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From: "Andrés Becerra Sandoval" <andres.becerra@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:49:14
Message-Id: CACSNh6NEE6X9+98jvVruzXnz50OHwqZ7xsawJ7qg-CidZVCA6A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg? by Lavender
1 2011/12/14 Lavender <lavender_matrix@×××.com>
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3 > Now I'm totally confused, I can't find helpful information from Internet.
4 > I know mesa is a open source implementation of OpenGL, obviously
5 > mesa will afford OpenGL API. DRI is short for Direct Rendering
6 > Infrastructure,
7 > I have chosen options like:
8 >
9 > Device Drivers --->
10 > Graphics support --->
11 > <*> Direct Rendering Manager --->
12 > <*> ATI Radeon
13 > [*] Enable modesetting on radeon by default
14 >
15 > Does this mean that DRI libraries are built into kernel? If not, who contains DRI?
16 >
17 > Also who affords GLX libraries? Mesa or Xorg?
18 >
19 >
20 >
21 About Mesa:
22 http://www.mesa3d.org/intro.html
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24 About DRI:
25 http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/
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30 Andrés Becerra Sandoval

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