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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
