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NAME
cyrix - Cyrix video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "cyrix"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
cyrix is an Xorg driver for the Cyrix MediaGX (now Natsemi Geode)
series of processors when using the built in video.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The cyrix driver supports the MediaGX, MediaGXi and MediaGXm proces-
sors, as well as the Natsemi 'Geode' branded processors. It supports
the CS5510, CS5520, CS5530 and CS5530A companion chips. The driver sup-
ports 4, 8, 15 and 16 bit deep displays with video compression and
acceleration.
The MediaGX run length compresses its shared framebuffer, for the best
performance on a MediaGX machine pick backgrounds that compress well
horizontally.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5x) for general configuration details. This
section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
The following driver options are supported
Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
Disable or enable acceleration. Default: acceleration is
enabled.
Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
Disable or enable software cursor. Default software cursor is
enabled and a hardware cursor is used.
Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
Disable or enable hardware cursor. Default hardware cursor is
disabled.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Disable or enable shadow frame buffer. The shadow buffer is nor-
mally only used when rotating the screen. The default is false.
Option "Rotate" "CW"
Option "Rotate" "CCW"
Rotate the display clockwise or counterclockwise for use on Cyrix based
tablet PC systems. This mode is currently unaccelerated.
BUGS
This driver has not been tested on the original 5510 hardware for some
considerable time.
8bit mode does not currently work on the CS5510 with external RAMDAC.
The 5530A video overlay facility is not currently supported.
Xorg uses the MediaGX 'SoftVGA' interface. On a small number of boards
this is buggy and may result in strange illegal instruction traps.
Hardware cursors are not currently supported.
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1x), xorg.conf(5x), xorgconfig(1x), Xserver(1x), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: Richard Hecker, Annius Groenink, Dirk Hohndel, The GGI
Project, Alan Cox.
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