On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 08:03 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le dimanche 16 août 2009 à 23:55 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > > the majority of GPUs, nowadays, work fine on > > Linux with open source drivers[1], and provide the basic functionality > > that Clutter requires[2]. > > Except for some Intel cards, that's not true by a long shot. Only very > old ATI cards are supported, you can't buy a card retail (current radeon > HD4000 or even HD3000 or HD2000) that works in a current distribution or > even in the next batch of distribs (they are in alpha state already and > the drivers don't exist yet). NVIDIA are of course not supported at all > by OSS drivers (nouveau is progressing slowly). > > Things are changing, but it'll be something like a full year before > end-users see all working on their desktop for ATi cards and more for > NVIDIA.
so you're saying that only old GPUs work, and Maciej is saying that old GPUs do not work. it would be interesting to have a single place where the hardware support matrix was stored -- maybe on live.gnome.org or on freedesktop.org's wiki -- and updated. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list