2010/9/7 Timo Juhani Lindfors <[email protected]> > Vilius Mockūnas <[email protected]> writes: > > It looks like Xorg drivers on Linux platform are NOT kernel modules. > > Could someone explain, or better point some brief document - what these > Xorg > > drivers are and how they are implemented ? > > (some call them Xorg modules) > > Hmm, what do you mean? They are drivers for various pieces of > hardware. Some map the memory and registers of the hardware and > operate on them directly while others rely on some kernel abstraction > (for example xserver-xorg-video-fbdev opens /dev/fb0 and uses ioctls > on that). >
I was talking about these: # ls /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers ast_drv.so ch7xxx.so i810_drv.so r128_drv.so savage_drv.so tfp410.so voodoo_drv.so ati_drv.so cirrus_alpine.so intel_drv.so r500_drv.so sil164.so trident_drv.so atimisc_drv.so cirrus_drv.so ivch.so radeon_drv.so siliconmotion_drv.so vesa_drv.so ati_r500_drv.so cirrus_laguna.so mga_drv.so radeon_tp_drv.so sis_drv.so vga_drv.so ati_tp_drv.so dummy_drv.so nv_drv.so s3_drv.so sisusb_drv.so via_drv.so ch7017.so fbdev_drv.so qxl_drv.so s3virge_drv.so tdfx_drv.so vmware_drv.so Running Centos. I suppose all these above are for handling different video cards ?
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