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2008-05-09Implement option to ignore external fixed mode settingsMike Isely
The Intel xorg driver tries mightily to determine the native fixed panel mode settings for the LVDS output. It does this through various means, including scanning video BIOS tables, and noticing if the pipe in question has already been set up by somebody else (and adopting those timings). This strategy works well for say a laptop where the LCD panel is an integral part of the machine. But for other applications where the display is unrelated to the system's BIOS or other software, then the BIOS will likely have no clue how to configure the LVDS output. Worse still, the BIOS can simply "get it wrong", leaving the pipe misconfigured. Unfortunately the Intel driver can potentially notice this, adopt the same settings, leaving a messed up display. All of this complexity normally happens independently, behind the scenes, from the mode timings that might otherwise be specified by the user. This driver has a concept of fixed, i.e. "native" mode, and then user-specified mode. If the corresponding resolutions between those concepts don't match, then the driver in theory will arrange for scaling to take place while adhering to the actual native mode of the panel. Said another way, if the user says 800x600 but the driver mistakenly (see above) thinks the native mode is 640x480, then 640x480 is the mode set with scaling to an 800x600 frame buffer. If the driver gets the wrong native mode, then the result is a miserable mess with no way for the user to override what the driver thinks is right. This patch provides a means to override the driver. This implements a new driver option, "LVDSFixedMode" which defaults to true (the normal, probe-what-I-need behavior). However when set to false, then all the guessing is skipped and the driver will assume no fixed, i.e. "native" mode for the display device. Instead with this option set to false, the driver will directly set the timings specified by the user, providing an escape hatch for situations where the driver can't correctly figure out the right mode. Under most scenarios of course, this option should not be needed. But in situations where the Intel video BIOS is hopelessly fouled up related to the LVDS output, this option provides the escape hatch for the user to get a working display in spite of the BIOS situation. Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> (cherry picked from commit 9f324860431ff8199a78d19bbaa74046e1476b89)
2008-04-10Implement support for 24 bit pixel formatMike Isely
The Intel driver appears to be coded to only work with displays expecting 18 bit pixels. However I have an application using a LCD display that expects pixel data in 24 bit format. The difference is only 2 bits in a single GPU register. This patch implements that change, controlled by a new driver option, "LVDS24Bit". The default value is false, which is the previous behavior. When set to true, then 24 bit panels should work (at least the one I'm testing here does). Fd.o bug #15201 Signed-off-by: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com> (cherry picked from commit e031cc02e65acfbafb48136dad414751e04425c5)
2008-03-27Fixup backlight control and panel fitting property namesJesse Barnes
They should be listed as lower case, since that's what you'd pass to xrandr. (cherry picked from commit 52d6ced652059989e6d9780a149488ccd16e3a22)
2008-03-27Initial panel fitting changesJesse Barnes
Basic support for panel fitting. (cherry picked from commit 05cf07071e25f84dec3476a9bed7235ed50cd249)
2008-03-18Disable XvMC if DRI is not enabled.Zhenyu Wang
Default XvMC to disabled.
2008-03-11Merge branch 'master' into xvmcZhenyu Wang
Conflicts: man/intel.man src/i830_driver.c
2008-03-08Makefile.am: nuke RCS IdMatthieu Herrb
2008-01-09Add pipe A force enable quirkJesse Barnes
On some platforms, the firmware may read & write GPU registers on lid close, suspend/resume time or during various SMM events. If one of the graphics pipes is disabled at that time, the GPU may hang due to the programming dependencies of the various registers. This patch adds a quirk to force the driver to keep pipe A enabled if necessary, through user configuration in xorg.conf or via a platform specific quirk. Leaving the pipe enabled comes at a power cost however, so the quirk should only be enabled when strictly necessary. Fixes https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11432.
2007-12-26xvmc: add info in intel.manZhenyu Wang
2007-12-07Describe output properties in more detailJesse Barnes
Add descriptions for LVDS and TV output properties and also mention the EDID property a new output configuration section.
2007-11-12Improve backlight controlJesse Barnes
This commit fixes backlight support for several platforms. Except on recent machines supporting the IGD OpRegion specification, backlight control is rather platform specific. In some cases, we can program the native backlight control regsiters directly without any trouble. On others, we need to use the legacy backlight control register. On still others, we need a combination of the two. And on some platforms, none of the above will work, so we go through the kernel backlight interface, which provides a platform specific driver for backlight control.
2007-11-09Update man page to reflect EXA by defaultJesse Barnes
2007-08-16Merge branch 'master' into buffer-objectsEric Anholt
Conflicts: src/i830_dri.c src/i830_memory.c
2007-08-10Enable tiling by default on 965.Jesse Barnes
2007-07-25Fix typo in intel.manBrice Goglin
Reported by A. Costa" <agcosta@gis.net> in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432061
2007-07-25When TTM is available, use it instead of manual AGP allocations when possible.Eric Anholt
This is a step towards being able to expose buffer objects through the screen private to DRI clients, instead of having them have to use the fake buffer object type. This fails in two ways. First, the kernel memory manager is not currently suitable for doing the physical allocations we need, so we still use AGP for those. Additionally, the DRI lock can't be initialized early enough for us, so these buffer object allocations fail. This will be fixed by improving the DRM interface.
