Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset [LWN.net]

Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Posted May 13, 2007 11:36 UTC (Sun) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset by keithp
Parent article: Free software drivers for the Intel 965GM Express Chipset

Wonderfull.

You guys working on this stuff definately deserve praise. It's going to be great when nobody can accuse 'Open Source Graphics Drivers' of being 'Second Class Graphics Drivers'

Every time I look at projects like OpenCroquet, Beryl, OpenRT, and other such things.. and relatively lack of stability of drivers (closed and open source) it just makes me think about how much all this ultra-proprietory attitude is realy holding back progress.

The technology X is now able to bring to the table is amazing. You have things like DMX for X sessions spreading across multiple computers. Chromium for distributed OpenGL acceleration.

Then support for multiple pointers in MPX. Then you have Multi-seat support in X, for true multi-user PC environments. The ability to migrate applications across displays with xmove.

Seriously, using Blender over a encrypted ssh with hardware acceleration thanks to AIGLX makes me giggle.

People talk about oh web2.0, but I don't think that the web's REST architecture is realy suitable for what people are trying to do with hosted applications and such.. but FreeNX allows me to use my desktop quite well over the internet. X on a modern 'broadband' internet, I think, has real potential.

And all sorts of stuff like that.. it's all very exiting and compelling. But it's all limited by the lack of very good drivers for most people.

Right now Intel 945g chipset is the only graphics that have stable 3D and 2D acceleration support out of box for Linux.

If Intel is able to get things stable and help/let you guys keep/get things open for the high-end graphics that people say are coming in a couple years then I think that we can start expecting very wonderfull things with X, Linux, OpenGL, and Intel.

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