Xorg
Xf86 Video Drivers
To install X11 based desktop, you may want to install specific Xorg xf86 driver packages for your video card's chipset, as they may support specific features, effects and acceleration modes, and avoid error messages during X initialization. However, the most basic X features should work fine with just using the default kernel video-modesetting drivers.
Tip: xf86 driver packages follow standard naming conventions. So information found in ArchWiki, or Gentoo wiki are to a large degree, also applicable to configuring the video hardware on Alpine Linux, except for proprietary drivers which are not available.
To see available xf86 video driver packages run:
$ apk search xf86-video
- For Sis video chipset install xf86-video-sis
- For VMware guests use xf86-video-vmware
- For VirtualBox guests use xf86-video-vboxvideo. Refer VirtualBox guest additions
- For Hyper-V guests use xf86-video-fbdev. Refer Hyper-V guest services.
- For KVM/QEMU guests refer Xorg within QEMU