On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:40 +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > ma, 2008-02-04 kello 14:33 +0100, Murray Cumming kirjoitti: > > Should I have any expectation that shaders should ever work on my > > built-in Intel 915 graphics? I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy. > > I'd guess Intel 915 graphics will not have proper shader support in the > near future at least. With Intel releasing specifications now, it might > be that the shortcomings of 915 could be overcome with time and the > (partial) hardware shader support there is could be utilized.
AFAIK 915 (as opposed to later products) doesn't have any hardware bits to do shading (even fragment shading) on the GPU. So unless it's done in software/driver (=slow) it's not really going to come. I'd love to be proven wrong though. -- Michael -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
