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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 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. 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 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. SEE ALSO
XFree86(1), XF86Config(5), xf86cfg(1), xf86config(1), Xserver(1), X(7) AUTHORS
Authors include: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade. XFree86 Version 4.7.0 VESA(4)

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NAME
apm - Alliance ProMotion video driver SYNOPSIS
Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "apm" ... EndSection DESCRIPTION
apm is an XFree86 driver for Alliance ProMotion video cards. The driver is accelerated for supported hardware/depth combination. It sup- ports framebuffer depths of 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bits. For 6420, 6422, AT24, AT3D and AT25, all depths are fully accelerated except 24 bpp for which only screen to screen copy and rectangle filling is accelerated. SUPPORTED HARDWARE
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