
6.2. Proprietary X servers
Proprietary X servers provide support for cards not supported by XFree86, and might give better
performances for cards that are supported by XFree86. Contact the vendors directly or check the Commercial
HOWTO for more info.
Xi Graphics (Accelerated−X)•
Metro Link (Metro−X)•
6.3. Kernel Framebuffer (fbdev)
The kernel supports a graphical console on some video cards. This support was originally designed for
non−x86 architectures which generally do not have text−capable video cards. It was integrated into the kernel
in 2.2, and now supports various video cards.
More information can be found at linux−fbdev.org.
The following cards are supported:
Amiga builtin chipset (amifb)•
ATARI builtin chipset (atafb)•
ATI Rage128 (aty128fb)•
ATI Mach64, RageII, RageII+, RageIIc (atyfb)•
Hercules Graphics Adaptor (hgafb)•
Matrox Millennium I, Millennium II, Mystique, G200 (matroxfb)•
PowerMAC "platinum" (platinumfb)•
S3 Savage4 (savagefb)•
3Dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3 (tdfxfb)•
S3 Trio64 (trio64fb)•
All VESA 2.0 cards (vesafb)•
6.4. SVGALIB (graphics for console)
VGA•
EGA•
ARK Logic ARK1000PV/2000PV•
ATI VGA Wonder•
ATI Mach32•
Cirrus 542x, 543x•
OAK OTI−037/67/77/87•
S3 (limited support)•
Trident TVGA8900/9000•
Tseng ET3000/ET4000/W32•
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