State of Linux graphics

[Anders Storsveen]

Daniil V. Kolpakov wrote:

>В сообщении от Tuesday 30 August 2005 19:03 Jon Smirl написал(a):
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>>I've written an article that surveys the current State of Linux
>>graphics and proposes a possible path forward. This is a long article
>>containing a lot of detailed technical information as a guide to
>>future developers. Skip over the detailed parts if they aren't
>>relevant to your area of work.
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>>http://www.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html
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>Nice article.
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>The main pain is closeness of the specs of the modern videocards, IMHO. It's 
>like killing the future of linux and similar OSes. I have to use videocard on 
>a very old chip (Matrox G550), just because anything newer doesn't have open 
>full-blown sourced drivers (and G550 driver isn't fullblown, but at least 
>there's some room for improvement which is possible, I mean mergedfb 
>dualhead).
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but closed source-drivers doesn't hinder anyone in making a new
fantastic opengl-architecture. mesa exists for software opengl, if
companies see they need to deliver opengl they might just do that. Today
nvidia sees little profit in making opengl for the casual linux
gamer.... however the little opengl support they've given is because of 
big CAD users. if opengl suddenly will make or break the desktop
experience, they'll fix it.