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  Information for newport Users
  Guido Guenther
  24 February 2003
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  Table of Contents


  1. Supported Hardware
  2. Features
  3. Notes
  4. Configuration
  5. Authors
  6. Acknowledgements


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  [1m1.  Supported Hardware[0m

  This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI newport cards (a.k.a. XL)
  as found in the SGI Indy and Indigo2. Both the 8bit and 24bit versions
  are tested and working.


  [1m2.  Features[0m


  +o  Support for 8 and 24 bit pixel depths

  +o  Hardware cursor support to reduce flicker


  [1m3.  Notes[0m


  +o  X -configure does not generate a xorg.conf file.

  +o  There's only a 1280x1024 mode.



  [1m4.  Configuration[0m

  The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize
  the card on the Indy. The only lines you need in the "Device" section
  of your xorg.conf file are:

         Section "Device"
             Identifier "SGI newport"
             Driver     "newport"
         EndSection


  Indigo2 users have to use the BusID option as documented below.

  However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify:

  +o  bitplanes - number of physical bitplanes (8 or 24)

  +o  HWCursor - enable or disable hardware cursor

  +o  BusID - set this to "1" on the Indigo2 XL



  [1m5.  Authors[0m


  +o  Guido Guenther  <agx@sigxcpu.org>



  [1m6.  Acknowledgements[0m


  +o  Gleb O. Raiko  <raiko@niisi.msk.ru> for getting the beast to build

  +o  Ralf Baechle  <ralf@oss.sgi.com> for his patience...

  +o  Ulf Carlsson  <ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com> for comments and elf
     loader code

  +o  Nina A. Podolskaya  <nap@niisi.msk.ru> for elf loader code

  +o  all the guys who wrote the newport_con linux kernel code