The Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2.

DRI2 Articles & Reviews

DRI2 vs. DRI3 Benchmarks With Intel Skylake HD Graphics 530   Display Drivers   2016-02-20
AMDGPU Tuning Tests With DRI2/DRI3, PowerPlay, Semaphores, Scheduler   Display Drivers   2015-12-24
DRI2 vs. DRI3 Radeon Linux OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2015-11-01
The Major Open-Source ATI Improvements Over Two Years   Display Drivers   2011-04-11
Testing Out AMD's DRI2 Driver Stack   Display Drivers   2009-05-13

DRI2 Linux & Open-Source News

Libva 2.20 Released For Video Acceleration API   Multimedia   2023-10-09
Intel Releases libva 2.15 Video Acceleration Library   Intel   2022-07-01
Mesa's "Copper" Is A Step Closer To Being Brazed   Mesa   2022-01-14
X.Org Server 21.1.2 Released With Security Fixes, Back To Pretending All Displays Are 96 DPI   X.Org   2021-12-15
X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory   X.Org   2021-04-13
Benchmarking Linux 5.5 vs. Linux 5.6-rc1 On A Few Systems So Far   Linux Kernel   2020-02-12
xf86-video-ati 19.1 Released With Crash & Hang Fixes   X.Org   2019-10-15
xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1 Delivers A Batch Of Fixes   X.Org   2019-10-12
Wine-Nine-Standalone 0.5 Released To Improve Wine Integration With Gallium Nine   WINE   2019-09-29
X.Org Server 1.20.4 Released With XWayland Fixes   X.Org   2019-02-26
Adreno 600 Series Support Lands In Mesa 18.3 Gallium3D   Mesa   2018-08-18
Adreno A6xx Gallium3D Support Coming Together   Mesa   2018-08-04
Xorgproto Debuts, Reflecting X.Org Server Development Slowing Down   X.Org   2018-02-05
Deep Color Support For Radeon X.Org Driver Being Tackled   Radeon   2018-01-22
VIA Graphics & Other Vintage GPUs Still Interest At Least One Developer In 2017   Hardware   2017-09-22
Radeon X.Org Driver Gets Fixed Up To Always Allow Page-Flipping With TearFree   Radeon   2017-08-17
Mesa 17.2 RC2 Released   Mesa   2017-07-31
AMD Planning To Enable GLAMOR By Default For R600 & Newer GPUs   Radeon   2016-11-21
Freedreno Encouraging Users To Switch To Modesetting X.Org Driver   X.Org   2016-11-16
OpenChrome Maintainer Making Some Progress On VIA DRM Driver   Hardware   2016-09-25
Marking DRI1 Drivers As Legacy & "Broken" Being Debated   Linux Kernel   2016-08-26
DRI2 Page-Flipping Patches For The Generic Modesetting DDX   X.Org   2016-08-18
Radeon X.Org Driver Now Only Uses DRI3 By Default With GLAMOR   Radeon   2016-07-22
The Founder Of Wayland Has Joined Google   Google   2016-07-14
DRI3 Support Lands In Gallium3D's Video Code   Mesa   2016-05-16
Patches Posted For Supporting DRI3 With VA-API & VDPAU   Mesa   2016-05-11
DRI3 Is Now Flipped On For xf86-video-ati X.Org Driver   AMD   2016-05-11
AMD To Enable DRI3 By Default On Latest X.Org Servers   AMD   2016-05-10
Mesa 11.2.2 Released With Big Endian Improvements For Radeon, LibEGL For OpenBSD   Mesa   2016-05-09
DRI3 On (X)Ubuntu 16.04 Still isn't Enough For Intel Graphics To Compete With Others   Ubuntu   2016-05-04
Radeon vs. Modesetting DDX Driver Performance On Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2016-04-23
Enabling DRI3 Is Still An Easy Performance Hack Relevant For Ubuntu 16.04 Systems   Ubuntu   2016-04-22
X.Org Server 1.18.3 Has A DRI3/Present Fix To Avoid Eating Your CPU & Other Issues   X.Org   2016-04-04
GLVND GLX Support Being Worked On For The X.Org Server   X.Org   2016-03-24
Radeon DRI3 Performance On Ubuntu 16.04   Ubuntu   2016-03-17
X.Org Server 1.18.2 Brings DRI3 Fixes, Better GLAMOR & XWayland Updates   X.Org   2016-03-11
Vulkan Completely Dominated This Month   Phoronix   2016-02-29
Intel Skylake Vulkan Support Appears To Be Working Out Pretty Well   Intel   2016-02-17
Mesa Vulkan Branch Published For Intel Linux Support   Intel   2016-02-16
AMDGPU's xf86-video-amdgpu vs. Mode-Setting DDX Performance   X.Org   2016-02-14
