GLINT(4) UNIX Programmer's Manual GLINT(4)
NAME
glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "glint"
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DESCRIPTION
glint is an XFree86 driver for 3Dlabs & Texas Instruments
GLINT/Permedia based video cards. The driver is rather fully
accelerated, and provides support for the following frame-
buffer depths: 8, 15 (may give bad results with FBDev sup-
port), 16, 24 (32 bpp recommended, 24 bpp has problems), 30,
and an 8+24 overlay mode.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The glint driver supports 3Dlabs (GLINT MX, GLINT 500TX,
GLINT 300SX, GLINT GAMMA, GLINT DELTA, GLINT GAMMA2, Per-
media, Permedia 2, Permedia 2v, Permedia 3, R3, R4) and
Texas Instruments (Permedia, Permedia 2) chips.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to XF86Config(5) for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details
specific to this driver.
The driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the following
ChipSet names may optionally be specified in the config file
"Device" section, and will override the auto-detection:
"ti_pm2", "ti_pm", "r4", "pm3", "pm2v", "pm2", "pm",
"300sx", "500tx", "mx", "gamma", "gamma2", "delta"
The driver will try to auto-detect the amount of video
memory present for all chips. If it's not detected
correctly, the actual amount of video memory should be
specified with a VideoRam entry in the config file "Device"
section.
Additionally, you may need to specify the bus ID of your
card with a BusID entry in the config file "Device" section,
especially with FBDev support.
The following driver Options are supported:
Option "UseFlatPanel" "boolean"
Enable the FlatPanel feature on the Permedia3.
Default: off.
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Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
Enable or disable the SW cursor. Default: off. This
option disables the HWCursor option and vice versa.
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration
is enabled.
Option "Overlay"
Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for depth
24, 32 bpp. (Note: This hasn't been tested with FBDev
support and probably won't work.) Recognized values
are: "8,24", "24,8". Default: off.
Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
Enable or disable PCI retries. (Note: This doesn't work
with Permedia2 based cards for Amigas.) Default: off.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer.
(Note: This disables hardware acceleration.) Default:
off.
Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of an OS-specific fb interface
(which is not supported on all OSs). See fbdevhw(4)
for further information. Default: off.
Option "BlockWrite" "boolean"
Enable or disable block writes for the various Permedia
2 chips. This improves acceleration in general, but
disables it for some special cases. Default: off.
Option "FireGL3000" "boolean"
If you have a card of the same name, turn this on.
Default: off.
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: Alan Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan
Dirsch, Michel Danzer, Sven Luther
XFree86 Version 4.5.0 2