Section 4: special files
trident – Trident video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "trident" … EndSection Description trident is an Xorg driver for Trident video cards. The driver is accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, and 24. Multi-head configurations are supported. The XvImage extension is supported on TGUI96xx and…
tdfx – 3Dfx video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "tdfx" … EndSection Description tdfx is an Xorg driver for 3Dfx video cards. Supported Hardware The tdfx driver supports Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards. Configuration Details Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration details. This section only covers configuration details specific to…
synaptics – touchpad input driver Synopsis Section "InputDevice" Identifier "devname" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "devpath" Option "Path" "path" … EndSection Description synaptics is an Xorg input driver for touchpads. Even though touchpads can be handled by the normal evdev or mouse drivers, this driver allows more advanced features of the touchpad to become available. Some…
st – SCSI tape device Synopsis #include <sys/mtio.h> int ioctl(int fd, int request[, (void *)arg3]); int ioctl(int fd, MTIOCTOP, (struct mtop *)mt_cmd); int ioctl(int fd, MTIOCGET, (struct mtget *)mt_status); int ioctl(int fd, MTIOCPOS, (struct mtpos *)mt_pos); Description The st driver provides the interface to a variety of SCSI tape devices. Currently, the driver takes control…
smartpqi – Microsemi Smart Family SCSI driver Synopsis [disable_device_id_wildcards={0|1}] [disable_heartbeat={0|1}] [disable_ctrl_shutdown={0|1}] [lockup_action={none|reboot|panic}] [expose_ld_first={0|1}] [hide_vsep={0|1}] Description smartpqi is a SCSI driver for Microsemi Smart Family controllers. Supported ioctl/() operations For compatibility with applications written for the cciss(4) and hpsa(4) drivers, many, but not all of the ioctl(2) operations supported by the hpsa driver are also supported…
sk98lin – Marvell/SysKonnect Gigabit Ethernet driver v6.21 Synopsis insmod sk98lin.o [Speed_A=i,j,…] [Speed_B=i,j,…] [AutoNeg_A=i,j,…] [AutoNeg_B=i,j,…] [DupCap_A=i,j,…] [DupCap_B=i,j,…] [FlowCtrl_A=i,j,…] [FlowCtrl_B=i,j,…] [Role_A=i,j,…] [Role_B=i,j,…] [ConType=i,j,…] [Moderation=i,j,…] [IntsPerSec=i,j,…] [PrefPort=i,j,…] [RlmtMode=i,j,…] Description Note: This obsolete driver was removed from the kernel in version 2.6.26. sk98lin is the Gigabit Ethernet driver for Marvell and SysKonnect network adapter cards. It supports SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx…
sisusb – SiS USB video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "sisusb" … EndSection Description sisusb is an Xorg driver for SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) video chips that are connected via a Net2280-based USB dongle. The driver is not accelerated, but provides support for colordepths of 8, 16 and 24 bpp as well as…
sis – SiS and XGI video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "sis" … EndSection Description sis is an Xorg driver for SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems) and XGI video chips. The driver is accelerated and provides support for colordepths of 8, 16 and 24 bpp. XVideo, Render and other extensions are supported as well….
siliconmotion – Silicon Motion video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "siliconmotion" … [ Option "optionname" ["optionvalue"]] EndSection Description siliconmotion is an Xorg driver for Silicon Motion based video cards. The driver is fully accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 16, and 24. All visual types are supported for depth…
sd – driver for SCSI disk drives Synopsis #include <linux/hdreg.h> /* for HDIO_GETGEO */ #include <linux/fs.h> /* for BLKGETSIZE and BLKRRPART */ Configuration The block device name has the following form: sdlp, where l is a letter denoting the physical drive, and p is a number denoting the partition on that physical drive. Often, the…
savage – S3 Savage video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "savage" … EndSection Description savage is an Xorg driver for the S3 Savage family video accelerator chips. 2D, 3D, and Xv acceleration is supported on all chips except the Savage2000 (2D only). Dualhead operation is supported on MX, IX, and SuperSavage chips. The…
s3virge – S3 ViRGE video driver Synopsis Section N’34’DeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’devnameN’34’ Driver N’34’s3virgeN’34’ … [ Option "optionname" ["optionvalue"]] EndSection Description s3virge is an Xorg driver for S3 based video cards. The driver is fully accelerated, and provides support for the following framebuffer depths: 8, 15, 16, and 24. All visual types are supported for depth…
s3 – S3 video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "s3" … [Option "optionname" ["optionvalue"]] EndSection Supported Hardware The s3 driver supports PCI video cards based on the following S3 chips: Trio32 86C732 Trio64 86C764 Trio64V+ 86C765 Aurora64V+ 86CM65 Trio64UV+ 86C767 Trio64V2/DX 86C775 Trio64V2/GX 86C785 Vision964 86C964 Vision968 86C968 Also driver supports the following…
crontabs – configuration and scripts for running periodical jobs Synopsis run-parts [–list|–test]<directory> Description Crontabs is a historical name for the run-parts script and the system crontab. The run-parts script runs all executables in the specified directory. Run-parts runs all executables in the specified directory. The execution of files can be allowed or denied by creating…
rtc – real-time clock Synopsis #include <linux/rtc.h> int ioctl(fd, RTC_request, param); Description This is the interface to drivers for real-time clocks (RTCs). Most computers have one or more hardware clocks which record the current "wall clock" time. These are called "Real Time Clocks" (RTCs). One of these usually has battery backup power so that it…
AF_ROSE – Rose amateur packet radio protocol family Description Rose is a protocol used extensively by radio amateurs. The Linux Rose protocol family permits access to these protocols via the standard networking socket metaphor. The Rose protocol layer only supports connected mode. The only mode of operation is connected mode which is the mode used…
rendition – Rendition video driver Synopsis Section N’34’DeviceN’34’ Identifier N’34’devnameN’34’ Driver N’34’renditionN’34’ … EndSection Description rendition is an Xorg driver for Rendition/Micron based video cards. The driver supports following framebuffer depths: 8, 15 (Verite V1000 only), 16 and 24. Acceleration and multi-head configurations are not supported yet, but are work in progress. Supported Hardware The…
random, urandom – kernel random number source devices Synopsis #include <linux/random.h> int ioctl(fd, RNDrequest, param); Description The character special files /dev/random and /dev/urandom (present since Linux 1.3.30) provide an interface to the kernel’s random number generator. The file /dev/random has major device number 1 and minor device number 8. The file /dev/urandom has major device…
ram – ram disk device Description The ram device is a block device to access the ram disk in raw mode. It is typically created by: mknod -m 660 /dev/ram b 1 1 chown root:disk /dev/ram Files /dev/ram See Also chown(1), mknod(1), mount(8) Colophon This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux man-pages…
radeon – ATI/AMD RADEON video driver Synopsis Section "Device" Identifier "devname" Driver "radeon" … EndSection Description radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI/AMD RADEON-based video cards with the following features: • Full support for 8-, 15-, 16- and 24-bit pixel depths, and for 30-bit depth on Linux 3.16 and later; • RandR 1.2 and RandR…