1 Intel 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G Framebuffer driver
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5 This is a framebuffer driver for various Intel 810/815 compatible
6 graphics devices. These would include:
15 B. List of available options
18 enables the intelfb driver
20 Recommendation: required
22 b. "mode=<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@<refresh>]"
25 Recommendation: user preference
26 (default = 1024x768-32@70)
29 select amount of system RAM in MB to allocate for the video memory
30 if not enough RAM was already allocated by the BIOS.
32 Recommendation: 1 - 4 MB.
36 select at what offset in MB of the logical memory to allocate the
37 framebuffer memory. The intent is to avoid the memory blocks
38 used by standard graphics applications (XFree86). Depending on your
39 usage, adjust the value up or down, (0 for maximum usage, 63/127 MB
40 for the least amount). Note, an arbitrary setting may conflict
43 Recommendation: do not set
47 enable text acceleration. This can be enabled/reenabled anytime
48 by using 'fbset -accel true/false'.
50 Recommendation: enable
54 enable cursor acceleration.
56 Recommendation: enable
60 enable MTRR. This allows data transfers to the framebuffer memory
61 to occur in bursts which can significantly increase performance.
62 Not very helpful with the intel chips because of 'shared memory'.
68 disable mode switching.
70 Recommendation: do not set
73 The binary parameters can be unset with a "no" prefix, example "noaccel".
74 The default parameter (not named) is the mode.
78 Separate each option/option-pair by commas (,) and the option from its value
79 with an equals sign (=) as in the following:
81 video=i810fb:option1,option2=value2
86 In /etc/lilo.conf, add the line:
88 append="video=intelfb:800x600-32@75,accel,hwcursor,vram=8"
90 This will initialize the framebuffer to 800x600 at 32bpp and 75Hz. The
91 framebuffer will use 8 MB of System RAM. hw acceleration of text and cursor
96 The module parameters are essentially similar to the kernel
97 parameters. The main difference is that you need to include a Boolean value
98 (1 for TRUE, and 0 for FALSE) for those options which don't need a value.
100 Example, to enable MTRR, include "mtrr=1".
105 Using the same setup as described above, load the module like this:
107 modprobe intelfb mode=800x600-32@75 vram=8 accel=1 hwcursor=1
109 Or just add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf
111 options intelfb mode=800x600-32@75 vram=8 accel=1 hwcursor=1
120 1. Geert Uytterhoeven - his excellent howto and the virtual
121 framebuffer driver code made this possible.
123 2. Jeff Hartmann for his agpgart code.
125 3. David Dawes for his original kernel 2.4 code.
127 4. The X developers. Insights were provided just by reading the
130 5. Antonino A. Daplas for his inspiring i810fb driver.
132 6. Andrew Morton for his kernel patches maintenance.
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