Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg?

[Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2011, 18:29:14 schrieb Lavender:
> At 2011-12-15 03:24:20,"Michael Schreckenbauer" <grimlog@gmx.de> wrote:
> >Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2011, 14:22:47 schrieb Lavender:
> >> Now I'm totally confused, I can't find helpful information from
> >> Internet. I know mesa is a open source implementation of OpenGL,
> >> obviously mesa will afford OpenGL API. DRI is short for Direct
> >> Rendering
> >> Infrastructure, I have chosen options like:
> >> Device Drivers --->
> >> 
> >>   Graphics support --->
> >>   <*>  Direct Rendering Manager --->
> >
> >this is DRM. This one manages allocation of memory for video devices.
> >
> >>   <*>    ATI Radeon
> >>   [*]      Enable modesetting on radeon by default
> >> 
> >> Does this mean that DRI libraries are built into kernel?
> >
> >No.
> >
> >> If not, who
> >> contains DRI? Also who affords GLX libraries? Mesa or Xorg?
> >
> >DRI is part of mesa. Mesa also provides the GLX libraries.
> >
> >Best,
> >Michael
> 
> Thanks and  I wish you could help answer this question.Now I know Mesa
> provides DRI and GLX, when I installed xorg-server,there're also libraries
> named like libdri.so and libglx.so in /etc/X11/....(somewhere).

Yeah, I was wrong :) libglx and libdri are part of xorg-server.

Best,
Michael