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XFree86 DRI on NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the bare-metal dept.

Dan writes "Erik Reid has been working on adding DRI support for NetBSD. Direct Rendering Infrastructure, also known as the DRI Project, is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner. Some of Erik's work has been imported into XFree86 4.3.0 which is now in xsrc tree. He has subsequently put together a fairly large patch which compiles and works on his NetBSD/i386 1.6P system with a matrox g450. Try out the patch and give him some feedback!"

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  1. Re:*nix Support by CoolVibe · · Score: 5, Informative
    Merely recompiling will not do, since the API's of the underlying OS differ too much between the many BSD's. It still requires a lot of patching.

    Although there is a port of the FreeBSD nvidia drivers to NetBSD... Lemme dig up the uri...

    Ah, here it is:

    NVidia drivers on NetBSD

    Have fun!