[summit-announce] Summit for Matrox Parhelia released

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Xi Graphics is pleased to announce the release of Version 2.4-1 of 
Accelerated X Summit for Matrox Parhelia cards.

     The new servers can be found at:

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

     Solaris WX
     ftp://ftp.xig.com/pub/Summit/solaris/workstation/


Support for the following Matrox cards are provided for Linux and
Solaris/Intel platforms:

  Millenium P650           (Silver only)
  Millenium P750           (Silver only)
  Parhelia 128             (Silver/Platinum)
  Parhelia 256             (Silver/Platinum)
  Parhelia HR 256          (Silver/Platinum)
  Parhelia QID             (Silver only)
  Parhelia QID Pro         (Silver/Platinum)
  Parhelia SGT             (Platinum Only)


Features include:

- High-performance, hardware accelerated OpenGL v1.4 in Platinum Editions

- ARB_vertex_program extension added

- Hardware overlay planes on supported hardware:

  Parhelia 128/256
  Parhelia HR 256
  Parhelia QID Pro
  Parhelia SGT

  The Parhelia 128 and 256 do not support Overlays or 256 colors in
  TripleView mode.

- Hardware accelerated RENDER extension

- QUXGA-W panel resolution (3840x2400) supported on certain hardware

- Two completely independent X screens can be configured on DualView
  setups.

- Dual, Triple, and Quad-View modes are supported on certain hardware.

- Up to 6 simultaneous Video Windows (MPEG) Supported


## The following is a snippet from the release notes for this release:

- OpenGL 1.4 is now supported and reflected in the libGL.so library
  version number.

- added ARB_vertex_program extension

  This can be disabled by running the following command before
  starting a Direct Rendering application:

  export OGL_NO_VERTEX_PROGRAM=1

- added GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3

- added ARB_vertex_buffer_object extension, and fixed several caching
  problems with the existing ATI_vertex_array_object extension.

- added GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate extension.

- added support for multiple XVideo Image ports (up to 6).

- added Triple and Quad support within the DualView framework.

- various issues with DrawElements and texture validation could cause
  crashes.

- generateMipMap could start the mipmap filtering at the wrong level
  and therefore produce an inconsistant mipmap pyramid.

- major display list improvements, including performance enhancements
  and a reduction in the memory consumed.

- addressed Solaris 9 interactivity problem

- installer updates:

  - account properly in Xservers file for Solaris 10 systems.
  - save off /usr/X11/bin/X as well on S10 systems.
  - under Linux, account for TLS versions of GL/GLU

  NOTE: S10 b72 is not supported in xsvc yet - a kernel API has
  changed.  Do not try this on S10 b72 build yet.

  Thank you for choosing Accelerated X!

  Xi Graphics, Inc.
  http://www.xig.com/

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