svn commit: r52500 - in head: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 share/xml
Rene Ladan
rene at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 20 20:31:28 UTC 2018
Author: rene
Date: Tue Nov 20 20:31:24 2018
New Revision: 52500
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52500
Log:
Add a note on the new graphics drivers imported from Linux to the X11 chapter
of the Handbook.
Submitted by: debdrup at gmail.com
Reviewed by: bcr, rene, zeising
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17690
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
head/share/xml/trademarks.ent
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml Mon Nov 19 15:36:11 2018 (r52499)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml Tue Nov 20 20:31:24 2018 (r52500)
@@ -413,7 +413,42 @@
<sect2 xml:id="x-config-video-cards">
<title>Video Cards</title>
+ <para>Because of changes made in recent versions of &os;, it
+ is now possible to use graphics drivers provided by the Ports
+ framework or as packages. As such, users can use one of the
+ following drivers available from
+ <package>graphics/drm-kmod</package>.</para>
+
<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-ports">
+ <term>&i915kms;</term>
+ <term>&radeonkms;</term>
+ <term>&amdgpu;</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most
+ &i915kms; graphics cards provided by Intel.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>i915kms</literal></para>
+
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most older
+ &radeonkms; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>radeonkms</literal></para>
+
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most newer
+ &amdgpu; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>amdgpu</literal></para>
+
+ <para>For reference, please see <link
+ xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units"/>
+ or <link
+ xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units"/>
+ for a list of supported GPUs.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-intel">
<term>&intel;</term>
Modified: head/share/xml/trademarks.ent
==============================================================================
--- head/share/xml/trademarks.ent Mon Nov 19 15:36:11 2018 (r52499)
+++ head/share/xml/trademarks.ent Tue Nov 20 20:31:24 2018 (r52500)
@@ -394,6 +394,11 @@ Coverity, Inc.</para>">
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.xiph "<para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Ogg Vorbis and Xiph.Org are trademarks
of Xiph.Org.</para>">
+<!-- used in the X11 chapter of the Handbook -->
+<!ENTITY amdgpu "AMD KMS driver">
+<!ENTITY i915kms "Intel KMS driver">
+<!ENTITY radeonkms "Radeon KMS driver">
+
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.general "<para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Many of the designations used by
manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed
as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document,
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