Information for Chips and Technologies Users : Introduction
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1. Introduction

The Chips and Technologies driver release in X11R6.9 came from XFree86 4.4 rc2; this document was originally included in that release and has been updated modestly to reflect differences between X11R6.9 and XFree86 4.4 rc2.

With the release of XFree86 version 4.0, the Chips and Technologies driver has been extensively rewritten and contains many new features. This driver must be considered work in progress, and those users wanting stability are encouraged to use the older XFree86 3.3.x versions. However this version of the Chips and Technologies driver has many new features and bug fixes that might make users prefer to use this version. These features include

This document attempts to discuss the features of this driver, the options useful in configuring it and the known problems. Most of the Chips and Technologies chipsets are supported by this driver to some degree.


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