I740(4)

📦 version 1.4.0, in alpine 3.24, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is I740(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — the manual page for i740, the Intel i740 video driver. main character energy for your card, no cap. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Drop it into your config like this:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "devname"
  Driver "i740"
  ...
EndSection

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

i740 is an Xorg driver for Intel i740 video cards. That's the whole vibe: it's the Xorg driver for those Intel i740 cards. 🦋

🦋 SUPPORTED HARDWARE 🦋

The i740 driver supports Intel 740 based cards. A list of cards reported to work is provided in the README file with the driver source — so go peek at that README, bestie. 👑

🎀 CONFIGURATION DETAILS 🎀

For the general configuration details, please refer to xorg.conf(5). This section only covers configuration details specific to this driver. 🎀

The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize the card. iconic, honestly. ✨

However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify:

  • VideoRam — in kilobytes
  • DacSpeed — in MHz
  • MemBase — physical address of the linear framebuffer
  • IOBase — physical address of the memory mapped IO registers

The following driver options are supported on all chipsets:

  • Option "NoAccel" "boolean" — disable or enable 2D acceleration. Default: acceleration is enabled.
  • Option "SWCursor" "boolean" — request a software cursor (hardware is default). Default: off.
  • Option "SDRAM" "boolean" — force the use of SDRAM timings. Default: off.
  • Option "SGRAM" "boolean" — force the use of SGRAM timings. Default: off.
  • Option "SlowRam" "boolean" — force the use of slower ram timings. Default: off.
  • Option "Dac6Bit" "boolean" — force the use of a 6 Bit Dac (8 Bit is the default). Default: off.
  • Option "UsePIO" "boolean" — force the use of programmed IO (Memory mapped is the default). Default: off.
Note: the i740 X server should automatically detect whether your card has SGRAM or SDRAM. Use the "sgram" and "sdram" options if it is incorrectly detected. (yes, the note literally says lowercase "sgram" and "sdram" — iykyk, keep it exact.)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Authors include: Kevin E Martin and Daryll Strauss of Precision Insight, Inc. 🫶

The XFree86 version of this driver was donated to The XFree86 Project by Precision Insight, Inc., Cedar Park, TX, USA. cute lore, fr fr. 🎀

The Xorg version of this driver originally came from XFree86 4.4rc2. origin story. 🌈

Footer sign-off tea ☕: source/version is X Version 11 + xf86-video-i740 1.4.0, page id I740(4), and there's no standalone date line in the original footer, so I'm not inventing one — periodt. bye bestie, slay your xorg config 💅✨

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