From: Brian
-The fbdev/DRI sub-project within Mesa brings hardware accelerated OpenGL
-rendering to the Linux fbdev environment.
-The X Window System / XFree86 is not needed.
+The fbdev/DRI environment supports hardware-accelerated 3D rendering without
+the X window system. This is typically used for embedded applications.
-Basically, the DRI drivers for hardware
-accelerated OpenGL for XFree86 have been ported to fbdev so that X is
-not needed.
-This means fbdev/DRI works in full-screen mode only.
+Contributors to this project include Jon Smirl, Keith Whitwell and Dave Airlie.
-DRI driver writers may find this simplified environment easier to work in,
-compared to the full XFree86/DRI environment.
+Applications in the fbdev/DRI environment use
+the MiniGLX interface to choose pixel
+formats, create rendering contexts, etc. It's a subset of the GLX and
+Xlib interfaces allowing some degree of application portability between
+the X and X-less environments.
-Much of the work for this project has been done by Jon Smirl and
-Keith Whitwell.
-
-To use fbdev/DRI, you'll need a Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
-
-The Mesa-based DRI drivers used to be hosted in the DRI tree (which is
-basically a copy of the XFree86 tree).
-Since the Mesa-based DRI drivers are moreso "Mesa drivers" than "XFree86
-drivers" and the fact that with some work, the drivers could be used
-without X, the driver code was moved into the Mesa tree.
-
-So now the DRI drivers can be compiled for two different environments:
-fbdev and XFree86.
-To build the drivers for XFree86, one has to download/build the DRI
-source tree.
-Eventually, we'd like to be able to build the drivers for XFree86 outside
-of the XFree86/DRI trees.
-
-First, you'll need the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel module sources.
-They're found in a module of the DRI CVS tree.
-To obtain the code do the following:
+You'll need the DRM and pciaccess libraries. Check with:
-Press Enter/Return when prompted for a password. Then,
-
-Compile the DRM kernel modules:
+You'll need fbdev header files. Check with:
-Note: you may need to be root in order to make a few symlinks.
-
-When compilation is done, you should have at least the following
-kernel modules:
-
-You'll probably want to copy/move them into your kernel module directory
-(for example:
-Begin by editing the
-Next, assuming you're starting with a fresh Mesa CVS checkout,
-do the following:
+Compile Mesa with the 'linux-solo' configuration:
-If you previously built the source tree, run
-When this is finished, check the
-If XFree86 is currently running, exit/stop the X server so you're
-working from the console.
+If an X server currently running, exit/stop it so you're working from
+the console.
You'll need to load the kernel modules specific to your graphics hardware.
Typically, this consists of the agpgart module, an fbdev driver module
-and the DRM kernel module (from step 2.1).
+and the DRM kernel module.
+
+As root, the kernel modules can be loaded as follows:
+If you have Intel i915/i945 hardware:
+
-If you have ATI Radeon/R200 hardware, run as root:
+If you have ATI Radeon/R200 hardware:
-If you have ATI Rage 128 hardware, run as root:
+If you have ATI Rage 128 hardware:
-If you have Matrox G200/G400 hardware, run as root:
+If you have Matrox G200/G400 hardware:
-Then run
+Alternately, use lsmod to inspect the currently installed modules.
+If you have problems, look at the output of dmesg.
+
-The radeon_dri.so
) at runtime. The
environment variable LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
should name the
directory where these modules are located.
-Prior to running a MiniGXL application, the following kernel modules
-must be installed:
-
-
-radeonfb.o (assuming Radeon hardware)
-radeon.o (assuming Radeon hardware)
-
-Finally, MiniGLX reads a configuration file (by default,
-/etc/miniglx.conf
) to determine basic configuration information.
- The configuration file may also be located in the directory
-specified by the MINIGLX_CONF
environment variable).
-
The remainder of this section describes the MiniGLX API functions.
3.1 Initialization
diff --git a/docs/contents.html b/docs/contents.html
index d8f427e59bc..a21341a5891 100644
--- a/docs/contents.html
+++ b/docs/contents.html
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ a:visited {
1. Introduction
Background Info
-
-2. Compilation
-2.1 Compiling the DRM modules
-
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/dri login
-
-
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/dri co drm
+ pkg-config --modversion libdrm
+ pkg-config --modversion pciaccess
- cd drm/linux
- make
+ ls -l /usr/include/linux/fb.h
- gamma.o
- i810.o
- i830.o
- mach64.o
- mga.o
- r128.o
- radeon.o
- savage.o
- sis.o
- tdfx.o
- via.o
-
-/lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/char/drm/
).
