At Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:30:44 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:58 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote: > > Gnash is a new GNU project to build a media player that's compatible > > with Macromedia "Shockwave Flash" standards and plays common ".swf" > > files. Gnash will work both as a standalone application, and as a > > browser plugin (initially for Firefox). > > Sorry for being the New Years Sourpuss, but... > > I'm not sure if people are noticing (probably, they are), but more and > more software (Gnash included) is becoming OpenGL reliant. > > One of the biggest missing pieces in the free software desktop will > increasingly become good OpenGL drivers. I have a Radeon 9200SE, which > has a great free driver, and plays bzflag wonderfully. My Thinkpad has a > Radeon Mobility 9000 (R250), which will hopefully run well with the > upcoming r300 driver. But, these are both fairly crappy chipsets in > comparison to the state of the art, and I'm to understand that beyond > the r300 driver we're not going to get squat. > > Obviously, most people know this already, but it's surely getting more > serious over time. OpenGL has to be the way to go, but if all your apps > are GL (I don't know the names of all these things, but font rendering > strikes me as an obvious beneficiary, there is a GL mozilla you can try, > GNOME has some measure of GL support in Gtk+ already, etc. etc.) and you > only have a MESA software renderer, that's going to be an awfully slow > desktop :( > > I wish there were some clear solution to this issue....
I hope this project will succeed: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5743 Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion