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From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>
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+-------[ Julian Elischer ]----------------------
| 
| 
| On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Anders Nordby wrote:
| 
| > Hi,
| > 
| > Erm. Silly me. I wasn't getting the "[drm] AGP at .." message, because I
| > had forgotten to remove agp_load="YES" from /boot/loader.conf.
| 
| Is there a "for dummies" outline on howe all the terms go together 
| in the graphics world?
| 
| e.g. what is : 
| dri, and how does it connect to agp.
| for that matter what is agp, and how does it connect to PCI?
| etc.etc.
| 
| ?
| some of these thigns are libraries, modules, hardware interfaces,
| etc.etc.
| 
| is there a glossary?

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/howto/other-formats/html-single/DRI-Driver-HOWTO.htm

Has a glossary of terms in it...

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