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

[JT Moree]

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Alan Dayley wrote:
> 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.

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

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)

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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