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<title>Information for newport Users
<author>Guido Günther
<date>16 January 2002
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<sect>Supported Hardware
<p>
This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI Indy's newport cards. Both the
 8bit and 24bit versions are tested and working.


<sect>Features
<p>
<itemize>
  <item> support for 8 and 24 bit pixel depths
</itemize>

<sect>Notes
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>X -configure does not generate a XF86Config file
  <item>Restoration of the console fails on some variants of the newport
  (Cmap revision C)
  <item>There's only a 1280x1024 mode
</itemize>


<sect>Configuration
<p>
The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to
initialize the card.  The only lines you need in the "Device"
section of your XF86Config file are:
<verb>
       Section "Device"
           Identifier "SGI newport"
           Driver     "newport"
       EndSection
</verb>

However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify:
<itemize>
  <item>bitplanes - number of physical bitplanes (8 or 24)
</itemize>

<sect>Authors
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>Guido Guenther <email>agx@sigxcpu.org</email>
</itemize>


<sect>Acknowledgements
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>Gleb O. Raiko <email>raiko@niisi.msk.ru</email> for getting the beast to build
  <item>Ralf Baechle <email>ralf@oss.sgi.com</email> for his patience...
  <item>Ulf Carlsson <email>ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com</email> for comments and elf loader code
  <item>Nina A. Podolskaya <email>nap@niisi.msk.ru</email> for elf loader code
  <item>all the guys who wrote the newport_con linux kernel code
</itemize>

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