NAME

drm — Direct Rendering Manager (DRI kernel support)

SYNOPSIS

i915drm* at vga?
mach64drm* at vga?
mgadrm* at vga?
r128drm* at vga?
radeondrm* at vga?
savagedrm* at vga?
sisdrm* at vga?
tdfxdrm* at vga?
viadrm* at vga?

options DRM_DEBUG
options DRM_NO_AGP

DESCRIPTION

The Direct Rendering Manager is part of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (see http://dri.freedesktop.org/) for supporting video acceleration (3d acceleration, mostly).

The drm drivers provide support for the following chipsets:

i915drm

Intel i915, i945

mach64drm

Mach64 (3D Rage Pro, Rage)

mgadrm

Matrox G[24]00, G[45]50

r128drm

ATI Rage 128

radeondrm

ATI Radeon

savagedrm

S3 Savage

sisdrm

SiS

tdfxdrm

3dfx (Voodoo)

viadrm

VIA

To make use of the driver, the kernel must include agp(4) (for some drivers, using options DRM_NO_AGP instead may be sufficient), X(7) must be compiled with DRI support, Mesa DRI drivers must be installed, the appropriate /dev/dri/card* device must exist, and DRI must be enabled in the X configuration file. X(7) provided with NetBSD and compiled from pkgsrc(7) do so automatically where supported.

X(7) will attempt to create the device node automatically. To create the device node manually:

mkdir -p /dev/dri 
mknod /dev/dri/card0 c 180 0 
chgrp wheel /dev/dri/card0 
chmod 0660 /dev/dri/card0

To enable DRI in the X configuration add the following to either xorg.conf for Xorg(1) or XF86Config for XFree86(1) :

Section "Module" 
        ... 
        Load  "dri" 
        Load  "dri2" 
        Load  "glx" 
EndSection 
... 
Section "DRI" 
        Group "wheel" 
        Mode 0660 
EndSection

Debugging output can be enabled and disabled by setting the sysctl(8) node hw.dri.debug. Additional information can be obtained from the sysctl(8) nodes hw.dri, hw.dri.card0, hw.dri.card1, etc.

SEE ALSO

XFree86(1), Xorg(1), agp(4), XF86Config(5), xorg.conf(5), X(7), /usr/X11R[67]/lib/X11/doc/README.DRI

HISTORY

DRM was first available for Linux. Subsequently Eric Anholt ported the DRM kernel modules to FreeBSD. Erik Reid adapted the FreeBSD DRM kernel modules to NetBSD. As DRM continued to develop the NetBSD support was neglected. Tonnerre Lombard got the DRM modules working again, but DRM development once again left the NetBSD support behind. Finally Yorick Hardy took the FreeBSD DRM source and managed to get it compiling and working again on NetBSD, thanks largely to the efforts of all those mentioned above. Subsequently Matthias Drochner improved the DRM file hierarchy for NetBSD and committed the DRM kernel drivers. Matthew Green cleaned up this port and merged a set of newer drivers, with Arto Huusko and FUKAUMI Naoki helping to get the latest Mesa port up to date.

The drm drivers appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

Eric Anholt, Terry Barnaby, Erdi Chen, Michel Daenzer, Leif Delgass, Frank C. Earl, Rickard E. Faith, Jose Fonseca, Nicolai Haehnle, Jeff Hartmann, Thomas Hellstrom, Gareth Hughes, Felix Kuehling, Sung-Ching Lin, Kevin E. Martin, Jared D. McNeill, Daryll Strauss, Keith Whitwell

CAVEATS

In case of errors, /dev/dri/card0 may be changed, make sure to recreate it in that case.

options DRM_DEBUG can slow DRI down a lot; disable it once drm works.