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90 lines
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Information for newport Users
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Guido Guenther
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24 February 2003
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Table of Contents
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1. Supported Hardware
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2. Features
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3. Notes
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4. Configuration
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5. Authors
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6. Acknowledgements
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[1m1. Supported Hardware[0m
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This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI newport cards (a.k.a. XL)
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as found in the SGI Indy and Indigo2. Both the 8bit and 24bit versions
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are tested and working.
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[1m2. Features[0m
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+o Support for 8 and 24 bit pixel depths
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+o Hardware cursor support to reduce flicker
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[1m3. Notes[0m
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+o X -configure does not generate a xorg.conf file.
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+o There's only a 1280x1024 mode.
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[1m4. Configuration[0m
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The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize
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the card on the Indy. The only lines you need in the "Device" section
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of your xorg.conf file are:
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Section "Device"
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Identifier "SGI newport"
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Driver "newport"
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EndSection
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Indigo2 users have to use the BusID option as documented below.
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However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify:
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+o bitplanes - number of physical bitplanes (8 or 24)
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+o HWCursor - enable or disable hardware cursor
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+o BusID - set this to "1" on the Indigo2 XL
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[1m5. Authors[0m
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+o Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
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[1m6. Acknowledgements[0m
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+o Gleb O. Raiko <raiko@niisi.msk.ru> for getting the beast to build
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+o Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> for his patience...
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+o Ulf Carlsson <ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com> for comments and elf
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loader code
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+o Nina A. Podolskaya <nap@niisi.msk.ru> for elf loader code
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+o all the guys who wrote the newport_con linux kernel code
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