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Update manpage to remove Rotate option and point at xorg.conf instead. 

While here, update a few other bits as well.
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Eric Anholt 2007-03-26 12:45:23 -07:00
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@ -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