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Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
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--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11/chapter.xml
@@ -413,7 +413,51 @@
<sect2 xml:id="x-config-video-cards">
<title>Video Cards</title>
+ <para>Because of changes made in recent versions of FreeBSD, 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 graphics/drm-kmod.</para>
+
<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-ports">
+ <term>&i915kms;</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>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <term>&radeonkms;</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most older
+ &radeonkms; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>radeonkms</literal></para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <term>&amdgpu;</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most newer
+ &amdgpu; graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>amdgpu</literal></para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <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>
+
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
<varlistentry xml:id="x-config-video-cards-intel">
<term>&intel;</term>
Index: share/xml/common.ent
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--- share/xml/common.ent
+++ share/xml/common.ent
@@ -85,3 +85,8 @@
<!ENTITY url.doc.books.fdp-primer-en '&url.doc.base-en;/books/fdp-primer/index.html'>
<!ENTITY url.doc.books.pmake '&url.doc.base;/books/pmake/index.html'>
<!ENTITY url.doc.books.pmake-en '&url.doc.base-en;/books/pmake/index.html'>
+
+<!-- Entities used by KMS drivers -->
+<!ENTITY amdgpu 'AMD KMS driver'>
+<!ENTITY i915kms 'Intel KMS driver'>
+<!ENTITY radeonkms 'Radeon KMS driver'>

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