X11R7.7 was 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 is a member project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), which operates as a scientific charity under IRS code 501(c)(3). The X.Org Foundation is 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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

If you have any new work or enhancements/bug fixes for existing work, please submit them via the gitlab.freedesktop.org code management system. 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.

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

Bugs should be reported to freedesktop.org's code management system. 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.