Information for i740 Users Precision Insight, Inc. 18 February 1999 ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Supported Hardware 2. Features 3. Technical Notes 4. Reported Working Video Cards 5. Configuration 6. Driver Options 7. Known Limitations 8. Author ______________________________________________________________________ 1. Supported Hardware +o Intel 740 based cards. 2. Features +o Full support for 8, 15, 16, and 24 bit pixel depths. +o Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker. +o Hardware accelerated 2D drawing engine support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit pixel depths. +o Support for high resolution video modes up to 1600x1200. +o Support for doublescan video modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240). +o Support for gamma correction at all pixel depths. +o Fully programmable clock supported. +o Robust text mode restore for VT switching. 3. Technical Notes +o Hardware acceleration is not possible when using the framebuffer in 32 bit per pixel format. +o Interlace modes cannot be supported. 4. Reported Working Video Cards +o Real3D Starfighter AGP +o Real3D Starfighter PCI +o Diamond Stealth II/G460 AGP +o 3DVision-i740 AGP +o ABIT G740 8MB SDRAM +o Acorp AGP i740 +o AGP 2D/3D V. 1N, AGP-740D +o AOpen AGP 2X 3D Navigator PA740 +o ARISTO i740 AGP (ART-i740-G) +o ASUS AGP-V2740 +o Atrend (Speedy) 3DIO740 AGP (ATC-2740) +o Chaintech AGP-740D +o EliteGroup(ECS) 3DVision-i740 AGP +o EONtronics Picasso 740 +o EONtronics Van Gogh +o Everex MVGA i740/AG +o Flagpoint Shocker i740 8MB +o Gainward CardExpert 740 8MB +o Genoa Systems Phantom 740 +o Gigabyte Predator i740 8MB AGP +o Hercules Terminator 128 2X/i AGP +o HOT-158 (Shuttle) +o Intel Express 3D AGP +o Jaton Video-740 AGP 3D +o Jetway J-740-3D 8MB AGP, i740 AGP 3D +o Joymedia Apollo 7400 +o Leadtek Winfast S900 +o Machspeed Raptor i740 AGP 4600 +o Magic-Pro MP-740DVD +o MAXI Gamer AGP 8 MB +o Palit Daytona AGP740 +o PowerColor C740 (SG/SD) AGP +o QDI Amazing I +o Soyo AGP (SY-740 AGP) +o Spacewalker Hot-158 +o VideoExcel AGP 740 +o ViewTop ZeusL 8MB +o Winfast S900 i740 AGP 8MB 5. Configuration The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize the card. The only lines you need in the "Device" section of your xorg.conf file are: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel i740" Driver "i740" EndSection or let xorgconfig do this for you. However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify: +o VideoRam - in kilobytes +o DacSpeed - in MHz +o MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer +o IOBase - physical address of the memory mapped IO registers 6. Driver Options +o "NoAccel" - Turn off hardware acceleration +o "SWCursor" - Request a software cursor (hardware is default) +o "SDRAM" - Force the use of SDRAM timings +o "SGRAM" - Force the use of SGRAM timings +o "SlowRam" - Force the use of slower ram timings +o "Dac6Bit" - Force the use of a 6 Bit Dac (8 Bit is the default) +o "UsePIO - Force the use of programmed IO (Memory mapped is the default) Note: the i740 X server should automatically detect whether your card has SGRAM or SDRAM. Use the "sgram" and "sdram" options if it is incorrectly detected. 7. Known Limitations +o Certain drawing operations are very slow when using 24 bit pixel depth mode. 8. Author +o Original version by Kevin E Martin +o Daryll Strauss The X11R6.8 version of this driver originally came from XFree86 4.4 rc2. The XFree86 version of this driver was donated to The XFree86 Project by: Precision Insight, Inc. Cedar Park, TX USA http://www.precisioninsight.com