Xorg driver explanation on Linux?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Vilius Mockūnas <v.mockunas at gmail.com> writes:
> ast_drv.so       ch7xxx.so         i810_drv.so   r128_drv.so
> savage_drv.so         tfp410.so       voodoo_drv.so
> ati_drv.so       cirrus_alpine.so  intel_drv.so  r500_drv.so
> sil164.so             trident_drv.so
> atimisc_drv.so   cirrus_drv.so     ivch.so       radeon_drv.so
> siliconmotion_drv.so  vesa_drv.so
> ati_r500_drv.so  cirrus_laguna.so  mga_drv.so    radeon_tp_drv.so
> sis_drv.so            vga_drv.so
> ati_tp_drv.so    dummy_drv.so      nv_drv.so     s3_drv.so
> sisusb_drv.so         via_drv.so
> ch7017.so        fbdev_drv.so      qxl_drv.so    s3virge_drv.so
> tdfx_drv.so           vmware_drv.so
>
> Running Centos. I suppose all these above are for handling different video
> cards ?

Yes. They have manual pages too. For example "man 4 fbdev" shows the
manual of fbdev_drv.so.