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Information for Rendition (Micron) Verite Users
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The XFree86 Project Inc.
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9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic <dejan.ilic@home.se>
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9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic "dejan.ilic@home.se"
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____________________________________________________________
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Table of Contents
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3. Important notices
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4. Features
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5. xorg.conf Option
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6. News in the X11R6.8 release
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6. News in the X11R7.5 release
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7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release
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8. Major changes in this release
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9. Bugfixes
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______________________________________________________________________
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[1m1. Supported hardware[0m
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1. Supported hardware
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All cards based on the V1000 or the V2x00 should be supported. The
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server was tested on a miroCRYSTAL VRX (V1000), Intergraph Intense-100
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(V2200), Innovision Warrior3D (V2200) and Genoa V-Raptor (v2200).
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[1m2. Limitations[0m
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2. Limitations
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V1000 cards can only work as primary display card due to hardware
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limitations.
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[1m3. Important notices[0m
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3. Important notices
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Some V1000-based video cards are known to lock up the computer if you
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have write-combine activated. Disabling it removes the problem. Look
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driver with the most basic features. Support for multi-head support
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and acceleration are next on the list of features to be included.
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[1m4. Features[0m
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4. Features
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+o Hardware acceleration
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o Hardware acceleration
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+o Hardware cursor
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o Hardware cursor
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+o Supported color depths
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o Supported color depths
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+o 8 bits per pixel (256 pseudo colour)
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o 8 bits per pixel (256 pseudo colour)
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+o 15 bits per pixel (actually 16-bits with RGB-weight 555, 32768
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o 15 bits per pixel (actually 16-bits with RGB-weight 555, 32768
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colors)
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+o 16 bits per pixel (high colour, RGB-weight 565, 65536 colors)
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o 16 bits per pixel (high colour, RGB-weight 565, 65536 colors)
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+o 32 bits per pixel (true colour, sparse 24bit, 16M colors)
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o 32 bits per pixel (true colour, sparse 24bit, 16M colors)
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[1m5. xorg.conf Option[0m
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5. xorg.conf Option
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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Disables use of the hardware cursor.
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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Run the memory at a higher clock. Useful on some cards with
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display glitches at higher resolutions. But adds the risk to
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damage the hardware. Use with caution.
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[1mDacSpeed[0m
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DacSpeed
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Set custom ramdac limit. We have currently no way of knowing if
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the v2x00 chip is a v2100 (170MHz) or v2200 (203MHz and 230MHz)
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so we assume the lowest. Use this option to manually override
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the value.
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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If writecombine is disabled in BIOS, and you add this option in
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configuration file, then the driver will try to request
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writecombined access to the framebuffer. This can drastically
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increase the performance on unaccelerated server. Requires that
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"MTRR"-support is compiled into the OS-kernel.
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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Disable probing of DDC-information from your monitor. This
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information is not used yet and is only there for informational
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purposes. This might have changed before final XFree86 4.0
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release. Safe to disable if you experience problems during
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startup of X-server.
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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If this option is enabled, the driver will cause the CPU to do
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each drawing operation first into a shadow frame buffer in
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system virtual memory and then copy the result into video
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for PCI or AGP adapters, and, so, this option is enabled by
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default unless acceleration is enabled.
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[1mOption[0m
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Option
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The option expect a value "CW" for clockwise or "CCW" for
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counterclockwise rotation of the screen. This is useful when you
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need more height then width on the screen. Desktop publishing is
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default.
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[1m6. News in the X11R6.8 release[0m
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6. News in the X11R7.5 release
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This driver was originally part of the XFree86 4.4 rc2 release.
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[1m7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release[0m
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7. News in the XFree86 4.1 release
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+o DirectColor support
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o DirectColor support
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+o SilkenMouse support
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o SilkenMouse support
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[1m8. Major changes in this release[0m
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8. Major changes in this release
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+o Gamma works now for >8bpp
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o Gamma works now for >8bpp
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[1m9. Bugfixes[0m
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9. Bugfixes
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+o Only some code cleanup done. No real bugfixes.
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o Only some code cleanup done. No real bugfixes.
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[1m10. Known problems in current driver[0m
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10. Known problems in current driver
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+o The acceleration code hangs the computer during X-server startup.
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o The acceleration code hangs the computer during X-server startup.
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+o DDC-probing does not work correctly yet. No DDC information is
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o DDC-probing does not work correctly yet. No DDC information is
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found.
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+o Switching from display to VC and back to display can lock up V2x00
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o Switching from display to VC and back to display can lock up V2x00
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cards.
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+o When scrolling the virtual display on a V1000 card parts of the
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o When scrolling the virtual display on a V1000 card parts of the
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screen will become distorted. Problem disappears when you continue
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moving around. V2x00 does not exhibit this problem. Probably a bug
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in the driver rather than a limitation of the chip.
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+o Depth 15 & 16 has problems with colors when DirectColor is used.
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o Depth 15 & 16 has problems with colors when DirectColor is used.
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[1m11. Work in progress (not finished in time for release)[0m
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11. Work in progress (not finished in time for release)
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+o Acceleration is disabled for the moment. If you want to play with
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o Acceleration is disabled for the moment. If you want to play with
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it enable the "USE_ACCEL" define in rendition.c file! Beware as it
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has several bugs left to clear out before if is stable for general
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use.
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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//Xorg//DTD linuxdoc//EN"[
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<!ENTITY % defs SYSTEM "defs.ent"> %defs;
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<!ENTITY % defs SYSTEM "X11/defs.ent"> %defs;
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]>
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<article>
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<title>Information for Rendition (Micron) Verité Users
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<author>The XFree86 Project Inc.
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<date>9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic <email>dejan.ilic@home.se</email>
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<ident>
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<date>9 June 2000, last update by Dejan Ilic "dejan.ilic@home.se"
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