On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:43 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > 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. > I'd add 'some' before 'old'. I do not know how many - I've seen at least few laptops with compiz. > 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. > Well - the general list for ATI is on Xorg but last time I've seen it it is by revision (R100,R200,...). If in revision a card is nonstandard (for example integrated) it may not work. Regards
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