OpenGL and Mesa
DRI
- DRI provides hardware acceleration for OpenGL/Mesa on Linux
- Developed by Precision Insight and funded by RedHat and SGI (primarily) and ATI, Intel and Matrox (drivers).
- Allows `bypassing' of the X Server
- Requires kernel level support, drivers available for Voodoo3/4, ATI Radeon, Intel i810, Matrox G400 etc., 3Dlabs Oxygen
- Performance and features comparable to Windows DirectX drivers
- NVidia provides their own binary drivers which are not a part of the DRI project
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