vesa - Generic VESA video driver
Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "vesa" ... EndSection
VESA(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual VESA(4)
NAME
vesa - Generic VESA video driver
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "vesa"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
vesa is an Xorg 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.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are
some known exceptions, and those should be listed here.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(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 "ModeSetClearScreen" "boolean"
Clear the screen on mode set. Some BIOSes seem to be broken in
the sense that the newly set video mode is bogus if they are
asked to clear the screen during mode setting. If you experience
problems try to turn this option off. Default: on.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+----------------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+----------------------------------------+
|Availability | x11/server/xorg/driver/xorg-video-vesa |
+---------------+----------------------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+----------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: Paulo Ce'sar Pereira de Andrade.
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://www.x.org/releases/individ-
ual/driver/xf86-video-vesa-2.5.0.tar.bz2.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.x.org.
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