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diff --git a/xorg-server/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/README b/xorg-server/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..27cc337d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/xorg-server/hw/xfree86/fbdevhw/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +This is a submodule to access linux framebuffer devices. +It is supported to work as helper module (like vgahw) +for the chipset drivers. There are functions for +saving/restoring/setting video modes, set palette entries, +and a few more helper functions. Some of them can be +hooked directly into ScrnInfoRec. + +In ../drivers/fbdev is a "chipset" driver. It is a simple, +non-accelerated and hardware-independent driver which works +on top of this fbdevhw submodule. + + Gerd + +-- +Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de> |