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big review ! (translators curse me:)

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II. OpenGL drivers with *working* *fast* glTexSubImage() support.

   Currently only the old Utah-GLX drivers (for X 3.3.6) have it.
   See http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for details about how to install it.

   The new X4/DRI and nVidia's binary drivers has no usable glTexSubImage :(

III. Native card-specific drivers

There is 3 native drivers for Linux:
1. Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) support -> mga_vid kernel drv.
  It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and it has hardware VSYNC support
  with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X.
  
  To use, simply compile the mga_vid.o in the drivers/ subdir (type: make)
  and load it with insmod mga_vid.o. You should verify the memory size
  detection using the 'dmesg' command. If it's bad, use the mga_ram_size
  option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's memory size in MB:
    insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16

  Using it from MPlayer:  (you should re-compile it with mga_vid support...)
  
  Use the 'mga' vo driver on framebuffer console (matroxfb): -vo mga
  and use the xmga driver for X 3.3.x: -vo xmga

  Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in
  order for MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be
  forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your
  card & monitor.


b, You want to use framebuffer...
  ... Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure .
  Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources
  (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !

  ... but your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI
  cards, such as S3 Trio64) :
  Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display
  Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux.  Use a DOS boot disk or
  whatever.  And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))

  NOTE : FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer,

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II. OpenGL drivers with *working* *fast* glTexSubImage() support.

   Currently only the old Utah-GLX drivers (for X 3.3.6) have it.
   See http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net for details about how to install it.

   The new X4/DRI and nVidia's binary drivers have no usable glTexSubImage :(

III. Native card-specific drivers

There is 3 native drivers for Linux:
1. Matrox G200/G400/G450 BES (Back-End Scaler) support -> mga_vid kernel drv.
  It's active developed by me (A'rpi), and it has hardware VSYNC support
  with triple buffering. It works on both framebuffer console and under X.
  
  To use, simply compile the mga_vid.o in the drivers/ subdir (type: make)
  create /dev/mga_vid device :
	mknod /dev/mga_vid c 178 0
  and load the driver with insmod mga_vid.o. You should verify the memory size
  detection using the 'dmesg' command. If it's bad, use the mga_ram_size
  option (rmmod mga_vid first), specify card's memory size in MB:
    insmod mga_vid.o mga_ram_size=16
  To make it load/unload automatically when needed, insert the following line
  at the end of /etc/modules.conf :
	alias char-major-178 mga_vid

  Using it from MPlayer:  (you should re-compile it with mga_vid support...)
  
  Use the 'mga' vo driver on framebuffer console (matroxfb): -vo mga
  and use the xmga driver for X 3.3.x: -vo xmga

  Of course you'll have to install svgalib and its development package in
  order for MPlayer build its SVGAlib driver (autodetected, but can be
  forced), and don't forget to edit /etc/vga/libvga.config to suit your
  card & monitor.

  Try the aalib target ('-vo sdl -sdl aalib'), it's great! :)

b, You want to use framebuffer...
  ... Whether to build the FBdev target is autodetected during ./configure .
  Read the framebuffer documentation in the kernel sources
  (Documentation/fb/*) for info on how to enable it, etc.. !

  ... but your card doesn't support VBE 2.0 standard (older ISA/PCI
  cards, such as S3 Trio64), only VBE 1.2 (or older?) :
  Well, VESAfb is still available, but you'll have to load SciTech Display
  Doctor (formerly UniVBE) before booting Linux.  Use a DOS boot disk or
  whatever.  And don't forget to register your UniVBE ;))

  NOTE : FBdev video mode changing _does not work_ with the VESA framebuffer,