Re: Fedora Core 5 Idea -- let's drop this ...

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:33:06PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Umm, last time I checked, Matrox's GLX drivers were _proprietary_ too.  
> They just don't have the Intel-nVidia Trade Secret memory interface that
> requires the kernel module.

G4xx DRI is open source. Parhelia (has anyone even seen one ???) is not

> Capable of running Tux Racer is not a good test.  Intel's GLX is rather
> pathetic in features -- like an order of magnitude.

If it runs tuxracer and bzflag then I'm happy ;) As to Intel's GLX it has 
fairly good features on the i915 including vertex shaders and it will get
better over time.