Sean wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:22:48 -0700 > Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, one of the biggest defeats for the Free desktop currently >> is lack of proper video driver support from major manufacturers, such as >> NVidia/ATi. Thankfully, ATi's older stuff works well with the in-tree >> radeon drivers and Intel has published specs and source code for the >> drivers for their integrated Graphics Media Accelerator stuff; (Thanks, >> Intel!) and the Open Video project looks very promising as well. > > One glimmer of hope is the Radeon r300 open source driver. Pretty decent > 3D support is already working (apparently enough to play doom 3 etc) and it > should only get better over time. That let's you run pretty modern hardware, > at least X700 and X800 and perhaps even more recent. > Awesome! I didn't know that R300 worked with the newer stuff too. Thanks for the info! Things appear to be going very well for the Free desktop at the moment; and only improving. 8) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479
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