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- Information for NVidia NV1 / SGS-Thomson STG2000, Riva 128 and Riva TNT Users
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- David McKay, Dirk Hohndel
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- 5 November 1998
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- 1. Supported hardware
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- This driver supports good acceleration for both the NV1/STG2000 as well as the
- Riva128. It is known to work on PCI and AGP versions of the Riva128. The Riva
- TNT was added to this driver and is not yet as well accelerated as it could be.
- Still, the server is very usable.
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- 2. Notes
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- o On the NV1/STG2000, the driver does not support the virtual desktop fea-
- tures of xfree86. This is because the NV1 does not have the necessary
- hardware to support this feature. If you want to change resolutions, you
- will have to modify your config file. Comment out all but the mode you
- wish to use.
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- o The generic VGA16 server will not work with the NV1. For this reason
- XF86Setup cannot be used to configure the server for NV1 based cards. Use
- xf86config instead. Select `Diamond Edge 3D' as your board, and select
- only ONE mode for each of 8bpp and 16bpp. Do not select a virtual desk-
- top. Also, make sure you don't select a RAMDAC or clock chip. This does
- not apply if you own a Riva128 or RIVA TNT card, as the VGA16 server works
- just fine on that.
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- o Both the NV1 and the Riva128 only support a 555 RGB Weight in 16 bpp, the
- hardware does not do 565. If you run into problems with some window man-
- agers in 16bpp, try putting a Weight 555 in the Display section.
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- o 24 bpp is not supported.
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- o In some modes the hardware cursor gets out of sync with the display. Use
- Option "sw_cursor" to work around this problem.
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- o There are modelines that confuse the Riva128 chip. This results in a
- greenish display. Slightly modifying the modeline usually fixes the prob-
- lem. In most cases all that is needed is to reduce the HTotal. You can use
- xvidtune to do that.
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- o The low maximum dot clocks for the Riva 128 have been fixed. The driver
- should now utilize the Riva 128 to its full capabilities.
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- Information for NVidia NV1 / SGS-Thomson STG2000, Riva 128 and Riva TNT Users 1
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- Information for NVidia NV1 / SGS-Thomson STG2000, Riva 128 and Riva TNT Users 2
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- 3. Authors
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- o David McKay
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- o David Schmenk <dschmenk@nvidia.com>
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- o Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@XFree86.org>
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- Generated from XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/sgml/NVIDIA.sgml,v 1.1.2.1 1998/11/13 13:00:45 dawes Exp $
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- CONTENTS
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- 1. Supported hardware ....................................................... 1
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- 2. Notes .................................................................... 1
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- 3. Authors .................................................................. 2
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