DRM(4)

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_NOEXTERNAL
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 upto date.

The drm drivers appeared in NetBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS
-nosplit 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.

It is not expected to need to use the older drivers, but if it is necessary, options DRM_NOEXTERNAL must be added to the kernel configuration file, and the two files src/sys/dev/drm/files.drm and src/sys/dev/pci/drm/files.pcidrm require minor edits, noted at the bottom of these files.