Re: The desktop wars

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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.

Sean

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