Re: VGA Drivers

From: Kok, Auke
Date: Wed Dec 26 2007 - 13:06:26 EST


pradeep pradeep wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to support a new PCI based VGA card in
> linux. I want to know what is the VGA driver stack in
> the Linux. Can any one help me where to start.

Assuming you're not talking about a VGA grabber card here...

Graphics/ X drivers are mostly in userspace except some DRI/DRM infrastructure and
AGP code. You should start looking at the XOrg project.

The kernel has some framebuffer support, but I'm not sure that is what you are
looking for.
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