Manpages - vesa.4

vesa - Generic VESA video driver

  Section Device
   Identifier devname
   Driver vesa
    ...
  EndSection

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.

The vesa driver supports most VESA-compatible video cards. There are some known exceptions, and those should be listed here.

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.

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

Authors include: Paulo Ce’sar Pereira de Andrade.