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26.Dd June 23, 2009
27.Dt DRM 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm drm
31.Nd Direct Rendering Manager (DRI kernel support)
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd device drm
34.Cd device i915drm
35.Cd device mach64drm
36.Cd device mgadrm
37.Cd device r128drm
38.Cd device radeondrm
39.Cd device savagedrm
40.Cd device sisdrm
41.Cd device tdfxdrm
42.\".Cd device viadrm
43.Pp
44.Cd options DRM_DEBUG
45.\".Cd options DRM_LINUX
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Tn Direct Rendering Manager
49is part of the
50.Tn Direct Rendering Infrastructure
51(see
52.Pa http://dri.freedesktop.org/ )
53for supporting video acceleration.
54For older chipsets it's used for 3d acceleration only, but newer chipsets
55may require
56.Nm
57for 2d acceleration (XVideo, exa(4)) as well.
58.Pp
59The
60.Nm
61drivers provide support for the following chipsets:
62.Pp
63.Bl -tag -width XsavagedrmXXX -offset indent -compact
64.It i915drm
65Intel i915, i945, i965, G3x, G4x
66.It mach64drm
67Mach64 (3D Rage Pro, Rage)
68.It mgadrm
69Matrox G[24]00, G[45]50
70.It r128drm
71ATI Rage 128
72.It radeondrm
73ATI Radeon
74.It savagedrm
75S3 Savage
76.It sisdrm
77SiS
78.It tdfxdrm
793dfx (Voodoo)
80.\".It viadrm
81.\"VIA
82.El
83.Pp
84To make use of the driver:
85.Pp
86.Bl -bullet -compact
87.It
88The kernel must include
89.Xr agp 4
90.It
91.Xr Xorg 1 ,
92MesaLib and the video driver to be used must be compiled with DRI support
93.It
94DRI must be enabled in the
95.Xr xorg.conf 5
96configuration file:
97.Bd -literal
98Section "DRI"
99        Group "wheel"
100        Mode 0660
101EndSection
102.Ed
103.El
104.Pp
105Debugging output can be enabled and disabled by setting the
106.Xr sysctl 8
107node
108.Ar hw.dri.debug .
109.Sh SEE ALSO
110.Xr Xorg 1 ,
111.Xr agp 4 ,
112.Xr exa 4 ,
113.Xr xorg.conf 5
114.Sh HISTORY
115DRM was first available for Linux.
116Subsequently Eric Anholt ported the DRM kernel modules to
117.Fx .
118.Sh CAVEATS
119Disable AIGLX if necessary
120.Pq Pa xorg.conf :
121.Bd -literal -offset indent
122Section "ServerFlags"
123        Option  "AIGLX" "off"
124EndSection
125
126Section "Extensions"
127        Option "Composite" "Disable"
128EndSection
129.Ed
130.Pp
131.Cd options DRM_DEBUG
132can slow DRI down a lot, disable it once
133.Nm
134works.
135