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MODESETTING(4)							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-acceler‐
       ated 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 sec‐
       tion of the config file.	 The modesetting driver can pick up  the  cur‐
       rently  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  sec‐
       tion.  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

X Version 11		 xf86-video-modesetting 0.8.1		MODESETTING(4)
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