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.Dd June 18, 2022
.Dt DRM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm drm
.Nd Direct Rendering Manager (DRI kernel support)
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Tn Direct Rendering Manager
is part of the
.Tn Direct Rendering Infrastructure
(see
.Pa http://dri.freedesktop.org/ )
for supporting video acceleration.
.Pp
The
.Nm
drivers provide support for the following chipsets:
.Bl -column -offset indent ".Pa radeon.ko" ".Sy Kernel Option" ".Sy Chipset"
.It Sy Module Ta Sy "Kernel option" Ta Sy Chipset
.It Pa i915.ko Ta i915 Ta Intel i915, i945, i965, G3x, G4x
.It Pa radeon.ko Ta radeon Ta AMD/ATI Radeon
.It Pa amdgpu.ko Ta n/a Ta newer AMD chipsets
.El
.Pp
In most cases
.Xr Xorg 1
will take care of loading the appropriate modules and it is not necessary to
modify
.Xr loader.conf 5
or the kernel configuration to enable
.Nm
support.
.Pp
Newer versions of
.Xr Xorg 1 ,
like the one from
.Xr dports 7 ,
do a pretty good job of figuring out the right configuration on their own,
so having no
.Xr xorg.conf 5
file at all is usually the best advice.
If for some reason an
.Xr xorg.conf 5
is preferred, DRI must be enabled:
.Bd -literal
Section "DRI"
        Group "video"
        Mode 0660
EndSection
.Ed
.Pp
With KMS, DRI is always enabled since the
.Nm
is always required.
.Pp
To access
.Pa /dev/dri/cardN
devices user must be a member of the
.Li video
group.
Users can be added to the
.Li video
group with
.Xr pw 8
groupmod option.
.\".Pp
.\"In order to use two graphics cards (an on-board and another
.\"AGP/PCI/PCIe card) with DRI, a
.\".Pa /dev/dri/card1
.\"link to
.\".Pa /dev/dri/card0
.\"has to be created using
.\".Xr devfsctl 8 .
.Pp
If
.Xr Xorg 1
acceleration fails to initialize with a
.Dq contigmalloc_map: failed size...
error in dmesg, the reserve of memory for DMA ran out early and should
be increased to a sufficiently high value by setting the
.Va vm.dma_reserved
loader tunable.
A read only
.Xr sysctl 8
variable of the same name is provided for obtaining its current value.
.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
Tunables can be set at the
.Xr loader 8
prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
.Xr loader.conf 5 .
.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
.It Va drm.debug
Enable internal verbose debug messages, might slow down the machine.
Debug categories are enabled by setting their bits:
.Bl -tag -width "xxxxx"
.It 0x001
CORE - generic drm code
.It 0x002
DRIVER - vendor specific parts of the driver
.It 0x004
KMS - modesetting troubleshoot
.It 0x008
PRIME (no prime support)
.It 0x010
ATOMIC - atomic code used by i915
.It 0x100
PID - include pid number (useful in certain scenarios)
.It 0x200
FIOCTL - failed ioctls
.It 0x400
IOCTL - very spammy ioctl prints
.It 0x800
VBLANK - very spammy vblank prints
.El
.It Va drm.edid_firmware
Load external EDID binary monitor data from a firmware module.
Useful if the monitor is not sending an appropriate EDID block, if there
is no video on the connected monitor or if there is a need to enforce
custom video modes.
Optionally, the connector name can be specified before the firmware name
followed by a colon.
For example:
.Pp
.Dl drm.edid_firmware="DVI-D-1:edidfw_repaired"
.Pp
Notes:
.Nm
and
.Xr Xorg 1
use different naming conventions for connector names.
This tunable only applies for KMS drivers.
.It Va drm.video.<connector>
Can be used to set framebuffer parameters for drm(4) connector.
Mode specifier format:
.Pp
.Dl <xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][@<refresh>][i][m][eDd]
.Bl -tag -width "<refresh>"
.It <xres>
X resolution, e.g. 1920
.It <yres>
Y resolution, e.g. 1080
.It M
calculate timings using VESA CVT instead of table lookups
.It R
reduced blanking on digital monitors
.It <bpp>
color depth
.It <refresh>
refresh rate
.It i
calculate timings for interlaced mode
.It m
margins used in calculations
.It e
force enable output
.It D
same as e option, but force digital output on HDMI/DVI
.It d
force disable output
.El
.El
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
A number of
.Xr sysctl 8
variables are available:
.Bl -tag -width ".Va hw.dri.vblank_offdelay"
.It Va hw.dri.debug
If set, enables debugging output.
.It Va hw.dri.vblank_offdelay
Specifies the delay (in milliseconds) until the vblank
interrupt is disabled again when it's no longer needed.
(0 = never disable, negative value = disable immediately)
.It Va hw.dri.%d.busid
Indicates the location of the device on the PCI bus.
The format is:
.Pp
.Dl [0000-ffff]:[00-ff]:[00-1f].[0-7]
.It Va hw.dri.%d.modesetting
Indicates if kernel mode setting
.Dv ( DRIVER_MODESET
feature) is set in the device driver.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr Xorg 1 ,
.Xr amdgpu 4 ,
.Xr i915 4 ,
.Xr radeon 4 ,
.Xr xorg.conf 5
.Sh HISTORY
DRM was first available for Linux.
Subsequently Eric Anholt ported the DRM kernel modules to
.Fx .
.Sh CAVEATS
Disable AIGLX if necessary
.Pq Pa xorg.conf :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
Section "ServerFlags"
        Option  "AIGLX" "off"
EndSection
.\"
.\"Section "Extensions"
.\"        Option "Composite" "Disable"
.\"EndSection
.Ed
.Pp
.Cd options DRM_DEBUG
can slow DRI down a lot, disable it once
.Nm
works.