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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>README for X11R7.6</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/usr/share/sgml/X11/xorg.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /><meta name="description" content=" X11R7.6 is an Open Source version of the X Window System that supports many UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems (such as Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris) on a variety of platforms. This version is compatible with X11R7.5 and other X Window System implementations which support the X11 standard. " /></head><body><div class="article" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="id2463699"></a>README for X11R7.6</h1></div><div><h3 class="corpauthor"><a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgFoundation" target="_top">
The X.Org Foundation
</a></h3></div><div><p class="pubdate">December 2010</p></div><div><div class="abstract"><p class="title"><b>Abstract</b></p><p>
X11R7.6 is an Open Source version of the X Window System that
supports many <span class="trademark">UNIX</span>® and UNIX-like
operating systems (such as Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris)
on a variety of platforms. This version is compatible with
X11R7.5 and other X Window System implementations which support
the X11 standard.
</p></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2466061">What is X11R7.6?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2466707">Licensing</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2466806">Pointers to additional information</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2494659">The Public Mailing Lists</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2494684">Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2494718">How to get the release</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="#id2494760">X11R7.6</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="#id2494791">The current development tree</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="#id2494817">Reporting Bugs</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2466061"></a>What is X11R7.6?</h2></div></div></div><p>
X11R7.6 is the seventh release in the X11R7 series.
Tarballs for packages that have had updates since the 7.5 release
are included in this release. To build this release, you will first need to
get the packages from X11R7.5 and then add the new packages from
X11R7.6 to them.
</p><p>
Specific release enhancements can be viewed in the <a href="ReleaseNotes.html" target="_top">Release Notes</a>.
</p><p>
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
has a table showing the drivers provided with X11R7.6, and links to
related documentation.
</p><p>
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
<a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Membership" target="_top">membership application</a>. The X11R7.6 release has been
produced by the many contributors to the X.Org community and members of
the X.Org Foundation and includes code from the X Consortium, the Open
Group and the <span class="trademark">XFree86</span>® Project.
This release is dedicated to the greater X community, developers and
users alike.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2466707"></a>Licensing</h2></div></div></div><p>
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:
</p><p>
</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol type="1"><li><p>
</p></li><li><p>
documentation accompanying binary distributions.
</p></li><li><p>
Attributions are included with documentation accompanying binaries.
</p></li></ol></div><p>
</p><p>
Most of these licenses are based on the MIT, X Consortium, or BSD
(original and revised) licenses. All of them are consistent with the
<a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php" target="_top">Open Source Definition</a>, and most are
consistent with the Free Software Foundation's <a href="http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" target="_top">Free Software Definition</a>.
</p><p>
Copyright and Licensing information for X, including the reproduction
of the licenses for binary distributions, can be found in the <a href="License.html" target="_top">License Document</a>. If you find any omissions
in that document, please contact us with details at
<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a>></code>.
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
<a href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines" target="_top">Debian Free Software Guidelines</a>.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2466806"></a>Pointers to additional information</h2></div></div></div><p>
The documentation for this release can be found online at the <a href="http://www.x.org/" target="_top">X.Org web site</a>.
</p><p>
The X11 version numbering system (including historical information)
</p><p>
Additional information may be available at the <a href="http://wiki.x.org/" target="_top">X.Org Foundation Wiki</a>.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2494659"></a>The Public Mailing Lists</h2></div></div></div><p>
Current information about the X.Org Foundation public mailing lists is
mailing list page</a> and related desktop
technology mailing lists can be found on <a href="http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_top">Freedesktop.org's mailing list
page</a>.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2494684"></a>Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.</h2></div></div></div><p>
If you have any new work or enhancements/bug fixes for existing work,
please send them as git format patches to
<code class="email"><<a href="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>></code> or to our
using the xorg component. This will help ensure that they are included
in future releases. More details on patch submission and review
process are available on the
SubmittingPatches</a> page of the X.Org wiki.
</p></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2494718"></a>How to get the release</h2></div></div></div><p>
Information about X11R7.6 can be found from the
mirrors of this server.
</p><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2494760"></a>X11R7.6</h3></div></div></div><p>
This is the seventh 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 X11R7.6 release site for a complete
list of the tarballs.
</p><p>
For information on how to build the modular tree packages see the <a href="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide" target="_top">Modular Developer's Guide</a>. This guide also
contains information for developers who want to help improve the modular
build system and modular code base.
</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2494791"></a>The current development tree</h3></div></div></div><p>
development versions can also be accessed via the Freedesktop.org git
repository. It's also possible to browse the <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/" target="_top">freedesktop git repository</a>.
</p><p>
To check out the latest development version, don't specify any tag.
</p></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2494817"></a>Reporting Bugs</h2></div></div></div><p>
Bugs should be reported to freedesktop.org's <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" target="_top">bug tracking system</a>
using the xorg component. Before
reporting bugs, please check the server log file, which can be found at
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.
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