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Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2011, 14:22:47 schrieb Lavender: |
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> Now I'm totally confused, I can't find helpful information from Internet. |
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> I know mesa is a open source implementation of OpenGL, obviously |
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> mesa will afford OpenGL API. DRI is short for Direct Rendering |
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> Infrastructure, I have chosen options like: |
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> Device Drivers ---> |
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> Graphics support ---> |
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> <*> Direct Rendering Manager ---> |
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this is DRM. This one manages allocation of memory for video devices. |
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> <*> ATI Radeon |
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> [*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default |
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> Does this mean that DRI libraries are built into kernel? |
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No. |
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> If not, who |
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> contains DRI? Also who affords GLX libraries? Mesa or Xorg? |
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DRI is part of mesa. Mesa also provides the GLX libraries. |
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Best, |
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Michael |
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