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@@ -3,11 +3,25 @@ Tridentfb is a framebuffer driver for some Trident chip based cards.
3The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are 3The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are
4tested: 4tested:
5 5
6those from the Image series with Cyber in their names - accelerated 6those from the TGUI series 9440/96XX and with Cyber in their names
7those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...) - accelerated 7those from the Image series and with Cyber in their names
8the newer CyberBladeXP family - nonaccelerated 8those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...)
9 9the newer CyberBladeXP family
10Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported, none of the older Tridents. 10
11All families are accelerated. Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported,
12none of the older Tridents.
13The driver supports 8, 16 and 32 bits per pixel depths.
14The TGUI family requires a line length to be power of 2 if acceleration
15is enabled. This means that range of possible resolutions and bpp is
16limited comparing to the range if acceleration is disabled (see list
17of parameters below).
18
19Known bugs:
201. The driver randomly locks up on 3DImage975 chip with acceleration
21 enabled. The same happens in X11 (Xorg).
222. The ramdac speeds require some more fine tuning. It is possible to
23 switch resolution which the chip does not support at some depths for
24 older chips.
11 25
12How to use it? 26How to use it?
13============== 27==============
@@ -17,12 +31,11 @@ video=tridentfb
17 31
18The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example. 32The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example.
19 33
20video=tridentfb:800x600,bpp=16,noaccel 34video=tridentfb:800x600-16@75,noaccel
21 35
22The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are: 36The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are:
23 37
24noaccel - turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card) 38noaccel - turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card)
25accel - force text acceleration (for boards which by default are noacceled)
26 39
27fp - use flat panel related stuff 40fp - use flat panel related stuff
28crt - assume monitor is present instead of fp 41crt - assume monitor is present instead of fp
@@ -31,21 +44,24 @@ center - for flat panels and resolutions smaller than native size center the
31 image, otherwise use 44 image, otherwise use
32stretch 45stretch
33 46
34memsize - integer value in Kb, use if your card's memory size is misdetected. 47memsize - integer value in KB, use if your card's memory size is misdetected.
35 look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing. 48 look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing.
36memdiff - integer value in Kb,should be nonzero if your card reports 49
37 more memory than it actually has.For instance mine is 192K less than 50memdiff - integer value in KB, should be nonzero if your card reports
51 more memory than it actually has. For instance mine is 192K less than
38 detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M. 52 detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M.
39 Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of 53 Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of
40 configurable size.Otherwise use memsize. 54 configurable size. Otherwise use memsize.
41 If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage at the bottom 55 If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage
42 this might help by not letting change to that mode anymore. 56 at the bottom this might help by not letting change to that mode
57 anymore.
43 58
44nativex - the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024 59nativex - the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024
45 800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it. 60 800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it.
46 61
47bpp - bits per pixel (8,16 or 32) 62bpp - bits per pixel (8,16 or 32)
48mode - a mode name like 800x600 (as described in Documentation/fb/modedb.txt) 63mode - a mode name like 800x600-8@75 as described in
64 Documentation/fb/modedb.txt
49 65
50Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver 66Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver
51misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or 67misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or