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Xorg.drivers

Look here to check if your graphics card / chipset is supported. The pages are named like the driver modules and sorted by manufacturer.

Hint: see also man <drivername> and /usr/share/doc/.

List of drivers

  • 3Dfx
    • tdfx - Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3,4,5
    • glide - for 2D on Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 cards (uses glide)
    • ?voodoo - for 2D on Voodoo1 and voodoo2 cards (glide not required)
      • Maintainer: Alan Cox
  • apm - Alliance Promotion chipset (not Advanced Power Managment)
  • ATI
    • ati - ATI driver wrapper
    • atimisc - Mach8/32/64
    • r128 - ATI Rage 128
    • radeon - ATI Radeon
      • see also ATIProprietaryDriver
    • radeonhd - ATI Radeon X1000, HD1000, HD2000 series
  • chips - Chips and Technologies (CT64200,CT64300,CT65520,CT65525,CT65530, CT65535, CT65540, CT65545, CT65546, CT65548, CT65550, CT65554, CT65555, CT69000, CT69030)
    • Maintainer: Egbert Eich
  • cirrus - Cirrus Logic
  • cyrix - Cyrix MediaGX (MediaGX, MediaGXi, MediaGXm)
  • fbdev - a Framebuffer device based X server
  • geode (formerly amd) - AMD Geode
  • glint - 3Dlabs (GLINT, Permedia) and TI (Permedia) chips - details see link.
  • i128 - Number Nine I128
    • Maintainer: Adam Jackson
  • imstt - Integrated Micro Solutions Twin Turbo 128
  • Intel
    • i740 - Intel 740 based cards
    • intel (formerly i810) - Intel 8xx/9xx motherboards (i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830, i845, i855, i865, i915, i945, i965)
      • Maintainer: Intel
  • mga - Matrox Millennium I/II,Mystique, G100,G200,G400,G450,G550,G550 Dual-DVI
  • neomagic - Neomagic chips: MagicGraph 128, 128V, 128ZV, 128ZV+, 128XD, 256AV, 256AV+, 256ZX, 256XL+
  • Maintainer: Egbert Eich
  • newport - SGI Indy newport cards
  • nsc - National Semiconductor
  • nv - Nvidia RIVA 128,TNT,TNT2, GeForce, QUADRO, DCC,4, nForce, nForce2
    • see also NVIDIAProprietaryDriver and nouveau
  • rendition - Rendition (Micron) Verité chip (V1000, V2x00)
  • S3
    • s3 - Old S3 Chipsets
    • s3virge - S3 ViRGE series (ViRGE, ViRGE DX,GX,GX2,MX,MX+,VX and Trio3D,Trio3D/2x)
    • savage - S3 Savage series (Savage 3D,4,2000,/MX,/IX, ProSavage PM133,KM133, Twister, TwisterK
  • siliconmotion - Silicon Motion, Inc. (SMI) Lynx, Lynx E/3D/EM/EM+/3DM
  • sis - SiS 5597/5598, 6326, 530/620, 300/305, 540, 630/730, 315/E/H/PRO, 650/651/M650/740, 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741, 330 (Xabre), 760; and XGI Volari V3XT, V5, and V8
    • Maintainer: Thomas Winischhofer
  • SUN
    • sunbw2
    • suncg14
    • suncg3
    • suncg6
    • sunffb
    • sunleo
    • suntcx
  • tga - DEC 21030 (TGA)
  • trident - Trident Blade, Image, ProVidia, TGUI, ISA/VL families (details see link)
  • tseng - Tseng Labs ET4000, ET4000w32, ET6000/6100
  • ?v4l - video4linux driver for video overlay, e.g. bt848/bt878-based TV cards
  • vesa - Generic VESA video driver
  • vga - Standard VGA
  • VIA Integrated Graphics
    • via - VIA CLE266/KM400/!?K8M400 video driver
    • openchrome - currently the most complete community based driver for VIA's unichrome[pro] chipsets
    • unichrome - an apparently abandoned community based driver, used as the base to openchrome
    • VIA's own via driver - now also open source, but lacks 3D and TVout support
  • vmware - for running X under VMware
    • Maintainer: VMware

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