Video cards that work Re: Wayland and R600?

Bryce Harrington bryce at canonical.com
Sat Jan 29 14:03:50 PST 2011


On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:31:06PM -0500, Darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 01/28, Darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> > Output through X:  
> > 
> > I think anything with DRI2 working will work, which means Intel, AMD/ATI,
> > Nvidia, using open source drivers.  I don't know how far back.  There's
> 
> I'm going to say, until somebody can provide me with evidence otherwise,
> that under X, wayland works:
> 
> With Nouveau all the way back to NV04, the Riva TNT, released in 1998.
> 
> With open source AMD/ATI drivers, back to the Radeon 7200, released in
> 2000.
> 
> For Intel, it looks like the open source driver works back to the i965,
> released in 2006.  Haven't looked into other drivers.

I've been running it on an i945 successfully.  This probably means that
i915 should work as well.

Bryce



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