GLINT(4)                                                                                                                GLINT(4)



NAME
       glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver

SYNOPSIS
       Section "Device"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "glint"
         ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION
       glint  is  an  Xorg  driver  for  3Dlabs & Texas Instruments GLINT/Permedia based video cards. The driver is rather fully
       accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15 (may give bad results with FBDev  support),
       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, Permedia,
       Permedia 2, Permedia 2v, Permedia 3, R3, R4) and Texas Instruments (Permedia, Permedia 2) chips.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS
       Please refer to xorg.conf(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.

       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  sup-
              port 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 fur-
              ther information.  Default: off.

       Option "BlockWrite" "boolean"
              Enable  or  disable block writes for the various Permedia 2 chips. This improves acceleration in general, but dis-
              ables it for some special cases.  Default: off.

       Option "FireGL3000" "boolean"
              If you have a card of the same name, turn this on.  Default: off.


       SEE ALSO
              Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS
       Authors include: Alan Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan Dirsch, Michel Danzer, Sven Luther



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