# HG changeset patch
# User diego
# Date 1164141095 0
# Node ID 65d41a1f8fc4b2a2c92dc7fab7d829f5c2b8fcc5
# Parent adbe9d03e6bcf6a1cd81dd8289fe9fc23c9206be
Remove outdated and superfluous video cards section.
diff -r adbe9d03e6bc -r 65d41a1f8fc4 DOCS/xml/en/install.xml
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Tue Nov 21 20:29:42 2006 +0000
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml Tue Nov 21 20:31:35 2006 +0000
@@ -86,159 +86,6 @@
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-Video cards
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-There are generally two kind of video cards. One kind (the newer cards) has
-hardware scaling and YUV acceleration support,
-the other cards don't.
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-YUV cards
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-They can display and scale (zoom) the picture to any size that fits in
-their memory, with small CPU usage (even when
-zooming), thus fullscreen is nice and very fast.
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-
- Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 cards: although a
- Vidix driver is provided, it is recommended to
- use the mga_vid module instead, for it works much better.
- Please see the mga_vid section about its
- installation and usage. It is important to do these steps
- before compiling MPlayer,
- otherwise no mga_vid support will be built. Also check out the
- Matrox TV-out section.
- If you don't use Linux, your only
- possibility is the VIDIX driver: read the VIDIX section.
-
-
- 3Dfx Voodoo3/Banshee cards: please see
- tdfxfb section in order to gain big speedup.
- It is important to do these steps before
- compiling MPlayer, otherwise no 3Dfx support will be
- built.
- If you use X, use at least 4.2.0, as 3dfx Xv
- driver was broken in 4.1.0, and earlier releases.
-
-
- ATI cards: VIDIX
- driver is provided for the following cards:
- Radeon, Rage128, Mach64 (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).
- Also see the ATI cards section of the TV-out documentation,
- to know if you card's TV-out is supported under Linux/MPlayer.
-
-
- S3 cards: the Savage and Virge/DX chips have
- hardware acceleration. Use as new XFree86 version as possible, older drivers are
- buggy. Savage chips have problems with YV12 display, see S3 Xv
- section for details. Older, Trio cards have no, or slow hardware support.
-
-
- nVidia cards: may or may not be good choice for video playing.
- If you do not have a GeForce2 (or newer) card, it's not likely to work without bugs.
- the built-in nVidia driver in XFree86 does not support
- hardware YUV acceleration on all nVidia cards. You have
- to download nVidia's closed-source drivers from nVidia.com.
- See the nVidia Xv driver section for details. Please also check
- the nVidia TV-out section if you wish to
- use a TV.
-
-
- 3DLabs GLINT R3 and Permedia3: a VIDIX driver
- is provided (pm3_vid). Please see the VIDIX section
- for details.
-
-
- Other cards: none of the above?
-
-
- Try if the XFree86 driver (and your card) supports hardware
- acceleration. See the Xv section for details.
-
-
- If it doesn't, then your card's video features aren't supported under
- your operating system :( If hardware scaling works under Windows, it
- doesn't mean it will work under Linux or other operating system, it depends on
- the drivers. Most manufacturers neither make Linux drivers nor release
- specifications of their chips - so you are unlucky if using their cards.
- See .
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-Non-YUV cards
-
-
-Fullscreen playing can be achieved by either enabling
-software scaling (use the or option,
-but I warn you: this is slow), or switching to a smaller video mode, for example
-352x288. If you don't have YUV acceleration, this latter method is recommended.
-Video mode switching can be enabled by using the option and
-it works with the following drivers:
-
-
- using XFree86: see details in DGA driver and
- X11 driver sections. DGA is recommended! Also
- try DGA via SDL, sometimes it's better.
-
-
- not using XFree86: try the drivers in the
- following order:
- vesa,
- fbdev,
- svgalib,
- aalib.
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-
-Cirrus-Logic cards
-
-
- GD 7548: present on-board and tested in Compaq Armada 41xx notebook series.
-
-
- XFree86 3: works in 8/16bpp modes. However, the driver is dramatically slow
- and buggy in 800x600@16bpp. Recommended: 640x480@16bpp
-
-
- XFree86 4: the Xserver freezes soon after start unless acceleration is
- disabled, but then the whole thing gets slower than XFree86 3. No XVideo.
-
-
- FBdev: framebuffer can be turned on with the clgenfb
- driver in the kernel, though for me it worked only in 8bpp, thus unusable.
- The clgenfb source had to be extended with the 7548 ID before compilation.
-
-
- VESA: the card is only VBE 1.2 capable, so VESA output can't be used. Can't
- be workarounded with UniVBE.
-
-
- SVGAlib: detects an older Cirrus chip. Usable but slow with
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