README revision 42a55b46 
1  Information for ATI Rage 128 Users
2  Precision Insight, Inc., SuSE GmbH
3  13 June 2000
4  ____________________________________________________________
5
6  Table of Contents
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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
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26
27
28  2.  Features
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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.
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46
47
48  3.  Technical Notes
49
50
51  o  None
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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
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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
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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)
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105
106
107  7.  Known Limitations
108
109
110  o  None
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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@precisioninsight.com>
121
122  o  Kevin E. Martin  <mailto:kevin@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@precisioninsight.com>
135
136  o  Kevin E. Martin  <mailto:kevin@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@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
143
144  o  Dirk Hohndel  <mailto:hohndel@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
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154
155  http://www.precisioninsight.com
156
157  http://www.suse.com
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159
160Please submit bugs & patches to the Xorg bugzilla:
161
162        https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
163
164All questions regarding this software should be directed at the
165Xorg mailing list:
166
167        http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
168
169The master development code repository can be found at:
170
171        git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-r128
172
173        http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-r128
174
175For more information on the git code manager, see:
176
177        http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage
178