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, it has 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? XiG might be able to drop it in.

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."

TrueType Font RenderingSupport 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.

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). This allows you to make the quality of the Video Window outstanding.

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.

Power Throttle Module
This feature is really nice for laptop users. XiG has gone to extra lengths to reduce the amount of power used by the entire graphics sub-system and CPU to cut the flow of electrons. The result is up to 1 hour of extra battery life. Saves power on desktops, too, but who notices?

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 says 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. The Sager 8887 uses a separate PCI-bus TV Tuner, so the Video Window feature does not apply.

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 conver all the laptops that have the hardware to support this feature, but we are working on it. Graphics card support will come later.