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6 r128 - ATI Rage 128 video driver
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9 Section "Device"
10 Identifier "devname"
11 Driver "r128"
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16 r128 is an Xorg driver for ATI Rage 128 based video cards. It contains
17 full support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths, hardware accelera‐
18 tion of drawing primitives, hardware cursor, video modes up to
19 1800x1440 @ 70Hz, doublescan modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240), gamma
20 correction at all pixel depths, a fully programming dot clock and
21 robust text mode restoration for VT switching. Dualhead is supported
22 on M3/M4 mobile chips.
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25 The r128 driver supports all ATI Rage 128 based video cards including
26 the Rage Fury AGP 32MB, the XPERT 128 AGP 16MB and the XPERT 99 AGP
27 8MB.
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30 Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
31 section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
32 The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize
34 the card. However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can
35 specify:
36 VideoRam - in kilobytes
38 MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer
39 IOBase - physical address of the MMIO registers
40 ChipID - PCI DEVICE ID
41 In addition, the following driver Options are supported:
43 Option "SWcursor" "boolean"
45 Selects software cursor. The default is off.
46 Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
48 Enables or disables all hardware acceleration. The default is
49 to enable hardware acceleration.
50 Option "EnablePageFlip" "boolean"
52 Enable page flipping for 3D acceleration. This will increase
53 performance but not work correctly in some rare cases, hence the
54 default is off.
55 Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
57 Enables or disables hardware Render acceleration. It is only
58 supported when using EXA acceleration and DRI. The default is
59 to enable Render acceleration.
60 Option "AccelMethod" "string"
62 Chooses between available acceleration architectures. Valid
63 options are XAA and EXA. XAA is the traditional acceleration
64 architecture and support for it is very stable. EXA is a newer
65 acceleration architecture with better performance for the Render
66 and Composite extensions. The default is XAA.
67 Option "Dac6Bit" "boolean"
69 Enables or disables the use of 6 bits per color component when
70 in 8 bpp mode (emulates VGA mode). By default, all 8 bits per
71 color component are used. The default is off.
72 Option "VideoKey" "integer"
74 This overrides the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay
75 key. The default value is undefined.
76 The following Options are mostly important for non-x86 architectures:
79 Option "ProgramFPRegs" "boolean"
81 Enable or disable programming of the flat panel registers.
82 Beware that this may damage your panel, so use this at your own
83 risk. The default depends on the device.
84 Option "PanelWidth" "integer"
86 Option "PanelHeight" "integer"
88 Override the flat panel dimensions in pixels. They are used to
89 program the flat panel registers and normally determined using
90 the video card BIOS. If the wrong dimensions are used, the sys‐
91 tem may hang.
92 Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
94 Enable or disable use of an OS-specific framebuffer device
95 interface (which is not supported on all OSs). See fbdevhw(4)
96 for further information. Default: on for PowerPC, off for other
97 architectures.
98 Option "DMAForXv" "boolean"
100 Try or don't try to use DMA for Xv image transfers. This will
101 reduce CPU usage when playing big videos like DVDs, but may
102 cause instabilities. Default: off.
103 The following additional Options are supported:
106 Option "ShowCache" "boolean"
108 Enable or disable viewing offscreen cache memory. A development
109 debug option. Default: off.
110 Option "VGAAccess" "boolean"
112 Tell the driver if it can do legacy VGA IOs to the card. This is
113 necessary for properly resuming consoles when in VGA text mode,
114 but shouldn't be if the console is using radeonfb or some other
115 graphic mode driver. Some platforms like PowerPC have issues
116 with those, and they aren't necessary unless you have a real
117 text mode in console. The default is off on PowerPC and SPARC
118 and on on other architectures.
119 Dualhead Note: The video BIOS on some laptops interacts strangely with
122 dualhead. This can result in flickering and problems changing modes on
123 crtc2. If you experience these problems try toggling your laptop's
124 video output switch (e.g., fn-f7, etc.) prior to starting X or switch
125 to another VT and back.
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129 Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
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132 Rickard E. (Rik) Faith faith@precisioninsight.com
133 Kevin E. Martin kevin@precisioninsight.com
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