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minor hacks by Keith Packard)
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<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//XFree86//DTD linuxdoc//EN" [
<!DOCTYPE linuxdoc PUBLIC "-//Xorg//DTD linuxdoc//EN" [
<!ENTITY % defs SYSTEM "defs.ent"> %defs;
]>
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
<date>5 October 2003
<ident>
$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/SiS.sgml,v 3.8 2003/10/19 19:29:14 dawes Exp $
$Id$
Based on $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/SiS.sgml,v 3.8 2003/10/19 19:29:14 dawes Exp $
</ident>
<!-- Table of contents -->
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ It currently supports the following chipsets:
The driver supports:
<itemize>
<item>8/16/24 bits color depth; old series also 15;
<item>XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
<item>XAA
<item>XVideo (Xv)
<item>Render (XRAND)
<item>Hardware cursor; 315/330 series: Color HW cursor;
@@ -47,11 +48,11 @@ Please see http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml for detailed documentat
and updates. Support for the 661, 741 and 760 is entirely untested as of this writing,
and possibly incomplete for LCD output.
<sect> XF86Config Options <p>
<sect> xorg.conf Options <p>
The following options are of particular interest for the SiS
driver. Each of them must be specified in the Device section of the
XF86Config file for this card.
xorg.conf file for this card.
<sect1>For all chipsets<p>
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ XF86Config file for this card.
<descrip>
<tag>Option "MaxXFBMem"</tag>
DRI requires the linux kernel's SiS framebuffer driver "sisfb" and some
other modules which come with either the linux kernel or XFree86. (On *BSD,
other modules which come with either the linux kernel or X11R&relvers;. (On *BSD,
the DRI driver does not require any framebuffer driver.)
Sisfb takes care of memory management for texture data. In order to prevent
the X driver and sisfb from overwriting each others video memory, sisfb
@@ -168,7 +169,8 @@ XF86Config file for this card.
the amount of RAM sisfb reserved. For this purpose, the Option "MaxXFBMem" exists.
XFree 4.3.0 disabled SiS DRI support due to a lack of maintenance of the SiS DRI
driver. XFree86 4.4 contains a newly written SiS DRI driver by Eric Anholt.
driver. X11R&relvers; and X11R&relvers; and XFree86 4.4 contains a newly written
SiS DRI driver by Eric Anholt.
If you intend to use DRI, I recommend setting the total video memory in the BIOS
to 64MB in order to at least overcome the lack of memory swap functions.