[3f72a148] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[3f72a148] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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[2015f9d] | 6 | <!ENTITY BLFS76 "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.6/x/x7driver.html">
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[3f72a148] | 7 |
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[44ad7753] | 8 | ]>
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[3f72a148] | 9 |
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| 10 | <sect1 id="xorg7-driver" xreflabel="Xorg Drivers">
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| 11 | <?dbhtml filename="x7driver.html"?>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect1info>
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[93f3de5] | 14 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 15 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[3f72a148] | 16 | </sect1info>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <title>Xorg Drivers</title>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <indexterm zone="xorg7-driver">
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[1f6d75e7] | 21 | <primary sortas="a-xorg7-driver">xorg7-driver</primary>
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[3f72a148] | 22 | </indexterm>
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| 23 |
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[5e8be1c] | 24 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 25 | <title>Introduction to Xorg Drivers</title>
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| 26 |
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[1f6d75e7] | 27 | <para>
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| 28 | The <application>Xorg Drivers</application> page contains the
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[c4b0455] | 29 | instructions for building Xorg drivers that are necessary in order
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[9bff4bc] | 30 | for Xorg Server to take advantage of the hardware that it is
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| 31 | running on. At least one input and one video driver are required
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[0d7900a] | 32 | for Xorg Server to start.
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[1f6d75e7] | 33 | </para>
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| 34 |
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[9bff4bc] | 35 | <para>
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| 36 | On machines using KMS, the modesetting driver is provided by
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| 37 | <application>xorg-server</application> and can be used instead of the
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| 38 | video driver for the specific hardware, but with reduced performance.
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| 39 | It can also be used (without hardware acceleration) in virtual machines
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| 40 | running under <application>qemu</application>.
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| 41 | </para>
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| 42 |
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[1f6d75e7] | 43 | <note>
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| 44 | <para>
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| 45 | If you are unsure which video hardware you have, you can use
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[72abdae6] | 46 | <command>lspci</command> from <xref linkend="pciutils"/>
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[0d7900a] | 47 | to find out which video hardware you have and then look at
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[1f6d75e7] | 48 | the descriptions of the packages in order to find out
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| 49 | which driver you need.
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| 50 | </para>
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| 51 | </note>
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| 52 |
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[2015f9d] | 53 | <note>
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| 54 | <para>
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| 55 | In addition to the drivers listed below, there are several other
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| 56 | drivers for very old hardware that may still be relevant.
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[5f4e73e] | 57 | The latest versions of these drivers may be downloaded from
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| 58 | <ulink url='https://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver'>
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| 59 | https://www.x.org/archive/individual/driver</ulink>.
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| 60 | Instructions for building these now intermittently maintained drivers
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| 61 | may be found in a
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[2015f9d] | 62 | prior version of BLFS: <ulink url="&BLFS76;">&BLFS76;</ulink>
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| 63 | </para>
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| 64 | </note>
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[bb97280] | 65 |
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[1f6d75e7] | 66 | <sect3 id="xorg-input-drivers">
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| 67 | <title>Xorg Input Drivers</title>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[b7a67e90] | 70 | <listitem>
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| 71 | <para>
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[35e960fb] | 72 | <xref linkend="libevdev"/>
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[b7a67e90] | 73 | </para>
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| 74 | </listitem>
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[ef30906a] | 75 | <listitem>
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| 76 | <para>
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| 77 | <xref linkend="xorg-evdev-driver"/>
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| 78 | </para>
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| 79 | </listitem>
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[f97d5f6] | 80 | <listitem>
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| 81 | <para>
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| 82 | <xref linkend="libinput"/>
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| 83 | </para>
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| 84 | </listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 85 | <listitem>
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| 86 | <para>
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[ef30906a] | 87 | <xref linkend="xorg-libinput-driver"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 88 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 89 | </listitem>
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| 90 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 91 | <para>
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| 92 | <xref linkend="xorg-synaptics-driver"/>
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| 93 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 94 | </listitem>
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[191f166] | 95 | <!-- With Kernel 5.1, VMMouse is now entirely unusable/obsolete.
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| 96 | VMWare has a replacement in the kernel that works for both Qemu and
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| 97 | VMWare, that allows the VMMouse instruction set to run through
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| 98 | EVDEV events.
