Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:25 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
Parent article: Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Ok, for us dummies, how do we get this hardware?

Is it safe to say that this is now the best 3D hardware supported by Free drivers?

It is only in Intel motherboards, right? I was having a hard time finding anything on Newegg after a quick search.

Any chance of a PCI express version?

I'm also a bit confused as to how this compares to the GMA950. I'm not "up" on my Intel chipsets. Is comparing an iXXX to a GMAXXX like apples to oranges?

*** NOTE TO AMD ***

I have been looking forward to buying a hot new computer with an AMD64 dual core chip. But unless you get ATI to compete with this in terms of Freedom, I *will* be forced to go Intel instead!

You have until January, I plan to buy around then. :-)

Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:30 UTC (Wed) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] (4 responses)

GMA950 is the graphics core in i945 and other i9xx chipsets, including both laptop and desktop chipsets.

Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 9, 2006 21:47 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link] (3 responses)

Ok, so the GMA950 is in this one too I take it. What is new here exactly then -- I know the GMA950 has been supported before. Does it need different graphics drivers for each iXXX chipset? With this i965 will it be significantly faster than with previous chipsets?

Are we starting to approach the performance of, say, 2 year old nVidias? :-)

Thanks to anyone who can clear this up more, or post a link to an article somewhere that would do so...

Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 10, 2006 0:10 UTC (Thu) by keithp (subscriber, #5140) [Link] (2 responses)

Intel has made free software drivers available for all of its graphics adapters since the i810, so if it says 'Intel graphics' on the label, you can be sure that free software will support it.

The release today adds support for the brand-new i965 chips which add advanced rendering capabilities to Intel's graphics adapters, including the ability to support OpenGL vertex shaders and hardware T&L. As far as I can tell, while the hardware has been announced, it's not yet available from retailers yet.

Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 10, 2006 7:07 UTC (Thu) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

Just to make it clear (all them model numbers are quite confusing), this is for the GMA 3000 and GMA X3000 GPU:s, right?

Free Intel i965 graphics drivers released

Posted Aug 30, 2006 18:51 UTC (Wed) by zooko (guest, #2589) [Link]

So can I go down to a retail store or buy over the internet an AGP graphics card and put it in my (AMD Athlon64) workstation and have Intel's open source drivers?