On 8/10/06, Craig Box <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
Ian McDonald wrote:
Good news for us Linux users:
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6103941.html?part=rss&tag=6103941&subj=news
Hopefully AMD/ATI and nvidia follow suit but don't hold your breath.
(originally from) http://craig.dubculture.co.nz/blog/2006/08/10/open-source-graphics-drivers-p art-2/
They've had open-source drivers for their hardware for some time: quoth the truely excellent Keith Packard:
Intel has made free software drivers available for all of its graphics adapters since the i810, so if it says 'Intel graphics' on the label, you can be sure that free software will support it.
Yes that's certainly true - I was using the i810 driver last millenium from memory...
The release today adds support for the brand-new i965 chips which add advanced rendering capabilities to Intel's graphics adapters, including the ability to support OpenGL vertex shaders and hardware T&L. As far as I can tell, while the hardware has been announced, it's not yet available from retailers yet.
Yes I think this is the significance - true 3D support. They said in the article that they are not yet available and wanted to release drivers before product releases in future. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand