Re: RFC: compat list

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 14:31 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Hi Sergey,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Sergey Udaltsov <svu gnome org> wrote:
> >
> > Would it make sense to consolidate all HW+GL-related information
> > (requirements) on a single page on live.gnome.org? Minimal list of
> > extensions, hints ("do not use this driver, do not use those chips,
> > etc")
> 
> I think we really do need a high level description of the current
> state somewhere, yes.
> 
> My understanding is roughly at least for Intel "any card ≥ i915/945",
> though i915 is about the very minimum.  We do need to get recent data
> about ATI and NVIDIA; can anyone help fill in?

>From the relevant Fedora developers, who are also upstream X developers,
my current understanding so far as the free drivers goes is:

Intel - i9xx and higher. i8xx is known to sort-of-work but have major
issues, these issues will not be fixed and the intent is that i8xx
adapters should be detected and fallback mode should be used.

Radeon - r300 and higher, that's Radeon 9500 and higher. r200 and r100
are the same story as i8xx: they should be blacklisted by the
session-is-accelerated check.

NVIDIA - GeForce and higher (I may be a bit out here; it may be GeForce
2 and higher).
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