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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2007-03-26 12:45:23 -0700
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2007-03-26 12:45:23 -0700
commit827dc457a4fd0b97c95ec696ec9c3cd2f4a4becb (patch)
treee64737c143aadba9a5dd80ebe4607af53a270271
parentd5727717c9141be28a69b1154ccd23c23207f8f6 (diff)
downloadxorg-driver-xf86-video-intel-827dc457a4fd0b97c95ec696ec9c3cd2f4a4becb.tar.gz
Update manpage to remove Rotate option and point at xorg.conf instead.
While here, update a few other bits as well.
-rw-r--r--man/intel.man36
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/intel.man b/man/intel.man
index 32aa7c12..0268d0b7 100644
--- a/man/intel.man
+++ b/man/intel.man
@@ -37,25 +37,23 @@ i815 family of chipset, operating system support for allocating system
memory for video use is required in order to use this driver. For the 830M
and later, this is required in order for the driver to use more video ram
than has been pre-allocated at boot time by the BIOS. This is usually
-achieved with an "agpgart" or "agp" kernel driver. Linux, and recent
-versions of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have such kernel drivers available.
+achieved with an "agpgart" or "agp" kernel driver. Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
+and NetBSD have such kernel drivers available.
.PP
-By default 8 Megabytes
-of system memory are used for graphics. For the 830M and later, the
-default is 8 Megabytes when DRI is not enabled and 32 Megabytes with
-DRI is enabled. This amount may be changed with the
+By default, the i810 will use 8 megabytes
+of system memory for graphics. For the 830M and later, the driver will
+automatically size its memory allocation according to the features it will
+support. The amount of memory used may be limited by using the
.B VideoRam
entry in the config file
.B "Device"
-section. It may be set to any reasonable value up to 64MB for older
-chipsets or 128MB for newer chipsets. It is advisable to check the
+section. Limiting the amount of memory used may result in features being
+disabled, so if you choose to configure it, it is advisable to check the
__xservername__
-log file to check if any features have been disabled because of insufficient
+log file to see if any features have been disabled because of insufficient
video memory. In particular, DRI support or tiling mode may be disabled
with insufficient video memory. Either of these being disabled will
-reduce performance for 3D applications. Note however, that increasing
-this value too much will reduce the amount of system memory available
-for other applications.
+reduce performance for 3D applications.
.PP
The following driver
.B Options
@@ -123,13 +121,6 @@ other drivers.
Disable or enable XVideo support.
Default: XVideo is enabled for configurations where it is supported.
.TP
-.BI "Option \*qRotate\*q \*q90\*q"
-Rotate the desktop 90 degrees counterclockwise. Other valid options are
-0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees. The RandR extension is used for rotation
-functionality. So this option allows the Xserver to start with a rotated
-mode of operation.
-Default: 0 degrees.
-.TP
.BI "Option \*qLinearAlloc\*q \*q" integer \*q
Allows more memory for the offscreen allocator. This usually helps in
situations where HDTV movies are required to play but not enough offscreen
@@ -185,6 +176,13 @@ Choose acceleration architecture, either "XAA" or "EXA". XAA is the old
simpler acceleration architecture designed to better accelerate the X Render
extension. Default: "XAA".
+.PP
+The 830M and newer driver supports RandR 1.2, exposing the VGA, LVDS
+(laptop panel), TMDS (DVI on SDVO/DVO cards), and TV (on 915GM/945GM)
+outputs. Per-output configuration is done through the
+.B Monitor
+section of __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__).
+
.SH "SEE ALSO"
__xservername__(__appmansuffix__), __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__), xorgconfig(__appmansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), X(__miscmansuffix__)
.SH AUTHORS