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rendition - Rendition video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "rendition"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
rendition is an XFree86 driver for Rendition/Micron based video cards. The driver supports following framebuffer
depths: 8, 15 (Verite V1000 only), 16 and 24. Acceleration and multi-head configurations are not supported yet,
but are work in progress.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The rendition driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following Rendition/Micron chips:
V1000 Verite V1000 based cards.
V2100 Verite V2100 based cards. Diamond Stealth II S220 is the only known such card.
V2200 Verite V2200 based cards.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to XF86Config(5x) 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 con-
fig file "Device" section, and will override the auto-detection:
"v1000", "v2x00".
The driver will auto-detect the amount of video memory present for all chips. If the amount of memory is detected
incorrectly, 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 "SWCursor" "boolean"
Disables use of the hardware cursor. Default: use HW-cursor.
Option "OverclockMem" "boolean"
Increases the Mem/Sys clock to 125MHz/60MHz from standard 110MHz/50MHz. Default: Not overclocked.
Option "DacSpeed" "MHz"
Run the memory at a higher clock. Useful on some cards with display glitches at higher resolutions. But
adds the risk to damage the hardware. Use with caution.
Option "FramebufferWC" "boolean"
If writecombine is disabled in BIOS, and you add this option in configuration file, then the driver will
try to request writecombined access to the framebuffer. This can drastically increase the performance on
unaccelerated server. Requires that "MTRR"-support is compiled into the OS-kernel. Default: Disabled for
V1000, enabled for V2100/V2200.
Option "NoDDC" "boolean"
Disable probing of DDC-information from your monitor. This information is not used yet and is only there
for informational purposes. This might change before final XFree86 4.0 release. Safe to disable if you
experience problems during startup of X-server. Default: Probe DDC.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
If this option is enabled, the driver will cause the CPU to do each drawing operation first into a shadow
frame buffer in system virtual memory and then copy the result into video memory. If this option is not
active, the CPU will draw directly into video memory. Enabling this option is beneficial for those sys-
tems where reading from video memory is, on average, slower than the corresponding read/modify/write oper-
ation in system virtual memory. This is normally the case for PCI or AGP adapters, and, so, this option
is enabled by default unless acceleration is enabled. Default: Enabled unless acceleration is used.
Option "Rotate" "CW"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise. This mode is unaccelerated. Default: no rotation.
Notes For the moment the driver defaults to not request write-combine for any chipset as there has been indica-
tions of problems with it. Use Option "MTRR" to let the driver request write-combining of memory access on
the video board.
RELATED
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5x), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)
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