Date:  Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:06:53 -0500
From:  madodel at ptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: XFree86 4.5.0


From: madodelDESPAM at DESPAMptdprolog.net 

I don't use XFree86, but I noticed that there is a recent update on the
netlabs.org ftp site, with some changes as of today.

For more on XFree86 see: http://www.xfree86.org

"The XFree86 Project, Inc is a global volunteer organisation which
produces XFree86 , a freely redistributable open-source implementation of
the X Window System. XFree86 runs primarily on UNIX  and UNIX-like
operating systems like Linux, all of the BSD variants, Sun Solaris both
native 32 and 64 bit support, Solaris x86, Mac OS X (via Darwin), SGI's
Irix as well as other platforms like OS/2 and Cygwin."


ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/4.5.0/

From the readme:

README for XFree86/OS2 v4.5.0
=============================

- There aren't too many changes this time. That's why the README of 
version 4.4.0 is included here. All of it still applies with the following
additions/changes.

- The distribution is now a little different:

X450bin.zip		binaries, /etc (required)
X450lib.zip		libraries, modules, some bitmaps (required)
X450X11.zip		mostly application defaults, keymaps,... (required)
X450fnts.zip		misc, TrueType, Type1, Speedo, cyrillic fonts
			(required)
X450f75dpi.zip		75dpi fonts (required)
X450sup.zip		xf86sup.sys + shm.dll (required, but same versions as
			in 4.4.0, no need to update)
X450f100dpi.zip		100 dpi fonts (optional)
X450doc.zip		manpages, HTML docs (optional, but recommended)
X450prog.zip		application development kit (optional)
X450extras.zip		Xnest, Xvfb, DMX (optional)
FILES.zip		a complete file listing
SUMS.md5		md5 checksums of archives

- New DMX server (distributed multihead). Read the documentation if you
want to play with it. No local input devices are supported, only input
events from the back-end server. Anyway, this is probably not very stable.

- mkfontdir is a program again. However, mkfontscale still works as
described below.

- There are a couple of programs for debugging (inb, inw, inl, outb, outw,
outl) included. They can perform I/O the same way the X server does,
reading from and writing to ports. They are probably a great means to
thoroughly crash your machine. Either handle with care or not at all!

- If you upgrade from version 4.4.0 you only need the files
X450{bin,lib,X11}.zip. There is no need to upgrade the fonts.

- After installation, do not forget to edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (which
will be overwritten during install) an run fc-cache as described below.

- As a dirty workaround for the ctrl-c issue that was raised some time ago
on the mailing list, SIGINT is now ignored in the server. Ctrl-c is not
seen in xterm because this is disabled in xf86sup.sys. Use the xterm menu
instead to send the INT signal.


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