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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 18 | ||||
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/intel.man | 20 |
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Information for Intel graphics driver users Eric Anholt -2007-04-02 +2007-07-02 This document provides a brief summary of the Intel graphics support provided by the xf86-video-intel driver. More information can also be found in the @@ -15,9 +15,14 @@ Supported Hardware: i845 i852 i855 - i915 - i945 - i965 + 915G + 915GM + 945G + 945GM/GME + 946GZ + G965 + GM/GME965 + G33/Q33/Q35 Features - Full support for 8, 15, 16, and 24 bit pixel depths. @@ -70,6 +75,9 @@ Known Limitations release. - Gray output with integrated TV-out and PAL TVs. - EXA support unstable on i845. +- Some GM965 systems, such as the Thinkpad T61, probe the TV as being connected + even when no output connector is available. This results in the gnome-panel + issue noted below. Common issues not caused by the driver - Font sizes (DPI) are wrong. Some displays incorrectly report their @@ -80,7 +88,7 @@ Common issues not caused by the driver - gnome-panel is located in the middle of the screen. gnome-panel places itself within head #0's boundaries, which doesn't work well with a second head covering the same area as head #0 but larger. -- Older resolution-changing applicationss have poor results in +- Older resolution-changing applications have poor results in multihead systems. Previous extensions such as RandR 1.1 exposed only a single output to client programs, and those requests map poorly to multi-head systems. Currently, those requests map to just one of the outputs in the diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index a39635e5..ec303762 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.57) AC_INIT([xf86-video-intel], - 2.0.0, + 2.1.0, [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg], xf86-video-intel) diff --git a/man/intel.man b/man/intel.man index 89916194..75280a7c 100644 --- a/man/intel.man +++ b/man/intel.man @@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ the 830M and later. .SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE .B intel supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, -865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ and 965GM chipsets. +865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 945GME, +G33, Q33, and Q35 chipsets. .SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver. .PP -The Intel 8xx and 9xx families of integrated graphics chipsets has a unified +The Intel 8xx and 9xx families of integrated graphics chipsets have a unified memory architecture and uses system memory for video ram. For the i810 and i815 family of chipset, operating system support for allocating system memory for video use is required in order to use this driver. For the 830M @@ -66,12 +67,9 @@ Default: undefined. .TP .BI "Option \*qCacheLines\*q \*q" integer \*q This allows the user to change the amount of graphics memory used for -2D acceleration and video. Decreasing this amount leaves more for 3D -textures. Increasing it can improve 2D performance at the expense of -3D performance. -.TP -This option only takes effect when XAA acceleration is enabled. -.TP +2D acceleration and video when XAA acceleration is enabled. Decreasing this +amount leaves more for 3D textures. Increasing it can improve 2D performance +at the expense of 3D performance. Default: depends on the resolution, depth, and available video memory. The driver attempts to allocate space for at 3 screenfuls of pixmaps plus an HD-sized XV video. The default used for a specific configuration can be found @@ -145,7 +143,7 @@ the full benefit without triple buffering (see .B "Option \*qTripleBuffer\*q" ). Default for i810: The option is not used. -Default for i830 and above: Disabled. +Default for i830 and above: Disabled (This option is currently unstable). .TP .BI "Option \*qTripleBuffer\*q \*q" boolean \*q Enable support for triple buffering. This should improve 3D performance at the @@ -202,5 +200,5 @@ support reworked for XFree86 4.3 by David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 852GM, Keith Whitwell. Lid status support added by Alan Hourihane. Textured video support for 915G and later chips, RandR 1.2 and hardware modesetting added by Eric Anholt and Keith Packard. EXA and Render acceleration added by Wang -Zhenyu. TV out support added by Zou Nan Hai and Keith Packard. 965GM support -added by Wang Zhenyu. +Zhenyu. TV out support added by Zou Nan Hai and Keith Packard. 965GM, G33, +Q33, and Q35 support added by Wang Zhenyu. |