
README for X11R7.1

The X.Org Foundation

   22 May 2006

   X11R7.1 is an Open Source versions of the X Window System that
   supports many UNIX(R) and UNIX-like operating systems (such as
   Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris x86) on Intel and
   other platforms. This version is compatible with X11R7.0 and
   other X window system implementations which support the X11
   standard.
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   Table of Contents
   1. What is X11R7.1?
   2. Licensing
   3. Pointers to additional information
   4. The Public Mailing Lists
   5. Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.
   6. How to get the release

        6.1. X11R7.1
        6.2. The current development tree

   7. Reporting Bugs

1. What is X11R7.1?

   X11R7.1 is the second release in the X11R7 series. Tarballs
   for packages that have had updates since the 7.0 release are
   included in this release. To build this release, you will
   first need to get the packages from X11R7.0 and then add the
   new packages from X11R7.1 to them.

   The 7.1 version is a new minor release that includes
   additional hardware support, functional enhancements and bug
   fixes. Specific release enhancements can be viewed in the
   Release Notes.

   Most modern PC video hardware is supported in this release,
   and most PC video hardware that isn't supported explicitly can
   be used with the "vesa" driver. The Release Notes has a table
   showing the drivers provided with X11R7.1, and links to
   related documentation.

   The X.Org Foundation X releases are produced by the X.Org
   Foundation. The X.Org Foundation has been formed as a Delaware
   corporation organized to operate as a scientific charity under
   IRS code 501(c)(3) chartered to develop and execute effective
   strategies which provide world-wide stewardship of the X
   Window System technology and standards. Membership in the
   X.Org Foundation is free to all participants. Applications for
   Membership are now being accepted, and active participants in
   the further development of the X Window Technology are invited
   to complete a membership application. The X11R7.1 codebase
   forms the sixth full X Window System release since the
   formation of the X.Org Foundation and includes code from the X
   Consortium, the Open Group and the XFree86(TM) project. This
   release is dedicated to the greater X community, developers
   and users alike.
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2. Licensing

   X Window System source code is covered by many licenses. All
   of these licenses have in common the fact that they do not
   impose significant conditions on the modification or
   redistribution or either source code or binaries beyond
   requiring one or more of the following:

    1. Copyright and/or license notices are left intact.
    2. Copyright and/or license notices are reproduced verbatim
       in documentation accompanying binary distributions.
    3. Attributions are included with documentation accompanying
       binaries.

   Most of these licenses are based on the MIT, X Consortium, or
   BSD (original and revised) licenses. All of them are
   consistent with the Open Source Definition, and most are
   consistent with the Free Software Foundation's Free Software
   Definition.

   Copyright and Licensing information for X, including the
   reproduction of copyright and/or license notices and
   attributions required by some of the licenses for binary
   distributions, can be found in the License Document. If you
   find any omissions in that document, please contact us with
   details at <xf_board@x.org>. While the current licenses are
   all open source licenses, the X.Org Foundation is attempting,
   with time, to bring as much as possible of the code's licenses
   in the distribution into compliance with the Debian Free
   Software Guidelines.
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3. Pointers to additional information

   The documentation for this release can be found online at the
   X.Org web site.

   The X11 version numbering system (including historical
   information) can be found in the Versions Document.

   Additional information may be available at the X.Org
   Foundation Wiki.
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4. The Public Mailing Lists

   Current information about the X.Org Foundation public mailing
   lists is available on the X.Org mailing list page and related
   desktop technology mailing lists can be found on
   Freedesktop.org's mailing list page.
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5. Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.

   If you have any new work or enhancements/bug fixes for
   existing work, please send them to
   <xorg@lists.freedesktop.org> or to our bug tracking system
   using the xorg component. This will help ensure that they are
   included in future releases.
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6. How to get the release

   Information about X11R7.1 can be found from the X.Org
   Foundation wiki, and at mirrors of this server.
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6.1. X11R7.1

   This is the second release of the new modular source code
   tree. The source code has been split into nine logical
   modules: app, data, doc, driver, font, lib. proto, util and
   xserver. Each of these modules contain one or more packages
   that can be configured, built and installed separately. Please
   see an X11R7.1 release site for a complete list of the
   tarballs.

   For information on how to build the modular tree packages see
   the Modular Developer's Guide. This guide also contains
   information for developers who want to help improve the
   modular build system and modular code base.
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6.2. The current development tree

   The X source code for this and all releases/snapshots as well
   as development versions can also be accessed via the
   Freedesktop.org CVS repository. It's also possible to browse
   the freedesktop CVS repository. The CVS tag for the 7.1
   version is "XORG-7_1".

   To check out the latest development version, don't specify any
   tag.
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7. Reporting Bugs

   Bugs should be reported to bug tracking system using the xorg
   component. Before reporting bugs, please check the server log
   file, which can be found at /var/log/Xorg.0.log on most
   platforms. If you can't resolve the problem yourself, send the
   entire log file with your bug report but not the operating
   system core dump. Do not edit the log file as our developers
   use it to reproduce and debug your problem. Please attach it
   to your bug report.
