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## 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 problems), 30, and an 8+24 overlay mode.

## Supported Hardware

The glint driver supports 3Dlabs (GLINT MX, GLINT 500TX, GLINT GAMMA, Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2v, Permedia 3) 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 following ChipSet names may optionally be specified in the config file "Device" section, and will override the auto-detection:

> "ti_pm2", "ti_pm", "pm3", "pm2v", "pm2", "pm", "500tx", "mx", "gamma".

The driver will try to auto-detect the amount of video memory present for all chips. If it's not detected correctly, the actual amount of video memory should be specified 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" section, especially with FBDev support.

The following driver Options are supported:

Option "UseFlatPanel" "boolean"
  Enable the FlatPanel feature on the Permedia3. Default: off.
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: acceleration 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.) Recognized 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. See shadowfb(4) for further information. (Note: This disables hardware acceleration.) Default: off.
Option "UseFBDev" "boolean"
  Enable or disable use of an OS-specific fb interface (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 Permedia 2 chips. This improves acceleration in general, 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.
Option "SetMClk" "freq"
  The driver will try to auto-detect the memory clock for all chips. If it's not detected correctly, the actual value (in MHz) should be specified with this option.

## See Also

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

## Authors

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

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