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.Dd April 26, 1999
.Dt PX 4 pmax
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm px
.Nd
driver for TURBOchannel ``PixelStamp'' accelerated graphics boards
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "px0 at tc?"
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the
.Tn DEC
.Tn PixelStamp
video display option cards:
.Pp
.Bl -item -compact
.It
PMAG-C (PX) 8 plane, 2D
.It
PMAG-D (PXG) 8 plane, 3D, 128kB SRAM
.It
PMAG-E (PXG+) 24 plane, 3D, 128kB SRAM
.It
PMAG-F (PXG+ Turbo) 24 plane, 3D, 256kB SRAM, Z-Buffer
.El
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rcons 4 ,
.Xr tc 4
.Sh BUGS
Interrupt handling, packet queuing and hardware clipping for the
.Nm PXG
are totally broken. Support for the
.Nm i860
co-processor must first be added.
.Pp
The X server is a work in progress.
.Pp
3D geometry acceleration is not supported, and probably never will be.
.Pp
Only one of the listed boards can be installed at any given time. Work is
underway to remove this restriction.
.Sh AUTHOR
Andy Doran
.Aq ad@netbsd.org .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Nx 1.3 .
It became usable as a console device in
.Nx 1.5 .