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Author: Alan Dayley
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
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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