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authorAlex Deucher <agd5f@yahoo.com>2004-12-17 19:19:32 +0000
committerAlex Deucher <agd5f@yahoo.com>2004-12-17 19:19:32 +0000
commitac6166158a58b377e7383950c169956f78b62093 (patch)
tree857cc14ea4a0e650454a4483739a8ce9b89e462a /man/r128.man
parentac860ed6bbed84f6fc39a9acf53ee87646cfc8dc (diff)
- Add VGAAccess option to r128 driver. Based on Benh's radeon patch. r128
should now work on ppcs without usefbdev. To use this on ppc make sure you set "usefbdev" to false. (bug 2089) - Apply Benjamin Herrenschmidt's radeon patches (bug 2064)
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diff --git a/man/r128.man b/man/r128.man
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--- a/man/r128.man
+++ b/man/r128.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/r128.man,v 1.4 2002/06/04 23:04:50 dawes Exp $
+.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/r128.man,v 1.3 2001/06/01 02:10:05 dawes Exp $
.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
.ds q \N'34'
.TH R128 __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ r128 \- ATI Rage 128 video driver
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B r128
-is an XFree86 driver for ATI Rage 128 based video cards. It contains
+is an __xservername__ driver for ATI Rage 128 based video cards. It contains
full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths, hardware
acceleration of drawing primitives, hardware cursor, video modes up to
1800x1440 @ 70Hz, doublescan modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240), gamma
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ The
driver supports all ATI Rage 128 based video cards including the Rage
Fury AGP 32MB, the XPERT 128 AGP 16MB and the XPERT 99 AGP 8MB.
.SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS
-Please refer to XF86Config(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
+Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this
driver.
.PP
@@ -123,9 +123,20 @@ are supported:
.BI "Option \*qShowCache\*q \*q" boolean \*q
Enable or disable viewing offscreen cache memory. A
development debug option. Default: off.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qVGAAccess\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+Tell the driver if it can do legacy VGA IOs to the card. This is
+necessary for properly resuming consoles when in VGA text mode, but
+shouldn't be if the console is using radeonfb or some other graphic
+mode driver. Some platforms like PowerPC have issues with those, and they aren't
+necessary unless you have a real text mode in console. The default is
+.B off
+on PowerPC and
+.B on
+on other architectures.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-XFree86(1), XF86Config(__filemansuffix__), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(__miscmansuffix__)
+__xservername__(__appmansuffix__), __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__), xorgconfig(__appmansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), X(__miscmansuffix__)
.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Rickard E. (Rik) Faith \fIfaith@precisioninsight.com\fP