From: Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:24:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452874.z7AyjTj4pp@pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54abb0e0.16363.1343b3ccbba.Coremail.lavender_matrix@163.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 6:22 [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg? Lavender
2011-12-14 18:48 ` Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2011-12-14 19:24 ` Michael Schreckenbauer [this message]
2011-12-15 10:29 ` Lavender
2011-12-15 18:51 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-12-15 21:59 ` Adam Carter
2011-12-16 2:07 ` Lavender
2011-12-15 10:31 ` Lavender
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