Editing Direct Rendering Manager (section)

== Adoption ==
The Direct Rendering Manager kernel subsystem was initially developed to be used with the new [[Direct Rendering Infrastructure]] of the [[XFree86]] 4.0 display server, later inherited by its successor, the [[X.Org Server]]. Therefore, the main users of DRM were DRI clients that link to the hardware-accelerated [[OpenGL]] implementation that lives in the [[Mesa 3D]] library, as well as the X Server itself. Nowadays DRM is also used by several [[Wayland (display server protocol)|Wayland compositors]], including [[Weston (display server)|Weston]] reference compositor. [[kmscon]] is a virtual console implementation that runs in user space using DRM KMS facilities.{{r|Herrmann 2012 kmscon}}

In 2015, version 358.09 (beta) of the proprietary [[Nvidia GeForce driver]] received support for the DRM mode-setting interface implemented as a new kernel blob called <code>nvidia-modeset.ko</code>. This new driver component works in conjunction with the <code>nvidia.ko</code> kernel module to program the display engine (i.e. display controller) of the GPU.<ref name="beta358.09">{{cite web |url=https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/884727/linux-solaris-and-freebsd-driver-358-09-beta-/?offset=1 |title=Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD driver 358.09 (beta) |date=2015-12-10}}</ref>