README for X11R7.7

The X.Org Foundation

   June 2012

   X11R7.7 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 X11R7.6 and other X
   Window System implementations which support the X11 standard.
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   Table of Contents

   What is X11R7.7?
   Licensing
   Pointers to additional information
   The Public Mailing Lists
   Contributing to the X.Org Foundation's X efforts.
   How to get the release

        X11R7.7
        The current development tree

   Reporting Bugs

What is X11R7.7?

   X11R7.7 is the eighth release in the X11R7 series.

   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 X11R7.7, 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 X11R7.7 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 XFree86® Project. This
   release is dedicated to the greater X community, developers and
   users alike.

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 <xorg@lists.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.

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.

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.

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 as git format patches to
   <xorg-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> or to our bug tracking
   system 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 page of the X.Org wiki.

How to get the release

   Information about X11R7.7 can be found from the X.Org
   Foundation wiki, and at mirrors of this server.

X11R7.7

   This is the eighth 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
   X11R7.7 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.

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 git repository. It's also possible to browse
   the freedesktop git repository.

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

Reporting Bugs

   Bugs should be reported to freedesktop.org's 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.
