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www.YoYoBrain.com - Accelerators for Memory and Learning Questions for Linux Graphics Category: Default - (25 questions) Linux Graphics: a library ____ implements mesa OpenGL API Linux Graphics: when using OpenGL libdrm ioctls uses a special card-specific ____ to talk to the Linux kernel Linux Graphics: 3D rendering is done with OpenGL _____ Linux Graphics: 2D rendering is done using cairo ______ Linux Graphics: when using cairo for 2D XRender extension rendering, cairo sends primitives to XServer using _______ Linux Graphics: the wire protocol used by X11 the X Window system Linux Graphics: _____ is the reference Xlib implementation of client side of X Window system Linux Graphics: ____ is alternative to XLib XCB with much lower level API, and XLib is built on this currently Linux Graphics: ____ is the reference Xorg implementation of server side of X Window system Linux Graphics: D-Bus an inter-process communication system for software applications to communicate with one another Linux Graphics: X11 has a special extension XRender ____ which adds support for anti-aliased drawing primitives Linux Graphics: XServer and cairo share a pixman low level library called ____ for doing pixel level manipulation Linux Graphics: OpenGL is not a library, libGL.somesa each video card vendor is supposed to provide its own ____. Open source versions usually come from _____. Linux Graphics: gallium set of components to make implementing OpenGL drivers easier Linux Graphics: TGSI Tungsten Graphics Shader Infrastructure - intermediate language for describing shaders. Only intermediate used by all drivers. Part of gallium Linux Graphics: GLES GL Embedded systemiPhone supports GLES 2.0 Linux Graphics: GLX used to connect OpenGL and X11 Linux Graphics: Xorg and mesa upload DRM - "Direct Rendering Manager" card-specific commands to the kernel using _____ Linux Graphics: the Xgraphics part of Xorg DIX - driver independent X subsystemDDS - is made up of 2 major parts _____ and driver dependent X subsystem _____ Linux Graphics: the ioctl interface used to Intel's GEMTungsten Graphics' TTM allocate graphics commands on graphics card comes in 2 flavors ____ and ______ Linux Graphics: the synchronization DRI2 - direct rendering infrastructure between program, the kernel and X server is called ______ Linux Graphics: KMS Kernel Mode Setting - special subsystem inside of libdrm and kernel making it possible to directly set up a graphics mode, map frombuffer to display directly on a TTY Linux Graphics: the _____ allows a composite extensionComposite Overlay compositing window manager to set up COW Window (and what is this) Linux Graphics: _____ lets an OpenGL TFP - texture from Pixmap extension program use an X11 Pixmap as if it were an OpenGL texture Linux Graphics: AIGLX Accelerated Indirect GLX - way to run OpenGL as a networked protocol.

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