Silicon Motion Driver

Category: Monitor and video cards
Manufacturer: Silicon Motions Inc
Caution Level: intermediate
Operating System: Windows 95/98/2000/Me/NT
Latest Version / Release Date: 6.13.1.263 / 03 Jan 2009

Windows device driver information for Silicon Motion Lynx3DM Family

Silicon Motion Lynx3DM family is a display or graphics/video controller which is produced by Silicon Motions Inc. A video controller is a device which is used to generate Television video signals for a gaming as well as computing system. Some of the display controllers are also responsible for the generation of sound signals though this isn't the central purpose. The Silicon Motion Lynx3DM family has a number of desirable features which make it a product of choice among graphic controller users. It offers improved multi- display as well as MPEG2/DVD playback which is hardware accelerated. The product provides superior graphics and has been incorporated into several other products by other companies. For instance, Lynx3Dm was incorporated into Mebius Murumasa notebook by Sharp which is available in Japanese markets. IBM also included Lynx3DM in its mini- notebooks known as ThinkPad i Series s30 which is also available in Japanese markets.

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The Silicon Motion Lynx3DM family has been designed using the ReduceOn technology for power management. ReduceOn is a technology for power management which varies clock as well as power algorithmically to functional units with reference to the demands of the system. Thus when using the Silicon Motions Lynx3DM family, users will find that the consumption of power on their devices is radically reduced. Lynx3DM also has a 2D as well as 3D engine for mobile graphics with 128-bit performance. The graphics engine also has embedded 4 MB SDRAM, an 8 MB SDRAM or a 16 MB SDRAM. SDRAM is an acronym for Synchronous dynamic random access memory and it comes with a synchronous interface. This implies that it will only respond to control inputs after getting a clock signal. For those looking for a display controller which has low power consumption, the Silicon Motion Lynx3DM family offers a good choice. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for Windows and Silicon Motion Lynx3DM Family errors before installing any driver updates.

Name

siliconmotion - Silicon Motion video driver

Synopsis

Silicon Motion DriverSection Device
Identifierdevname
Driver siliconmotion
Silicon Motion Driver ...Silicon
[ Silicon motion driver jobsOption 'optionname' ['optionvalue']]
EndSection

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.

Supported Hardware

The siliconmotion

Silicon Motion Driver License

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

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For assistance with this driver, or Xorg in general, check the web site athttp://www.x.org/. If you find a problem with Xorg or have a question not answered in the FAQ please use our bug report form available on the web siteor send mail to xorg@lists.freedesktop.org. When reporting problems with the driver send as much detail as possible, including chipset type, a server outputlog, and operating system specifics.

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Authors

Silicon Motion Drivers

Kevin Brosius, Matt Grossman, Harald Koenig, Sebastien Marineau, Mark Vojkovich, Frido Garritsen,Corvin Zahn.