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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 +413,38 @@
<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">
+ <listitem>
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most
+ Intel graphics cards provided by Intel.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>i915kms</literal></para>
+
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most older
+ Radeon graphics cards provided by AMD.</para>
+
+ <para>Driver name: <literal>radeonkms</literal></para>
+
+ <para>2D and 3D acceleration is supported on most newer
+ AMD 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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