What is XGIfb?
This is a frame buffer driver for XGI Graphics chips .
This driver supports Z7, Z9, Z9s and Z11 chips and DVI output.
Advantages:
* It provides a nice graphic text console.
* support DirectFB
XGIfb driver is modified from sisfb driver and the basic code base is
almost the same.
The difference is that XGIfb's setmode functions is based on the XGI
Z-series chips.
So, XGIfb can support Z9/Z9s/Z11 DVI output and is developed for XGI
Z-series chips with more completed features support than sisfb.
(1). xgifb-kernel2.6.tgz is for Linux Kernel 2.6
(2). xgifb-kernel2.4.tgz is for Linux Kernel 2.4