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<div>Hi René,</div>
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<div>I am planning to mainly release a maintenance release of 1.19 and possibly 1.18 later.</div>
<div>As Alan Coopersmith has stated, XAA has been gone for some time, and I doubt I am allowed to apply the 24-bit bpp EXA patch to older X Server releases and ship a new version.</div>
<div> As for old S3 (i.e., Vision and Trio) and S3 ViRGE, I recently tested them on X Server 1.19.6, and at least ViRGE PCI and ViRGE GX2 AGP appear to work nominally okay.</div>
<div>What I mean by "nominally okay" is, booting X Server and being able to change the screen resolution from an OS panel.</div>
<div>Since it is "nominally okay," of course, there is no acceleration and standby resume is broken.</div>
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<div>S3 Trio and older series appear to be broken and I am not able to even boot X Server with some devices like Vision 968 (both TI and IBM RAMDAC).</div>
<div>I did try Trio32 1 MB, but the screen is pretty messed up (it did boot X Server).</div>
<div>I can retry this with 16-bit color depth later.</div>
<div> For the past 6 to 7 days, I have been trying to get old Trident graphics cards (i.e., TGUI and ProVidia) working with X Server 1.19, and I have now figured out why it is not working.</div>
<div>I will discuss this over on my blog soon.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Kevin Brace</div>
<div>Brace Computer Laboratory blog</div>
<div>https://bracecomputerlab.com</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 06, 2019 at 9:34 AM<br/>
<b>From:</b> "René Rebe" <rene@exactcode.de><br/>
<b>To:</b> "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace@gmx.com><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> xorg-devel <xorg-devel@lists.x.org><br/>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ANNOUNCE] X Server 1.19.7 maintenance release plan</div>
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<div>Hi,
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<div>On 05 Feb 2019, at 02:06, Kevin Brace <<a href="mailto:kevinbrace@gmx.com" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:kevinbrace@gmx.com'; return false;" target="_blank">kevinbrace@gmx.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote>Hi,<br/>
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Back in early January 2019, I proposed releasing X Server 1.19.7 since there are about 20+ fixes queued in since the previous maintenance release of X Server 1.19.6 back in December 2017.<br/>
I did not see anyone objecting to a new maintenance release, so I will like to appoint myself to this task.<br/>
Personally, I have never been involved in releasing such a large software package in the past, so I am sure I will need some help in doing this (in fact, I will ask for help very shortly).<br/>
Anyway, X Server is an important piece of a FOSS software stack, so even if it is a maintenance release, I do not want to mess it up.<br/>
If there are other deserving fixes that should be applied before the release, let me know.<br/>
I would imagine that the code should go through a testing phase (1.19.7 RC1, etc.) since I lack experience in handling such a large software package release.<br/>
Assuming everything goes right, I expect an official maintenance release around end of February 2019 to early March 2019.</blockquote>
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<div>Thank you for your effort, as visible on my YT channel I also like to play with nice vintage gear.</div>
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdyd3xcDVY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjdyd3xcDVY</a></div>
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<div>I guess 1.19 was with XAA already removed? For really vintage hardware and applications choosing the last xorg-server with XAA might make sense, so one can get this solid lines, fills, and such accelerated, ..?</div>
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<div>Keep up the good work,</div>
<div>maybe I find some spare time to contribute S3/Virge or 3dfx fixes another day ;-)</div>
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<div>René</div>
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