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

[Alan Dayley]

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JT Moree wrote:
> 
> That's another one of these gotchas.  What does a distro like gnusense
> do about binary blobs for wireless cards?

Don't know.  I guess you have to find a card with open drivers.  Not an
easy task.

> It's good to hear that Beryl worked but are we certain it's using
> hardware accelerated OpenGL?  What about if you run opengl apps like
> chromium and blender?  (blender has a softwareGL mode)

For that laptop and that distro (OpenSUSE 10.2), Beryl would not run if
hardware 3D was not enabled.  The responsiveness was not "perfect" but
it was good enough to impress all who saw it.  I don't think software GL
could have done it that well.

Alan

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