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Name

siliconmotion - Silicon Motion video driver

Synopsis

Section Device

Silicon Motion Launches PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 Controller Solutions for Client SSDs. New from Silicon Motion: complete hardware / software solution for video walls Silicon Motion has now combined its CAT software with a dedicated graphics processor system-on-chip (SoC) for video wall applications, the SM769, as part of a complete solution for video wall installations. The SM769 decompresses the video bitstream.

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Description

siliconmotion is an Xorg driver for Silicon Motion based video cards. The driver isfully accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 16, and 24. All visual types are supported for depth 8, and TrueColor visualsare supported for the other depths.

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Supported Hardware

The siliconmotion driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the followingSilicon Motion chips:

Configuration Details

Please refer to xorg.conf(5)

for general configuration details. This sectiononly covers configuration details specific to this driver. All options names are case and white space insensitive when parsed by the server, for example,'lynxe' and 'LynxE' are equivalent.

Multihead mode configuration is done through the RandR1.2 interface (see xorg.conf(5) and xrandr(1) for further information). Hardwareaccelerated screen rotation and framebuffer resizing are only supported with the EXA acceleration architecture (see the AccelMethod optionbelow).

The driver auto-detects the chipset type, but the following ChipSet names may optionally be specified in the config file Device section, andwill override the auto-detection:

'lynx', 'lynxe', 'lynx3d', 'lynxem', 'lynxem+', 'lynx3dm', 'cougar3dr', 'msoc'.

The following Cursor Options are supported:

The following display Options are supported:

Option CSCVideoboolean: CSC video uses color space conversion to render video directly to the framebuffer, without using an overlay. Only available on MSOC chips. Default:on.

The following video memory Options are supported:

Option NoAccel: Disable acceleration. Very useful for determining if the driver has problems with drawing and acceleration routines. This is the first option to try ifyour server runs but you see graphic corruption on the screen. Using it decreases performance, as it uses software emulation for drawing operations the videodriver can accelerate with hardware. Default: acceleration is enabled.
Option AccelMethodstring: Chooses between available acceleration architectures. Valid options are XAA and EXA. XAA is the traditional acceleration architecture andsupport for it is very stable. EXA is a newer acceleration architecture with better performance for the Render and Composite extensions, but the rendering codefor it is newer and possibly unstable. The default is XAA.

The following PCI bus Options are supported: