Release.txt revision 09885543
1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.1.0 3 Alpha Release 1.3.1cz, 11/12/2001 4------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 6Extensions: 7 8- gamma correction for 24 bit true color mode. 9 10Known problems: 11 12- gamma correction does not work for 16 bit true color mode: 13 LoadPalette gets a gamma correction color table for 5:6:5 RGB, 14 whereas the SMI RAMDAC wants a 8:8:8 RGB color table. 15 16- gamma correction only implemented for the Lynx3DM 17 18- StopVideo don't work. The graphics controller continues to write 19 into the capture buffer 20 21Fixed bugs (or new bugs :) ): 22 23- in SMI_ScreenInit frame buffer size calculation for video changed. 24 25 26-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.1.0 28 Alpha Release 1.3.0cz, 10/26/2001 29------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30 31Fixed bugs: 32 33- XAA: clipping rectangle was clipped to visible screen, so offscreen 34 pixmaps could not been drawn at with accelerated drawing functions. 35 36Extensions: 37 38- smi_video: partly rewritten. 39 - Support for 7111 40 - interlaced video via 41 - XF86Config Option "Interlaced" or 42 - attribute XV_INTERLACED 43 44-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.2 46 Alpha Release 1.2.2, 02/14/2001 47------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 49Fixed bugs: 50 51- #920 - Color change/flash at 8bpp when switch back to desktop in rotation 52 mode. 53- #932 - System hangs when enabling rotation in 24-bpp. 54- #941 - Overlay disappear in the virtual desktop when move the window. 55- #944 - Mouse pointer doesn't work properly in panning modes under rotation. 56- #950 - Garbage appears on desktop when click the Basic/Metal for the Theme 57 Selector. 58- #983 - Added ZoomOnLCD option. 59- #1058 - Desktop changes color when panning in 24-bpp mode. 60- #1069 - CRT is off after exit X on DSTN 800x600. 61- #1074 - Screen broken occurs in X when enable Rotation on DSTN 800x600. 62 63Known problems: 64 65- When video is playing in panning mode, it is not correctly clipped when you 66 move the panning window. 67- Sound breaks apart in Netscape when moving the window around. 68 69------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 70 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.2 71 Alpha Release 1.2.1, 01/03/2001 72-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 73 74Fixed bugs: 75 76- Severe corruption in 24-bpp across all chips. 77- Disable hardware cursor on older BIOSes. 78 79-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 80 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.2 81 Alpha Release 1.2.0, 12/13/2000 82-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 83 84Fixed bugs: 85 86- When restoring from VESAFB graphics mode, the screen did not update with the 87 UseBIOS switch on. 88 89-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 91 Alpha Release 1.1.9, 11/30/2000 92-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 93 94Fixed bugs: 95 96#581 - Need Linux driver to support zooming via ctrl+alt++ & ctrl+alt+-. 97#670 - Screen broken occurs when switch back to the Xwindow during in Rotation 98 mode. 99#671 - Very slow to pop up the Exit menu from X windows during in Rotation mode. 100#672 - It doesn't redraw properly in X windows during in Rotation mode. 101#689 - Screen broken when toggle between terminal and desktop during playing in 102 MPEG. 103#705 - Linux CRT only 800x600 or 1024x768 there is no display. 104#864 - Lockup when video is playing and switching to full-screen command shell. 105 106-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 107 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 108 Alpha Release 1.1.8, 11/27/2000 109-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 110 111Fixed bugs: 112 113#640 - X windows shift to the right when start X or apply Rotation. 114 115-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 116 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 117 Alpha Release 1.1.7, 11/17/2000 118-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119 120Fixed bugs: 121 122#676 - Green color only shown in window when run Xlive in Linux. 123#835 - Screen black after DPMS on. 124 125 126-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 127 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 128 Alpha Release 1.1.6, 11/03/2000 129-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130 131Fixed bugs: 132 133#687 - Blue rectangle appears when video is clipped on thr right edge of screen. 134#735 - When resume from sleep, X does not wake up. 135 136-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 137 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 138 Alpha Release 1.1.5, 10/06/2000 139-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 140 141Fixed bugs: 142 143#578 - Don't check for CRT-only when validating modes. 144#579 - Corrected DPI issue when DDC monitor is not attached. 145 146-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 147 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 148 Alpha Release 1.1.4, 09/20/2000 149-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 150 151Fixed bugs: 152 153#521 - Screen corruption after return from X Server when vesafb is used. 154 155-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 156 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 157 Alpha Release 1.1.3, 09/18/2000 158-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 159 160New features: 161 162- Added live video capture. 163 164-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 165 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 166 Alpha Release 1.1.2, 09/14/2000 167-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 168 169Fixed bugs: 170 171#486 - Video scaling wrong on SM720. 172 173-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 174 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 175 Alpha Release 1.1.1, 08/23/2000 176-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 177 178New features: 179 180- Added support for overlays. 181 182-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 183 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0.1 184 Alpha Release 1.1.0, 08/11/2000 185-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 186 187New features: 188 189- Added support for XFree86 4.0.1 server. This implies that support for the 4.0 190 server has gone. Hence the change in the alpha version number from 1.0.x to 191 1.1.x. 192 193-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 194 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0 195 Alpha Release 1.0.2, 08/02/2000 196-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 197 198Fixed bugs: 199 200#161, Corruption when moving windows with a wallpaper background. 201 202-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 203 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0 204 Alpha Release 1.0.1, 07/27/2000 205-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 206 207Fixed bugs: 208 209#160, Mouse pointer sometimes in bad location. 210#258, Temporary corruption starting X. 211 212-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 213 Silicon Motion Driver for XFree86 4.0 214 Alpha Release 1.0.0, 06/05/2000 215-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 216 217This is alpha version 1.0.0 of the Silicon Motion drivers for the XFree86 4.0 218server. See the README file for general information. 219 220This ALPHA version has the following known problems: 221 222- During mode initialization, the screen shows temporary garbage. 223- Image Transfers are disabled in the hardware for now. 224 225This driver has been tested on the LynxEM+ 712 chip under 16-bit mode. Any other 226mode might still show lock-ups and/or garbage. Please report any problems to 227frido@siliconmotion.com. 228 229Header: //Mercury/Projects/archives/XFree86/4.0/Release.txt-arc 1.33 13 Dec 2000 09:52:48 Frido $ 230 231$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/siliconmotion/Release.txt,v 1.7 2001/12/20 21:35:37 eich Exp $ 232