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TRIDENT(4)		     XFree86		       TRIDENT(4)



NAME

       trident - Trident video driver


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

       trident is an XFree86 driver for Trident video cards.  The
       driver is accelerated, and provides support for	the  fol
       lowing framebuffer depths: 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, and 24. Multi-
       head configurations are supported.  The XvImage	extension
       is supported on TGUI96xx and greater cards.


SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       The  trident  driver  supports PCI,AGP and ISA video cards
       based on the following Trident chips:

       Blade	   Blade3D, CyberBlade series i1, i7 (DSTN),  i1,
		   i1  (DSTN),	Ai1,  Ai1  (DSTN), CyberBlade/e4,
		   CyberBladeXPm8,		 CyberBladeXPm16,
		   CyberBladeAi1/XP,  BladeXP NOTE: The XP series
		   are NOT hardware accelerated due to the speci
		   fications of the chip not being released.

       Image	   3DImage975,	3DImage985, Cyber9520, Cyber9525,
		   Cyber9397, Cyber9397DVD

       ProVidia	   9682, 9685, Cyber9382, Cyber9385, Cyber9388

       TGUI	   9440AGi, 9660, 9680

       ISA/VLBus   8900C,  8900D,   9000,   9200CXr,   Cyber9320,
		   9400CXi,  9440AGi These cards have been ported
		   but need furthur testing and may not work.


CONFIGURATION DETAILS

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

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable the SW cursor.	Default: off.

       Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
	      Disable or enable acceleration.  Default: accelera
	      tion is enabled.





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       Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable PCI retries.  Default: off.

       Option "CyberShadow" "boolean"
	      For Cyber chipsets only, turn off shadow registers.
	      If you only see a partial display - this may be the
	      option for you. Default: on.

       Option "CyberStretch" "boolean"
	      For  Cyber  chipsets only, turn on stretching. When
	      the resolution is lower than the LCD's screen, this
	      option  will  stretch the graphics mode to fill the
	      entire LCD. Default: off.

       Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
	      Enable or disable use  of	 the  shadow  framebuffer
	      layer.  Default: off.

       Option "VideoKey" "integer"
	      This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video
	      overlay key.  Default: undefined.

       Option "NoPciBurst" "boolean"
	      Turn off PCI burst mode,	PCI  Bursting  is  on  by
	      default.	Default: off.

       Option "XvHsync" "integer"
	      Override	the default Horizontal-sync value for the
	      Xv extension.  This is used to center the Xv  image
	      on  the screen.  By default the values are assigned
	      based on the video card.	Default: 0.

       Option "XvVsync" "integer"
	      Override the default Vertical-sync value for the Xv
	      extension.   This is used to center the Xv image on
	      the screen.  By default  the  values  are	 assigned
	      based on the video card.	Default: 0.  Option "XvB
	      skew" "integer" Override the  default  Bottom  skew
	      value for the Xv extension.  This is used to extend
	      the Xv image on  the  screen  at	the  bottom.   By
	      default  the values are assigned based on the video
	      card.  Default: 0.

       Option "XvRskew" "integer"
	      Override the default Right skew value  for  the  Xv
	      extension.   This is used to extend the Xv image on
	      the screen at the right.	By default the values are
	      assigned based on the video card.	 Default: 0.


SEE ALSO

       XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)


AUTHOR

       Author: Alan Hourihane



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