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* Re: [gentoo-user] Who can tell me relationship among dri,glx,mesa,xorg?
  @ 2011-12-14 19:24 99% ` Michael Schreckenbauer
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From: Michael Schreckenbauer @ 2011-12-14 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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




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