The problem is the following: there is only one company that makes videocards that run with fully free drivers. It is ironically Intel. For example the x3000 and x4500 have free drivers and do not require binary blobs in the kernel.

However, the motherboards that use those videocards run on chipsets that have no support by coreboot. I asked on the coreboot mailing list and that's more or less what one of the devs answered me: "coreboot does not run with this type of chipset. It would require a lot of difficult backwards engineering to make coreboot run on these motherboards. It will not happen in the foreseeable future."

So at the moment you cannot run a fully free system, that has 3D acceleration. You either have 3D acceleration plus a non-free bios, or a free bios with no 3D acceleration (a system with an AMD CPU and a Radeon/GeForce card running in a kind of limited mode with free software drivers).

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