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Intel Open Sources Graphics Drivers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Image quality? by rsilvergun · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've noticed an entire industry of low end graphics cards has sprung up to replace the fuzzy pictures from integrated intel graphics.

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  2. Re:Now... by kimvette · · Score: 1, Troll

    Even if Intel's new chipsets turn out to be faster than NVidia, open source or not, if they don't offer multiple DVI or VGA connectors for multihead setups, Nvidia will be getting my money.

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