Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 21:08:35 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "T.J. Filipi" <tjfilipi@optonline.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is DRM? Message-ID: <20050906190835.GA20008@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <431D96C7.3070709@optonline.net> References: <431D96C7.3070709@optonline.net>
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--ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:16:55PM +0000, T.J. Filipi wrote: > Hi, > I'm wading thru the section of kernel configuration & can't find an=20 > explanation of the DRM options. Since I have an AGP Radeon & see that=20 > it has a device listed, I figure it might be important for me to know. = =20 DRM is the Direct Rendering Manager; a framewrk for allowing direct access to the graphics hardware under the X Window System. It is mainly used to make OpenGL 3D rendering faster. > Also, I notice that the entry in NOTES puts quotes around the device=20 > r128drm, but not any of the others. Why is that? Because it contains numbers. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDHekzEnfvsMMhpyURAgzAAJ4j4huBThHyWELEB2nCl1byUoMtpACfbYyi GiSZTC7gZ8YqLqgwSZ/+Iqw= =GVzw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--
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