Information for SiS Users
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1. Introduction
This driver is written by Thomas Winischhofer and is a (nearly) complete re-write
of a driver written for the SiS6326 and SiS530 by Alan Hourihane and others.
It currently supports the following chipsets:
- old series: 5597/5598, 6236/AGP/DVD, 530/620
- 300 series: 300/305, 540, 630/730
- 315 series: 315, 550, 650, 651, M650, 740
- 330 series: 330 ("Xabre"), 661FX, M661FX, 741, 760
The driver supports:
- 8/16/24 bits color depth; old series also 15;
- XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
- XVideo (Xv)
- Render (XRAND)
- Hardware cursor; 315/330 series: Color HW cursor;
- 6326: TV output
- 300/315/330 series: TV output via Chrontel TV encoders or SiS video bridges
- 300/315/330 series: LCD output via LVDS transmitters or SiS video bridges
- 300/315/330 series: Dual head mode; Xinerama; Merged framebuffer mode;
This document gives an overview over the driver's features and configuration options.
Please see http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml for detailed documentation
and updates. Support for the 661, 741 and 760 is entirely untested as of this writing,
and possibly incomplete for LCD output.
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