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authorKeith Packard <keithp@neko.keithp.com>2007-02-01 22:48:44 -0800
committerKeith Packard <keithp@neko.keithp.com>2007-02-01 22:48:44 -0800
commit785a59ead0e8d1d681b2cb6827ee58ad2c51f8c6 (patch)
treed9bcd7dc81d2065f2434deb97d5c50bab79ea057 /man
parent1dde7a15a3a42b881c57ece95feceffadf412cff (diff)
Rename driver from i810 to intel. Permit old name for compatibility.modesetting-rotation
Driver installs as intel_drv.so with symlink to i810_drv.so to ensure existing configurations continue to work. Updated manual page to reflect name change and add attributions for recent work.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/intel.man (renamed from man/i810.man)23
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/i810.man b/man/intel.man
index 2215c7a4..b932632c 100644
--- a/man/i810.man
+++ b/man/intel.man
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/i810/i810.man,v 1.5 2003/10/18 02:27:07 dawes Exp $
.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
.ds q \N'34'
-.TH I810 __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
+.TH intel __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
.SH NAME
-i810 \- Intel 8xx integrated graphics chipsets
+intel \- Intel integrated graphics chipsets
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B "Section \*qDevice\*q"
.BI " Identifier \*q" devname \*q
-.B " Driver \*qi810\*q"
+.B " Driver \*qintel\*q"
\ \ ...
.B EndSection
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.B i810
+.B intel
is an __xservername__ driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets.
The driver supports depths 8, 15, 16 and 24. All visual types are
supported in depth 8. For the i810/i815 other depths support the
@@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ supports hardware accelerated 3D via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
(DRI), but only in depth 16 for the i810/i815 and depths 16 and 24 for
the 830M and later.
.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE
-.B i810
+.B intel
supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM,
865G, 915G, 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q and 946GZ chipsets.
@@ -58,11 +57,6 @@ reduce performance for 3D applications. Note however, that increasing
this value too much will reduce the amount of system memory available
for other applications.
.PP
-The driver makes use of the video BIOS to program video modes for the 830M
-and later. This limits the video modes that can be used to those provided
-by the video BIOS, and to those that will fit into the amount of video memory
-that the video BIOS is aware of.
-.PP
The following driver
.B Options
are supported
@@ -179,6 +173,7 @@ Jeff Hartmann, Mark Vojkovich, Alan Hourihane, H. J. Lu. 830M and 845G
support reworked for XFree86 4.3 by David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 852GM,
855GM, and 865G support added by David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 915G,
915GM, 945G, 945GM, 965G, 965Q and 946GZ support added by Alan Hourihane and
-Keith Whitwell. Dual Head, Clone and lid status support added by Alan
-Hourihane. Textured video support for 915G and later chips added by Keith
-Packard and Eric Anholt.
+Keith Whitwell. Lid status support added by Alan Hourihane. Textured video
+support for 915G and later chips, RandR 1.2 and hardware modesetting added
+by Eric Anholt and Keith Packard. EXA and Render acceleration added by Wang
+Zhenyu. TV out support added by Zou Nan Hai and Keith Packard.