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vendor" BoardName "Matrox Millennium G200" VideoRam 8192 Option "dpms"
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The following entries are commonly used in the
• — Specifies a unique name for this
Identifier
• — Specifies which driver the X server must load to utilize the video card. A list of
Driver
drivers can be found in
package.
• — An optional parameter which specifies the vendor of the video card.
VendorName
• — An optional parameter which specifies the name of the video card.
BoardName
• — An optional parameter which specifies the amount of RAM available on the
VideoRam
video card in kilobytes. This setting is only necessary for video cards the X server cannot
probe to detect the amount of video RAM.
• — An optional entry which specifies the bus location of the video card. This option is
BusID
only mandatory for systems with multiple cards.
• — An optional entry which specifies which monitor connector or head on the video
Screen
card the section configures. This option is only useful for video cards with multiple
Device
heads.
If multiple monitors are connected to different heads on the same video card, separate
sections must exist and each of these sections must have a different
Device
Values for the
Screen
of . The value for each additional head increments this value by one.
0
•
Option "<option-name>"
section. Replace
<option-name>
man page.
One of the more common options is
compliance setting for the monitor.
3.1.9.
Screen
Each section binds one video card (or video card head) to one monitor by referencing
Screen
the section and the
Device
minimum, additional instances may occur for each video card and monitor combination present
on the machine.
The following example illustrates a typical
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards
entry must be an integer. The first head on the video card has a value
— An optional entry which specifies extra parameters for the
with a valid option listed for this section in the
, which activates the Service Star energy
"dpms"
section for each. While one
Monitor
Screen
section:
Device
section. This is a required entry.
Device
, which is installed with the
Screen
section:
xorg.conf
hwdata
value.
Screen
xorg.conf
section is the
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