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vesa - Generic VESA video driver
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "vesa"
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vesa is an XFree86 driver for generic VESA video cards. It can
drive most VESA-compatible video cards, but only makes use of the basic
standard VESA core that is common to these cards. The driver supports depths
8, 15 16 and 24.
The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible
video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed
here.
Please refer to XF86Config(5)
for general configuration
details. This section only covers configuration details specific to this
driver.
The driver auto-detects the presence of VESA-compatible hardware.
The ChipSet name may optionally be specified in the config file "Device"
section, and will override the auto-detection:
"vesa"
The following driver
Options are supported:
- Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
- Enable or disable use
of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default: on.
This option is recommended
for performance reasons.
- Option "VBEBigEndian" "boolean"
- This Option is
only acted upon on big-endian systems. Normally, the driver will disallow
colour depths and framebuffer bpp's that cannot be supported through simple
byte-swapping of pixels. This option exists to override this behaviour should
the adapter's BIOS be intelligent enough to detect host endianness.
XFree86(1)
,
XF86Config(5)
, xf86cfg(1)
, xf86config(1)
, Xserver(1)
, X(7)
Authors
include: Paulo C'esar Pereira de Andrade.
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