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Add YUY2 and back end scaling on S3 Virge chips in combination with fbdev. Patch by Mark Sanderson < mmp AH kiora POIS ath POIS cx>
author gpoirier
date Wed, 17 May 2006 20:56:49 +0000
parents 4ae8c0169017
children 0cae738a12e1
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--- a/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml	Wed May 17 20:15:02 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/video.xml	Wed May 17 20:56:49 2006 +0000
@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@
 or greater (in case of image problems, try 16bpp). As for S3 Virge: there is
 xv support, but the card itself is very slow, so you better sell it.
 </para>
+<para>
+There is now a native framebuffer driver for S3 Virge cards similiar to 
+tdfxfb.  Set up your framebuffer (eg append
+"<option>vga=792 video=vesa:mtrr</option>" to your kernel) and use
+<option>-vo s3fb</option> (<option>-vf yuy2</option> and <option>-dr</option>
+will also help).
+</para>
 
 <note>
 <para>