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MODESETTING(4) DragonFly Kernel Interfaces Manual MODESETTING(4)
NAME
modesetting - video driver for framebuffer device
SYNOPSIS
Section "Device"
Identifier "devname"
Driver "modesetting"
BusID "pci:bus:dev:func"
...
EndSection
DESCRIPTION
modesetting is an Xorg driver for KMS devices. This is a non-
accelerated driver, the following framebuffer depths are supported: 8,
15, 16, 24. All visual types are supported for depth 8, and TrueColor
visual is supported for the other depths. RandR 1.2 is supported.
SUPPORTED HARDWARE
The modesetting driver supports all hardware where a KMS driver is
available. modesetting uses the Linux DRM KMS ioctls and dumb object
create/map.
CONFIGURATION DETAILS
Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This
section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.
For this driver it is not required to specify modes in the screen
section of the config file. The modesetting driver can pick up the
currently used video mode from the kernel driver and will use it if
there are no video modes configured.
For PCI boards you might have to add a BusID line to the Device
section. See above for a sample line.
The following driver Options are supported:
Option "kmsdev" "string"
The framebuffer device to use. Default: /dev/dri/card0.
Option "ShadowFB" "boolean"
Enable or disable use of the shadow framebuffer layer. Default:
on.
Option "AccelMethod" "string"
One of "glamor" or "none". Default: glamor
SEE ALSO
Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7)
AUTHORS
Authors include: Dave Airlie
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