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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 fully accelerated, and provides support for the
following framebuffer depths: 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, and 24.
Multi-head configurations are supported. The XvImage
extension is supported on all Blade and Image series
cards. Currently the ZOOM feature doesn't work properly on
the Image series.
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
Image 3DImage975, 3DImage985, Cyber9520, Cyber9525,
Cyber9397, Cyber9397DVD
ProVidia 9682, 9685, Cyber9382, Cyber9385, Cyber9388
TGUI 9440AGi, 9660, 9680
8900 8900D (ISA)
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.
Option "PciRetry" "boolean"
Enable or disable PCI retries. Default: off.
Option "CyberShadow" "boolean"
For Cyber chipsets only, turn off shadow registers.
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If you only see a partial display - this may be the
option for you. Default: on.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer
layer. See shadowfb(4) for further information.
Default: off.
Option "VideoKey" "integer"
This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video
overlay key. NOTE: Default is 0 for depth 15 and
24. This needs fixing. Default: undefined.
Option "NoPciBurst" "boolean"
Turn off PCI burst mode, PCI Bursting is on by
default. Default: off.
SEE ALSOXFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)AUTHOR
Author: Alan Hourihane
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