DRI3 Still Appears To Be Causing Problems For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-09
X.Org Server 1.18.1 Has Fixes For GLAMOR, Modesetting & DRI3 Presentation   Red Hat   2016-02-08
The Mesmerizing Mesa Milestones Of 2015   Mesa   2015-12-27
Running OpenGL 4.1, DRI3 With Mesa Git On An AMD Cayman GPU   AMD   2015-12-16
VIA OpenChrome KMS Support Might Be Revived With Mainline Ambitions   Linux Kernel   2015-12-12
Support For DRI1 Might Be Stripped From The X.Org Server   X.Org   2015-12-08
Jetson TX1, One Second Linux & Other Open-Source Jollies From This Month   Phoronix   2015-11-30
DRI3 Improvements Land In Mesa Git   Mesa   2015-11-17
Khronos Posts Their 2015 SIGGRAPH Asia Slides   Standards   2015-11-10
Mesa's DRI3 Support For EGL Still Baking, The State Of DRI3 For X.Org Drivers   Mesa   2015-10-30
Marek At AMD Has Been Finishing Up EGL 1.5 Support In Mesa   AMD   2015-07-13
Intel X.Org Driver Enables Render-Nodes By Default For DRI3   Intel   2015-02-10
GLX_EXT_buffer_age Patches For Mesa DRI2   Mesa   2015-01-21
Mode-Setting Driver Now Supports VBlanks With Present   X.Org   2014-12-26
Intel Has Last Round Of DRM Changes For Linux 3.19, Starts Dropping DRI1/UMS   Intel   2014-11-28
Gallium3D Drivers Might Lose The EGL State Tracker, OpenVG   Mesa   2014-11-07
X.Org Server 1.17 RC1 Released, Exciting For GLAMOR & Modesetting   X.Org   2014-10-29
DRI2 Support Proposed For The Generic Mode-Setting Driver   X.Org   2014-10-27
Freedreno 1.3.0 DDX Brings Several Fixes   X.Org   2014-10-04
X.Org Server 1.17 Likely To Have Built-In KMS Modesetting Driver   X.Org   2014-09-12
Users Warned About Possible Regressions With DRI3   Fedora   2014-07-23
GLX DRI3 GPU Offloading Lands In Mesa   Mesa   2014-07-01
Intel X.Org Gets DRI3+Present, Variable Cursor Sizes, Improved DRI2   Intel   2014-06-10
DRI3 & Present Support Finally Land Within Intel's Driver   X.Org   2014-06-02
Mesa Support For GPU Offloading With GLX DRI3, EGL Wayland   Mesa   2014-05-28
X.Org Server Commit Activity Continues Declining   X.Org   2014-05-19
GNOME Aims To Get Mutter-Wayland Running With LLVMpipe   Wayland   2014-04-12
Intel Lands Some MSAA Mesa Performance Improvements   Intel   2014-03-24
Mesa DRI3 Picks Up GLX_EXT_buffer_age Support   Mesa   2014-03-13
Ubuntu Will Not Enable Open-Source VDPAU Support   Ubuntu   2014-02-18
GPU Offloading Support In Wayland Moves Along   Wayland   2014-02-05
Lots Of X.Org GLAMOR Improvements Planned   X.Org   2014-01-12
SteamOS Update Now Officially Supports Intel   Linux Gaming   2014-01-07
GLAMOR Will Likely End Up In The X.Org Server   X.Org   2013-12-31
2013 Was A Stellar Year For Mesa   Mesa   2013-12-26
Freedreno Graphics Driver Reaches Version 1.0   X.Org   2013-11-16
PRIME Support Comes To VMware's Virtual GPU Driver   Virtualization   2013-11-14
Mesa's New Extension For Game Developers Merged   Mesa   2013-11-08
Mesa DRI PRIME Support Comes To Wayland   Wayland   2013-11-07
The State Of Open-Source ARM GPU Drivers   Arm   2013-09-27
X.Org DRI3 Improvements Are Nearly Done   X.Org   2013-09-26
The X.Org Server's GLX Is Being Rewritten   X.Org   2013-09-26
Intel 2.21.15 X.Org Driver Has PRIME, BSD Fixes   Intel   2013-08-21
VDPAU Library Now Supports DRI_PRIME   NVIDIA   2013-08-05
Nouveau Works On Optimus Dynamic Power Handling   Nouveau   2013-08-02
Experimental PRIME Support For Wayland   Wayland   2013-08-01
Nouveau Driver Gets Multi-Screen Reverse Optimus   Nouveau   2013-07-30
Mesa 9.2 Is At 1.3 Million Lines Of Code   Mesa   2013-07-29
Intel 2.21.13 Driver Fixes Performance Regressions   Intel   2013-07-28
Updated Nouveau Graphics Driver Released   Nouveau   2013-06-12
Intel 2.21.9 X.Org Driver Calls Out More Regressions   Intel   2013-06-06
Wayland 1.2 Release Planned For June, XWayland   Wayland   2013-04-29
DRI3000 Still Being Developed For New X.Org DRI   X.Org   2013-04-13
Gallium3D Gets A Heads-Up Display For Information   Mesa   2013-03-25
