Laurent Rineau wrote: > Nevertheless, as far as I know, NVidia cards under Linux is the only > available option for my needs at work: I need a crunching 3D OpenGL that > can eat lots of triangles. When I had a look last time (January 2009), > NVidia proprietary drivers seemed to be the best option, on the > performances side. ATI drivers were not supporting recent 3D cards, and > Intel 3D performances were a joke. Fedora 12 now ships with a mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package which provides 3D support for the Radeon HD cards (r6xx and newer). Chances are they will no longer be experimental by Fedora 13. > As far as openness matters, Intel seems to be the best open source > support, but AFAIK the Intel developers are not giving specs of Intel > cards: they only gives open source drivers, and third-part developers have > difficulties to fix bugs in Intel drivers. That is not that good. Intel actually did release some specs: http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html Kevin Kofler
