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authorIan Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>2005-06-15 20:06:43 +0000
committerIan Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>2005-06-15 20:06:43 +0000
commita6e0ae358bdb26452444d916a956c07da7fe88f4 (patch)
tree10ef00eff37041962d67826fe5c2514320651b52 /man/mga.man
parentc2e50aad47ce32f528dad2abee8b7a8df363c93e (diff)
Adds support for MGA DRM version 3.2.
Update MGA DDX to use new features of MGA DRM ersion 3.2 to enable DRI support on PCI cards. Backwards compatability with older client-side drivers is enabled with new Device section settings. See mga.man for details. Xorg bug: 3259 Reviewed by: Eric Anholt
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diff --git a/man/mga.man b/man/mga.man
index 0a1209d..dae57bc 100644
--- a/man/mga.man
+++ b/man/mga.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga.man,v 1.8 2003/04/03 07:42:13 herrb Exp $
+.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga.man,v 1.7 2003/04/03 07:11:03 herrb Exp $
.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere.
.ds q \N'34'
.TH MGA __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ mga \- Matrox video driver
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mga
-is an XFree86 driver for Matrox video cards. The driver is fully
+is an __xservername__ driver for Matrox video cards. The driver is fully
accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths:
8, 15, 16, 24, and an 8+24 overlay mode. All
visual types are supported for depth 8, and both TrueColor and DirectColor
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Millennium G200 and Mystique G200
.TP 12
.B G550
.SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS
-Please refer to XF86Config(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
+Please refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this
driver.
.PP
@@ -149,8 +149,21 @@ This has XvImage support use the texture engine rather than the video overlay.
This option is only supported by the G200 and G400, and only in 16 and 32
bits per pixel.
Default: off.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qOldDmaInit\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+This forces the driver to use the old DMA initialization path for DRI.
+Use this option only to support a older version of the DRI driver with
+a newer DRM (version 3.2 or later). This option also disables the use
+of direct rendering on PCI cards.
+Default: off.
+.TP
+.BI "Option \*qForcePciDma\*q \*q" boolean \*q
+This forces the use of PCI DMA even if AGP DMA could be used. This
+option is primarilly intended for testing purposes, but it could also
+be used on systems with a buggy or poorly function AGP implementation.
+Default: off.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
-XFree86(1), XF86Config(__filemansuffix__), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(__miscmansuffix__)
+__xservername__(__appmansuffix__), __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__), xorgconfig(__appmansuffix__), Xserver(__appmansuffix__), X(__miscmansuffix__)
.SH AUTHORS
Authors include: Radoslaw Kapitan, Mark Vojkovich, and also David Dawes, Guy
Desbief, Dirk Hohndel, Doug Merritt, Andrew E. Mileski, Andrew van der Stock,