QXL Gallium3D Wrapper Driver Is Brought Up   Virtualization   2013-03-20
Canonical Announces Mir Back-End For Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2013-03-05
Building & Running The Ubuntu Mir Display Server   Ubuntu   2013-03-04
Upstream X/Wayland Developers Bash Canonical, Mir   Fedora   2013-03-04
PRIME/DMA_BUF Support For Wayland   Wayland   2013-02-28
Freedreno Graphics Driver Approaches Mainline   Mesa   2013-02-17
Red Hat Picks Up Another Graphics Driver Developer   Red Hat   2013-02-15
The Linux Graphics Driver Stack Remains Insecure   X.Org   2013-02-02
NVIDIA Releases Updated VDPAU Library (v0.6)   NVIDIA   2013-02-02
New ARM X.Org Driver Promises Better Performance   X.Org   2013-02-01
Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver 7.1.0 Released   AMD   2013-01-30
Mesa, EGL Support For The Buffer-Age Extension   Mesa   2012-12-20
DRM Render Nodes Published, Better Graphics Security   X.Org   2012-12-18
X.Org Server 1.13.1 Pulls In The Fixes   X.Org   2012-12-14
Marek Takes On MSAA Gallium3D Improvements   Mesa   2012-12-07
Freedreno GPU Driver Still Being Actively Developed   Hardware   2012-12-05
Mesa: Thread Offloading, Asynchronous SwapBuffers   Mesa   2012-11-15
Radeon Driver Is Now KMS-Only, 7.0 Released   Radeon   2012-11-06
X.Org, Wayland Plans For Ubuntu 13.04 Are Drawn   Wayland   2012-11-01
Hybrid Graphics In Ubuntu Are Still Lackluster   Ubuntu   2012-11-01
ARM Freedreno Driver Begins Work On Gallium3D   Arm   2012-10-25
Nouveau X.Org Driver Gets Fixed Up   Nouveau   2012-10-24
Keith Packard Outlines "DRI-Next" Plans   X.Org   2012-09-29
Patches Arrive For DRM2 Render Nodes Support   Wayland   2012-09-29
DRI2 Video Support Still Being Planned   Free Software   2012-09-22
X.Org Server 1.14: In March With New Features   X.Org   2012-09-21
DRI3 Was Just Proposed On The Fly From XDC2012   X.Org   2012-09-19
Mode-Setting Driver Can Now Be An Output Slave   X.Org   2012-09-14
Nouveau Releases New Driver With PRIME Support   Nouveau   2012-09-12
Dynamic GPU Power-Off Support For DRM Drivers   X.Org   2012-09-10
Released Intel Driver Gets PRIME'd For Sharing   Intel   2012-09-08
X.Org Server 1.13 Released With Massive Changes   X.Org   2012-09-05
Primus: Client-Side GPU Offloading In 500 Lines Of Code   Mesa   2012-09-03
DRI2 Offloading Support Hits The X.Org Drivers   X.Org   2012-09-03
GStreamer Conference 2012: ALSA, OpenGL, Wayland   Free Software   2012-08-29
Extending DRI2 For Video Handling Still Desired   Free Software   2012-08-28
TI Shows Off Impressive, Experimental Wayland Demo   Wayland   2012-08-28
Hacking On An X.Org Driver For The First Time   X.Org   2012-08-20
X.Org Server 1.13 Nears: Baking Cookies   X.Org   2012-08-08
Fedora 18 To Get MATE Desktop, Samba 4, Etc   Fedora   2012-07-30
Intel Driver Now Builds SNA Support By Default   Intel   2012-07-12
X.Org Server 1.13 RC1 Packs In Many Changes   X.Org   2012-07-10
PRIME DRI2 Offloading Pulled Into X.Org Server   X.Org   2012-07-09
To No Surprise, X.Org Server Progress Is Slowing   X.Org   2012-07-04
Old X Drivers Get Updated, GPU Hot-Plug Refreshed   Hardware   2012-07-02
Potential Good News For NVIDIA Optimus On Linux   NVIDIA   2012-06-28
Canonical Posts More Wayland Patches   Wayland   2012-06-15
Provider Object Support For RandR 1.5   X.Org   2012-06-10
DRI2 Offload Slaves, Output Slaves For September   X.Org   2012-06-08
A Virtual KMS Driver For QEMU Comes, Again   Linux Kernel   2012-05-02
The Most Awesome But Least-Advertised F17 Feature   Free Software   2012-05-02
Intel Pushes Out Glamor 0.4 Release   Intel   2012-04-28
X.Org 7.7 Release Candidate 1 Finally Emerges   X.Org   2012-04-16
Radeon, Nouveau Power Usage On Ubuntu 12.04   Ubuntu   2012-04-08
DRM Base PRIME Support Part Of VGEM Work   X.Org   2012-02-23
Mesa 8.0 Advances Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers   Mesa   2012-02-09