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1Tridentfb is a framebuffer driver for some Trident chip based cards.
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3The following list of chips is thought to be supported although not all are
4tested:
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6those from the Image series with Cyber in their names - accelerated
7those with Blade in their names (Blade3D,CyberBlade...) - accelerated
8the newer CyberBladeXP family - nonaccelerated
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10Only PCI/AGP based cards are supported, none of the older Tridents.
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12How to use it?
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15When booting you can pass the video parameter.
16video=tridentfb
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18The parameters for tridentfb are concatenated with a ':' as in this example.
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20video=tridentfb:800x600,bpp=16,noaccel
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22The second level parameters that tridentfb understands are:
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24noaccel - turns off acceleration (when it doesn't work for your card)
25accel - force text acceleration (for boards which by default are noacceled)
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27fp - use flat panel related stuff
28crt - assume monitor is present instead of fp
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30center - for flat panels and resolutions smaller than native size center the
31 image, otherwise use
32stretch
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34memsize - integer value in Kb, use if your card's memory size is misdetected.
35 look at the driver output to see what it says when initializing.
36memdiff - integer value in Kb,should be nonzero if your card reports
37 more memory than it actually has.For instance mine is 192K less than
38 detection says in all three BIOS selectable situations 2M, 4M, 8M.
39 Only use if your video memory is taken from main memory hence of
40 configurable size.Otherwise use memsize.
41 If in some modes which barely fit the memory you see garbage at the bottom
42 this might help by not letting change to that mode anymore.
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44nativex - the width in pixels of the flat panel.If you know it (usually 1024
45 800 or 1280) and it is not what the driver seems to detect use it.
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47bpp - bits per pixel (8,16 or 32)
48mode - a mode name like 800x600 (as described in Documentation/fb/modedb.txt)
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50Using insane values for the above parameters will probably result in driver
51misbehaviour so take care(for instance memsize=12345678 or memdiff=23784 or
52nativex=93)
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54Contact: jani@astechnix.ro