[PATCH] for Matrox FB config help

Pavel Roskin (proski@gnu.org)
Thu, 31 May 2001 12:24:44 -0400 (EDT)


Hello!

This patch moves the sentence about multihead support where it belongs,
i.e. to CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD, and removes it where it's meaningless,
i.e. from CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MAVEN and CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450.

The patch is against 2.4.5-ac5.

____________________________
--- linux.orig/Documentation/Configure.help
+++ linux/Documentation/Configure.help
@@ -3503,9 +3503,6 @@
too. You can use only some font widths, as the driver uses generic
painting procedures (the secondary head does not use acceleration
engine).
-
- There is no need for enabling 'Matrox multihead support' if you have
- only one Matrox card in the box.

Matrox G450 second head support
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_G450
@@ -3528,9 +3525,6 @@
painting procedures (the secondary head does not use acceleration
engine).

- There is no need for enabling 'Matrox multihead support' if you have
- only one Matrox card in the box.
-
Matrox unified driver multihead support
CONFIG_FB_MATROX_MULTIHEAD
Say Y here if you have more than one (supported) Matrox device in
@@ -3545,6 +3539,9 @@
with insmod, supplying the parameter "dev=N" where N is 0, 1, etc.
for the different Matrox devices. This method is slightly faster but
uses 40 KB of kernel memory per Matrox card.
+
+ There is no need for enabling 'Matrox multihead support' if you have
+ only one Matrox card in the box.

MDA text console (dual-headed)
CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE
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-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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