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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-02-23 18:30:14 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-02-23 18:30:14 +0000 |
commit | a4e218d86a68de86005cc5755fa9b950cd85e429 (patch) | |
tree | f56a5803084682d8c07747f49b4035c3eb3f7b86 /share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 | |
parent | 360e8b2e1b99e0dc5ed9110354436433701647a2 (diff) |
xf86 becomes a MI manpage
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 deleted file mode 100644 index fa64d1acdba..00000000000 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/xf86.4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,94 +0,0 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: xf86.4,v 1.16 2001/10/05 14:45:54 mpech Exp $ -.\" -.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Matthieu Herrb -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products -.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES -.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. -.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, -.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT -.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, -.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY -.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT -.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF -.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.Dd February 20, 1998 -.Dt XF86 4 i386 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm xf86 -.Nd XFree86 aperture driver -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.Cd "option APERTURE" -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The -.Pa /dev/xf86 -driver provides access to the memory and I/O ports of a VGA board for -use by the XFree86 X servers -when running with a kernel security level > 0. -.Pp -The X servers require the use of this driver. -.Sh ACCESS CONTROL -Access to the -.Pa /dev/xf86 -device is allowed when the sysctl variable -.Va machdep.allowaperture ->= 1. -This variable (which default value is 0) -can only be manipulated when the security level is <= 0, so it should be -set in -.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf . -The possible values for -.Va machdep.allowaperture -are: -.Bl -tag -width Ds -.It 0 -the aperture driver is disabled. -Opening it returns -.Dv EPERM. -.It 1 -the aperture driver allows access to standard VGA framebuffer and -BIOS. -.It 2 -the aperture driver allows access to the whole 1st megabyte of physical -memory, permitting use of the int10 emulation in XFree86 4.0.x. -Note that this can cause some security problems, since the process that -has access to the aperture driver can also access part of the kernel -memory. -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr XF86_Accel 1 , -.Xr XF86_SVGA 1 , -.Xr options 4 , -.Xr sysctl.conf 5 , -.Xr config 8 , -.Xr sysctl 8 -.Sh HISTORY -.Pa /dev/xf86 -was introduced as a loadable kernel module for -.Nx 0.9 c -with XFree86 3.1. -It was integrated as an in-kernel device on -.Ox 2.3 . -It is required in order to allow access to I/O ports for all X servers since -.Ox 2.4 . -.Sh AUTHORS -The aperture driver was written by Matthieu Herrb. -.Sh BUGS -This driver allows access to all addresses above -.Va physmem . -It should be restricted to the actual address range of the video -memory. |