• NAME
  
  glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver
• SYNOPSIS
  

  
   "Section qDeviceq"
     Identifier \*q  devname q
       Driver \*qglint\*q   ...
  
  
    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
  qDeviceq 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
  qDeviceq section.
  
  
  
  Additionally, you may need to specify the bus ID of your card with a
  BusID entry in the config file
  qDeviceq section, especially with FBDev support.
  
  
  
  The following driver
  Options are supported:
  

  Option \*qUseFlatPanel\*q \*q boolean q

  Enable the FlatPanel feature on the Permedia3.  Default: off.
  

  Option \*qSWCursor\*q \*q boolean q

  Enable or disable the SW cursor.  Default: off.
  This option disables the
  HWCursor option and vice versa.
  

  Option \*qNoAccel\*q \*q boolean q

  Disable or enable acceleration.  Default: acceleration is enabled.
  

  Option \*qOverlay\*q

  Enable 8+24 overlay mode.  Only appropriate for depth 24, 32 bpp.
  This hasn't been tested with FBDev support and probably won't work.)
  Recognized values are: "8,24", "24,8". Default: off.
  

  Option \*qPciRetry\*q \*q boolean q

  Enable or disable PCI retries.
  This doesn't work with Permedia2 based cards for Amigas.)  Default: off.
  

  Option \*qShadowFB\*q \*q boolean q

  Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer.
  This disables hardware acceleration.)  Default: off.
  

  Option \*qUseFBDev\*q \*q boolean q

  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 \*qRGBbits\*q \*q integer q

  Each gun of the RGB triple can have either 8 or 10 bits.  Default: 8
  

  Option \*qBlockWrite\*q \*q boolean q

  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 \*qFireGL3000\*q \*q boolean q

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

• SEE ALSO
  
  Xorg(1) , xorg.conf(5) , xorgconfig(1) , Xserver(1) , X(7)
  
• AUTHORS
  
  Authors include: Alan Hourihane, Dirk Hohndel, Stefan Dirsch, Michel D??nzer,
  Sven Luther
  

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