MirBSD manpage: mga(4)
MGA(4) UNIX Programmer's Manual MGA(4)
NAME
mga - Matrox video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "mga"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
mga is an XFree86 driver for Matrox video cards. The driver
is fully accelerated, and provides support for the following
framebuffer depths: 8, 15, 16, 24, and an 8+24 overlay mode.
All visual types are supported for depth 8, and both
TrueColor and DirectColor visuals are supported for the
other depths except 8+24 mode which supports PseudoColor,
GrayScale and TrueColor. Multi-card configurations are sup-
ported. XVideo is supported on G200 and newer systems, with
either TexturedVideo or video overlay. The second head of
dual-head cards is supported for the G450 and G550. Support
for the second head on G400 cards requires a binary-only
"mga_hal" module that is available from Matrox
<http://www.matrox.com>, and may be on the CD supplied with
the card. That module also provides various other enhance-
ments, and may be necessary to use the DVI (digital) output
on the G550 (and other cards).
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The mga driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the
following Matrox chips:
MGA2064W Millennium (original)
MGA1064SG Mystique
MGA2164W Millennium II
G100
G200 Millennium G200 and Mystique G200
G400
G450
G550
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to XF86Config(5) for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details
specific to this driver.
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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:
"mga2064w", "mga1064sg", "mga2164w", "mga2164w agp",
"mgag100", "mgag200", "mgag200 pci", "mgag400",
"mgag550".
The G450 is Chipset "mgag400" with ChipRev 0x80.
The driver will auto-detect the amount of video memory
present for all chips except the Millennium II. In the Mil-
lennium II case it defaults to 4096 kBytes. When using a
Millennium II, the actual amount of video memory should be
specified with a VideoRam entry in the config file "Device"
section.
The following driver Options are supported:
Option "ColorKey" "integer"
Set the colormap index used for the transparency key
for the depth 8 plane when operating in 8+24 overlay
mode. The value must be in the range 2-255. Default:
255.
Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on.
Option "MGASDRAM" "boolean"
Specify whether G100, G200 or G400 cards have SDRAM.
The driver attempts to auto-detect this based on the
card's PCI subsystem ID. This option may be used to
override that auto-detection. The mga driver is not
able to auto-detect the presence of of SDRAM on secon-
dary heads in multihead configurations so this option
will often need to be specified in multihead configura-
tions. Default: auto-detected.
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration
is enabled.
Option "NoHal" "boolean"
Disable or enable loading the "mga_hal" module.
Default: the module is loaded when available and when
using hardware that it supports.
Option "OverclockMem"
Set clocks to values used by some commercial X-Servers
(G100, G200 and G400 only). Default: off.
Option "Overlay" "value"
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Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for depth
24. Recognized values are: "8,24", "24,8". Default:
off. (Note: the G100 is unaccelerated in the 8+24 over-
lay mode due to a missing hardware feature.)
Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
Enable or disable PCI retries. Default: off.
Option "Rotate" "CW"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise. This
mode is unaccelerated. Default: no rotation.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer.
Default: off.
Option "SyncOnGreen" "boolean"
Enable or disable combining the sync signals with the
green signal. Default: off.
Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of on OS-specific fb interface
(and is not supported on all OSs). See fbdevhw(4) for
further information. Default: off.
Option "VideoKey" "integer"
This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video
overlay key. Default: undefined.
Option "TexturedVideo" "boolean"
This has XvImage support use the texture engine rather
than the video overlay. This option is only supported
by the G200 and G400, and only in 16 and 32 bits per
pixel. Default: off.
SEE ALSO
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: Radoslaw Kapitan, Mark Vojkovich, and also
David Dawes, Guy Desbief, Dirk Hohndel, Doug Merritt, Andrew
E. Mileski, Andrew van der Stock, Leonard N. Zubkoff, Andrew
C. Aitchison.
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