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2 Intel 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G/915G/945G Framebuffer driver
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8 This is a framebuffer driver for various Intel 8xx/9xx compatible
9 graphics devices. These would include:
24 B. List of available options
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28 enables the intelfb driver
30 Recommendation: required
32 b. "mode=<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@<refresh>]"
35 Recommendation: user preference
36 (default = 1024x768-32@70)
39 select amount of system RAM in MB to allocate for the video memory
40 if not enough RAM was already allocated by the BIOS.
42 Recommendation: 1 - 4 MB.
46 select at what offset in MB of the logical memory to allocate the
47 framebuffer memory. The intent is to avoid the memory blocks
48 used by standard graphics applications (XFree86). Depending on your
49 usage, adjust the value up or down, (0 for maximum usage, 63/127 MB
50 for the least amount). Note, an arbitrary setting may conflict
53 Recommendation: do not set
57 enable text acceleration. This can be enabled/reenabled anytime
58 by using 'fbset -accel true/false'.
60 Recommendation: enable
64 enable cursor acceleration.
66 Recommendation: enable
70 enable MTRR. This allows data transfers to the framebuffer memory
71 to occur in bursts which can significantly increase performance.
72 Not very helpful with the intel chips because of 'shared memory'.
78 disable mode switching.
80 Recommendation: do not set
83 The binary parameters can be unset with a "no" prefix, example "noaccel".
84 The default parameter (not named) is the mode.
89 Separate each option/option-pair by commas (,) and the option from its value
90 with an equals sign (=) as in the following::
92 video=intelfb:option1,option2=value2
97 In /etc/lilo.conf, add the line::
99 append="video=intelfb:mode=800x600-32@75,accel,hwcursor,vram=8"
101 This will initialize the framebuffer to 800x600 at 32bpp and 75Hz. The
102 framebuffer will use 8 MB of System RAM. hw acceleration of text and cursor
108 If setting this parameter doesn't work (you stay in a 80x25 text-mode),
109 you might need to set the "vga=<mode>" parameter too - see vesafb.txt
116 The module parameters are essentially similar to the kernel
117 parameters. The main difference is that you need to include a Boolean value
118 (1 for TRUE, and 0 for FALSE) for those options which don't need a value.
120 Example, to enable MTRR, include "mtrr=1".
125 Using the same setup as described above, load the module like this::
127 modprobe intelfb mode=800x600-32@75 vram=8 accel=1 hwcursor=1
129 Or just add the following to a configuration file in /etc/modprobe.d/::
131 options intelfb mode=800x600-32@75 vram=8 accel=1 hwcursor=1
141 1. Geert Uytterhoeven - his excellent howto and the virtual
142 framebuffer driver code made this possible.
144 2. Jeff Hartmann for his agpgart code.
146 3. David Dawes for his original kernel 2.4 code.
148 4. The X developers. Insights were provided just by reading the
151 5. Antonino A. Daplas for his inspiring i810fb driver.
153 6. Andrew Morton for his kernel patches maintenance.