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| author | Brice Goglin <bgoglin@debian.org> | 2007-08-30 04:41:28 +0300 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> | 2007-08-30 04:41:28 +0300 |
| commit | eca9f6d16e6f919c719c45c9161eb8f205c4e1df (patch) | |
| tree | bd50420d475899c50df16c01cff3fa65c010a051 | |
| parent | 3a3b11dcf342ce6cba7317fb56f8bac619d65ff2 (diff) | |
Move build time information from the man page to a README
| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/glide.man | 19 |
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 7052905..3ae2692 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign SUBDIRS = src man +EXTRA_DIST = README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This driver has a special requirement that needs to be fulfilled before it +will work: you need Glide installed. At the time of this writing, it may +be found at <http://glide.sf.net/>. + +Also, you need to tell the X server where the libglide2x.so file is placed by +making a soft link in the moduledir directory (usually /usr/lib/xorg/modules) +that points to the libglide2x.so file. For example, if your libglide2x.so file +is in /usr/lib): + + # ln -s /usr/lib/libglide2x.so <moduledir> + +If you have installed /dev/3dfx, the driver will be able to turn on the MTRR +registers (through the glide library) if you have a CPU with such registers +(see <http://glide.xxedgexx.com/MTRR.html>). +This will speed up copying data to the Voodoo board by as much as 2.7 times +and is very noticeable since this driver copies a lot of data... +Highly recommended. + diff --git a/man/glide.man b/man/glide.man index 6c970e4..aacbea1 100644 --- a/man/glide.man +++ b/man/glide.man @@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ glide \- Glide video driver \ \ ... .B EndSection .fi -.SH READ THIS IF NOTHING ELSE -This driver has a special requirement that needs to be fulfilled -before it will work: You need Glide installed and you need to make a link for the libglide2x.so -file. Read the second paragraph in the description below to find out how. .SH DESCRIPTION .B glide is an __xservername__ driver for Glide capable video boards (such as 3Dfx @@ -33,21 +29,6 @@ the CPU. But since the CPU is nowadays actually rather fast at moving data, we get very good speed anyway, especially since the whole shadow framebuffer is in cached RAM. .PP -This driver requires that you have installed Glide. (Which can, at the -time of this writing, be found at http://glide.sf.net/). Also, you need -to tell __xservername__ here the libglide2x.so file is placed by making -a soft link in the __moduledir__ directory that points to the libglide2x.so -file. For example (if your libglide2x.so file is in /usr/lib): -.PP -\& # ln -s /usr/lib/libglide2x.so __moduledir__ -.PP -If you have installed /dev/3dfx, the driver will be able to turn on -the MTRR registers (through the glide library) if you have a CPU with -such registers (see http://glide.xxedgexx.com/MTRR.html). This will -speed up copying data to the Voodoo board by as much as 2.7 times and -is very noticeable since this driver copies a lot of -data... Highly recommended. -.PP This driver supports 16 and 24 bit color modes. The 24 bit color mode uses a 32 bit framebuffer (it has no support for 24 bit packed-pixel framebuffers). Notice that the Voodoo boards can only display 16 bit |