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<title>Information for newport Users
<author>Guido Guenther
<date>1 August 2000
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<sect>Supported Hardware
<p>
This is an unaccelerated driver for the SGI Indy's newport cards. Both the
 8bit and 24bit versions are tested and working with some limitations(see below). 
The 24bit newport additionally works in 8bit mode only.

<sect>Notes
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>X -configure does not generate a XF86Config file
</itemize>


<sect>Configuration
<p>
The following Section "Device" options are supported by the newport driver:
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  <item>Option "bitplanes" "x"
	Gives the maximum number of bitplanes your card supports (8 or 24).
</itemize>


<sect>Authors
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>Guido Guenther <email>guido.guenther@gmx.net</email>
</itemize>


<sect>Acknowledgements
<p>
<itemize>
  <item>Gleb O. Raiko <email>raiko@niisi.msk.ru</email> for getting the beast to build
  <item>Ralf Baechle <email>ralf@oss.sgi.com</email> for his patience...
  <item>Ulf Carlsson <email>ulfc@calypso.engr.sgi.com</email> for comments and the dynamic loader code
  <item>Nina A. Podolskaya <email>nap@niisi.msk.ru</email> for dynamic loader code
  <item>all the guys who wrote the newport_con linux kernel code
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