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NAME

       savage - S3 Savage video driver

SYNOPSIS

       Section "Device"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "savage"
         ...
       EndSection

DESCRIPTION

       savage is an Xorg driver for the S3 Savage family video accelerator chips.  2D, 3D, and Xv
       acceleration is supported  on  all  chips  except  the  Savage2000  (2D  only).   Dualhead
       operation  is  supported on MX, IX, and SuperSavage chips.  The savage driver supports PCI
       and AGP boards with the following chips:

       Savage3D        (8a20 and 8a21) (2D, 3D)

       Savage4         (8a22) (2D, 3D)

       Savage2000      (9102) (2D only)

       Savage/MX       (8c10 and 8c11) (2D, 3D, Dualhead)

       Savage/IX       (8c12 and 8c13) (2D, 3D, Dualhead)

       SuperSavage/MX  (8c22, 8c24, and 8c26) (2D, 3D, Dualhead)

       SuperSavage/IX  (8c2a, 8c2b, 8c2c, 8c2d, 8c2e, and 8c2f) (2D, 3D, Dualhead)

       ProSavage PM133 (8a25) (2D, 3D)

       ProSavage KM133 (8a26) (2D, 3D)

       Twister (ProSavage PN133)
                       (8d01) (2D, 3D)

       TwisterK (ProSavage KN133)
                       (8d02) (2D, 3D)

       ProSavage DDR   (8d03) (2D, 3D)

       ProSavage DDR-K (8d04) (2D, 3D)

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

       Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details.  This section only  covers
       configuration details specific to this driver.

       The following driver Options are supported:

       Option "HWCursor" "boolean"

       Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
              These two options interact to specify hardware or software cursor.  If the SWCursor
              option is specified, any HWCursor setting is ignored.  Thus, either "HWCursor  off"
              or  "SWCursor  on"  will  force  the  use of the software cursor.  On Savage/MX and
              Savage/IX chips which are connected to LCDs, a  software  cursor  will  be  forced,
              because  the  Savage  hardware  cursor does not correctly track the automatic panel
              expansion feature.  Default: hardware cursor.

       Option "NoAccel" "boolean"
              Disable or enable acceleration.  Default: acceleration is enabled.

       Option "AccelMethod" "string"
              Chooses between available acceleration architectures.  Valid options  are  XAA  and
              EXA.   XAA  is the traditional acceleration architecture and support for it is very
              stable.  EXA is a newer acceleration architecture with better performance  for  the
              Render  and  Composite  extensions,  but  the  rendering  code  for it is newer and
              possibly unstable.  The default is XAA.

       Option "Rotate" "CW"

       Option "Rotate" "CCW"
              Rotate the desktop 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise.   This  option  forces
              the  ShadowFB  option  on,  and  disables  acceleration  and  the  RandR extension.
              Default: no rotation.

       Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
              Enable or disable use of  the  shadow  framebuffer  layer.   This  option  disables
              acceleration.  Default: off.

       Option "LCDClock" "frequency"
              Override  the maximum dot clock.  Some LCD panels produce incorrect results if they
              are driven at too fast of a frequency.  If UseBIOS is on,  the  BIOS  will  usually
              restrict the clock to the correct range.  If not, it might be necessary to override
              it here.  The frequency parameter may be specified as an integer in Hz (135750000),
              or with standard suffixes like "k", "kHz", "M", or "MHz" (as in 135.75MHz).

       Option "CrtOnly" "boolean"
              This option disables output to the LCD and enables output to the CRT port only.  It
              is useful on laptops if you only want to use the CRT  port  or  to  force  the  CRT
              output  only  on  desktop  cards that use mobile chips. Default: auto-detect active
              outputs

       Option "UseBIOS" "boolean"
              Enable or disable use of the video BIOS to change modes.   Ordinarily,  the  savage
              driver  tries  to  use the video BIOS to do mode switches.  This generally produces
              the best results with the mobile chips (/MX and /IX), since the BIOS knows  how  to
              handle  the  critical  but  unusual  timing  requirements of the various LCD panels
              supported by the chip.  To do this, the driver searches through the BIOS mode list,
              looking  for  the  mode  which  most closely matches the xorg.conf mode line.  Some
              purists find this scheme objectionable.  If you would rather have the savage driver
              use  your  mode line timing exactly, turn off the UseBios option.  Note: Use of the
              BIOS is required for dualhead operation.  Default: on (use the BIOS).

       Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean"
              Do not use EDID data for mode  validation,  but  DDC  is  still  used  for  monitor
              detection. This is different from NoDDC option.
              The default value is off.

