Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2 + patch 2
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5.3. New Features
- Support for ET6100 has been added to the Tseng driver.
- Acceleration has been added for W32 and W32i.
- Text performance has been improved for the Tseng driver.
- Support for new RAMDACs, including the ch8398, the
ch8391 and the MUSIC MU9C4910 has been added to the Tseng driver.
- Accelerated support for the AT3D and AT25 has been added to the APM
driver.
- Support for accelerated NV1 and accelerated Riva128 has been added to
the NV driver.
- Support for the Matrox Millennium II AGP has been included into the
MGA driver.
- New support for several Trident chips has been added, including
Cyber9397, 3DImage975 and 3DImage985 (unaccelerated and not completed, yet),
TGUI9685.
- CrealTV support has been added for the TGUI9685.
- Acceleration of all TGUI chipsets has been improved.
- Support for Rage Pro based PCI and AGP cards has been added.
- Maximum dotclock for newer Mach64 cards has been increased.
- Support for 1600x1200 and 1600x1280 mode has been added for VT and
newer Mach64 chips.
- Support for the auxiliary register aperture for newer Mach64 cards
has been added.
- Support for the I128 Revolution (T2R) has been added.
- Additional acceleration for the I128 server has been added.
- Support for sw cursor, pci_retry, 24bpp HW cursor has been added to
cirrus Laguna chipsets.
- S3 ViRGE/MX and ViRGE/GX2 support has been added (SVGA server only!).
- support for S3 ViRGE hardware cursor added in SVGA server.
- An S3 driver has been added to the SVGA server.
- S3 server and SVGA/S3 server now recognize some fake S3 chips and
print out a warning message.
- XAA has been extended to support hardware cursors and provide
accelerated support dashed lines and trapezoid fills.
- Several new mouse protocols have been added to all servers. They
should now support Kensington ThinkingMouse, ALPS GlidePoint,
Genius NetScroll, Genius NetMouse, Genius NetMouse, ASCII MieMouse,
Logitech MouseMan+, Logitech FirstMouse+. This includes all buttons on
these mice as well as the wheels. The wheel can be used to either create
additional buttons or for z-axis indication.
- login.conf/setusercontext support to xdm for FreeBSD has been added.
- XF86Setup now supports setting the default color depth and choosing
the modes the user wants to use.
- XF86Setup allows to select all the new mouse protocols (depending
on the OS it is running on).
- Japanization of XF86Setup has been added.
- XF98_MGA server for Millennium and Mystique has been added.
This server is very new and has some problems with Mystique support.
- XF98_SVGA server for CLGD755x has been added. This server also is
very new and has some problems.
- Linux/98 support has been added. Linux/98 is very new and perhaps
the servers also have some problems.
- XF98_TGUI server now works on PANIX98.
- XF98Setup(i.e. XF86Setup for PC98) has been added.
- Many changes to xterm including support for double-size
characters (positioning), blinking characters (render in color),
improvements to logging, transparent printing, delete/backspace
toggle, and better support for Sun and PC keyboards.
Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2 + patch 2
: What's new in 3.3.2?
: New Features
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Next: Known Problems