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tdfx(4)


NAME

   tdfx - 3Dfx video driver

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

   tdfx is an Xorg driver for 3Dfx video cards.

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

   The  tdfx  driver supports Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4 and Voodoo5
   cards.

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

   Option "SWCursor" "boolean"
          Disable or enable software cursor.  Default: software cursor  is
          disable  and  a hardware cursor is used for configurations where
          the hardware cursor is available.

   Option "DRI" "boolean"
          Disable or enable DRI support. By default, DRI is on.

   Option "TexturedVideo" "boolean"
          This has XvImage support use the texture engine rather than  the
          video overlay.

   Option "VideoKey" "integer"
          This sets the default pixel value for the YUV video overlay key.
          Default: undefined.

   Option "UsePIO" "boolean"
          Force the use of Programmed IO  instead  of  Memory  Mapped  IO.
          Default: off.

   The following additional Options are supported:

   Option "ShowCache" "boolean"
          Enable or disable viewing offscreen cache memory.  A development
          debug option.  Default: off.

FILES

   tdfx_drv.o

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHORS

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