NAME

veritefb — Rendition Verite V2100/V2200 framebuffer driver

SYNOPSIS

veritefb* at pci?
wsdisplay* at veritefb?

DESCRIPTION

The veritefb driver provides support for Rendition Verite V2100/V2200-based PCI and AGP cards. These are 2D/3D video cards based on a MIPS-like RISC ASIC with a fixed-function pixel engine.

veritefb provides an unaccelerated 2D console until the root file system is mounted and the firmware file v20002d.uc becomes available. After this, 2D acceleration is enabled via the rasops(9) framework.

During initialization, veritefb attempts to detect the characteristics of the display using DDC/EDID information. If this fails, it falls back to a preset VGA (640x480) video mode at 60Hz.

SEE ALSO

genfb(4), pci(4), wsdisplay(4)

Rendition, Inc., V2200 Integrated 3D/2D/Video Accelerator Technical Specifications, January 1998.

HISTORY

The veritefb driver first appeared in NetBSD 12.0.

AUTHORS

The veritefb driver was written by Radoslaw Kujawa.

CAVEATS

The microcode required to use these cards with 2D acceleration has unclear distribution terms and must be obtained separately.

BUGS

V1000-based cards are not supported.

Currently, the driver is limited to 8-bit color depth.