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| 99 | I archived it on 2019-05-19 as a result. - renodr
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[606dfd4] | 100 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 101 | <para>
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| 102 | <xref linkend="xorg-vmmouse-driver"/>
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| 103 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 104 | </listitem>
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[191f166] | 105 | -->
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[606dfd4] | 106 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 107 | <para>
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| 108 | <xref linkend="xorg-wacom-driver"/>
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| 109 | </para>
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| 110 | </listitem>
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| 111 | </itemizedlist>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | </sect3>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <sect3 id="xorg-video-drivers">
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| 116 | <title>Xorg Video Drivers</title>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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[92d57d6a] | 119 | <listitem>
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| 120 | <para>
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| 121 | <xref linkend="xorg-amdgpu-driver"/>
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| 122 | </para>
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| 123 | </listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 124 | <listitem>
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| 125 | <para>
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| 126 | <xref linkend="xorg-ati-driver"/>
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| 127 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 128 | </listitem>
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| 129 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 130 | <para>
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| 131 | <xref linkend="xorg-fbdev-driver"/>
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| 132 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 133 | </listitem>
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| 134 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 135 | <para>
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| 136 | <xref linkend="xorg-intel-driver"/>
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| 137 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 138 | </listitem>
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| 139 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 140 | <para>
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| 141 | <xref linkend="xorg-nouveau-driver"/>
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| 142 | </para>
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[606dfd4] | 143 | </listitem>
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| 144 | <listitem>
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[1f6d75e7] | 145 | <para>
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| 146 | <xref linkend="xorg-vmware-driver"/>
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| 147 | </para>
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| 148 | </listitem>
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| 149 | </itemizedlist>
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| 150 |
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| 151 | </sect3>
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| 152 |
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[a8ece039] | 153 | <sect3 id="hw-video-acceleration">
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| 154 | <title>Hardware Video Acceleration</title>
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 157 | <listitem>
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| 158 | <para>
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| 159 | <xref linkend="libva"/>
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| 160 | </para>
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| 161 | </listitem>
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| 162 | <listitem>
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| 163 | <para>
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| 164 | <xref linkend="libvdpau"/>
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| 165 | </para>
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[f3429309] | 166 | </listitem>
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[e104a36] | 167 | <listitem>
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| 168 | <para>
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| 169 | <xref linkend="libvdpau-va-gl"/>
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| 170 | </para>
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| 171 | </listitem>
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[a8ece039] | 172 | </itemizedlist>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | </sect3>
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| 175 |
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[1f6d75e7] | 176 | </sect2>
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| 177 |
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[b7a67e90] | 178 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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[35e960fb] | 179 | href="libevdev.xml"/>
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[b7a67e90] | 180 |
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[ef30906a] | 181 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 182 | href="x7driver-evdev.xml"/>
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| 183 |
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[f97d5f6] | 184 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 185 | href="libinput.xml"/>
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| 186 |
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[57da0547] | 187 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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[ef30906a] | 188 | href="x7driver-libinput.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 189 |
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[57da0547] | 190 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 191 | href="x7driver-synaptics.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 192 |
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[191f166] | 193 | <!-- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 194 | href="x7driver-vmmouse.xml"/> -->
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[1f6d75e7] | 195 |
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[57da0547] | 196 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 197 | href="x7driver-wacom.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 198 |
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[92d57d6a] | 199 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 200 | href="x7driver-amdgpu.xml"/>
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| 201 |
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[57da0547] | 202 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 203 | href="x7driver-ati.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 204 |
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[57da0547] | 205 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 206 | href="x7driver-fbdev.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 207 |
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[57da0547] | 208 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 209 | href="x7driver-intel.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 210 |
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[57da0547] | 211 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 212 | href="x7driver-nouveau.xml"/>
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[1f6d75e7] | 213 |
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[57da0547] | 214 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 215 | href="x7driver-vmware.xml"/>
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[595c08ff] | 216 |
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[a8ece039] | 217 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 218 | href="libva.xml"/>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 221 | href="libvdpau.xml"/>
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| 222 |
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[bbb8ccc] | 223 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 224 | href="libvdpau-va-gl.xml"/>
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| 225 |
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[3f72a148] | 226 | </sect1>
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