CHIPS(4) XFree86 CHIPS(4)
NAME
chips - Chips and Technologies video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "chips" ... EndSection
DESCRIPTION
chips is an XFree86 driver for Chips and Technologies video processors. The majority of the Chips and Technolo gies chipsets are supported by this driver. In general the limitation on the capabilities of this driver are deter mined by the chipset on which it is run. Where possible, this driver provides full acceleration and supports the following depths: 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 24 and on the latest chipsets an 8+16 overlay mode. All visual types are sup ported for depth 1, 4 and 8 and both TrueColor and Direct Color visuals are supported where possible. Multi-head configurations are supported on PCI or AGP buses.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The chips driver supports video processors on most of the bus types currently available. The chipsets supported fall into one of three architectural classes. A basic architecture, the WinGine architecture and the newer HiQV architecture. Basic Architecture The supported chipsets are ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546 and ct65548 Color depths 1, 4 and 8 are supported on all chipsets, while depths 15, 16 and 24 are supported only on the 65540, 65545, 65546 and 65548 chipsets. The driver is accelerated when used with the 65545, 65546 or 65548 chipsets, however the DirectColor visual is not available. Wingine Architecture The supported chipsets are ct64200 and ct64300 Color depths 1, 4 and 8 are supported on both chipsets, while depths 15, 16 and 24 are supported only on the 64300 chipsets. The driver is accelerated when used with the 64300 chipsets, however the DirectColor visual is not available. HiQV Architecture The supported chipsets are ct65550, ct65554, ct65555, 4.2.0 Version 1 CHIPS(4) XFree86 CHIPS(4) ct68554, ct69000 and ct69030 Color depths 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 24 and 8+16 are supported on all chipsets. The DirectColor visual is supported on all color depths except the 8+16 overlay mode. Full accelera tion is supplied for all chipsets.
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: "ct65520", "ct65525", "ct65530", "ct65535", "ct65540", "ct65545", "ct65546", "ct65548", "ct65550", "ct65554", "ct65555", "ct68554", "ct69000", "ct69030", "ct64200", "ct64300". The driver will auto-detect the amount of video memory present for all chipsets. But maybe overridden with the VideoRam entry in the config file "Device" section. The following driver Options are supported, on one or more of the supported chipsets: Option "NoAccel" "boolean" Disable or enable acceleration. Default: accelera tion is enabled. Option "NoLinear" "boolean" Disables linear addressing in cases where it is enabled by default. Default: off Option "Linear" "boolean" Enables linear addressing in cases where it is dis abled by default. Default: off Option "HWCursor" "boolean" Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on. Option "SWCursor" "boolean" Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: off. Option "STN" "boolean" Force detection of STN screen type. Default: off. Option "UseModeline" "boolean" Reprogram flat panel timings with values from the modeline. Default: off 4.2.0 Version 2 CHIPS(4) XFree86 CHIPS(4) Option "FixPanelSize" "boolean" Reprogram flat panel size with values from the mod eline. Default: off Option "NoStretch" "boolean" This option disables the stretching on a mode on a flat panel to fill the screen. Default: off Option "LcdCenter" "boolean" Center the mode displayed on the flat panel on the screen. Default: off Option "HWclocks" "boolean" Force the use of fixed hardware clocks on chips that support both fixed and programmable clocks. Default: off Option "UseVclk1" "boolean" Use the Vclk1 programmable clock on HiQV chipsets instead of Vclk2. Default: off Option "FPClock8" "float" Option "FPClock16" "float" Option "FPClock24" "float" Option "FPClock32" "float" Force the use of a particular video clock speed for use with the flat panel at a specified depth Option "MMIO" "boolean" Force the use of memory mapped IO for acceleration registers. Default: off Option "FullMMIO" "boolean" Force the use of memory mapped IO where it can be used. Default: off Option "SuspendHack" "boolean" Force driver to leave centering and stretching reg isters alone. This can fix some laptop sus pend/resume problems. Default: off Option "Overlay" Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for depth 24. Default: off. Option "ColorKey" "integer" Set the colormap index used for the transparency key for the depth 8 plane when operating in 8+16 overlay mode. The value must be in the range 2-255. Default: 255. 4.2.0 Version 3 CHIPS(4) XFree86 CHIPS(4) Option "VideoKey" "integer" This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key. Default: undefined. Option "ShadowFB" "boolean" Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off. Option "SyncOnGreen" "boolean" Enable or disable combining the sync signals with the green signal. Default: off. Option "ShowCache" "boolean" Enable or disable viewing offscreen memory. Used for debugging only Default: off. Option "18bitBus" "boolean" Force the driver to assume that the flat panel has an 18bit data bus. Default: off. Option "Crt2Memory" "integer" In a dual-head mode (69030 only) this option selects the amount of memory to set aside for the second head. If not specified, half the memory is used. Default: off. Option "DualRefresh" "integer" The 69030 supports independent refresh rates on its two display channels. This mode of operations uses additional memory bandwidth and thus limits the maximum colour depth and refresh rate that can be achieved, and so is off by default. Using this option forces the use of an independent refresh rate on the two screens. Default: off.
SEE ALSO
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7) You are also recommended to read the README.chips file that comes with all XFree86 distributions, which discusses the chips driver in more detail.
AUTHORS
Authors include: Jon Block, Mike Hollick, Regis Cridlig, Nozomi Ytow, Egbert Eich, David Bateman and Xavier Ducoin 4.2.0 Version 4
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