NEOMAGIC(4)NEOMAGIC(4)NAMEneomagic - Neomagic video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "neomagic"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTIONneomagic is an XFree86 driver for the Neomagic graphics
chipsets found in many laptop computers.
SUPPORTED HARDWAREneomagic supports the following chipsets:
MagicGraph 128 (NM2070)
MagicGraph 128V (NM2090)
MagicGraph 128ZV (NM2093)
MagicGraph 128ZV+ (NM2097)
MagicGraph 128XD (NM2160)
MagicGraph 256AV (NM2200)
MagicGraph 256AV+ (NM2230)
MagicGraph 256ZX (NM2360)
MagicGraph 256XL+ (NM2380)
The driver supports depths 8, 15, 16 and 24 for all
chipsets except the NM2070 which does not support depth
24. All depths are accelerated except for depth 24 which
is only accelerated on NM2200 and newer models. All visu-
als are supported in depth 8. TrueColor and DirectColor
visuals are supported in the other depths.
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 "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: accelera-
tion is enabled.
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Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
Disable or enable software cursor. Default: soft-
ware cursor is disable and a hardware cursor is
used.
Option "PCIBurst" "boolean"
Disable or enable PCI burst modes. Default:
enabled.
Option "Rotate" "CW"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise.
This mode is unaccelerated. Default: no rotation.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer
layer. See shadowfb(4) for further information.
Default: off.
Note
On some laptops using the 2160 chipset (MagicGraph 128XD)
the following options are needed to avoid a lock-up of the
graphic engine:
Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect"
Option "XaaNoScanlineCPUToScreenColorExpandFill"
SEE ALSOXFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7)AUTHORS
Authors include: Jens Owen, Kevin E. Martin, and also
Egbert Eich, Mark Vojkovich, Alan Hourihane.
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