Thanks! As I have a few spare parts lying around, I am thinking of building
a fully-free desktop, but I want to make sure that the components I pick will
be fully compatible with linux-libre. My understanding of the current
situation is that careful thought must be applied to the choice of GPU and
wifi, all other components will work straight out-of-the-box. Wifi is not an
issue for the box I envision, but I want to make sure that this box will have
3D acceleration when using Trisquel.
My current PC has an ATI Radeon graphics card, hence no 3D acceleration, and
I understand that all ATI cards require non-free firmware. So ATI is a
definite no-go.
I am not familiar with NVIDIA, but my understanding is that some (but not
all) NVIDIA cards are fully supported by the nouveau driver, including 3D
acceleration with no non-free firmware. Is that correct?
Finally, it looks like the best bet is Intel graphics cards. I thought that
purchasing any Intel card would guarantee 3D acceleration with Trisquel, but
then I stumbled upon a few pages mentioning that it didn't work for a few
cards and then I started to have doubts, hence my original question in this
thread! Now if you tell me that any Intel HD card is good, this is excellent
news!
