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100% free? What about drivers?

Posted Aug 24, 2011 10:02 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: 100% free? What about drivers? by khim
Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet?

In contrast to GNOME 3, KDE 4 actually does work without hardware acceleration. I often turn it off when latest git Mesa or graphics drivers have problems and all I lose is just some effects like shadows and transparency. But the desktop still works just as well.

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Posted Aug 24, 2011 17:23 UTC (Wed) by mgraesslin (subscriber, #78959) [Link]

On Plasma Active we actually require hardware acceleration (OpenGL ES 2.0 to be precise).