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diff --git a/man/mga.man b/man/mga.man new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1b3337 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/mga.man @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga.man,v 1.6 2003/01/26 02:17:28 dawes Exp $ +.\" shorthand for double quote that works everywhere. +.ds q \N'34' +.TH MGA __drivermansuffix__ __vendorversion__ +.SH NAME +mga \- Matrox video driver +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B "Section \*qDevice\*q" +.BI " Identifier \*q" devname \*q +.B " Driver \*qmga\*q" +\ \ ... +.B EndSection +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B mga +is an XFree86 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 +visuals are supported for the other depths except 8+24 mode which supports +PseudoColor, GrayScale and TrueColor. Multi-card configurations +are supported. XVideo is supported on G200 and newer systems, with +either +.B TexturedVideo +or video overlay. The second head of dual-head cards is supported for +the G450 and G550. Support for the second head on G400 cards requires +a binary-only "mga_hal" module that is available from Matrox +<http://www.matrox.com>, and may be on the CD supplied with the card. +That module also provides various other enhancements, +and may be necessary to use the DVI (digital) output on the G550 +(and other cards). +.SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE +The +.B mga +driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following Matrox chips: +.TP 12 +.B MGA2064W +Millennium (original) +.TP 12 +.B MGA1064SG +Mystique +.TP 12 +.B MGA2164W +Millennium II +.TP 12 +.B G100 +.TP 12 +.B G200 +Millennium G200 and Mystique G200 +.TP 12 +.B G400 +.TP 12 +.B G450 +.TP 12 +.B G550 +.SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS +Please refer to XF86Config(__filemansuffix__) for general configuration +details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this +driver. +.PP +The driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the following +.B ChipSet +names may optionally be specified in the config file +.B \*qDevice\*q +section, and will override the auto-detection: +.PP +.RS 4 +"mga2064w", "mga1064sg", "mga2164w", "mga2164w agp", "mgag100", "mgag200", +"mgag200 pci", "mgag400", "mgag550". +.RE +.PP +The G450 is Chipset "mgag400" with ChipRev 0x80. +.PP +The driver will auto-detect the amount of video memory present for all +chips except the Millennium II. In the Millennium II case it defaults +to 4096\ kBytes. When using a Millennium II, the actual amount of video +memory should be specified with a +.B VideoRam +entry in the config file +.B \*qDevice\*q +section. +.PP +The following driver +.B Options +are supported: +.TP +.BI "Option \*qColorKey\*q \*q" integer \*q +Set the colormap index used for the transparency key for the depth 8 plane +when operating in 8+24 overlay mode. The value must be in the range +2\-255. Default: 255. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qHWCursor\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Enable or disable the HW cursor. Default: on. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qMGASDRAM\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Specify whether G100, G200 or G400 cards have SDRAM. The driver attempts to +auto-detect this based on the card's PCI subsystem ID. This option may +be used to override that auto-detection. The mga driver is not able to +auto-detect the presence of of SDRAM on secondary heads in multihead configurations +so this option will often need to be specified in multihead configurations. +Default: auto-detected. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qNoAccel\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qNoHal\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Disable or enable loading the "mga_hal" module. Default: the module is +loaded when available and when using hardware that it supports. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qOverclockMem\*q" +Set clocks to values used by some commercial X-Servers (G100, G200 and G400 +only). Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qOverlay\*q" +Enable 8+24 overlay mode. Only appropriate for depth 24. +.RB ( Note: +the G100 is unaccelerated in the 8+24 overlay mode due to a missing +hardware feature.) Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qPciRetry\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Enable or disable PCI retries. Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qRotate\*q \*qCW\*q" +.TP +.BI "Option \*qRotate\*q \*qCCW\*q" +Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise. This mode is unaccelerated. +Default: no rotation. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qShadowFB\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qSyncOnGreen\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Enable or disable combining the sync signals with the green signal. +Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qUseFBDev\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Enable or disable use of on OS-specific fb interface (and is not supported +on all OSs). See fbdevhw(__drivermansuffix__) for further information. +Default: off. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qVideoKey\*q \*q" integer \*q +This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key. +Default: undefined. +.TP +.BI "Option \*qTexturedVideo\*q \*q" boolean \*q +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. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +XFree86(1), XF86Config(__filemansuffix__), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), 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, +Leonard N. Zubkoff, Andrew C. Aitchison. |