1GLINT(4)                   Kernel Interfaces Manual                   GLINT(4)
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NAME

6       glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver
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SYNOPSIS

9       Section "Device"
10         Identifier "devname"
11         Driver "glint"
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DESCRIPTION

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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SUPPORTED HARDWARE

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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CONFIGURATION DETAILS

29       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration  details.   This
30       section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
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32       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:
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36           "ti_pm2",  "ti_pm",  "r4",  "pm3",  "pm2v",  "pm2",  "pm", "300sx",
37           "500tx", "mx", "gamma", "gamma2", "delta"
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39       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.
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44       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
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48       The following driver Options are supported:
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50       Option "UseFlatPanel" "boolean"
51              Enable the FlatPanel feature on the Permedia3.  Default: off.
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53       Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
54              Enable  or  disable  the  SW cursor.  Default: off.  This option
55              disables the HWCursor option and vice versa.
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57       Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
58              Disable  or  enable  acceleration.   Default:  acceleration   is
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61       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.
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67       Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
68              Enable or disable PCI retries.  (Note: This  doesn't  work  with
69              Permedia2 based cards for Amigas.)  Default: off.
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71       Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
72              Enable  or  disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer.  (Note:
73              This disables hardware acceleration.)  Default: off.
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75       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.
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80       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.
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85       Option "FireGL3000" "boolean"
86              If you have a card of the same name,  turn  this  on.   Default:
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90       SEE ALSO
91              Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
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AUTHORS

94       Authors  include:  Alan  Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan Dirsch, Michel
95       Dänzer, Sven Luther
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99X Version 11                xf86-video-glint 1.2.4                    GLINT(4)