       Option "ShadowStatus" "boolean"
              Enables  the  use  of  a shadow status register.  There is a chip bug in the Savage
              graphics engine that can cause a bus lock when reading the engine  status  register
              under heavy load, such as when scrolling text or dragging windows.  The bug affects
              about 4% of all Savage users without DRI and a large fraction of  users  with  DRI.
              If  your  system  hangs  regularly  while  scrolling  text or dragging windows, try
              turning this option on.  This uses an alternate method of reading the engine status
              which is slightly more expensive, but avoids the problem.  When DRI is enabled then
              the default is "on" (use shadow status), otherwise the default is "off" (use normal
              status register).

       Option "DisableCOB" "boolean"
              Disables  the  COB  (Command Overflow Buffer) on savage4 and newer chips.  There is
              supposedly a HW cache coherency problem on certain savage4  and  newer  chips  that
              renders  the  COB  useless. If you are having problems with 2D acceleration you can
              disable the COB, however you will lose some performance.  3D acceleration  requires
              the  COB  to  work.  This option only applies to Savage4 and newer chips.  Default:
              "off" (use COB).

       Option "BCIforXv" "boolean"
              Use the BCI to copy and reformat Xv pixel  data.   Using  the  BCI  for  Xv  causes
              graphics  artifacts  on  some  chips.   This  option  only  applies  to Savage4 and
              prosavage/twister chips. On some combinations of chipsets and  video  players,  BCI
              formatting might actually be slower than software formatting ("AGPforXv" might help
              in this case). BCI formatting can only be used on video data with a width that is a
              multiple  of  16  pixels  (which is the vast majority of videos).  Other widths are
              handled through software formatting. Default: on for prosavage and twister (use BCI
              for Xv); off for savage4 (do not use the BCI for Xv).

       Option "AGPforXv" "boolean"
              Instructs  the  BCI  Xv  pixel  formatter  to  use  AGP memory as a scratch buffer.
              Ordinarily the BCI formatter uses a an area in  framebuffer  memory  to  hold  YV12
              planar  data to be converted for display. This requires a somewhat expensive upload
              of YV12 data to framebuffer memory. The "AGPforXv" option causes the BCI  formatter
              to place the YV12 data in AGP memory instead, which can be uploaded faster than the
              framebuffer.  Use  of  this  option  cuts  upload  overhead  by  25%  according  to
              benchmarks.  This  option  also smooths out most of the shearing present when using
              BCI for pixel conversion. Currently this option is experimental and is disabled  by
              default.  Video  width  restrictions that apply to "BCIforXv" also apply here. Only
              valid when "DRI" and "BCIforXv" are both active, and only on AGP chipsets. Default:
              "off".
              If  "AccelMethod"  is  set to "EXA" and "AGPforXv" is enabled, then the driver will
              also attempt to reuse the AGP scratch buffer for UploadToScreen acceleration.

       Option "AGPMode" "integer"
              Set AGP data transfer rate.  (used only when DRI is enabled)
              1      -- x1 (default)
              2      -- x2
              4      -- x4
              others -- invalid

       Option "AGPSize" "integer"
              The amount of AGP memory that will allocated for DMA  and  textures  in  MB.  Valid
              sizes are 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256. The default is 16MB.

       Option "DmaMode" "string"
              This  option  influences  in  which  way  DMA (direct memory access) is used by the
              kernel and 3D drivers.
              Any      -- Try command DMA first, then vertex DMA (default)
              Command  -- Only use command DMA or don't use DMA at all
              Vertex   -- Only use vertex DMA or don't use DMA at all
              None     -- Disable DMA
              Command and vertex DMA cannot be enabled at  the  same  time.  Which  DMA  mode  is
              actually  used  in  the end also depends on the DRM version (only >= 2.4.0 supports
              command DMA) and the hardware (Savage3D/MX/IX doesn't support command DMA).

       Option "DmaType" "string"
              The type of memory that will be used by  the  3D  driver  for  DMA  (direct  memory
              access).
              PCI    -- PCI memory (default on PCI cards)
              AGP    -- AGP memory (default on AGP cards)
              "AGP" only works if you have an AGP card.

       Option "BusType" "string"
              The bus type that will be used to access the graphics card.
              PCI    -- PCI bus (default)
              AGP    -- AGP bus
              "AGP"  only  works  if you have an AGP card. If you choose "PCI" on an AGP card the
              AGP bus speed is not set and no AGP aperture is  allocated.  This  implies  DmaType
              "PCI".

       Option "DRI" "boolean"
              Enable DRI support.  This option allows you to enable or disable the DRI.  Default:
              "on" (enable DRI).

FILES

       savage_drv.o

SEE ALSO

       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS

       Authors include Tim Roberts (timr@probo.com) and Ani Joshi (ajoshi@unixbox.com)  for  this
       version,  and  Tim  Roberts  and  S.  Marineau for the original driver from which this was
       derived.