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[summit-announce] Summit 2.1 Released



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Thanks for using Xi Graphics products!

Xi Graphics is pleased to announce the release
of Summit 2.1, which is a free upgrade for 2.0
users (the 2.0 keys will work on 2.1, no need
for a new key).  The new version contains many
improvements and support for new hardware:

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| Version 2.1 Changes                                                  |
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- New card/chip support in Summit Servers since 2.0

  - 3dlabs Wildcat 5110
  - Appian X
  - Appian Hurricane
  - Appian Hurricane and ATI Radeon VE now supported in MX server
  - ATI Radeon 8500
  - Evans & Sutherland Tornado 3000
  - Intel i810
  - Voodoo 4500 and 5500
  - Toshiba Satellite Pro 4200 (savage ix 8MB XGA)
  - Dell Inspiron 4100 (mobile radeon 16MB SXGA+)
  - Dell Inspiron 4000 (mobility M3 (rage) 8MB XGA)
  - Dell Inspiron 5000e (mobility M3 (rage) 16MB SXGA+)
  - Dell Inspiron 8100 (mobility radeon 7500 64MB UXGA)
  - Dell Inspiron 7500 (mobility M1 (mach 64) 8MB XGA)
  - IBM A30p (mobile radeon 32MB UXGA)

- New input device support, fixes

  - new Intuos II support 
  - new Logitech Cordless Trackman support
  - Elo Touchscreen bug fixed
  - problem with PS/2 mouse on Dell Laptops fixed (new .dcf file
provided)
  - missing Sun Type6 keyboard map.

- improved MMX/SSE/SSE2 support (requires a 2.4.x kernel on Linux).
  Solaris' kernel cannot support these instructions.

- Xsetup (graphical) now lets you change your keyboard mapping on the
fly.

- MultiHead DualView configurations are now supported.

- workstation cards supported on Solaris now.

- missing s3 modules in LX server have been found.

- Fullscreen VMWare fixes for S3 Savage and ATI chipsets.

- display list fixes and performance improvements.

- many minor fixes to the OpenGL rendering pipeline, improving
  correctness.

- Performance Improvements.  Many improvements to performance across
  all chips and cards have been added.  Some benchmark results have
  more than doubled.

- Several stereo related issues have been fixed across the board.

  - Corruption seen with Opaque window moves
  - Problems doing stereo on SMP machines
  - problems doing stereo on Linux 2.2x kernels

- Issues with the 'O' application fixed.

  - broken stereo
  - problems displaying the application's menus

- A problem with font ordering is fixed (where broken applications
  would end up displaying little squares instead of the characters
  desired when Unicode fonts were also installed).  

- LockMouse bug in Xaccel.ini fixed. 

- G400/G450/G550 Multihead fixes and significant performance
  improvements in certain operations.

- packaging fixes

  - There is no longer a conflict dependency against Mesa.  Too many
    distros package Mesa strangely, making it difficult and sometimes
    impossible to remove it.  The packages will simply locate and
    move any Mesa libraries and includes safely out of the way.
  - other improvements to cleanup and restore the prior configuration
    if you should ever want to remove this package.

- The xsvc package has been updated.  See README.xsvc for the changes.

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The new demo 2.1 Summit servers and their
corresponding text files can be found in
the following directories:

DX:
ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/linux/desktop/

LX:
ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/linux/laptop/

MX:
ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/linux/multihead/

WX:
ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/linux/workstation/

The new version of xsvc can be found at:
ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/

Cordially,
Xi Graphics Support
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