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From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg?
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:52:32
Message-Id: 1343331.fG5M6uClEY@pc
In Reply to: Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg? by Lavender
1 Am Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2011, 18:29:14 schrieb Lavender:
2 > At 2011-12-15 03:24:20,"Michael Schreckenbauer" <grimlog@×××.de> wrote:
3 > >Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2011, 14:22:47 schrieb Lavender:
4 > >> Now I'm totally confused, I can't find helpful information from
5 > >> Internet. I know mesa is a open source implementation of OpenGL,
6 > >> obviously mesa will afford OpenGL API. DRI is short for Direct
7 > >> Rendering
8 > >> Infrastructure, I have chosen options like:
9 > >> Device Drivers --->
10 > >>
11 > >> Graphics support --->
12 > >> <*> Direct Rendering Manager --->
13 > >
14 > >this is DRM. This one manages allocation of memory for video devices.
15 > >
16 > >> <*> ATI Radeon
17 > >> [*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default
18 > >>
19 > >> Does this mean that DRI libraries are built into kernel?
20 > >
21 > >No.
22 > >
23 > >> If not, who
24 > >> contains DRI? Also who affords GLX libraries? Mesa or Xorg?
25 > >
26 > >DRI is part of mesa. Mesa also provides the GLX libraries.
27 > >
28 > >Best,
29 > >Michael
30 >
31 > Thanks and I wish you could help answer this question.Now I know Mesa
32 > provides DRI and GLX, when I installed xorg-server,there're also libraries
33 > named like libdri.so and libglx.so in /etc/X11/....(somewhere).
34
35 Yeah, I was wrong :) libglx and libdri are part of xorg-server.
36
37 Best,
38 Michael

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Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg? Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>