- The driver is 16 bpp only, 24/32 won't work.
- The driver is not your_favorite_toy-safe. this includes SMP...
[Actually from inspection it seems to be safe - Alan]
- - when using XFree86 FBdev (X over fbdev) you may see strange color
+ - When using XFree86 FBdev (X over fbdev) you may see strange color
patterns at the border of your windows (the pixels lose the lowest
- byte -> basicaly the blue component nd some of the green) . I'm unable
+ byte -> basically the blue component and some of the green). I'm unable
to reproduce this with XFree86-3.3, but one of the testers has this
- problem with XFree86-4. apparently recent Xfree86-4.x solve this
+ problem with XFree86-4. Apparently recent Xfree86-4.x solve this
problem.
- I didn't really test changing the palette, so you may find some weird
things when playing with that.
- - Sometimes the driver will not recognise the DAC , and the
- initialisation will fail. this is specificaly true for
- voodoo 2 boards , but it should be solved in recent versions. please
- contact me .
- - the 24/32 is not likely to work anytime soon , knowing that the
- hardware does ... unusual thigs in 24/32 bpp
- - When used with anther video board, current limitations of linux
- console subsystem can cause some troubles, specificaly, you should
- disable software scrollback , as it can oops badly ...
+ - Sometimes the driver will not recognise the DAC, and the
+ initialisation will fail. This is specifically true for
+ voodoo 2 boards, but it should be solved in recent versions. Please
+ contact me.
+ - The 24/32 is not likely to work anytime soon, knowing that the
+ hardware does ... unusual things in 24/32 bpp.
+ - When used with another video board, current limitations of the linux
+ console subsystem can cause some troubles, specifically, you should
+ disable software scrollback, as it can oops badly ...
Todo
projects / powerpc.git / blobdiff