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@@ -3,11 +3,25 @@ Tridentfb is a framebuffer driver for some Trident chip based cards.
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The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are
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The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are
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tested:
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tested:
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-those from the Image series with Cyber in their names - accelerated
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-those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...) - accelerated
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-the newer CyberBladeXP family - nonaccelerated
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-
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-Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported, none of the older Tridents.
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+those from the TGUI series 9440/96XX and with Cyber in their names
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+those from the Image series and with Cyber in their names
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+those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...)
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+the newer CyberBladeXP family
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+All families are accelerated. Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported,
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+none of the older Tridents.
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+The driver supports 8, 16 and 32 bits per pixel depths.
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+The TGUI family requires a line length to be power of 2 if acceleration
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+is enabled. This means that range of possible resolutions and bpp is
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+limited comparing to the range if acceleration is disabled (see list
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+of parameters below).
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+
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+Known bugs:
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+1. The driver randomly locks up on 3DImage975 chip with acceleration
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+ enabled. The same happens in X11 (Xorg).
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+2. The ramdac speeds require some more fine tuning. It is possible to
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+ switch resolution which the chip does not support at some depths for
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+ older chips.
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How to use it?
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How to use it?
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@@ -17,12 +31,11 @@ video=tridentfb
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The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example.
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The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example.
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-video=tridentfb:800x600,bpp=16,noaccel
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+video=tridentfb:800x600-16@75,noaccel
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The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are:
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The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are:
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noaccel - turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card)
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noaccel - turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card)
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-accel - force text acceleration (for boards which by default are noacceled)
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fp - use flat panel related stuff
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fp - use flat panel related stuff
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crt - assume monitor is present instead of fp
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crt - assume monitor is present instead of fp
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@@ -31,21 +44,24 @@ center - for flat panels and resolutions smaller than native size center the
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image, otherwise use
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image, otherwise use
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stretch
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stretch
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-memsize - integer value in Kb, use if your card's memory size is misdetected.
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+memsize - integer value in KB, use if your card's memory size is misdetected.
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look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing.
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look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing.
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-memdiff - integer value in Kb,should be nonzero if your card reports
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- more memory than it actually has.For instance mine is 192K less than
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+
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+memdiff - integer value in KB, should be nonzero if your card reports
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+ more memory than it actually has. For instance mine is 192K less than
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detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M.
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detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M.
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Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of
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Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of
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- configurable size.Otherwise use memsize.
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- If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage at the bottom
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- this might help by not letting change to that mode anymore.
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+ configurable size. Otherwise use memsize.
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+ If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage
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+ at the bottom this might help by not letting change to that mode
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+ anymore.
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nativex - the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024
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nativex - the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024
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800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it.
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800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it.
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-bpp - bits per pixel (8,16 or 32)
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-mode - a mode name like 800x600 (as described in Documentation/fb/modedb.txt)
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+bpp - bits per pixel (8,16 or 32)
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+mode - a mode name like 800x600-8@75 as described in
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+ Documentation/fb/modedb.txt
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Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver
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Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver
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misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or
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misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or
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