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XFree86 4.02 Released

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Enhancements to the 4.0 base release.

  • Darwin/Mac OS X is now supported and the X server runs on
    PowerPC.
  • Mesa updated to the latest stable (3.4) release.
  • Increased ATI support including: ATI Radeon driver adapter
    support added; Multi-head configuration support added; Non-Intel
    platform support improved.
  • A driver (i128) for Number Nine chipsets has been added.
  • A driver (savage) for S3 Savage chipsets has been added.
  • A driver (siliconmotion) for some Silicon Motion chipsets has
    been added.
  • The driver (ark) for Ark Logic chips has been ported to
    4.x.
  • A VESA driver has been added.
  • Support has been added for Linux/mips platform on some SGI
    hardware..
  • Improved DRI support for the ATI, 3Dfx, Intel, Matrox, SiS and
    Sun chips.
  • The DRI is now also available on Alpha platforms
  • Xinerama big endian problems have been fixed.
  • Render support has been added. This extension to the X
    protocol, uniquely XFree86’s allows image composition and
    anti-aliasing text.
  • Significant enhancements to the Internationalisation support in
    Xlib
  • New XKB keyboard definitions have been added and updated for
    some countries.
  • New xfs updates, including font path verification, and
    options.
  • XTerm enhancements.

The full distribution including source, source patches, binaries
and documentation are available from our ftp site, and our mirror sites. The source
is not necessary for installation and configuration. Pre-compiled
binary
distributions are available for most supported platforms.

Before downloading the binaries read the following 3 files:

There is some information comparing the hardware support in the
3.3.x versus the 4.x series in the driver status
document; check there to see if your hardware is supported. Our
documentation, including the man pages, is available online.

4.0.2 can also be obtained directly from our public CVS server. The tag is
xf-4_0_2. Post release fixes will be found on the xf-4_0_2-branch
branch.

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