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      1   Information for ATI Rage 128 Users
      2   Precision Insight, Inc., SuSE GmbH
      3   13 June 2000
      4   ____________________________________________________________
      5 
      6   Table of Contents
      7 
      8 
      9   1. Supported Hardware
     10   2. Features
     11   3. Technical Notes
     12   4. Reported Working Video Cards
     13   5. Configuration
     14   6. Driver Options
     15   7. Known Limitations
     16   8. Authors
     17 
     18 
     19   ______________________________________________________________________
     20 
     21   1.  Supported Hardware
     22 
     23 
     24   o  ATI Rage 128 based cards
     25 
     26 
     27 
     28   2.  Features
     29 
     30 
     31   o  Full support (including hardware accelerated 2D drawing) for 8, 15,
     32      16, 24 bit pixel depths.
     33 
     34   o  Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker.
     35 
     36   o  Support for high resolution video modes up to 1800x1440 @ 70Hz.
     37 
     38   o  Support for doublescan video modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240).
     39 
     40   o  Support for gamma correction at all pixel depths.
     41 
     42   o  Fully programmable clock supported.
     43 
     44   o  Robust text mode restore for VT switching.
     45 
     46 
     47 
     48   3.  Technical Notes
     49 
     50 
     51   o  None
     52 
     53 
     54 
     55   4.  Reported Working Video Cards
     56 
     57 
     58   o  Rage Fury AGP 32MB
     59 
     60   o  XPERT 128 AGP 16MB
     61 
     62   o  XPERT 99 AGP 8MB
     63 
     64 
     65 
     66   5.  Configuration
     67 
     68   The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize
     69   the card. The only lines you need in the "Device" section of your
     70   xorg.conf file are:
     71 
     72          Section "Device"
     73              Identifier "Rage 128"
     74              Driver     "r128"
     75          EndSection
     76 
     77 
     78   or let xorgconfig do this for you.
     79 
     80   However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify:
     81 
     82   o  VideoRam - in kilobytes
     83 
     84   o  MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer
     85 
     86   o  IOBase - physical address of the memory mapped IO registers
     87 
     88   o  ChipID - PCI DEVICE ID
     89 
     90 
     91 
     92   6.  Driver Options
     93 
     94 
     95   o  "hw_cursor" - request hardware cursor (default)
     96 
     97   o  "sw_cursor" - software cursor only
     98 
     99   o  "no_accel" - software rendering only
    100 
    101   o  "dac_8_bit" - use color weight 888 in 8 bpp mode (default)
    102 
    103   o  "dac_6_bit" - use color weight 666 in 8 bpp mode (VGA emulation)
    104 
    105 
    106 
    107   7.  Known Limitations
    108 
    109 
    110   o  None
    111 
    112 
    113 
    114   8.  Authors
    115 
    116   The X11R7.5 driver was originally part of XFree86 4.4 rc2.
    117 
    118   The XFree86 4 driver was ported from XFree86 3.3.x and enhanced by:
    119 
    120   o  Rickard E. (Rik) Faith  <mailto:faith (a] precisioninsight.com>
    121 
    122   o  Kevin E. Martin  <mailto:kevin (a] precisioninsight.com>
    123 
    124   The XFree86 4 driver was funded by ATI and was donated to The XFree86
    125   Project by:
    126 
    127       Precision Insight, Inc.
    128       Cedar Park, TX
    129       USA
    130 
    131 
    132   The XFree86 3.3.x driver used for the port was written by:
    133 
    134   o  Rickard E. (Rik) Faith  <mailto:faith (a] precisioninsight.com>
    135 
    136   o  Kevin E. Martin  <mailto:kevin (a] precisioninsight.com>
    137 
    138      The XFree86 3.3.x driver was funded by ATI and was donated to The
    139      XFree86 Project by Precision Insight, Inc. It was based in part on
    140      an earlier driver that was written by:
    141 
    142   o  Alan Hourihane  <mailto:alanh (a] fairlite.demon.co.uk>
    143 
    144   o  Dirk Hohndel  <mailto:hohndel (a] suse.de>
    145 
    146   This early driver was funded and donated to The XFree86 Project by:
    147 
    148       SuSE GmbH
    149       Schanzaekerstr. 10
    150       90443 Nuernberg
    151       Germany
    152 
    153 
    154 
    155   http://www.precisioninsight.com
    156 
    157   http://www.suse.com
    158 
    159   ______________________________________________________________________
    160 
    161 All questions regarding this software should be directed at the
    162 Xorg mailing list:
    163 
    164         https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
    165 
    166 The primary development code repository can be found at:
    167 
    168         https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-r128
    169 
    170 Please submit bug reports and requests to merge patches there.
    171 
    172 For patch submission instructions, see:
    173 
    174         https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
    175 
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