Status updates for three graphics drivers
Status updates for three graphics drivers
Posted Oct 7, 2015 18:01 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566)Parent article: Status updates for three graphics drivers
Was there a point where open graphics drivers were *completely* non-existent? Back in 2005 I bought ATI based on the fact they had a FOSS driver, for R200. I know things were dire when they joined NVIDIA in a long period of proprietary stupidity shortly after that, but by then Intel was producing good-enough graphics hardware too.
Posted Oct 7, 2015 21:11 UTC (Wed)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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It seemed to me like usable R300 drivers didn't show up until well after you could no longer buy that hardware new.
Status updates for three graphics drivers
Not completely non-existent. However after R200 there wasn't any real help from any of the major vendors for open source GPU support. The only thing available for post-R200 hardware was Intel and they didn't have a real GPU that was usable until the i915 chipset.