README revision 1.1
1 1.1 macallan Information for newport Users 2 1.1 macallan Guido Guenther 3 1.1 macallan 24 February 2003 4 1.1 macallan ____________________________________________________________ 5 1.1 macallan 6 1.1 macallan Table of Contents 7 1.1 macallan 8 1.1 macallan 9 1.1 macallan 1. Supported Hardware 10 1.1 macallan 2. Features 11 1.1 macallan 3. Notes 12 1.1 macallan 4. Configuration 13 1.1 macallan 5. Authors 14 1.1 macallan 6. Acknowledgements 15 1.1 macallan 16 1.1 macallan 17 1.1 macallan ______________________________________________________________________ 18 1.1 macallan 19 1.1 macallan [1m1. Supported Hardware[0m 20 1.1 macallan 21 1.1 macallan This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI newport cards (a.k.a. XL) 22 1.1 macallan as found in the SGI Indy and Indigo2. Both the 8bit and 24bit versions 23 1.1 macallan are tested and working. 24 1.1 macallan 25 1.1 macallan 26 1.1 macallan [1m2. Features[0m 27 1.1 macallan 28 1.1 macallan 29 1.1 macallan +o Support for 8 and 24 bit pixel depths 30 1.1 macallan 31 1.1 macallan +o Hardware cursor support to reduce flicker 32 1.1 macallan 33 1.1 macallan 34 1.1 macallan [1m3. Notes[0m 35 1.1 macallan 36 1.1 macallan 37 1.1 macallan +o X -configure does not generate a xorg.conf file. 38 1.1 macallan 39 1.1 macallan +o There's only a 1280x1024 mode. 40 1.1 macallan 41 1.1 macallan 42 1.1 macallan 43 1.1 macallan [1m4. Configuration[0m 44 1.1 macallan 45 1.1 macallan The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize 46 1.1 macallan the card on the Indy. The only lines you need in the "Device" section 47 1.1 macallan of your xorg.conf file are: 48 1.1 macallan 49 1.1 macallan Section "Device" 50 1.1 macallan Identifier "SGI newport" 51 1.1 macallan Driver "newport" 52 1.1 macallan EndSection 53 1.1 macallan 54 1.1 macallan 55 1.1 macallan Indigo2 users have to use the BusID option as documented below. 56 1.1 macallan 57 1.1 macallan However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify: 58 1.1 macallan 59 1.1 macallan +o bitplanes - number of physical bitplanes (8 or 24) 60 1.1 macallan 61 1.1 macallan +o HWCursor - enable or disable hardware cursor 62 1.1 macallan 63 1.1 macallan +o BusID - set this to "1" on the Indigo2 XL 64 1.1 macallan 65 1.1 macallan 66 1.1 macallan 67 1.1 macallan [1m5. Authors[0m 68 1.1 macallan 69 1.1 macallan 70 1.1 macallan +o Guido Guenther <agx (a] sigxcpu.org> 71 1.1 macallan 72 1.1 macallan 73 1.1 macallan 74 1.1 macallan [1m6. Acknowledgements[0m 75 1.1 macallan 76 1.1 macallan 77 1.1 macallan +o Gleb O. Raiko <raiko (a] niisi.msk.ru> for getting the beast to build 78 1.1 macallan 79 1.1 macallan +o Ralf Baechle <ralf (a] oss.sgi.com> for his patience... 80 1.1 macallan 81 1.1 macallan +o Ulf Carlsson <ulfc (a] calypso.engr.sgi.com> for comments and elf 82 1.1 macallan loader code 83 1.1 macallan 84 1.1 macallan +o Nina A. Podolskaya <nap (a] niisi.msk.ru> for elf loader code 85 1.1 macallan 86 1.1 macallan +o all the guys who wrote the newport_con linux kernel code 87 1.1 macallan 88 1.1 macallan 89 1.1 macallan 90
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