Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.9.18
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2. Summary of new features in 3.9.17 compared with 3.9.16.
- The 3dfx driver is now supported by the DRI.
- Tiny-X for the Itsy has been added.
- Significant font and font server enhancements.
- New driver for ATI Rage 128. The driver is called "r128".
- Xterm enhancements and fixes.
- DPS support hooks have been added.
Display Postscript support is being maintained outside of the
server tree due to licensing issues. A web page for DPS resources
under XFree86 will be available shortly.
- DRI enhancements including Mesa update to version 3.2, full support
and fifo code for 3dfx hardware, and device driver updates for
Linux 2.3 kernels.
- Significant enhancements to Xv including support for XvImages
(YUV XImages).
- Add initial VESA VBE support including initialization and DDC.
- Several PCI enhancements.
- "SilkenMouse" (asynchronous pointer handling) for smoother mouse movement.
- Add GeForce/Quadro support to the NVIDIA driver.
- Int10 "soft-booting" support for Linux.
- Resource allocation infrastructure added.
- Syntax of the layout section has changed to make multi-head configuration easier.
- Some Xinerama bug fixes.
- The DGA 2.0 interface is mostly finalized and includes some preliminary documentation.
- ViRGE MX Melco BIOS support has been added.
- Keyboard AutoRepeat now works correctly on Linux. This means
that the AutoRepeat keyword in XF86Config is now obeyed; you may be
more comfortable using "250 30" rather than the default setting of
"500 5".
Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.9.18
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