CIRRUS(4)

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💖 CIRRUS 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for cirrus, section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's literally about the Cirrus Logic video driver. yes, that Cirrus Logic. the O.G. chip era. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

cirrus — the Cirrus Logic video driver, no cap 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the way you summon this thing is by dropping it into your config like this:

Section "Device"
  Identifier "devname"
  Driver "cirrus"
  ...
EndSection

that's the vibe. Device section, an Identifier you make up yourself (it's literally called devname here, name it whatever), and then Driver "cirrus" to tell Xorg which driver is the main character. the ... is where all your other device options would live 🎀

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so cirrus is an Xorg driver for Cirrus Logic video chips. iconic lineage, honestly. it's giving retro hardware royalty 👑

and then the manpage itself says, and I quote, THIS MAN PAGE NEEDS TO BE FILLED IN.

not me telling you the docs are a work in progress 😭 that's literally what it says. it's a whole mood. somebody left this blank like a group chat message they never sent 💀

🌈 SUPPORTED HARDWARE 🌈

the manpage says: The cirrus driver supports...

that's it. that's the sentence. it trails off. unfinished. a cliffhanger. we simply do not know from this page what it supports, and I am NOT gonna make something up, because making stuff up is not the move 🧚

💜 CONFIGURATION DETAILS 💜

real talk: for the general config tea, go read xorg.conf(5). this section is only here for the stuff that's specific to this driver, so don't come here looking for the whole Xorg config tutorial, bestie 🙈

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go touch some other manuals, they're all slaying in their own way:

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends who made this happen include: Corin Anderson, Egbert Eich, Derek Fawcus, Koen Gadeyne, Harm Hanemaayer, David Monniaux, Itai Nahshon. absolute icons, every single one 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this lil beauty is from X Version 11, specifically xf86-video-cirrus 1.6.0, and it lives in section CIRRUS(4). periodt. go forth and configure responsibly ✨🦋🎀

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