Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 9, 2006 @10:02AM from the running-scared-from-amd-ati dept.

PeterBrett writes "Intel's Keith Packard announced earlier today that Intel was open sourcing graphics drivers for their new 965 Express Chipset family graphics controllers. From the announcement: 'Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics.' The new drivers, available from the Linux Graphics Drivers from Intel website, are licensed under the GPL for Linux kernel drivers, and MIT license for XOrg 2D & 3D rendering subsystems."

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Interesting by lord_rob+the+only+on · 2006-08-09 21:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

I have an old Athlon 900MHz with 768 Megs of RAM. This config is more than enough for me to run the latest Debian Sid IMHO. Except for graphics performances. There is a GeForce2 in this box, and I can't use proprietary nvidia driver with the latest kernel (as more recent version of the nvidia driver does not support my geforce 2 anymore). That's why I have to use nv. But that sucks a bit. No 3D acceleration (so no quake 3, ...), and 2D performances are way inferior to closed nvidia driver.

If there are open drivers for an intel graphics accelerator that is rather cheap and at least as fast as my more-than-five-year-old geforce 2, I'll buy for sure :)