Re: Request for removing clutter in current form

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:03 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on
> > Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality
> > that Clutter requires[2].
> 
> Except for some Intel cards, that's not true by a long shot. Only very
> old ATI cards are supported, you can't buy a card retail (current radeon
> HD4000 or even HD3000 or HD2000) that works in a current distribution or
> even in the next batch of distribs (they are in alpha state already and
> the drivers don't exist yet). NVIDIA are of course not supported at all
> by OSS drivers (nouveau is progressing slowly).
> 
> Things are changing, but it'll be something like a full year before
> end-users see all working on their desktop for ATi cards and more for
> NVIDIA.

so you're saying that only old GPUs work, and Maciej is saying that old
GPUs do not work.

it would be interesting to have a single place where the hardware
support matrix was stored -- maybe on live.gnome.org or on
freedesktop.org's wiki -- and updated.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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Emmanuele Bassi,
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