Re: GeForce 8800 GTS under Linux

Darren Salt staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Much the same goes for ATI, except that here at least, we have *some*
hardware with well-supported open-source drivers and open-source 3D.
Though the best supported of it is just a little on the old side, and
a lot of reverse engineering has been needed (and continues to be
needed for avivo and, to a lesser extent these days, r300).

FWIW, compiz-fusion runs reasonably well on a FireGL Mobility T2 (R350)
with the radeon kernel module and Mesa DRI. It's not as fast as the
same software running with the evil binary-only nVidia module on a
slightly newer card. However, it works a damn sight better than the
fglrx module did, and it probably won't crash once a week the way fglrx
did.

(There were plenty of annoying problems with getting it all working. I
can explain how to fix and work around every problem I encountered if
anyone cares, but it'd be sort of off-topic. You may now return to
complaining about nVidia [-: )

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