2009/12/7 Egbert Eich
- Noveau is relying heavily on KMS for their free 3D driver for NVIDIA chipsets.
This is again such a thing: we need volunteers to do this. The three people at Novell who are dealing with X Window System related stuff are totally swamped with other stuff - I can rest everybody assured of that. It's not only openSUSE we need to deal with
So are AMD/ATI beneffitting from having released documentation, with work towards better FOSS support? With time since the Direct Render 3D stuff came in, I've noticed less and less stuff working well with non-proprietary drivers (usually Nvidia) though I don't have any decent Intel Integrade boxen where I do read about improvements. In past, I could point out when folk found proprietary driver were legacied, that FOSS driver stuff was supported for longer. Now is frustrating time, as the newer ATI cards haven't got FOSS 3D support yet, and the older ones not supported by AMD/ATI are also keenly waiting on FOSS 3D drivers. Ironically, I've got more use out of ATI card upgrade on Windows, rather than the original intention of supporting Linux driver development. Totally understand there have to be priorities, and displaying 2D desktop has to come first, it'd just be good to know the way things are heading, when the rants start on forums. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org