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3. New OS dependent features
See the Release Notes for
non-OS dependent new features in XFree86 4.2.1.
3.1. New OS dependent features in 4.2
- Support for OpenBSD/macppc on the ATI Rage128 based
Power Macintosh.
- Support for building clients on OpenBSD/sparc64.
3.2. New OS dependent features in 4.0.3
- Support for the wscons console driver in post 2.8 OpenBSD.
- A fix for multi-threaded libraries support.
3.3. New OS dependent features in 4.0.2
- Support for the OpenBSD ports tree,
- Preliminary support for the macppc architecture (clients build
and work, the server doesn't work yet),
- xdm now writes an utmp entry,
- startx now creates an Xauthority magic cookie for the display.
3.4. New OS dependent features in 4.0.1
- Several features from the OpenBSD X11 tree were merged into xdm:
- support for Kerberos IV authentication
- use the arc4random(4) random number generator
- add a new resource "allowRootLogin", which can be used to disable
root logins through xdm
- log failed logins to syslogd
- verify that the shell is valid using /etc/shell
- verify that the account hasn't expired
- The Xsun server can be built again on OpenBSD/sparc.
3.5. New OS dependent features in 4.0
- Multi-thread safe libraries are built by default on OpenBSD 2.6
and later,
- Preliminary APM support.
3.6. New OS dependent features in 3.9.18
- Support for USB mices has been added on OpenBSD.
- Soft-booting secondary cards through the int10 BIOS interface is
now possible using the x86emu real mode emulator.
3.7. New OS dependent features in 3.9.17
- Silken mouse is supported for serial mices, and, under
post 2.6 OpenBSD-current for PS/2 mices.
- MTRR Write Combining is enabled under post 2.6 OpenBSD-current.
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