - <a href="http://freedesktop.org/Software/XEvIE">XEVIE</a>
(default off)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - <a href="http://dmx.sourceforge.net/">DMX</a>
(FIXME: default OFF?)<br>
Extensions can be enabled/disabled from the configuration file and from<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; command line ej: "startx -- +extension Composite" or<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Section "Extensions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;
"Composite"&nbsp;&nbsp; "True"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EndSection<br>
<br>
Support for new Radeon chips: R420/M18, R423, RV370/M22, RV380/M24,
RS300.<br>
<br>
DRI update: Mesa 6.1<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - More OpenGL extensions<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - fbconfigs support <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Beginnings of pbuffer support (indirect only, and
only in specific<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; circumstances<br>
<br>
Radeon driver update:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - DRI support for IGP chips<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Merged Framebuffer support (dualhead with
DRI)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - DynamicClocks option (reduced power usage)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Render acceleration (r100, r200 chips only)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Acceleration of Render<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Disabled by default
(FIXME: still true?), you need to add:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
Option&nbsp;&nbsp; "RenderAccel"&nbsp;&nbsp; "True"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; to your
configuration file to enable it.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Support for new ATI chips (R420/M18, R423,
RV370/M22, RV380/M24, &nbsp;&nbsp; RS300)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Xv gamma correction<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Updated 3D drivers<br>
<br>
i810 driver updates<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Dualhead support (i830+)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - i915 support<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - New 3D driver (i830+)<br>
<br>
Savage driver update:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Pseudocolor overlay mode<br>
<br>
S3 driver updates:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Support for additional IBM RAMDACS<br>
<br>
Merge Mach64 DRI support :<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Add a new option, BuildDevelDRIDrivers, which
controls whether<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DevelDRIDrivers is non-empty.
DevelDRIDrivers contains those drivers<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aren't built by default either
due to being unusable on that<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; architecture (but buildable for
testing) or due to security concerns,<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; as in the mach64 and savage cases.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Merge the Mach64 DDX's DRI support, under the
XF86DRI_DEVEL define,<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; which is set only when
BuildDevelDRIDrivers is set.<br>
<br>
From MGA driver update:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Support for DDC and DPMS on second head on G400<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Updated 3D driver<br>
<br>
From the SiS driver update:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Output device hotplugging<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HDTV support (480p, 480i, 720p, 1080i; 315/330
series)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Added video blitter Xv adapter (315/330 series)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lots of fixes for 661, 741, 760<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Extended interface for SiSCtrl<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Extended LCD handling (allow more modes)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Extended RENDER acceleration<br>
<br>
Chips driver updates:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Improved BE support<br>
<br>
Infrastructure for rotation support in drivers<br>
<br>
Use of dlloader is now supported<br>
<br>
Software cursor is now based in the Damage extension<br>
<br>
New RenderAddTraps (Render is now at 0.9, Trapezoide code has been
rewritten)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-July/001446.html">New</a>
Trapezoid implementation for Render<br>
<br>
Faster software implementation of RENDER (using MMX)<br>
<br>
New keyboard driver (you can still compile the old one with
USE_DEPRECATED_KEYBOARD_DRIVER)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You'll need to switch the Driver &nbsp;&nbsp;
"keyboard" to Driver &nbsp;&nbsp; "kbd" on older configs <br>
<br>
Support AMD64 on OpenBSD<br>
<br>
From Xprint update:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Now xprint is included<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - OpenGL is now supported for printing<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - New set of maintenance tools for the Xprint server
(xplsprinters, xprehashprinterlist, etc.)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Added new <code>XprintUtils</code> client library
to make the usage off Xprint easier<br>
<br>
Athena toolkit now has print support (XawPrintShell)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Various application/tools now have xprint support
(FIXME: it was backed out?)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fixes/Upgrades<br>
<br>
</span>Freetype upgraded to version 2.1.8<br>
<br>
Xprint updates<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lots of fixes from moxdev.org and Sun<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
Correctness fixes to Render framebuffer implementation<br>
<br>
Updated x86emu and resynced with upstream at SciTech<br>
<br>
Render implementation fixes<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Features removed</span><br>
Remove Speedo Font support<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Module speedo in section "Modules" is no longer
needed, X.org will<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; warn you that it can't load it if you use old
configuration files.<br>
<br>
Retire XTT font module and Freetype1 from X.org tree<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The functionality of XTT has been integrated into
the Freetype<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; font module and the old XTT1.x code (including
Freetype in<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xc/extras/ is no longer needed anymore (<a
 href="http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=595">Bug #595</a>)<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Know issues</span><br>
Segfault when mixing new DRI and old libGL (<a
 href="http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=709">#709</a>)<br>
DRI code in X.org tree is broken on big endian machines<br>
Radeon driver not converted to use t_vertex yet (FIXME: not confirmed?)<br>
Non-TCL drivers broken by Mesa changes (<a
 href="http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=716">#716</a>)<br>
Know <a href="http://freedesktop.org/%7Eajax/dlloader-status.txt">dlloader
issues</a><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Future features not included in this
release</span><br>
Modularization efforts / auto-tooling have been started, but it won't
be included in this release because it wouldn't have been ready for
this release, because the enormous amount of work and test need. You
can see the ongoing efforts at <a href="http://debrix.freedesktop.org/">http://debrix.freedesktop.org/</a><br>
<br>
TrueType wrappers for bitmap fonts<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wrappers convert .BDF fonts into .TTF fonts<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Huge disk space savings, eliminate font compilation
step and improved performance<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a
 href="http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2004-July/001446.html">More
info</a><br>
<br>
Xevie 1.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; modifications for redirection of input events to
composited windows<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Update to 1.1 version, multiple client support --
where is this version currently?<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Security fixes suggested by Alan Coopersmith<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Credits</span><br>
The following people have helped to make this release posible, if
someone is missing, it was not our intention.<br>
(Special thanks to all the ocasional testers on IRC, mailing lists etc.
who have helped to find and fix bugs)<br>
<br>
Kristian Hogsberg (new keyboard driver changes)<br>
Egbert Eich (x86emu update)<br>
Keith Packard (New extensions, Render, software cursor changes<br>
Eric Anholt (composite, DRI merge, Mach64 DRI, radeon updates, tons of
other stuff)<br>
Roland Mainz (xprint, remove old stuff, freetype,)<br>
Adam Jackson (dlloader)<br>
Soren Sandmann (software RENDER)<br>
Alan Coopersmith<br>
Russ Blaine<br>
Alexander Gottwald<br>
Alan Hourihane<br>
Chisato Yamauchi<br>
Nolan Leake <br>
Stefan Dirsch<br>
Rik Faith (DMX)<br>
Daniel Berrange<br>
Matthieu Herrb (AMD64 on OpenBSD)<br>
John Heasley<br>
Ryan Underwood<br>
Alan Deucher<br>
Ty Sarna<br>
Torrey T Lyons Darwin<br>
Stuart Kreitman (XEVIE)<br>
Kevin E. Martin (DMX, configurable extensions)<br>
Greg Parker (Input support on XDarwin)<br>
John Harper (XDarwin)<br>
Thomas Winischhofer (SiS driver updates)<br>
Aaron Platner, NVIDIA (driver support for RandR rotation)<br>
</body>
</html>

Use of freedesktop.org services, including Bugzilla, is subject to our Code of Conduct. How we collect and use information is described in our Privacy Policy.