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Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

Posted Dec 17, 2006 10:05 UTC (Sun) by rqosa (guest, #24136)
In reply to: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned by moxfyre
Parent article: Binary-only kernel modules may be banned

> The open-source NV and ATI x11 drivers support NVidia and ATI graphics cards very well, including 2D acceleration.

> It's true that they don't support 3D acceleration

The open-source ATI driver does support 3D acceleration. See here:

Several 3D accelerated drivers have been written to the DRI specification, including drivers for chipsets produced by ATI, Matrox, 3DFX, and Intel.


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