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Matthias Scheler | 5 Sep 2002 01:11
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HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported


	Hello,

I've imported XFree86 4.2.1 into NetBSD's X11 sources today. Here is a list
of the changes:

XFree86 4.2.1 (03 September 2002)
 715. [SECURITY] Fix an Xlib problem that made it possible to load arbitrary
      code into privileged clients.
 714. Fix i810_free_page() and i830_free_page() for DRI kernel modules so
      that later 2.4.x kernels are supported.

XFree86 4.2.0.1 (21 August 2002)
 713. Fix intermittent XDarwin crash when changing cursors on dual processor
      machines (Torrey T. Lyons).
 712. Fix Finder warnings about XDarwin plist format on Jaguar
      (Torrey T. Lyons).
 711. Fix XDarwin build issues on Jaguar (Sean Fagan).
 710. When using the vesa driver and the DisplaySize option the server
      would crash with a floating point exception due to a divide by zero
      in miscreeninit() (#5298, Mike A. Harris).
 709. Updated patch from head to fix problem described in #5244
      (freed memory being deref'd in xaw) (jik <at> kamens.brookline.ma.us)
 708. The function MoveLine in lib/Xaw/TextAction.c sometimes attempts to
      read uninitialized memory when hit ctrl-N in a Text widget to move to
      the next line (#5245, Johnathan Kamens).
 707. Close XDarwin rootless windows properly for Jaguar compatibility
      (Greg Parker).
 706. Build libXt as a flat namespace image on Darwin (Torrey T. Lyons).
 705. Install the bitmap file xc/programs/bitmap/Stipple as Stippler on file
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itojun | 5 Sep 2002 01:27

Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

>I've imported XFree86 4.2.1 into NetBSD's X11 sources today. Here is a list
>of the changes:

	is it possible to identify these changes and backport to 3.3.6 tree?
	as we will ship 3.3.6 for most of the platforms, it would be important.

itojun

>XFree86 4.2.1 (03 September 2002)
> 715. [SECURITY] Fix an Xlib problem that made it possible to load arbitrary
>      code into privileged clients.
>XFree86 4.2.0.1 (21 August 2002)
> 703. [SECURITY] MIT-SHM update: try to avoid using SHM segments that the
>      client user doesn't have sufficient privileges to access
>      (Roberto Zunino, Matthieu Herrb).
> 701. [SECURITY] Zlib error handling fix (Mark Adler).
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Jenkins, Graham K [IBM GSA] | 5 Sep 2002 01:38

RE: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

> I've imported XFree86 4.2.1 into NetBSD's X11 sources today. Here is a
list
> of the changes:
> ..
> Matthias Scheler
http://scheler.de/~matthias/

Any chance it will be included in NetBSD 1.6 before it gets released?

G.
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Brian A. Seklecki | 6 Sep 2002 10:38

Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002  <at>  1:11am (+0200), Matthias Scheler wrote:

MS>
MS> 	Hello,
MS>
MS> I've imported XFree86 4.2.1 into NetBSD's X11 sources today. Here is a list
MS> of the changes:
MS>
MS> XFree86 4.2.1 (03 September 2002)
MS>  715. [SECURITY] Fix an Xlib problem that made it possible to load arbitrary

That's odd.  Is 4.2.1 simply a CVS tag/branch from xf-4_2-branch?  The
website says nothing about it.

MS>       code into privileged clients.
MS>  714. Fix i810_free_page() and i830_free_page() for DRI kernel modules so
MS>       that later 2.4.x kernels are supported.
MS>
MS> XFree86 4.2.0.1 (21 August 2002)
MS>  713. Fix intermittent XDarwin crash when changing cursors on dual processor
MS>       machines (Torrey T. Lyons).
MS>  712. Fix Finder warnings about XDarwin plist format on Jaguar
MS>       (Torrey T. Lyons).
MS>  711. Fix XDarwin build issues on Jaguar (Sean Fagan).
MS>  710. When using the vesa driver and the DisplaySize option the server
MS>       would crash with a floating point exception due to a divide by zero
MS>       in miscreeninit() (#5298, Mike A. Harris).
MS>  709. Updated patch from head to fix problem described in #5244
MS>       (freed memory being deref'd in xaw) (jik <at> kamens.brookline.ma.us)
MS>  708. The function MoveLine in lib/Xaw/TextAction.c sometimes attempts to
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Bang Jun-Young | 6 Sep 2002 12:03

Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:38:14AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002  <at>  1:11am (+0200), Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> MS>
> MS> 	Hello,
> MS>
> MS> I've imported XFree86 4.2.1 into NetBSD's X11 sources today. Here is a list
> MS> of the changes:
> MS>
> MS> XFree86 4.2.1 (03 September 2002)
> MS>  715. [SECURITY] Fix an Xlib problem that made it possible to load arbitrary
> 
> That's odd.  Is 4.2.1 simply a CVS tag/branch from xf-4_2-branch?  The
> website says nothing about it.

Read the following page:

http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/RELNOTES.html

Jun-Young

--

-- 
Bang Jun-Young <junyoung <at> mogua.com>
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Brian A. Seklecki | 6 Sep 2002 13:51

Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002  <at>  7:03pm (+0900), Bang Jun-Young wrote:

BJ> > website says nothing about it.
BJ>
BJ> Read the following page:
BJ>
BJ> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/RELNOTES.html

..eehhh, very little is happening in that branch.  154 XF CVS commits since
Jul, only 12 in that branch.

What do you think about trying to merge in DRI support from:

http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/index.html

...it's on his todo list, but he doesn't mention a NetBSD liason.  Hopefully
one day we can have working DGA/XVideo/DRI/GLX support.

Come to think of it, do we even have a True Type enabled XFS?

-lava

BJ>
BJ> Jun-Young
BJ>
BJ> --
BJ> Bang Jun-Young <junyoung <at> mogua.com>
BJ>

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Martin Husemann | 6 Sep 2002 14:35
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Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:51:30AM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:

> What do you think about trying to merge in DRI support from:

If you send-pr working patches against our xsrc tree, those have a very high
chance of being integrated *quickly*.

Martin
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Daniel Carosone | 6 Sep 2002 14:46
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Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

> Come to think of it, do we even have a True Type enabled XFS?

I don't know about the fontserver, I don't use it, but the core
server supports bitmap TrueType (module xtt), and even better Xft
supports anti-aliased TrueType via XRENDER.

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Dan.
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Erik Reid | 6 Sep 2002 15:17

Re: HEADS UP: XFree86 4.2.1 imported

Quoth "Brian A. Seklecki":
>On Fri, 6 Sep 2002  <at>  7:03pm (+0900), Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>
>BJ> > website says nothing about it.
>BJ>
>BJ> Read the following page:
>BJ>
>BJ> http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/RELNOTES.html
>
>..eehhh, very little is happening in that branch.  154 XF CVS commits since
>Jul, only 12 in that branch.
>
>What do you think about trying to merge in DRI support from:

I've got some portion of the work done making the stuff in the DRI CVS repository
work on NetBSD, but I'm not sure when they're going to be bringing that work up
to the XFree86 tree, and I suspect we don't want to pull in all of the new DRI bits
directly from the DRI repository.  I haven't touched it in a while, I might be able
to get back on it this weekend..
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Al Urbaitis | 6 Sep 2002 10:49

Advice

Hello
I am working on a Dell Inspiron 8200...
The inspiron (what an insipid name) has the nvidia
"GeForce2go" chipset.

I came across a note indicating that patching 
Xfree86 4.2.0 will yield an nv driver that will
more or less support the GeForce2go chipset.

http://www.marcuscom.com/g2g-xfree86/article.html

Is it reasonably simple to patch 4.2.0 in this way for
NetBSD ?

Could someone suggest a site that might contain a recipe
for building/patching Xfree86 4.2.0 for NetBSD.

Sigh... 
I have limited experience with this sort of thing beyond
kernel configuration (on NetBSD almost too simple :-))

Thanx
Al
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