Re: [Trisquel-users] 3D acceleration...

[chris]

I just took a quick look into this. Mostly out of curiosity. I hadn't ever  
considered this setup before for a freer system. The problem is ATI/nVidia  
don't work for free software users. However the older nVidia chipsets can be  
used with a reverse engineered graphics driver (although undesirable) and an  
AMD motherboard if that board does not include a graphics chip. It still  
doesn't really work for other reasons... but... it's a bit closer.

It can't be done with a laptop either. It's about $50 USD more to do a  
minimum setup with the latest generation AMD CPU + compared to an intel  
solution. That includes the cost of a graphics card and a motherboard without  
nVidia/ATI/Intel graphics built in. However the problem still remains that  
the boards which support coreboot are not readily available which is  
ultimately going to price the majority of free software users out of the  
market.