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| High Performance 2D Graphics Accelerated-X Summit products provide the industry's fastest graphics performance regardless of color depth.. Whether on a desktop, a new laptop or one of the "big iron" professional cards, Summit's 2D quality and performance is unsurpassed. |
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| Comprehensive Monitor & Flat Panel Support Summit products include a support library for a large selection of CRT monitors and Flat Panel products. |
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| Broad I/O Device Support International and custom keyboards, joysticks, spaceballs, touchscreens (on monitors), USB mice and keyboards, Wacom and Intuos tablets and all supported. Additionally, we have the "Velvet Mouse," that smoothly running cursor. You can have multiple devices as the core pointer. Want to configure your input device buttons. Easy. Got a special request? We might be able to drop it in. |
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| USB Support For mouse and keyboards, on both Linux and Solaris. |
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| Virtual Desktop A virtual desktop is enabled when the viewport size exceeds the display size. So the display "window" moves around the bigger visual, creating what we call "panning." |
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| Color Magic Module This new feature provides you the ability to easily and accurately set your system's color parameters. Gamma, brightness, contrast and so on are setup through the Graphical Setup Utility (another neat new feature in Summit). Allows you to make the quality of the Video Window outstanding. |
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| TrueType Font Rendering Support is also provided for other fonts, such as Speedo and Type 1. Provides broader selection of font choices. TrueType font support is provided through the help of the FreeType Project. |
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| OpenGL 3D Accelerated-X Rendering Summit v2.2 has one of the fastest hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics rendering pipelines in the industry. From inexpensive embedded motherboard graphics chips to the awesome graphics chipsets on the Wildcat cards, Summit OpenGL graphics drivers get the most out of the graphics hardware. Not only high graphics speed, but powerful features, too, are presented. For example, quad-buffered Stereo graphics is available on basically all graphics cards (the limitiation is the amount of memeory on the card), and some laptops (on ext monitor). Overlay plane support is standard. That's TRUE overlay plane support, not that stuff that XFree86 sez is overlay support. DualView is available on some cards, and nearly all laptops. Other cards will only support dual displays, which is a far cry from DualView. Ten-bit color, dual rendering pipelines (soon quad pipes), accumulation buffer support and so on. Summit is OpenGL 1.3 compliant now (soon to be 1.4), is GLX 1.4 compliant, has Direct Rendering capability, comes with a highly tuned X services kernel module for Linux and Solaris. Check out the benchmarks. Good stuff. We hope you agree. |
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| XiG Direct Access Mode When the OpenGL client application is on the same machine as the X server, the X Window System protocol can be bypassed, allowing the app to "grab control" directly of the graphics hardware. This greatly speeds up 3D performance. There are some pitfalls, of course, and some restrictions. Since the X server is not protecting you, the app can really screw things up, so be careful. It is fast though ;-). We call this access method XDA, for XiG Direct Access. I know, I know, but it was the best name we could find. |
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| VMWare FullScreen Compatible Some Summit Editions provide full screen capability when using VMWare. Otherwise, VMWare operates as a normal X application in a window. Check the feature list for the Editions in the Series you are shopping. |
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| Touch Screen Support Some monitors need a touch screen. Summit supports touch screens in some of the Editions. The laptops that have built-in touch screens are supported by special request (and for an extra charge). In either case, a TS Callibratation Utility is provided. |
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| Overlay Planes Support Some graphics hardware has a separate "overlay plane" that can be used to create a top window that does not wipe out the big, complex rendered image under it (or simple ones, for that matter). A temporary window can be opened, moved and closed without effecting the underlying image. Saves a lot of render time. If the card has the overlay plane, Summit supports it in some of the Editions. For more detailed info (pdf) |
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| Stereo 3D Quad-buffered Stereo. On cards that you would not think would support stereo. Well, you do need a lot of graphics memory (we recommend at least 32MB), and a monitor with at least 100Hz vertical refresh. If you are running Linux, you must have 2.4.x. StereoGraphics CrystalEyes® and StereoEyes are also supported. The graphics cards that do not have a separate stereo connector can require the use of an adapter between the card's monitor connector and the monitor. This adapter comes with theStereoGraphics products. |
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| Power Throttle Module This feature is really nice for laptop users. We have gone to extra lengths to reduce the amount of power used by the entire graphics sub-system to cut the flow of electrons. Yeah, we do things with the CPU, too. The result is up to 3 hours (that's right, three) of extra battery life. Saves power on desktops, too, but who notices? |
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| Dual Rasterizing Channel Support This is a "Big Iron" card support feature. Graphics cards that have multiple rendering channels can have rasterizers working simultaneously on different pieces of the same image. Makes for some really fast imaging. It only works on the cards that have the hardware, naturally. Cards such as Wildcat 5110, Oxygen GVX420, GVX210, and the Toronado 3000. We will probably see more, though. |
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| Multi-head Support for 4 Heads Bronze and Gold Summit Multi-head servers support up to four independent graphics heads. The heads can be on a single card, two cards or four cards. SingleLogicalScreen is not (yet) supported. |
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| Multi-head Support - Up To Sixteen Heads If your system can accomodate sixteen graphics heads, the Silver and Platinum Summit Multi-head Products can handle the sixteen screens. Each is a separate screen, with different (if desired) resolutions, color depths, refresh rates. No, SingleLogicalScreen configurations are not yet available. Working on it. |
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| TV In and Video Window Accelerated-X Summit products support the XVideo extension, including QueryPortAttributes and XvImage related functions for those cards that have video window hardware with YUV-to-RGB conversion and upscaling. With the color management parameters set up with the Graphical Setup Utility, the video display is really nice. Fast, clean, and accurate. Did he make it? All three features - TV In, TV Out, and Video Window - are available with the appropriate Summit Edition if the hardware is there. TV Out on laptops is particularly attractive for turning your laptop into a presentation device. and is described elsewhere. Watching the ball game on your desktop is, uh, kinda neat, but the boss might not be rooting for the same team.
The graphic above illustrates the fast configuration wherein the video data do not transverse the PCI bus; digital video data transfers are all on-card. Other configurations, such as using a separate card for video capture and with or without a tuner, are possible. These will require digital video data be transmitted over the PCI bus. The separate video capture card would be controlled by XvPutImage and the V4L kernel driver. MPEG playback would also utilize XvPutImage. |
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| Powerful Graphical Setup Utility No more trying to configure complex capabilities in text mode. Now you can point & click, and move sliders to setup all those wonderful features in the Summit Products. The Graphical Setup display even gives you the Product Code of the particular Demo you are using. (You will need that Product Code if you purchase a License Key to turn off the timers in the demo). Setting gamma and other color control parameters is now a breeze. "Chin up, look at the little dot, and tell me when ..." just kidding. But it is easy and very complete. AND, a lot of the features can be controlled in real-time, eliminating the necessity of re-starting the X server. Take it on a trial run - Setup Utility |
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| TV Out Some laptop and graphics cards have the necessary hardware to support the TV Out feature that allows the RGB image on the display to be also be displayed on a TV set. Sales people who use their laptops as presentation devices find this feature quite useful. - the image on the LCD screen is also presented on a large TV set in front of the audience. Currently a limited number of LX drivers support this feature, mostly those that use the Savage and SuperSavage graphics chips, and the notebooks that use the ATI Mobility RADEON, Mobility RADEON 7500, and 9000, and FireGL7800 chips. Since the feature is supported on a driver-by-driver basis, it will take some time to convert all the laptops that have the hardware to support this feature, but we are working on it. Graphics card support will come later.
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