I128(4)

📦 version 1.4.1, in alpine 3.24, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 i128 💖

okay so bestie, real talk — this is a page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's all about the i128 driver. Number 9 I128 Xorg video driver, to be exact. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

i128 — the Number 9 I128 Xorg video driver. that's it, that's the name, slay 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

so you drop this into your config like:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "devname"
  Driver "i128"
  ...
EndSection

and honestly? iconic. devname is just a placeholder, put whatever you want there 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

i128 is an Xorg driver for Number 9 I128 video cards. and she's not just sitting there looking pretty — the driver is accelerated, bestie. it provides support for all versions of the I128 chip family, including the SGI flatpanel configuration. and yes, multi-head configurations are supported — multiple heads, multiple monitors, main character energy fr fr 👑

⭐ SUPPORTED HARDWARE ⭐

the i128 driver supports PCI and AGP video cards based on the following I128 chips:

  • I128 rev 1 (original) — the OG, no cap
  • I128-II
  • I128-T2R — Ticket 2 Ride 🎢
  • I128-T2R4 — Ticket 2 Ride IV

literally the whole lineup, we love to see it 🌈

🔥 CONFIGURATION DETAILS 🔥

heads up: please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details — this section only covers the stuff that's specific to this driver, iykyk

the driver auto-detects the chipset type and may not be overridden 💀 like, don't even try it.

the driver also auto-detects the amount of video memory present for all chips, and again — may not be overridden. periodt.

the following driver Options are supported:

  • Option "HWCursor" "boolean" — enable or disable the HW cursor. default: on ✨
  • Option "NoAccel" "boolean" — disable or enable acceleration. default: acceleration is enabled (so yeah, the name is a little backwards, we don't make the rules) 🏃‍♀️
  • Option "SyncOnGreen" "boolean" — enable or disable combining the sync signals with the green signal. default: off 💚
  • Option "Dac6Bit" "boolean" — reduce DAC operations to 6 bits. default: false 🍓
  • Option "Debug" "boolean" — this turns on verbose debug information from the driver. default: off 🔍

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7) — go read those too, bestie, they're giving required reading 📚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

authors include: Robin Cutshaw (driver), Galen Brooks (flatpanel support). absolute legends, we stan 🫶💖

and that's the whole page! sourced straight from X Version 11, xf86-video-i128 1.4.1 — no cap, that's the version and that's the date tag on this iconic little manpage. go forth and configure, bestie 🌸✨🎀

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