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XFree 4.0.3 Released

Posted by HeUnique on from the it-keeps-improving dept.

XFree 4.0.3 is out. New features include (among other): Better ATI Radeon chip support, Anti Aliasing improvments (and supported on more chipsets), Geforce 3 support added (2D), as well as other fixes. Matrox G400/G450 users will be delighted to hear that the 3D has been improved. Enjoy.

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  1. gcc 2.95.3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Since we're announcing minor revisions of major software, thought I'd let you know gcc-2.95.3 was released yesterday - First update in 1.5 years.

    gcc.gnu.org

  2. Re:voodoo5 5500 by LiteForce · · Score: 4
    Your comment says a lot about supporting open-source, doesn't it ?

    I purchased a Voodoo5 5500 not because I saw 3Dfx commercials (I'm in the U.K. and we don't get them); but because they allowed Daryll Strauss (who implemented Glide for Linux) to open-source his code and 3Dfx provided XFree86 developers with full documentation for the whole Voodoo range.

    Which is more than nVidia have done; and which is why you will find full and comprehensive support for *all* Voodoo cards in XFree86 4.0x - and that is more than you get with nVidia; who are always a full XFree86 release behind with their 'closed-source' drivers!

    I got rid of my TNT2 when I found out that nVidia couldn't even be bothered to support the XRender extension with their 0.9.5 driver release and nobody at nVidia would reply to my e-mails asking if/when it would be supported. The XFree86 2D-only support provided support for XRender but then I couldn't use the 3D acceleration of the TNT2 for anything.

    Indeed, my computer doesn't crash now while playing Unreal Tournament using OpenGL with the Voodoo5 - why ? - because nVidia's drivers don't fully support SMP and freely admit in the driver README file that it can cause random lockups on SMP machines.

    Add to that the number of problems people have been experiencing with these drivers, enough to add comments to the Freshmeat project page here.

    If I am going to experience random lockups while using my machine; then I might as well be running Windows :-P

    P.S. No, j00 d0n't 0wn a11 u5 3Dfx u53r5, nVidia does (seeing as though they bought out 3Dfx), so get yer facts straight!

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    "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime ewwors!" - Elmer Fudd
  3. Scientology makes X seg fault... by telekon · · Score: 5

    Every time I try to read illicit scientologist texts, X seg faults. They got to the CVS tree. I bet 4.0.3 is just a patch to remove all that scientology code. Or maybe 4.0.3 will make yr monitor explode when you say bad things about scientology...

    I think it's the first one. The scientologists won't let XFree 4.0.3 into the tree for Woody.

    dds:~#apt-get install scientology
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Lists...Done
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
    free-speech libfree-speech0 reason freedom task-individual-thought
    The following additional packages will be installed:
    fear uncertainty doubt libfud11 libfud-dev harrassment task-intimidation-core
    0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 17 removed, and 6 not upgraded
    Need to get 234GB of archives. After unpacking you will be brainwashed.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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    To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.