i915(7d)

Name

i915 - DRI-compliant kernel driver providing graphic hardware acceleration support

Description

The i915 driver is a Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)– compliant kernel driver that provides graphics hardware acceleration support. DRI is a framework for coordinating OS kernel, 3D graphics hardware, X window system and OpenGL applications.

The i915 driver currently supports the Intel i845, i865, i915, i945, i965 and G33 series integrated graphics controllers.

Files

/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/i915

64–bit ELF kernel module (x86).

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability driver/graphics/drm Architecture x86

See also

attributes(5)

/usr/X11/share/man/man1/Xserver.1

/usr/X11/share/man/man1/Xorg.1

/usr/X11/share/man/man5/X11.5