[PD] debian etch vs lenny (was Re: PdExtended autobuild)

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Apr 17 15:36:15 CEST 2008


Hallo,
Olivier Heinry hat gesagt: // Olivier Heinry wrote:

> A little bit off-topic: Is there any possibility to run Gem with
> free hardware and free drivers as well? I havent heard of it yet,
> apparently the Intel drivers dont implement all features (cf older
> threads).

I run only hardware with free drivers, currently a Matrox G450 and
Intel G9?? on my laptop. It's possible with limitations, one of which
is a long standing crasher bug when closing the Gem-window in the
combination Gem/Mesa-DRI. I have yet to check with the newest versions
of both, though.

AFAIK the open source ATi drivers don't support 3D-accel yet, so it
seems, Intel cards are currently the fastest cards with open source
3D-accel on Linux.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__




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