Supported video-card chip-sets

# 4 Supported video-card chip-sets

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At this time, XFree86 3.1.1 supports the following accelerated chipsets:

8514/A

  (and true clones)

ATI

  Mach8, Mach32, Mach64

Cirrus

  CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434

S3

  86C911, 86C924, 86C801, 86C805, 86C805i, 86C928, 86C864, 86C964, 86C732, 86C764

Western Digital

  WD90C31, WD90C33

Weitek

  P9000

IIT

  AGX-014, AGX-015, AGX-016

Tseng

  ET4000/W32, ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p

The Cirrus, Western Digital and Oak accelerators are supported in the SVGA server; the other chipsets each have their own server. A list of some cards which the accelerated servers have been tested is included in the files AccelCards, Devices, and some of the chipset-specific `README` files. They may well work on other cards, but we cannot guarantee it.

In addition, the following SVGA chipsets are supported:

Tseng

  ET3000, ET4000AX, ET4000/W32

Western Digital/Paradise

  PVGA1

Western Digital

  WD90C00, WD90C10, WD90C11, WD90C24, WD90C30, WD90C31,WD90C33

Genoa

  GVGA

Trident

  TVGA8800CS, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL, TVGA9000, TVGA9000i, TVGA9100B, TVGA9200CX, TVGA9320, TVGA9400CX, TVGA9420

ATI

  18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5, 28800-6, 68800-3, 68800-6, 68800AX, 68800LX, 88800

NCR

  77C22, 77C22E, 77C22E+

Cirrus Logic

  CLGD5420, CLGD5422, CLGD5424, CLGD5426, CLGD5428, CLGD5429, CLGD5430, CLGD5434, CLGD6205, CLGD6215, CLGD6225, CLGD6235, CLGD6410, CLGD6412, CLGD6420, CLGD6440

Compaq

  AVGA

OAK

  OTI067, OTI077, OTI087

Avance Logic

  ALG2101, ALG2228, ALG2301, ALG2302, ALG2308, ALG2401

Chips & Technology

  65520, 65530, 65540, 65545

MX

  MX68000, MX680010

Video 7/Headland Technologies

  HT216-32

All of the above are supported in both 256 color and monochrome modes, with the exception of the Advance Logic, MX, Chips & Technology and Video 7 chipsets, which are only supported in 256 color mode.

Refer to the chipset-specific `README` files (currently for Cirrus, Tseng, Western Digital, ATI, Trident, Oak and Video 7) for more information about using those chipsets.

The monochrome server also supports generic VGA cards, using 64k of video memory in a single bank, the Hercules monochrome card, the Hyundai HGC1280, Sigma LaserView, Visa and Apollo monochrome cards. On the Compaq AVGA, only 64k of video memory is supported for the monochrome server, and the GVGA has not been tested with more than 64k.

The VGA16 server supports memory banking with the ET4000, Trident, ATI, NCR, OAK and Cirrus 6420 chipsets allowing virtual display sizes up to about 1600x1200 (with 1MB of video memory). For other chipsets the display size is limited to approximately 800x600.

Note: The Diamond SpeedStar 24 (and possibly recent SpeedStar+) boards are NOT supported, even though they use the ET4000. The Stealth 32 which uses the ET4000/W32p is also not supported. Most other Diamond boards will work with this release of XFree86. Historically the information required for this support was only available under non-disclosure. As of September 27, 1994, Diamond has verbally agreed to provide The XFree86 Project, Inc. with detailed information about Diamond products. This should permit us to better support these in future versions of XFree86.

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