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.

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

AUTHORS

       Authors include: Dave Airlie

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