Re: [Dri-users] DRI and multi-head support]

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> >>Does DRI only handle 3-D accleration or does it include 2-D stuff as
> >>well?
> > 
> > You can get 2D acceleration without loading DRI. It is seperate.
> > 
> > DRI standards for Direct Rendering Infrastructure, this pretty much
> > refers to 3D, although it does have to handle 2D.
> 
> My problem is that the gatos km module (which does video capture) 
> depends on the gatos drm-kernel which depends on DRI.  So although I 
> don't need the 3D features I don't think I can get by without DRI.
> 
> I've asked on the gatos list and so far received an "I tried and had 
> problems" response along with "That question might be better asked on 
> the DRI list."

This is starting to look like a dependancy problem. 

You could of course pull it all apart and get a driver that does what
you want. Or just try it on a radeon board in a normal computer.

Perhaps you should ask this on dri-devel.
 
Liam
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