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authorGaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>2010-06-13 19:57:01 -0400
committerGaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>2010-06-13 19:57:01 -0400
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README: fix linuxdoc content
defs.ent are located under X11 directory ident tag is not a Linuxdoc tag Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon <memsize@videotron.ca>
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-rw-r--r--README.sgml7
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diff --git a/README b/README
index a1d2470..02c0a9b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
Information for Rendition (Micron) Verite Users
The XFree86 Project Inc.
- 9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic <dejan.ilic@home.se>
+ 9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic "dejan.ilic@home.se"
____________________________________________________________
Table of Contents
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
3. Important notices
4. Features
5. xorg.conf Option
- 6. News in the X11R6.8 release
+ 6. News in the X11R7.5 release
7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release
8. Major changes in this release
9. Bugfixes
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
______________________________________________________________________
- 1. Supported hardware
+ 1. Supported hardware
All cards based on the V1000 or the V2x00 should be supported. The
server was tested on a miroCRYSTAL VRX (V1000), Intergraph Intense-100
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
(V2200), Innovision Warrior3D (V2200) and Genoa V-Raptor (v2200).
- 2. Limitations
+ 2. Limitations
V1000 cards can only work as primary display card due to hardware
limitations.
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
- 3. Important notices
+ 3. Important notices
Some V1000-based video cards are known to lock up the computer if you
have write-combine activated. Disabling it removes the problem. Look
@@ -64,57 +64,57 @@
driver with the most basic features. Support for multi-head support
and acceleration are next on the list of features to be included.
- 4. Features
+ 4. Features
- +o Hardware acceleration
+ o Hardware acceleration
- +o Hardware cursor
+ o Hardware cursor
- +o Supported color depths
+ o Supported color depths
- +o 8 bits per pixel (256 pseudo colour)
+ o 8 bits per pixel (256 pseudo colour)
- +o 15 bits per pixel (actually 16-bits with RGB-weight 555, 32768
+ o 15 bits per pixel (actually 16-bits with RGB-weight 555, 32768
colors)
- +o 16 bits per pixel (high colour, RGB-weight 565, 65536 colors)
+ o 16 bits per pixel (high colour, RGB-weight 565, 65536 colors)
- +o 32 bits per pixel (true colour, sparse 24bit, 16M colors)
+ o 32 bits per pixel (true colour, sparse 24bit, 16M colors)
- 5. xorg.conf Option
+ 5. xorg.conf Option
- Option
+ Option
Disables use of the hardware cursor.
- Option
+ Option
Run the memory at a higher clock. Useful on some cards with
display glitches at higher resolutions. But adds the risk to
damage the hardware. Use with caution.
- DacSpeed
+ DacSpeed
Set custom ramdac limit. We have currently no way of knowing if
the v2x00 chip is a v2100 (170MHz) or v2200 (203MHz and 230MHz)
so we assume the lowest. Use this option to manually override
the value.
- Option
+ Option
If writecombine is disabled in BIOS, and you add this option in
configuration file, then the driver will try to request
writecombined access to the framebuffer. This can drastically
increase the performance on unaccelerated server. Requires that
"MTRR"-support is compiled into the OS-kernel.
- Option
+ Option
Disable probing of DDC-information from your monitor. This
information is not used yet and is only there for informational
purposes. This might have changed before final XFree86 4.0
release. Safe to disable if you experience problems during
startup of X-server.
- Option
+ Option
If this option is enabled, the driver will cause the CPU to do
each drawing operation first into a shadow frame buffer in
system virtual memory and then copy the result into video
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
for PCI or AGP adapters, and, so, this option is enabled by
default unless acceleration is enabled.
- Option
+ Option
The option expect a value "CW" for clockwise or "CCW" for
counterclockwise rotation of the screen. This is useful when you
need more height then width on the screen. Desktop publishing is
@@ -137,54 +137,54 @@
default.
- 6. News in the X11R6.8 release
+ 6. News in the X11R7.5 release
This driver was originally part of the XFree86 4.4 rc2 release.
- 7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release
+ 7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release
- +o DirectColor support
+ o DirectColor support
- +o SilkenMouse support
+ o SilkenMouse support
- 8. Major changes in this release
+ 8. Major changes in this release
- +o Gamma works now for >8bpp
+ o Gamma works now for >8bpp
- 9. Bugfixes
+ 9. Bugfixes
- +o Only some code cleanup done. No real bugfixes.
+ o Only some code cleanup done. No real bugfixes.
- 10. Known problems in current driver
+ 10. Known problems in current driver
- +o The acceleration code hangs the computer during X-server startup.
+ o The acceleration code hangs the computer during X-server startup.
- +o DDC-probing does not work correctly yet. No DDC information is
+ o DDC-probing does not work correctly yet. No DDC information is
found.
- +o Switching from display to VC and back to display can lock up V2x00
+ o Switching from display to VC and back to display can lock up V2x00
cards.
- +o When scrolling the virtual display on a V1000 card parts of the
+ o When scrolling the virtual display on a V1000 card parts of the
screen will become distorted. Problem disappears when you continue
moving around. V2x00 does not exhibit this problem. Probably a bug
in the driver rather than a limitation of the chip.
- +o Depth 15 & 16 has problems with colors when DirectColor is used.
+ o Depth 15 & 16 has problems with colors when DirectColor is used.
- 11. Work in progress (not finished in time for release)
+ 11. Work in progress (not finished in time for release)
- +o Acceleration is disabled for the moment. If you want to play with
+ o Acceleration is disabled for the moment. If you want to play with
it enable the "USE_ACCEL" define in rendition.c file! Beware as it
has several bugs left to clear out before if is stable for general
use.
diff --git a/README.sgml b/README.sgml
index 4439a7f..eeb9781 100644
--- a/README.sgml
+++ b/README.sgml
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//Xorg//DTD linuxdoc//EN"[
-<!ENTITY % defs SYSTEM "defs.ent"> %defs;
+<!ENTITY % defs SYSTEM "X11/defs.ent"> %defs;
]>
<article>
<title>Information for Rendition (Micron) Verit&eacute; Users
<author>The XFree86 Project Inc.
-<date>9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic <email>dejan.ilic@home.se</email>
-
-<ident>
-</ident>
+<date>9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic "dejan.ilic@home.se"
<toc>