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i810 - Intel 8xx integrated graphics chipsets
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "i810"
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i810 is an XFree86 driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets.
The driver supports depths 8, 15, 16 and 24. All visual types are supported
in depth 8. For the i810/i815 other depths support the TrueColor and DirectColor
visuals. For the 830M and later, only the TrueColor visual is supported
for depths greater than 8. The driver supports hardware accelerated 3D
via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI), but only in depth 16 for
the i810/i815 and depths 16 and 24 for the 830M and later.
i810
supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, 830M, 845G, 852GM, 855GM, 865G,
915G and 915GM chipsets.
Please refer to XF86Config(5)
for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration
details specific to this driver.
The Intel 8xx family of integrated graphics
chipsets has a unified memory architecture and uses system memory for video
ram. For the i810 and i815 familiy of chipset, operating system support
for allocating system memory for video use is required in order to use
this driver. For the 830M and later, this is required in order for the
driver to use more video ram than has been pre-allocated at boot time by
the BIOS. This is usually achieved with an "agpgart" or "agp" kernel driver.
Linux, and recent versions of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have such kernel
drivers available.
By default 8 Megabytes of system memory are used for
graphics. For the 830M and later, the default is 8 Megabytes when DRI is
not enabled and 32 Megabytes with DRI is enabled. This amount may be changed
with the VideoRam entry in the config file Device section. It may be set
to any reasonable value up to 64MB for older chipsets or 128MB for newer
chipets. It is advisable to check the XFree86 log file to check if any
features have been disabled because of insufficient video memory. In particular,
DRI support or tiling mode may be disabled with insufficient video memory.
Either of these being disabled will reduce performance for 3D applications.
Note however, that increasing this value too much will reduce the amount
of system memory available for other applications.
The driver makes use
of the video BIOS to program video modes for the 830M and later. This limits
the video modes that can be used to those provided by the video BIOS, and
to those that will fit into the amount of video memory that the video BIOS
is aware of.
The following driver Options are supported:
- Option "NoAccel"
"boolean"
- Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
- Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
- Disable or enable software cursor. Default:
software cursor is disable and a hardware cursor is used for configurations
where the hardware cursor is available.
- Option "ColorKey" "integer"
- This
sets the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key. Default: undefined.
- Option "CacheLines" "integer"
- This allows the user to change the amount
of graphics memory used for 2D acceleration and video. Decreasing this
amount leaves more for 3D textures. Increasing it can improve 2D performance
at the expense of 3D performance. Default: depends on the resolution, depth,
and available video memory. The driver attempts to allocate at least enough
to hold two DVD-sized YUV buffers by default. The default used for a specific
configuration can be found by examining the XFree86 log file.
- Option "DRI"
"boolean"
- Disable or enable DRI support. Default: DRI is enabled for configurations
where it is supported.
The following driver Options are supported for the
i810 and i815 chipsets:
- Option "DDC" "boolean"
- Disable or enable DDC support.
Default: enabled.
- Option "Dac6Bit" "boolean"
- Enable or disable 6-bits per
RGB for 8-bit modes. Default: 8-bits per RGB for 8-bit modes.
- Option "XvMCSurfaces"
"integer"
- This option enables XvMC. The integer parameter specifies the
number of surfaces to use. Valid values are 6 and 7. Default: XvMC is disabled.
The following driver Options are supported for the 830M and later chipsets:
- Option "VBERestore" "boolean"
- Enable or disable the use of VBE save/restore
for saving and restoring the initial text mode. This is disabled by default
because it causes lockups on some platforms. However, there are some cases
where it must enabled for the correct restoration of the initial video
mode. If you are having a problem with that, try enabling this option.
Default: Disabled.
- Option "VideoKey" "integer"
- This is the same as the "ColorKey"
option described above. It is provided for compatibility with most other
drivers.
- Option "XVideo" "boolean"
- Disable or enable XVideo support. Default:
XVideo is enabled for configurations where it is supported.
- Option "MonitorLayout"
"anystr"
- Allow different monitor configurations. e.g. "CRT,LFP" will configure
a CRT on Pipe A and an LFP on Pipe B. Regardless of the primary heads' pipe
it is always configured as "<PIPEA>,<PIPEB>". Additionally you can add different
configurations such as "CRT+DFP,LFP" which would put a digital flat panel
and a CRT on pipe A, and a local flat panel on pipe B. For single pipe
configurations you can just specify the monitors types on Pipe A, such
as "CRT+DFP" which will enable the CRT and DFP on Pipe A. Valid monitors
are CRT, LFP, DFP, TV, CRT2, LFP2, DFP2, TV2 and NONE. NOTE: Some configurations
of monitor types may fail, this depends on the Video BIOS and system configuration.
Default: Not configured, and will use the current head's pipe and monitor.
- Option "Clone" "boolean"
- Enable Clone mode on pipe B. This will setup the
second head as a complete mirror of the monitor attached to pipe A. NOTE:
Video overlay functions will not work on the second head in this mode. If
you require this, then use the MonitorLayout above and do (as an example)
"CRT+DFP,NONE" to configure both a CRT and DFP on Pipe A to achieve local
mirroring and disable the use of this option. Default: Clone mode on pipe
B is disabled.
- Option "CloneRefresh" "integer"
- When the Clone option is
specified we can drive the second monitor at a different refresh rate than
the primary. Default: 60Hz.
- Option "CheckDevices" "boolean"
- On mobile platforms
it's desirable to monitor the device status and switch the outputs accordingly.
For example, when the lid is opened or closed, or when using hotkeys without
ACPI support. By default this option is on for mobile platforms and is not
available on desktop systems. Default: enabled.
- Option "FixedPipe" "anystr"
- When using a dual pipe system, it may be preferable to fix the primary
pipe such that if you boot up on an external screen you may want the internal
flat panel to be the primary. Using this option will allow this. Options
are A or B. Default: disabled (uses current pipe as primary).
- Option "DisplayInfo"
"boolean"
- It has been found that a certain BIOS call can lockup the Xserver
because of a problem in the Video BIOS. The log file will identify if you
are suffering from this problem and tell you to turn this option off. Default:
enabled
- Option "DevicePresence" "boolean"
- Tell the driver to perform an
active detect of the currently connected monitors. This option is useful
if the monitor was not connected when the machine has booted, but unfortunately
it doesn't always work and is extremely dependent upon the Video BIOS. Default:
disabled
- Option "Rotate" "CW"
- Option "Rotate" "CCW"
- Rotate the desktop
90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise. This option forces the ShadowFB
option on, and disables acceleration. Default: no rotation.
- Option "ShadowFB"
"boolean"
- Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. This option
disables acceleration. Default: off.
XFree86(1)
, XF86Config(5)
,
xf86config(1)
, Xserver(1)
, X(7)
Authors include: Keith Whitwell,
and also Jonathan Bian, Matthew J Sottek, Jeff Hartmann, Mark Vojkovich,
Alan Hourihane, H. J. Lu. 830M and 845G support reworked for XFree86 4.3 by
David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 852GM, 855GM, and 865G support added by
David Dawes and Keith Whitwell. 915G and 915GM support added by Alan Hourihane
and Keith Whitwell. Dual Head, Clone and lid status support added by Alan
Hourihane.
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