[Mesa-users] mesa 3D and drm

Chia-I Wu olvaffe at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 06:41:31 PDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Alberich de megres
<alberich2k5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks!!
> I will try it then.
>
> One last question, using drm is better than framebuffer, isn't it? The
Yes, I think.  But you will have to program the display modes using libdrm.
> only advantage (significative one) that i know, is that all
> manufacturers make dri drivers not f framebffered, is that all right?
>
> thanks!!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Alberich de megres
>> <alberich2k5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> will i be able to get rid of the x windows with EGL?
>>> and of couerse have opengl hw acceleration?
>> Yes.  You may configure mesa with --with-egl-platforms=drm and disable
>> components you don't need.
>>> thanks for the quick reply
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Slavko Glamocanin <slavko at naprave.net> wrote:
>>>> It looks like you're looking for the EGL gallium driver with the KMS backend
>>>> (http://www.mesa3d.org/egl.html) and i dont think you're the only one:)
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Alberich de megres <alberich2k5 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I read some questions about if it's possible to have 3d acceleration
>>>>> without xwindow. And i know this one could be one more..sorry for that
>>>>> but i'm really lost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using directfb is an option is there's available a fb driver for the
>>>>> graphic card in use. Other things to have in account would be miniglx,
>>>>> and fbdri but not of these seems to work with many different graphics
>>>>> cards, so they are not an option.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is about the projects in mesa could I in some way have hw
>>>>> accelerated opengl, without the x window?
>>>>> Even if dri is a X concept, could i interface the drm into the kernel
>>>>> so i can use dri drivers out of the X? It will be hard? anyone has
>>>>> tried before?
>>>>>
>>>>> I also read these two pages:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mirror.leaseweb.com/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-5-0/xsrc/dist/Mesa/docs/fbdev-dri.html
>>>>> http://www.mesa3d.org/egl.html
>>>>>
>>>>> But i'm not sure if they are what i want.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could anyone please point me some light?
>>>>> thanks!!
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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