[Mesa-users] mesa 3D and drm

Alberich de megres alberich2k5 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 11:10:51 PDT 2010


Thanks!!

Is there some guide or tuto on how to start with opengl egl with kms?
Becouse i could not find something where to start on.

thanks

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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