2007-07-06Fix manpage to reflect default behavior.Jesse Barnes
2007-07-06Update man page with current behavior.Jesse Barnes
2007-07-05Merge branch 'master' into fbcJesse Barnes
2007-07-02Update documentation and bump driver version to 2.1.0.xf86-video-intel-2.1.0Eric Anholt
2007-07-02Enable framebuffer compression (use Option "FrameBufferCompression"Jesse Barnes
"true" in your xorg.conf). Should save ~0.5W during typical 2D usage.
2007-05-29Expand manpage description of outputs supported.Eric Anholt
2007-04-30Ignore VideoRam now that its original purpose is obsolete.Eric Anholt
It had been necessary to allow more than a small amount of memory to be allocated, but now those old small allocations people had configured are getting in the way.
2007-04-19Eliminate LinearAlloc option and code.Keith Packard
With the fixes to the 2D frame buffer allocation that allows up to 65536 lines of 2D frame buffer in XAA mode, the old linear allocation hacks are no longer necessary.
2007-04-16Update intel.man with 965GM chipset supportWang Zhenyu
2007-04-10Bug #10520: i810 manpage not installed despite users expecting it to be there.Eric Anholt
Install it as an alias to intel.4x, since we're letting people load the driver as "i810" still.
2007-04-03Move a bunch of debugging verbosity under Option "ModeDebug".Eric Anholt
2007-03-26Add Solaris to list of OS'es with agpgart in man pageAlan Coopersmith
2007-03-26Update manpage to remove Rotate option and point at xorg.conf instead.Eric Anholt
While here, update a few other bits as well.
2007-03-06Remove warnings about potential artifacts with page flipping and mixed 2D/3D.Michel Dänzer
The artifacts only seemed to occur when EXA was falling back to software for the front buffer.
2007-02-21intel.man: Fix typo.Michel Dänzer
2007-02-20Add support for triple buffering using a third static buffer.Michel Dänzer
Need to bump the DRI DDX version minor for the added SAREA fields.
2007-02-20Document Option "PageFlip".Michel Dänzer
2007-02-01Rename driver from i810 to intel. Permit old name for compatibility.modesetting-rotationKeith Packard
Driver installs as intel_drv.so with symlink to i810_drv.so to ensure existing configurations continue to work. Updated manual page to reflect name change and add attributions for recent work.
2007-02-01Remove some more dead options.Eric Anholt
2007-01-11Don't limit cachelines to a vertical of 2048, and increase default allocation.Eric Anholt
The cachelines are used for two things: XAA pixmap cache and XV memory. Only XAA pixmap cache is referred to using an offset pointing at the beginning of the front buffer in rendering, and XAA only uses the 2d BLT engine, which actually has a vertical limit of 65536. So, pixmap cache is now limited to that much vertical. Additionally, the previous cachelines allocation was too small for our advertised XV limits, so video at the limits would fail with BadAlloc. Now, XAA allocates the same approximate amount of offscreen memory as EXA: 3 times the screen size, plus one packed HD video.
2006-11-30Merge branch 'exa' of ../xf86-video-intel into modesettingEric Anholt
Conflicts: man/i810.man src/Makefile.am src/i830.h src/i830_driver.c src/i830_rotate.c src/i830_video.c
2006-11-16Merge branch 'master' into modesettingEric Anholt
Conflicts: src/i830.h src/i830_cursor.c src/i830_dri.c src/i830_driver.c src/i830_video.c
2006-10-27Add support for the new DRM memory manager.Thomas Hellstrom
Some code are duplicated with the new libdrm. Once this code has been released with xserver, it can be removed. See the man page for new options and backwards 3D driver compatibility.
2006-10-23Fix manpage to report 8160 instead of 6144 for LinearAlloc.Alan Hourihane
2006-09-27Merge branch 'master' into modesettingEric Anholt
This reverts most of the mergedfb code. This will instead be done in device- independent RandR code. Conflicts: src/Makefile.am src/i810_driver.c src/i810_reg.h src/i830.h src/i830_cursor.c src/i830_driver.c src/i830_modes.c src/i830_video.c
2006-09-25Merge branch 'master' into exaWang Zhenyu
2006-09-22Remove the GetDevicePresence BIOS call which just printed BIOS information.Eric Anholt
Because we aren't using the BIOS to set modes any more, what the BIOS thinks is present is probably even less important than before.
2006-09-22Remove the no-longer-connected VBERestore option.Eric Anholt
2006-09-21Typo fix in man page (Debian bug #364559).A Costa
2006-08-24Merge branch 'master' into exaWang Zhenyu
Conflicts: man/i810.man src/Makefile.am src/i830_accel.c src/i830_dga.c src/i830_driver.c
2006-08-08Update manual page to include i945 and later details.Keith Packard
(cherry picked from 7833d0733bc146cf1ae7f588516c49797886b396 commit)
2006-06-20Remove dead DisplayInfo option.Eric Anholt
2006-05-22Merge branch 'master' into modesettingEric Anholt
Conflicts: man/.gitignore
2006-05-18Start laying out some of the bits that need to be done for BW textured video.Eric Anholt
Headers taken from TG code drop.