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GLINT(4)		     XFree86			 GLINT(4)



NAME

       glint - GLINT/Permedia video driver


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

       glint  is an XFree86 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 prob
       lems), 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, Per
       media, Permedia 2, Permedia 2v, Permedia 3, R4) and  Texas
       Instruments (Permedia, Permedia 2) chips.


CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please  refer  to  XF86Config(5) for general configuration
       details.	 This section only covers  configuration  details
       specific to this driver.

       The  driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the follow
       ing ChipSet names may optionally be specified in the  con
       fig  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  cor
       rectly, the actual amount of video memory should be speci
       fied 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"  sec
       tion, especially with FBDev support.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "UseFlatPanel" "boolean"
	      Enable  the  FlatPanel  feature  on  the Permedia3.
	      Default: off.





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       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: accelera
	      tion is enabled.

       Option "Overlay"
	      Enable  8+24  overlay  mode.   Only appropriate for
	      depth 24, 32 bpp.	 (Note: This hasn't  been  tested
	      with  FBDev support and probably won't work.)  Rec
	      ognized 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 accelera
	      tion.)  Default: off.

       Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable use of an OS-specific  fb  inter
	      face  (which  is	not  supported	on all OSs).  See
	      fbdevhw(4) for further information.  Default:  off.

       Option "BlockWrite" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable block writes for the various Per
	      media 2 chips. This improves acceleration	 in  gen
	      eral,  but  disables  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
	      XFree86(1),      XF86Config(5),	   xf86config(1),
	      Xserver(1), X(7)


AUTHORS

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









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