XGI Tech driver support:
http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/driver/xf86-video-xgi-1.5.0.tar.bz2

xgi is an Xorg driver for XGI (Xabre Graphics Inc) video chips. The driver is 
accelerated, and provides support for colordepths of 8, 16 and 24 bpp. XVideo, 
Render and other extensions are supported as well. 

The xgi driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following 
chipsets: 
Volari V3XT/V5/V8 Volari Z7 
XGI5597/5598
XGI530/620
XGI6326/AGP/DVD
XGI300/305
XGI 340/342
XGI540
XGI630/730
XGI315/H/PRO
XGI550/551/552
XGI650/651/M650/661FX/M661FX/M661MX/740/741
XGI330 (Xabre)
XGI760

On the XGI301 and the Chrontel 7005, only resolutions up to 800x600
are supported. On all others, resolutions up to 1024x768 are supported.
However, due to a hardware bug, Xvideo might be distorted on XGI video
bridges if running NTSC or PAL-M at 1024x768.

About XVideo support

XVideo is supported on all chipsets of both families. However, there
are some differences in hardware features which cause limitations.
The 300 series as well as the XGI55x, M650, 651, 661FX, M661FX, and
741 support two video overlays. The XGI315/H/PRO, 650/740 and 330 support
only one such overlay. On chips with two overlays, one overlay is used
for CRT1, the other for CRT2. On the other chipsets, the option
XvOnCRT2 can be used to select the desired output channel.

About Merged Framebuffer support
This mode is strongly recommended over Xinerama. Please see
http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxxgivga.shtml for detailed
information.

About dual-head support
Dual head mode has some limitations as regards color depth and
resolution. Due to memory bandwidth limits, CRT1 might have a
reduced maximum refresh rate if running on higher resolutions than
1280x1024. Colordepth 8 is not supported when running in dual head mode.

Comments: This is being researched on Sun Solaris for full 2D/3D hardware 
acceleration concerns.

~ Ken Mays
 
 
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