Newbie Question: DRI and Xorg

goodmen-zy goodmenzy at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 17:01:51 PDT 2007


Thanks for your kindness! 

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 10:45 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 9/24/07, yi zheng <goodmenzy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > DRI belong to what group ?
> > Xorg or XFree86?
> 
> Both of them integrate with the Mesa project, which is where the
> actual DRI drivers reside.
> 
> http://mesa3d.org/
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/mesa.git
> 
> > Where does the DRI source code reside in the xorg source tree?
> 
> I'm not the authority, but the DRI and GLX modules reside in the
> server source code.
> 
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/xserver/
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=summary
> 
> > What the situations about 3D hardware accelerated system?
> > Which doc need to read when one want to have a general idea about 3D render
> > in Open software realm?
> 
> Much of this information can be found on the DRI website.
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/
> 
> If you're really interested in development, you may also want to
> subscribe to the dri-devel and mesa3d-dev mailing lists.
> 
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/MailingLists
> http://mesa3d.org/lists.html
> 
> --
> Dan




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