From b19ea222727ed47b69d28a03242c09d3a6ab2673 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Anholt Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:01:29 -0700 Subject: Update the README.sgml file for the upcoming release. --- README.sgml | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------- 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.sgml') diff --git a/README.sgml b/README.sgml index 2aba95fd..0ff713d2 100644 --- a/README.sgml +++ b/README.sgml @@ -3,31 +3,31 @@ ]>
-Information for i810 Users -<author>Precision Insight, Inc. -<date>3 March 2000 -<ident> -$XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/i810.sgml,v 1.4 2001/04/04 01:34:18 dawes Exp $ -</ident> +<title>Information for Intel graphics driver users +<author>Eric Anholt +<date>206-08-04 <toc> <sect>Introduction <p> -This document provides a brief summary of the i810/i815 support provided -by the i810 driver. Support for later chipsets is not covered here. -More up to date information about the i810 driver can be found in the +This document provides a brief summary of the Intel graphics support provided +by the xf86-video-intel driver. More information can also be found in the <htmlurl name="i810(4)" url="i810.4.html"> manual page. <sect>Supported Hardware <p> <itemize> - <item>Intel 810 motherboards: - <itemize> - <item>i810, - <item>i810-dc100, - <item>i810e - <item>i815 - </itemize> + <item>i810, + <item>i810-dc100, + <item>i810e + <item>i815 + <item>i830 + <item>i845 + <item>i852 + <item>i855 + <item>i915 + <item>i945 + <item>i965 </itemize> @@ -35,42 +35,31 @@ More up to date information about the i810 driver can be found in the <p> <itemize> <item>Full support for 8, 15, 16, and 24 bit pixel depths. - <item>Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker. <item>Hardware accelerated 2D drawing engine support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths. - <item>Support for high resolution video modes up to 1600x1200. - <item>Fully programmable clock supported. - <item>Robust text mode restore for VT switching. + <item>Hardware accelerated 3D drawing using OpenGL and the DRI. + <item>Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker. + <item>Textured video XV implementation on i915 through i965. + <item>Hardware overlay XV implementation up through i945. + <item>Screen resize and rotation on chipsets up through i945. + <item>Screen resize on i965. </itemize> <sect>Technical Notes <p> <itemize> - <item>Hardware acceleration is not possible when using the framebuffer - in 32 bit per pixel format, and this mode is not supported by - this driver. <item>Interlace modes cannot be supported. - <item>This driver currently only works for Linux/ix86 and recent versions - of FreeBSD. It requires the agpgart kernel support, which is + <item>This driver requires kernel support for AGP, which is included in Linux kernels 2.3.42 and higher, and FreeBSD 4.1 and higher. </itemize> -<sect>Reported Working Video Cards -<p> -<itemize> - <item>Intel evaluation hardware - i810, i810-dc100, i810e and i815. - <item>Tyan Tomcat Motherboard. - <item>HappyPC set-top box. -</itemize> - - <sect>Configuration <p> The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to -initialize the card. The only lines you need in the "Device" +initialize the card. The only lines you should need in the "Device" section of your xorg.conf file are: <verb> Section "Device" @@ -78,45 +67,51 @@ section of your xorg.conf file are: Driver "i810" EndSection </verb> -or let <tt>xorgconfig</tt> do this for you. - -However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify: -<itemize> - <item>DacSpeed - in MHz - <item>MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer - <item>IOBase - physical address of the memory mapped IO registers -</itemize> In order to use most resolutions, it is necessary to install the 'agpgart.o' module. You will probably have to compile the module yourself (see the notes in the module). -Note: the i810 driver detects whether your motherboard has display cache -video memory. This memory is has reduced bandwidth compared to normal -system memory, and isn't used by the server. The main function of this -memory is for ancillary buffers (eg. z buffer) in a forthcoming 3d -capable server. - - <sect>Driver Options <p> -<itemize> - <item>"NoAccel" - Turn off hardware acceleration - <item>"SWCursor" - Request a software cursor (hardware is default) - <item>"Dac6Bit" - Force the use of a 6 Bit Dac (8 Bit is the default) -</itemize> +Please refer to the <htmlurl name="i810(4)" url="i810.4.html"> manual page +for information on configuration options. + <sect>Known Limitations <p> <itemize> - <item>No 3D support in this release. - <item>Running two X servers on different VTs is not supported at this time. + <item>Many systems with Intel graphics have issues with setting video modes +at larger than some small maximum resolution. This is not fixed in the current +release, but is being actively worked on in the modesetting branch. + <item>Bug #5774: Some systems have issues with VT switching. This should +be fixed with the modesetting brach integration. + <item>Bug #5817: Hotkey switching from LVDS to CRT breaks CRT output. This +is a known issue, but will not be fixed in the current release. + <item>Bug #6635: Video is output from an incorrect offset in the framebuffer. +This is expected to be fixed with the modesetting branch integration. + <item>GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc is not supported. We can't support the +extension due to patent restrictions on compression, but may be able to support +an option for partial extension support in the future. For now, this prevents +Quake4 and some other games from running. + <item>Some X Test Suite cases sometimes fail due to a timeout. These cases +include: Xt8/XtResizeWindow, Xt8/XtQueryGeometry, Xt9/XtAppAddInput, +Xt9/XtRemoveInput, Xt9/XtAppAddTimeOut, Xt9/XtRemoveTimeOut, Xt9/XtAddGrab, +Xt9/XtRemoveGrab. + <item>Some X Test Suite cases fail in 64-bit mode: Xlib9/XDrawArc, +XDrawImageString, XDrawLine, XDrawRectangle, XDrawSegments, XFillArc, +XFillPolygon, XFillRectangle, XPutImage, Xt11/XtVaGetSubresources, +XtSetSubvalues, and XtVaSetSubvalues. + <item>Some GLEAN test cases fail if DRI is enabled: pointAtten, +readPixSanity, texCombine, texCube, texEnv, texgen, coloredTexPerf2, and +coloredLitPerf2. </itemize> <sect>Author <p> <itemize> + <item>Eric Anholt <item>Keith Whitwell </itemize> @@ -129,8 +124,10 @@ The XFree86 version of this driver was donated to The XFree86 Project by: USA </verb> -<htmlurl name="http://www.precisioninsight.com" - url="http://www.precisioninsight.com"> +The X.Org version of this driver is maintained by Intel Corporation. + +<htmlurl name="http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org" + url="http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org"> </article> -- cgit v1.2.3