-2.2 Compiling the Mesa drivers
-
-Mesa/configs/default
file to set
-the DRM_SOURCE_PATH
variable.
-Set it to the location where the DRM module sources are located.
-For example, if your current directory in step 2.1 was /home/fred/
-set DRM_SOURCE_PATH to /home/fred/drm
-
make linux-solo
make realclean
-first to remove the old object files.
-Mesa/lib/
directory
-to verify that the following files were made:
+When complete you should have the following:
-
+
libGL.so.1.2
- the client-side OpenGL library
- (and a few symlinks to it).
-libGLU.so.1.1
- the GLU library (and a few symlinks to it).
-libglut.so.3.7
- the GLUT library (and a few symlinks to it).
-mga_dri.so
- DRI driver for Matrox G200/G400 cards.
-r128_dri.so
- DRI driver for ATI Rage 128 cards.
-r200_dri.so
- DRI driver for ATI R200 Radeon cards.
-radeon_dri.so
- DRI driver for original ATI Radeon cards.
-i810_dri.so
- DRI driver for Intel i810/i815 chips.
-i830_dri.so
- DRI driver for Intel i830/i845 chips.
-mga_dri.so
- DRI driver for Matrox G200/G400 cards.
-sis_dri.so
- DRI driver for SIS cards.
-tdfx_dri.so
- DRI driver for 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 cards.
-gamma_dri.so
- DRI driver for 3Dlabs gamma cards.
-fb_dri.so
- software-only fbdev driver.
-miniglx.conf
- configuration file for the MiniGLX interface
+3. Using fbdev/DRI
+ modprobe agpgart # the AGP GART module
+ modprobe intelfb # the Intel fbdev driver
+ modprobe i915 # the i915/945 DRI kernel module
+
modprobe agpgart # the AGP GART module
@@ -189,7 +103,7 @@ If you have ATI Radeon/R200 hardware, run as root:
modprobe agpgart # the AGP GART module
@@ -198,7 +112,7 @@ If you have ATI Rage 128 hardware, run as root:
modprobe agpgart # the AGP GART module
@@ -207,37 +121,46 @@ If you have Matrox G200/G400 hardware, run as root:
lsmod
to be sure the modules are loaded.
-For a Radeon card, you should see something like this:
+To verify that the agpgart, fbdev and drm modules are loaded:
-Module Size Used by Not tainted
-radeon 110308 0 (unused)
-radeonfb 21900 0 (unused)
-agpgart 43072 1
+ ls -l /dev/agpgart /dev/fb* /dev/dri
-
+3.2 Configuration File
Mesa/lib/miniglx.conf
file should be installed
-in /etc/
.
+Copy the sample miniglx.conf to /etc/miniglx.conf and review/edit its contents.
+Alternately, the MINIGLX_CONF environment variable can be used to
+indicate the location of miniglx.conf
+ /sbin/lspci: + 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04) +
-Edit /etc/miniglx.conf
to be sure it's set up correctly
-for your hardware.
-Comments in the file explain the options.
+00:02.0 indicates that pciBusID should be PCI:0:2:0
Make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable is set to the
-Mesa/lib/
directory.
+location of the libGL.so library. You may need to append other paths
+to LD_LIBRARY_PATH if libpciaccess.so is in a non-standard location,
+for example.
@@ -268,27 +191,24 @@ them from a remote shell so that you can stop them with ctrl-C.
+
[miniglx] failed to probe chipset connect: Connection refused server connection lost-
It means that the sample_server process is not running. -
- +-The full OpenGL API is available with fbdev/DRI. -
-OpenGL/Mesa is interfaced to fbdev via the MiniGLX interface. diff --git a/docs/subset.html b/docs/subset.html index dd1d742a821..4ac2eadffb9 100644 --- a/docs/subset.html +++ b/docs/subset.html @@ -1,17 +1,18 @@ -
In 2002/2003 Tungsten Graphics was contracted to develop a subset Mesa/Radeon driver for an embedded environment. The result is a reduced-size DRI driver -for the ATI R200 chip, for use with Linux fbdev rather than XFree86. +for the ATI R200 chip, for use with +fbdev/DRI environment.
@@ -19,15 +20,5 @@ The specification for this subset can be found here.
--The MiniGLX specification describes the -interface between fbdev and Mesa. -
- --More info to come... -
- -