I spoke with the nouveau guys and they said there there was a bunch of hex in the code, that they didn't really understand and manipulating it was just guess work, they didn't really understand it.
I hear the Intel 965 is quite good. On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:26:33PM -0400, Kevin M. Dean wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As of this moment, there are no non-Intel (integrated) video cards that > support stable 3D acceleration using Libre drivers. The Radeon driver > distributed with Xorg is under a Free Software license but it contains > microcode that can't be adapted, modified and learned from. This is why > it was removed from gNewSense. Microcode in this manner restricts > freedoms 1 and 3. > > However, the Nouveau project is working on filling this lack: A 3D > accelerated driver for all but the oldest nVidia cards without binary > blobs or microcode. Some of the developers have gotten glxgears to run, > so this is TECHNICALLY Libre 3D, but it's not useful for day-to-day use. > > I made my buying decision based on this and purchased an nVidia GeForce > 7600 GS, installed the non-free nVidia driver, ran REnouveau and then > dropped to the stable(ish) 2D nouveau driver once that was done. > > You can find more on Nouveau here: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > > > > Romel Sandoval wrote: > > I am looking for an AGP8X gNewSense Compatible Video Cards with 3D > > Acceleration. I see on the FSF site [1] but apart from the ATI cards all > > are integrated. And AFAIK gNewSense removes the ATI support modules from > > the kernel. Help please! > > > > [1] http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/video > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gNewSense-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGSRpZjbEXCxKVc6YRAtUUAJ95b9kRBRMupvWmaf/mK0xQcRmOJQCff7GZ > kSdbGr8dl7VEz2LuYG8Hdaw= > =UpsH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
