AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre (the Inquirer)

AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre (the Inquirer)

Posted Jul 4, 2007 1:41 UTC (Wed) by jammin (guest, #46065)
In reply to: AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre (the Inquirer) by einstein
Parent article: AMD applies make-up to the face of its Linux Control Centre (the Inquirer)

"Huh? Last I checked, the nvidia binary 3D driver is the *only* one that directly supports the eye-candy APIs. I.E. beryl can technically run (sort of) using ATI or Intel video cards, with the aid of the aiglx or xgl kludge, but only nvidia supports beryl directly."

Hi, the nVidia method is wrong according to Xorg developer Keith Packard.

XGL *is* a kludge, but AIGLX is not, since it supports direct rendering like video. Keith Packard also posted a criticism of nVidia's method in their binary drivers that I' having trouble finding....

Also, one can use older ATI cards that support eye candy through the open source ati/radeon driver, and soon Avivo, and for nVidia, soon Nouveau.

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