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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 op‐
       tionally be specified in the config file "Device" section, and will override the  auto-detec‐
       tion:

           "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  set‐
              ting. If you experience problems try to turn this option off. Default: on.


SEE ALSO
       Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)

AUTHORS
       Authors include: Paulo Ce´sar Pereira de Andrade.



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