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Add a note on the new graphics drivers imported from Linux to the X11 chapter

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of the Handbook.

Submitted by:	debdrup@gmail.com
Reviewed by:	bcr, rene, zeising
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17690
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Rene Ladan 2018-11-20 20:31:24 +00:00
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en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
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<sect2 xml:id="x-config-video-cards">
<title>Video Cards</title>
<para>Because of changes made in recent versions of &os;, it
is now possible to use graphics drivers provided by the Ports
framework or as packages. As such, users can use one of the
following drivers available from
<package>graphics/drm-kmod</package>.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-ports">
<term>&i915kms;</term>
<term>&radeonkms;</term>
<term>&amdgpu;</term>
<listitem>
<para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most
&i915kms; graphics cards provided by Intel.</para>
<para>Driver name: <literal>i915kms</literal></para>
<para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most older
&radeonkms; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
<para>Driver name: <literal>radeonkms</literal></para>
<para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most newer
&amdgpu; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
<para>Driver name: <literal>amdgpu</literal></para>
<para>For reference, please see <link
xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units"/>
or <link
xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units"/>
for a list of supported GPUs.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-intel">
<term>&intel;</term>

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@ -394,6 +394,11 @@ Coverity, Inc.</para>">
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.xiph "<para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Ogg Vorbis and Xiph.Org are trademarks
of Xiph.Org.</para>">
<!-- used in the X11 chapter of the Handbook -->
<!ENTITY amdgpu "AMD KMS driver">
<!ENTITY i915kms "Intel KMS driver">
<!ENTITY radeonkms "Radeon KMS driver">
<!ENTITY tm-attrib.general "<para xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>Many of the designations used by
manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed
as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document,