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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. Can anyone then tell me... by amarodeeps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...what if anything this might mean for getting DRI on OpenBSD? Thanks.

  2. *nix Support by phavens · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If you have support for one verion of BSD... It can not be hard to get it running for another version. And for that matter another version of *nix. It might just be a matter of recompiling.

    Now give me nVidia and ATI drivers that have all the support/features under linux/BSD that you have under windows THEN I'll be exited.

    --
    Patrick Havens (Mr. 573333 to you.) Graphic Artist / Coder / Father / Journeler
  3. Re:Unified UNIX drivers by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In a perfect world, your vision would be useful and yes, I'd vouch for it, but it's a license minefield. :-(