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authorUoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid>2011-01-31 03:44:50 +0200
committerUoti Urpala <uau@glyph.nonexistent.invalid>2011-01-31 16:03:10 +0200
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vidix: drop VIDIX support
By now VIDIX is too obscure to justify the amount of code and complexity it requires in the sources. Although there is no pressing need to drop it just now from a code point of view, I'll rather remove it before release than release with VIDIX support and then drop it later. Some of the manpage mentions of VIDIX were in "this option supported for these VOs" lists that looked outdated and failed to mention vdpau for example. Replace such incorrect lists with a generic "not supported for all VOs" mention.
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-lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library
-=======================================
-
-This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different
-OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent.
-
-The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace
-video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving).
-
-For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported
-as working' list (these platforms are used daily):
- Linux/x86
- FreeBSD/x86
- NetBSD/x86
- Linux/PPC
-
-There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that.
-With root privileges libdha will run fine, but there are some others ways
-to use it as a normal user:
-1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root privileges)
-2, use svgalib kernel helper (please read the comment in the Makefile)
-3, use dhahelper (not yet finished)
-
-The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project)
-sources.
-
-Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi.
-Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi.
-Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av.
-(for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)