Accelerated Open Source OpenGL in Linux WAS RIP: Linux Community (1991-2007)

[Bryan O'Neal]

My Intel chipset worked out of the box with FC and Beryl was a package
manager selection away from all the gooey GL goodness Linux has to
offer...  Then again it was a dell machine, and dell is becoming more
and more Linux friendly.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan
Dayley
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Accelerated Open Source OpenGL in Linux WAS RIP: Linux
Community (1991-2007)

On Thu, March 29, 2007 5:58 pm, JT Moree wrote:
>
> Is there a viable open source driver for any commercially viable video
> hardware that will give me hardware accelerated OpenGL?  (Intel
> announced open sourcing it's video stuff recently.  anyone use it?)
>
> It doesn't have to be the fastest and best performance available--but
I
> want accelerated OpenGL and NO it's not for playing games.
>
> Until I can answer that question I have no choice but to use
proprietary
>  nvidia (or whatever) drivers on my system.

My wife's laptop has a full Intel chipset including the video.
Installing
Beryl on it was very easy and it worked fine.  All the drivers except a
regulatory binary blob for the wireless were open source and included in
the distro.

Alan


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