Mon 20 Feb 2006
Christian you have some good points but:
From the Bling (AIGLX) Page
Known Working
ATI: Radeon 7000 through 9250 (r100 and r200 generations)
Intel: i830 through i945
Occasionally / Possibly working
Intel: i810. Should work but not tested.
3dfx: voodoo3 through voodoo5. Might need NV_texture_rectangle emulation.
Known to not work
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Anything without a free 3d driver.
So, we do support open source drivers and there are those working on drivers for newer hardware. I don’t think we will rely on 3d bling until a majority of our hardware supports 3d out of the box on Linux. We do need to make sure all of the developers don’t just run out and get working hardware to the detriment of all the other owners of the non working stuff.
What we should take from this is that developers now have a reason to getting decent 3d support on all cards where it is reasonable. Who knows, perhaps graphics card companies will start to listen and make it easy to support open source 3d drivers. The wheels are turning and we will see where they take us.
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February 20th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Work on Matrox G550 driver, please!
February 20th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
From the site:
Matrox: MGA G200 to G550. Needs at least a driver update to fix DRI locking. PCI cards probably have other issues as well.
Talk to the developers who work on the Matrox DRI project
February 20th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I wonder why we need these flakey unneat things in xorg.. XGL at least presented some work-improving things but this thing over here.. why do we actually need it?
February 20th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Flakey, unneat things? What is flaky about it first of all, and what is unneat? Please qualify. Do you hack on X? Do you actually know what AIGLX is or do you just have some gutt feeling?
As for “why do we actually need it?”. Oh I don’t know, getting full use out of the graphics card you bought perhaps? Don’t confuse the work on the X server with the flash of the comp managers.
February 21st, 2006 at 1:38 am
There is good support for new ATI Radeons from 9700 to X800