Xvesa is a display server for the X Window System Protocol Version 11 that works only on x86_32 Linux. It use video BIOS in VM86 mode. Supports only 4:3 resolution.

It contains unaccelerated display driver that will support any card with a VESA, VGA or even EGA BIOS (VESA 1.1 is the earliest supported version; VESA 2.0 will give better performance). Except for the display driver, the Xvesa server is identical to Xfbdev.

x86_64 users could use Xfbdev with vesafb kernel driver.

Xvesa doesn't use configuration file like Xorg.

Xvesa -display :0
Xvesa -screen 640x480x32
Xvesa -shadow
Xvesa -listmodes
Xvesa -mode 0x0117
Xvesa -force
Xvesa -videoTest

Shortkeys:

Ctrl-Alt+Backspace - close Xserver
Ctrl+Alt+F1

• doesn't support DPMS
• doesn't support devices with Hercules Graphics Card chipsets
• supports only 60 hz refresh rate
• only supports Latin-1 keyboard keymaps

https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/kdrive.html https://github.com/tinycorelinux/tinyx/