[ltp] XFree86 3.3.5

[Maureen Lecuona]

Hi Bill:

Just wanted to thank you (humbly) for performing such a selfless and generous
act in providing the Thinkpad 770 community with so many useful and necessary
fixes, the mailing list, and the wonderful website.

Maureen Lecuona
(grateful and happy owner of 2 TP 770's running Linux)



Bill Mair wrote:
> 
> Hi all you 770 peoples...
> 
> I have found the time to look at the XFree86 3.3.5 source, and am proud
> to say that my patches are indeed in the main stream code base :-)).
> 
> Looking at the CHANGELOG the patches were actually integrated in
> 3.3.3.1b, 24 April 1999.
>     "1326. Add support for Trident 9397DVD (#2705, Bill Mair)."
> 
> My patches related to version 3.3.3.1 and addressed the following issues
> :
> 
>     1) XFREE86_SVGA
>         a) Correct recognition of the Trident Cyber9397 DVD chip set
>         b) Chip set timings
> 
>     2) SuperProbe
>         a) Correct recognition of the Trident Cyber9397 DVD chip set
>         b) Recognition of 8MB video RAM (770X/Z @ 1280x1024)
> 
> Notes regarding my "patched" XFree86 server:
> 
>     1) Above patches are now main stream.
>     2) TrueType font support (xfsft) still does not appear to be in
> there yet,
>        so I will see what has to be done here. I personally require TTF
> support
>        so you can rest assured that I will find a way.
>     3) Direct Graphics Access 1.1 (DGA) patch (for and from VMWare) is
> now main
>        stream code (3.3.3.1a, 17 April 1999).
> 
> So the only thing that is really missing now in the standard XFree86
> distribution is the
> TTF support.
> 
> On another point, I am now setting up a new server
> (http://www.Linux-ThinkPad.org) and
> when that is completed, I will be moving this mailing list there. My
> 770X pages will also
> move to this site, and I am looking for support on the other models and
> distributions.
> 
> I know that there are loads of great resources and sites out there for
> Linux ThinkPads, but
> I wanted to help out by donating a domain where users can find a wealth
> of information for
> the OS we love on the H/W that we use.
> 
> So please let me know if you are interested in maintaining parts of
> and/or contributing to Linux-ThinkPad.org. Welcome contributions are
> things like tools (e.g. tpctl), XF86Configs, PCMCIA configs,
> suspend/resume tips and tricks, and just about anything that relates to
> Linux on ThinkPads.
> 
> I guess thats about it for now.
> 
> Bill.
> Going places with an OS thats going places.
> Linux on a ThinkPad 770X -> http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.html
> 
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