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6 glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver
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9 Section "Device"
10 Identifier "devname"
11 Driver "glint"
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16 glint is an Xorg driver for 3Dlabs & Texas Instruments GLINT/Permedia
17 based video cards. The driver is rather fully accelerated, and provides
18 support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15 (may give bad
19 results with FBDev support), 16, 24 (32 bpp recommended, 24 bpp has
20 problems), 30, and an 8+24 overlay mode.
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23 The glint driver supports 3Dlabs (GLINT MX, GLINT 500TX, GLINT 300SX,
24 GLINT GAMMA, GLINT DELTA, GLINT GAMMA2, Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia
25 2v, Permedia 3, R3, R4) and Texas Instruments (Permedia, Permedia 2)
26 chips.
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29 Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
30 section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
31 The driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the following ChipSet
33 names may optionally be specified in the config file "Device" section,
34 and will override the auto-detection:
35 "ti_pm2", "ti_pm", "r4", "pm3", "pm2v", "pm2", "pm", "300sx",
37 "500tx", "mx", "gamma", "gamma2", "delta"
38 The driver will try to auto-detect the amount of video memory present
40 for all chips. If it's not detected correctly, the actual amount of
41 video memory should be specified with a VideoRam entry in the config
42 file "Device" section.
43 Additionally, you may need to specify the bus ID of your card with a
45 BusID entry in the config file "Device" section, especially with FBDev
46 support.
47 The following driver Options are supported:
49 Option "UseFlatPanel" "boolean"
51 Enable the FlatPanel feature on the Permedia3. Default: off.
52 Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
54 Enable or disable the SW cursor. Default: off. This option
55 disables the HWCursor option and vice versa.
56 Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
58 Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is
59 enabled.
60 Option "Overlay"
62 Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for depth 24, 32
63 bpp. (Note: This hasn't been tested with FBDev support and
64 probably won't work.) Recognized values are: "8,24", "24,8".
65 Default: off.
66 Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
68 Enable or disable PCI retries. (Note: This doesn't work with
69 Permedia2 based cards for Amigas.) Default: off.
70 Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
72 Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. (Note:
73 This disables hardware acceleration.) Default: off.
74 Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
76 Enable or disable use of an OS-specific fb interface (which is
77 not supported on all OSs). See fbdevhw(4) for further informa‐
78 tion. Default: off.
79 Option "BlockWrite" "boolean"
81 Enable or disable block writes for the various Permedia 2 chips.
82 This improves acceleration in general, but disables it for some
83 special cases. Default: off.
84 Option "FireGL3000" "boolean"
86 If you have a card of the same name, turn this on. Default:
87 off.
88 The Permedia 2 xv driver supports some additional options:
90 Option "Device" "string"
92 A path to the Permedia 2 kernel driver. This is required for Xv
93 support.
94 Option "InputBuffers" "integer"
96 Sets the number of buffers for incoming data. Minimum of 1, max
97 of 2.
98 Option "InputFramesPerSec" "integer"
100 Expected frames per second for incoming data.
101 Option "InputEncoding" "string"
103 The encoding that input data will have.
104 Option "OutputBuffers" "integer"
106 This should probably set the number of buffers for outgoing
107 data. It actually does nothing.
108 Option "OutputFramesPerSec" "integer"
110 Expected frames per second for outgoing data.
111 Option "OutputEncoding" "string"
113 The encoding to put output data in.
114 SEE ALSO
117 Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
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120 Authors include: Alan Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan Dirsch, Michel
121 Dänzer, Sven Luther
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