What's new in XFree86 3.1.1

# 1 What's new in XFree86 3.1.1

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The following items have been added since XFree86 3.1 was released in October 1994:

1. XFree86 3.1.1 includes the X Consortium's recently released public patches (up to fix-11). The XFree86 Project, Inc has worked with the X Consortium to have much of XFree86 3.1.1 included in the X Consortium's fix-11.
2. A new accelerated server for Mach64 boards.
3. Support for the S3 Trio32 and Trio64 chipsets.
4. Support in the S3 server for the Chrontel 8391 clock chip.
5. Support for SPEA Mercury P64 and MIRO Crystal 40SV.
6. Bug fixes and some performance improvements for most of the accelerated servers.
7. Support for `double scan' video modes (most servers).
8. New chipset support for the SVGA server. This includes the Avance Logic 2228/2301, Chips & Technology 655xx, Cirrus Logic 6440, and Oak OTI-087. Accelerated support is included for the OTI-087.
9. Support for FreeBSD 2.0.
10. Preliminary support for OS/2 (client-only at this stage; this is still under development).
11. Linear aperture access when running on BSD/386.
12. 16bpp and 32bpp support for more S3 boards (refer to README.S3 for details).
13. Support for ISC's SVR3 (only tested for 3.x and 4.x).
14. The `xf86config' utility for generating XF86Config files has been improved and now uses a database of video cards.
15. The X server LinkKit has been updated to include support for LBX.
16. The slow X server startup time on machines without hardware floating point has been improved.

Plus a number of other small items. Refer to the CHANGELOG file in the source distribution for full details.

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