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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.service.uci.edu!pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu!swallace From: swallace@pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu (Steven Wallace) Subject: XFree86, COM driver, ported programs Nntp-Posting-Host: pal-r32-a07b.slip.nts.uci.edu Message-ID: <2B931973.9680@news.service.uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 30 Date: 2 Mar 93 08:23:16 GMT XFree86, version 1.2: I currently have X386-1.2E (1.0.3) installed on my system using an ET4000. What is the difference between that and XFree86 besides "many new features and performance improvements as well as many bug fixes" (such as?). To upgrade, I take it I need to d/l and replace all the bin, fonts, in, lib, linkit, archives. The bottom line, is it worth spending the time upgrading? COM drivers: I have replaced the com.c driver with Christopher G. Demetriou's modded com.c file that fixes problems with select(), etc. One nice improvement would be the addition of COM3 and COM4 serial devices (i.e. com2 and com3 drivers). I added these to my configuration file and the appropriate address vectors, but although the system would boot and recognize those com ports, the com ports would not work at all. Obviously, since there is a sharing of IRQ lines (i.e. 3 and 4) between two individual COM ports, the driver has to distinguish which com unit the interrupt originated from. Has anyone modded this into their com driver or can give me advice on how to implement this? Ported programs: I have ported xtetris, xrobots, xmille, and xchomp (notice a theme?). Some were difficult; others were trivial. Where could I u/l those binaries for people to d/l? A more significant program I ported is Magic 6.3 and IRSIM. This involved modifying a dozen or so files to get it to work. I would like to u/l the files I modified. Then people can d/l the origninal distribution from DEC, replace my modded files, and "make everything; make install". In addition, perhaps I could u/l the binary files since one needs 30 MB of free space to compile while one only needs 3 MB for binary and relavant files. Thanks for the help!