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The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is a component of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, a system to provide efficient video acceleration (especially 3D rendering) on Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.

It consists of two in-kernel drivers (realized as kernel modules on Linux), a generic drm driver, and another which has specific support for the video hardware. This pair of drivers allows a userspace client direct access to the video hardware.

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DRM home page

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	The '''Direct Rendering Manager''' ('''DRM''') is a component of the [[Direct Rendering Infrastructure]], a system to provide efficient video acceleration (especially 3D rendering) on [[Unix]]-like operating systems, e.g. [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], and [[OpenBSD]].		The '''Direct Rendering Manager''' ('''DRM''') is a component of the [[Direct Rendering Infrastructure]], a system to provide efficient [[video acceleration]] (especially 3D rendering) on [[Unix]]-like operating systems, e.g. [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]], [[NetBSD]], and [[OpenBSD]].

	It consists of two in-kernel drivers (realized as [[Loadable kernel module\|kernel modules]] on Linux), a generic '''drm''' driver, and another which has specific support for the video hardware. This pair of drivers allows a userspace client direct access to the video hardware.		It consists of two in-kernel drivers (realized as [[Loadable kernel module\|kernel modules]] on Linux), a generic '''drm''' driver, and another which has specific support for the video hardware. This pair of drivers allows a userspace client direct access to the video hardware.