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Free software drivers: the unmatrix

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Well, it’s been a while—“cough!”—the set’s all dusty since my previous post about 3D cards…

One thing that isn’t quite dusty though, is the state of free software drivers! I will sum up the different evolutions (some would even say, revolutions) that have occurred over this summer (June-September 2007).

3D drivers matrix - the evolution

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Did you game well? If no, is it because you had 3D driver issues and couldn’t make head nor tail out of this mess? Here, I discuss the most recent driver releases on the most demanding 3D application there is today on the GNU/Linux desktop.

Graphics drivers: where they are, where they come from, where they are going

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I appreciate NVIDIA’s existing support for free software operating systems: their drivers are various, quite full featured, and they do upgrade the source of their minimalist free “nv” driver for those platforms they don’t support fully.

But where do the others stand?

_The matrix in this article has been superceded by the one in _this article.

The Nouveau Project

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It’s been mentioned in one of my previous posts. Now, I’m putting it forward due to some progress…



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