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authorAlexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>2004-03-17 20:30:32 +0000
committerAlexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>2004-03-17 20:30:32 +0000
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@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ graphics chipsets. The following chipsets are supported:
<itemize>
<item> 6422
- Old chipset. The driver is still very unstable, including computer
- crashes. You would prefer using XFree86 3.3.x for this chipset.
+ Old chipset. The driver is still very unstable and has computer
+ crashes. You should use XFree86 3.3.x for this chipset.
<item> AT24
@@ -63,16 +63,16 @@ Full DGA 2.0 support with framebuffer access and drawing acceleration.
<sect> Video
<p>
-A limited hardware support for video decoding on AT24 and AT25/3D. It can
-display an image in YUV colours inside the desktop. There are some more exotic
-formats (YUV 4.1.1, YUV 4.0.0, RGB 8,16.32bpp).
+It has limited hardware support for video decoding on the AT24 and AT25/3D. It can
+also display an image in YUV colours inside the desktop. There are some more exotic
+formats such as YUV 4.1.1, YUV 4.0.0 and RGB 8,16.32bpp.
<sect> Shadow framebuffer
<p>
-There is a mode, called shadow framebuffer, where the graphics is only used
+There is a mode, called shadow framebuffer, where the graphics are used
to display the images. All rendering is done in memory in a so-called shadow
framebuffer. This mode is useful if you need lots of reading in the video
-memory. You will have to put
+memory and to use it you will have to put
<verb>
Option "ShadowFB"
</verb>
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ in your XF86Config file.
<sect> Configuration
<p>
-First: Please run the xf86config program to create a correct
+First: Run the xf86config program to create a correct
configuration.
You can turn off hardware cursor by inserting the following line in the
@@ -101,12 +101,12 @@ Or turn off MMIO
Option "nolinear"
</verb>
-Please don't specify the amount of video RAM you have or which chipset
-you have in the config file, let the driver probe for this. Also please
+Do not specify either the amount of video RAM or which chipset
+in the config file. It is better to let the driver probe for this. Also
don't put any "clocks" line in the device section since these chips have
-a fully programmable clock that can take (almost) any modeline you throw
-at it. It might fail at some specific clock values but you should just
-try a slightly different clock and it should work.
+a fully programmable clock that can almost take any modeline you throw
+at it. It might though fail at some specific clock values but in that case
+you should just try a slightly different clock and it should work.
<sect> glide2x
<p>