Re: Is hardware accelerated 3D necessary?

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

2009/5/4 foss[ilized] <fosslistmail googlemail com>:
> Hardware accelerated 3D on Linux appears to be a single-user affair at
> the moment. Only one logged-in user at a time can use 3D acceleration
> (see for example discussions like the one on the DRI-Users mailing
> list: http://marc.info/?t=119413177000001&r=1&w=2).

The new kernel/X/DRI2/DRM/Mesa architecture "fixes" all this[1]. Also,
the nvidia proprietary driver stack doesn't have that problem.

Rui

[1] http://keithp.com/blogs/Sharpening_the_Intel_Driver_Focus/
btw, this new architecture will benefit not only intel, but also at
least, the radeon and nouveau drivers.