1VESA(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual VESA(4)
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6 vesa - Generic VESA video driver
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9 Section "Device"
10 Identifier "devname"
11 Driver "vesa"
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16 vesa is an Xorg driver for generic VESA video cards. It can drive most
17 VESA-compatible video cards, but only makes use of the basic standard
18 VESA core that is common to these cards. The driver supports depths 8,
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22 The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are
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26 Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
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29 The driver auto-detects the presence of VESA-compatible hardware. The
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35 The following driver Options are supported:
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37 Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
38 Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default:
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43 Option "ModeSetClearScreen" "boolean"
44 Clear the screen on mode set. Some BIOSes seem to be broken in
45 the sense that the newly set video mode is bogus if they are
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51 Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), xorgcfg(1), xorgconfig(1), Xserver(1), X(7)
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54 Authors include: Paulo CeĀ“sar Pereira de Andrade.
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