Re: 3D Hardware acceleration support

Subject: Re: 3D Hardware acceleration support
From: Bryan Stillwell (bstill@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 16:37:24 MST

DRI = Direct Rendering Interface
DRM = Direct Rendering Manager

DRM is the kernel module which makes DRI possible. More information can
be found at these links:

http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/DRI.html
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/DRIcomp.html

Bryan 

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:09:22PM -0500, Dan Brown wrote:
>Thank you for your response.  However, I do not know what the acronyms
>DRI/DRM mean, could you enlighten me?
>
>Thanks,
>
>- Dan
>
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Dan Brown wrote:
>> >Can anyone tell me if such support exists for yellowdog?  The dual
>> >processor G4, I own, has an ATI Rage 128 Pro and could have an ATI
>> >RADEON processor.  I was told that 3D hardware acceleration support did
>> >not exist in PPC Linux.  Is this true? If so, is there planned support?
>>
>> Most of us at the office are really interested in getting accelerated 3D
>> into YDL, however there is still some problems with the DRI/DRM and the
>> AGP gart stuff on PPC Linux.  I'm hoping to have some more time before we
>> finish YDL 2.0 to look into this deeper, but I can't make any promises
>> on whether or not it'll be ready in time for our next release.

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