Xf86 Video
This page lists the available xf86 video drivers for Xorg in Alpine Linux. Installing specific xf86 driver packages for legacy video card's chipset, enables support for specific features, effects and acceleration modes, and avoid error messages during X initialization.
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